Columbia Pictures and Screen Gems’ reboot of I Know What You Did Last Summer banked $2.2 million in previews from showtimes that began at 2PM yesterday, while A24’s Ari Aster socio political-western,

Eddington, A24's latest political satire, may hit HBO Max by November 2025 after a lukewarm box office start and potential for a streaming release.

As Eddington makes its theatrical debut this Friday, fans are already eager to know when the movie will get its digital and streaming release dates. This black-comedy movie is the latest offering from Ari Aster,

Leading the film is Joaquin Phoenix who plays Joe Cross in Eddington. He’s the sheriff of a dying town and the kind of man who’d rather watch everything burn than admit he’s lost control. With pandemic paranoia, far-right delusions, and a god complex brewing under his dusty hat, Joe is both terrifying and tragic.

The director’s polarizing new film comes after the commercial failure of ‘Beau Is Afraid.’ He’s not not worried.

Ari Aster attending the premiere of 'Eddington' in Los Angeles in June 2025 (Monica Schipper ... In addition to low ratings, its box office debut earned just $39.1 million (£24m) during its US opening weekend and $84 million (£64m) globally.

Since the premiere of Ari Aster’s Eddington at the Cannes Film Festival earlier this year, the word I’ve constantly heard/seen to describe it is “divisive.” It’s a dark comedy set during the summer of 2020 – a time period that has a lot of baggage for all of us – and it examines the moment in our recent history via the lens of a small town in New Mexico.

Ari Aster's “Eddington,” appropriately enough, has been divisive. Since its premiere at the Cannes Film Festival in May, Aster’s film has one of the most polarizing releases of the year.

Ari Aster’s darkly comic neo-western paranoid political thriller drops us back into early Covid, in small-town New Mexico, to explore the rupture of our collective brains and the breakdown of consensus reality.