Yes, certain movie stars like Robert Pattinson and Zendaya have been having banner years across multiple projects. But it’s hard to argue that any individual star is having as major a year as the independent studio A24, which put out its biggest hit ever and what may turn into its second-biggest — and that’s before even getting to the Zendaya and/or Pattinson movies they had a hand in! At the moment, the studio has a documentary in second place at the North American box office, outshining many of its starrier rivals and likely to become the only October 2026 release to break $100 million domestic. It also has no fewer than three movies in the upper reaches of the HBO Max charts, including their summer hit The Invite, which is presumed to become an Oscar player (alongside documentary smash You Can See Everything) as the year goes on.

All told, the studio put four movies in its all-time top ten this year, and reasserted itself as a premier distributor as the rest of Hollywood gobbles itself up in mega-mergers like the Warner Bros./Paramount fusion. Of course, a larger company could still acquire A24, but for the moment its artist-friendly releases have been a balm to a wounded industry.

For a quick primer on the studio’s best and/or brightest, here is a list of their ten highest grossers (including estimates for where You Can See Everything will wind up) and where you can stream them online.

Honorable Mention: Materialists (2025) and The Invite (2026)

Because A24 has a spotty track record in releasing their movies overseas, this list will cover their top 10 in North America. That said, there are a couple of titles worth mentioning outside of that list.

One is their biggest film on their list of biggest worldwide grossers: Materialists, which was a modest hit in the U.S. but crossed $100 million globally. It’s since been squeezed out of the domestic top 10, but it will be lodged on the global list for a while yet, perhaps reflecting an international appetite for its more melancholy take on the romantic comedy.

The Invite, which had a similar summer release date and core of stars at its center, also did well in the U.S. and even better overseas, for a total that just misses the worldwide top 10. It’s notable, though, because just a few years ago, these amounts would have been more than enough to become one of A24’s biggest-ever hits.

Where to Stream: Both are on HBO Max.

1. North American Box Office: $47 million

   Before Lance Oppenheim put out You Can See Everything — like, right before, like just a few weeks earlier — he had another A24 film in theaters, dealing with similar issues of image-making, attention-seeking, and voyeurism. This one is a fictionalized account of Chris Hansen and his NBC show To Catch a Predator, with Robert Pattinson playing Hansen as ratings-hungry predator of his own. It’s one of his best performances, backed by a terrific supporting cast.

   Where to Stream: At the moment, nowhere. But it will be available on VOD November 3rd, and should be hitting HBO Max sometime around February 2027.

2. North American Box Office: $48 million

   Pattinson’s other A24 feature grossed a near-identical amount of money, and while it’s not as seedy or seamy as the Primetime subject matter, it will still make you cringe plenty, especially for a romance. Pattinson plays an awkward regular guy who becomes positively unglued when his seemingly sweet-natured girlfriend (Zendaya) reveals a dark secret when their wedding is just weeks away. It’s a very funny movie — and a testament to both the leads’ star power and the studio’s marketing that such a prickly movie made more money than any number of cuddlier rom-coms.

   Where to Stream: HBO Max

   Stream The Drama on HBO Max

3. North American Box Office: $48 million

   Earlier iterations of the A24 charts were full of horror movies; early on, their top grosser was The Witch, eventually eclipsed by Hereditary. These movies remain influential, but they’ve been bumped off the top ten by a more diverse array of titles. The last pre-blockbuster A24 horror title standing: Talk to Me, which was also on top of the trend of YouTubers making horror movies. This ritual-demonic-possession story has some truly creepy imagery that connects A24 to its horror-vanguard roots.

   Where to Stream: Talk to Me is currently streaming on both HBO Max and Tubi, but is scheduled to leave both at the end of October. Other movies released around this time suggest that it may next head to Hulu. It’s also streaming with ads on the Roku Channel; no word on whether it’s scheduled to stick around there past Halloween.

4. North American Box Office: $49 million

   The film that put Greta Gerwig on the map as a solo writer-director was also an early hit for A24. Lady Bird is the oldest movie on their current top 10 and a great example of the type of movie a bigger studio might once have made but were largely abandoning in the 2010s. It’s a compact, often hilarious coming-of-age movie set in 2002, following the titular character (Saoirse Ronan) as she prepares to graduate high school and, she hopes, move away from her hometown of Sacramento, California, while feuding with her prickly mom (Laurie Metcalf). It remains one of the studio’s best, and one of the best movies of the 2010s.

   Where to Stream: HBO Max

5. North American Box Office: $50 million

   A movie so weirdly influential that someone recently called The Only Living Pickpocket in New York “Uncut Gems for guys who still have a landline,” the Safdie Brothers had a major commercial level-up when they got Adam Sandler to play a compulsive gambler blowing up his life over the course of a few days. It’s also one of the few A24 films to escape their own boutique-style disc packaging and actually make it into the Criterion Collection. Though its grosses couldn’t match Sandler’s peak comedy numbers, it’s pretty incredible that this movie actually made more money than, say, the Sandler/Drew Barrymore rom-com Blended.

   Where to Stream: The Roku Channel

6. North American Box Office: $69 million

   Civil War still boasts the second-biggest opening weekend for A24 (it was blown out of the water by another movie further up this list), and at the time Alex Garland’s action-driven drama felt like a major departure for the studio: a relentlessly paced dystopian nightmare clearly not made on a stylish shoestring. Garland envisioned a United States embroiled in a modern-day civil war over unspecified but clearly intractable issues, and followed a trio of journalists through the divided landscape. Audiences and critics were appropriately divided by the result, but it still drew a crowd (albeit a harder second-weekend crash than usual).

   Where to Stream: YouTube has Civil War streaming free with ads.

7. North American Box Office: $77 million

   Doesn’t it almost seem like this should have made way more? Then again, Everything Everywhere All at Once was a true distance performer, never making more than $7 million in a single domestic weekend, but hanging out in the box office top 10 for a solid three months. By the time this head-spinning multiversal domestic dramedy won the Best Picture Oscar in spring 2023 (along with awards for Best Director, Screenplay, and Actress, for star Michelle Yeoh), it had become, at the time, the studio’s biggest movie by far. In a parallel universe, it probably still is.

   Where to Stream: Hulu

8. North American Box Office: $96 million

   A24’s banner year really began last December, when they were able to make a Josh Safdie film a major holiday box office player, benefiting greatly from a go-for-broke Timothée Chalamet as a gung-ho ping-pong player in 1950s New York City. (He almost won an Oscar!). In retrospect, it’s the perfect cross between the A24 sensibility (with the co-director of Uncut Gems making another sweaty, funny, frantic capitalist odyssey) and the awards-courting mainstream prestige (which is to say, Chalamet puts butts in seats). The biggest surprise is that the company’s two biggest movies, both of which have or will eclipse Marty this year, are much stranger.

   Where to Stream: HBO Max

   Stream Marty Supreme on HBo Max

9. North American Box Office: $101 million (estimate)

   You Can See Everything wasn’t on anyone’s radar as recently as a couple of months ago, as A24 sprang a surprise premiere of the Nathan Fielder/Lance Oppenheim documentary about Elizabeth Holmes at the Telluride Film Festival. Since then, it’s become the box office sensation of the fall, a shocking development that has made its trajectory difficult to predict. But given the relatively low-wattage weekends ahead, the movie should continue to draw crowds, and may yet go much further than the vaunted (and especially rare for a documentary) $100 million mark. Either way, it seems like a final total more than any other A24 movie, but less than their #1 smash, is pretty likely.

   Where to Stream: Nowhere yet; it’ll be a while before it leaves theaters. It should be on HBO Max next year.

10. North American Box Office: $198 million

    Mere months after Marty Supreme inched toward the $100 million domestic mark, Backrooms blew by it in a matter of days, a surprise summer blockbuster even for those who knew that the internet phenomenon had some potential behind it. At once returning to A24’s horror roots and looking toward a Gen-Z-driven moviegoing future, this feature debut from absurdly young Kane Parsons wound up outgrossing the latest Star Wars movie (and several more wannabe summer hits). Its success may prove difficult to replicate (as much as audiences were intrigued, will they show up in even greater numbers for the inevitable sequel?), but then, that’s kind of A24’s whole deal: Big swings, and the occasional huge success no one sees coming.

    Where to Stream: HBO Max

    Stream Backrooms on HBO Max

Jesse Hassenger (@rockmarooned) is a writer living in Brooklyn. He’s a regular contributor to The A.V. Club, Polygon, and The Week, among others. He podcasts at www.sportsalcohol.com, too.