‘Club Kid’: A24’s Cannes Acquisition Dances Way Into Awards Season
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- Club Kid, Jordan Firstman's feature directorial debut, hits theaters November 6 in a limited release via A24, which acquired global rights after the film's Un Certain Regard world premiere at Cannes.
- Firstman both wrote and stars in the film as a hard-partying New York City club promoter whose life is upended by the arrival of a 10-year-old son he never knew he had.
- A24 reportedly outbid multiple competitors for the film at a pickup price in the high teens of millions, following a seven-minute standing ovation at Cannes that moved actress Cara Delevingne to tears.
- Critics have given the film a 100% Rotten Tomatoes score, with Deadline's Damon Wise praising Firstman's "elegant switch into a more serious tone" about the protagonist's fitness to raise a child.
- The November 6 date echoes the weekend A24 launched Greta Gerwig's five-time Oscar-nominated "Lady Bird," positioning Club Kid for awards-season visibility in a crowded frame that also includes Warner Bros' "The Cat in the Hat," Sony's "Archangel," GKIDS' "Godzilla Minus Zero," Searchlight's "Wild Horse Nine," Amazon MGM's "I Play Rock," and Netflix's Cannes pick-up "La Bola Negra."
Why it matters: A24 paying high-teens millions and deliberately slotting Club Kid into the same release corridor as Lady Bird signals a calculated awards-season push, while a 100% Rotten Tomatoes score and a Cannes standing ovation give the distributor fresh awards ammunition beyond its established prestige slate.
