Director Luca Guadagnino and star Daniel Craig’s movie Queer has discovered a streaming house and launch date. Based mostly on William S. Burroughs’ 1985 novella of the identical identify, Queer sees Craig play a fictionalized model of Burroughs the place he falls in love with Eugene Allerton (Drew Starkey), a a lot youthful man. Queer earned constructive critiques and was one of many Prime 10 movies of 2024 by the Nationwide Board of Assessment. Craig was nominated for a number of awards for his efficiency, together with The Golden Globes, the Critics’ Alternative Awards, and the Display Actors Guild Awards.
4 months after its theatrical launch, Queer is lastly making its method to streaming. A24 confirmed that Queer will make its streaming debut completely on Max within the U.S. on Friday, Mar. 28, 2025. The movie will debut on the HBO linear community the next day on Saturday, Mar. 29, 2025, at 8:00 p.m. ET. Queer joins a rising library of A24 titles on Max after a significant streaming deal between the businesses. Take a look at the movie’s official synopsis:
“1950. William Lee, an American expat in Mexico Metropolis, spends his days virtually solely alone, apart from a couple of contacts with different members of the small American neighborhood. His encounter with Eugene Allerton, an expat former soldier, new to town, reveals him, for the primary time, that it could be lastly doable to determine an intimate reference to any individual.”
Regardless of constructive critiques from critics, significantly round Craig’s efficiency, Queer was shut out of the 97th Academy Awards alongside Guadagnino’s different critically acclaimed 2024 movie, Challengers. Queer additionally was a field workplace disappointment, because it introduced in solely $4 million worldwide in opposition to a reported $50 million finances. With Queer not nominated for any main Oscars, A24 definitely is in no rush to place it out earlier than the awards present, and as an alternative are aiming for a date practically a month after the Academy Awards.
Max Is a Should-Have Streaming Service
With Max having a streaming cope with A24, it has made the platform essential streaming service for film lovers. The Oscar-nominated animated movie Movement, which gained the Golden Globe for Greatest Animated Movie this 12 months, just lately had a powerful streaming debut, which may additionally occur for Queer. Alongside motion pictures like Juror #2, A24’s romantic drama We Dwell in Time, the horror comedy Your Monsters, and now Queer, Max and the linear community HBO has turn into an awesome place for audiences to compensate for some thrilling titles in 2024 which may have flown below the radar.
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Max, a division of Warner Bros. Discovery, additionally needs Queer on their service as each the movie’s director and star may very well be helming a significant DC venture. Director Luca Guadagnino is reportedly in talks to direct Sgt. Rock, which is predicated on a WWII DC Comics character who just lately appeared within the Max animated collection Creature Commandos. Daniel Craig is rumored to be eyed to play the lead position of Sgt. Rock, which might be a part of James Gunn’s DCU. With Guadagnino and Craig seemingly set to be a part of the DC Universe, possibly Warner Bros. may spin comedian ebook followers’ pleasure into getting them to look at the duo’s earlier collaboration in Queer.
Queer
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- Launch Date
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November 27, 2024
- Runtime
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135 Minutes
- Writers
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William S. Burroughs, Justin Kuritzkes