Brady Corbet’s A24 Oscar Winner ‘The Brutalist’ Sets Max Premiere Date​on April 14, 2025 at 4:09 pm

A24‘s post-WWII epic The Brutalist is set to make its streaming debut on Max on Friday, May 16, debuting on HBO linear on Saturday, May 17 at 8:00 p.m. ET.

The film hits streaming following a highly successful awards season culminating at the Oscars, where it won multiple awards, including Best Actor for lead Adrien Brody, Best Original Score for Daniel Blumberg, and Best Cinematography for Lol Crawley.

Co-written and directed by Brady Corbet (Vox Lux), The Brutalist centers on László Toth (Brody), a visionary architect escaping post-war Europe, who arrives in America to rebuild his life, his work, and his marriage to his wife Erzsébet (Academy Award nominee Felicity Jones) after being forced apart during wartime by shifting borders and regimes. On his own in a strange new country, László settles in Pennsylvania, where the wealthy and prominent industrialist Harrison Lee Van Buren (Guy Pearce, also Oscar nominated) recognizes his talent for building. But power and legacy come at a heavy cost…

Corbet wrote the script with wife and creative partner Mona Fastvold and produced alongside Trevor Matthews, Nick Gordon, Brian Young, Andrew Morrison, Andrew Lauren and D.J. Gugenheim. Pic’s cast also includes Joe Alwyn, Raffey Cassidy, Stacy Martin, Emma Laird, Isaach de Bankolé, and Alessandro Nivola.

A24 acquired U.S. rights to The Brutalist in a competitive situation following its premiere at the Venice Film Festival, where Corbet won the Silver Lion. The film was released in U.S. theaters last December and has proved to be Corbet’s most commercially successful title at a worldwide gross exceeding $49 million.