How to pitch a movie idea to A24

What you agree to by sending something

“By making a Submission, you grant us a non-exclusive, unrestricted, unconditional, unlimited, worldwide, irrevocable, perpetual, transferable and cost-free right and license to host, store, use, display, reproduce, modify, adapt, edit, combine with other materials, publish, distribute, create derivative works from, promote, exhibit, broadcast, syndicate, sublicense (including, without limitation, to third party…”

“Our receipt of your Submissions is not an admission of their novelty, priority, or originality, and it does not impair our right to existing or future intellectual property rights relating to your Submissions.”

What it has bought from outside

1. 2014

   US rights to Ex Machina and Room; worldwide rights to The Witch from their producers

   “A24 picked up the American rights to Ex Machina in 2014 and Room in 2015, before obtaining worldwide rights to Robert Eggers ' The Witch, which was released theatrically in 2015.” en.wikipedia.org

2. 2017

   Menashe (US and Chinese rights) from its producers

   “In January 2017, the company acquired the United States and Chinese distribution rights for their first foreign language film, Menashe.” en.wikipedia.org

3. 2025

   Ne Zha 2 (US rights) from its Chinese producers

   “In 2025, A24 acquired US distribution rights for the Chinese language film Ne Zha 2.” en.wikipedia.org

4. 2026

   Club Kid (global rights, Cannes) from Jordan Firstman

   “Also that month, A24 won a "highly competitive bidding war" for the global rights to Jordan Firstman 's directorial debut, Club Kid (2026), which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival.” en.wikipedia.org

Other companies that take a movie idea

• Angel StudiosHas a submission portalAngel Studios takes projects only as a Torch, filmed work its Angel Guild streams to gauge interest.

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  NetflixOnly through an agentNetflix reads nothing it did not ask for.

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  Apple TV+Does not take outside ideasApple does not accept, review or consider ideas or creative material it did not request, and anything sent anyway becomes Apple’s property…

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  DreamWorks AnimationDoes not take outside ideasDreamWorks Animation falls under NBCUniversal’s terms, which will not review story or character ideas it did not ask for.

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  LucasfilmDoes not take outside ideasLucasfilm accepts no unsolicited product, artwork, story idea or other creative material, and returns what is sent.

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  ParamountDoes not take outside ideasParamount accepts no unsolicited scripts, story lines, characters or ideas, and deletes them unread.

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  PixarDoes not take outside ideasPixar takes no creative submission of any kind.

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  SkydanceDoes not take outside ideasSkydance accepts no unsolicited scripts, story lines, characters or ideas, and deletes them unread.

All of them, open doors first