Spring’s taste-making cinema extravaganza SXSW revealed its film and TV lineup for the 33rd edition Wednesday, with big genre world premieres for Searchlight’s Radio Silence title Ready or Not 2: Here I Come, New Line’s Zazie Beetz horror action comedy They Will Kill You (by the way, both movies open…

Ben Leonberg enjoys a challenge. It’s why, he says, he spent more than 400 days turning his family home into a haunted house to film a horror movie with his family dog, Indy. Good Boy, a horror-thriller that debuted at SXSW, is told from the perspective of the loyal family dog, who moves to…

Sometimes inspiration can come from the most unlikely of places. In the case of the Oscar-nominated multihyphenate filmmaker Sam Davis, motivation came from an old Russian short story and the social media juggernauts Instagram and TikTok. Davis's short film, The Singers, based on the Ivan Turgenev…

Ahead if its world premiere as the 40th SXSW‘s opening-night film, Taylour Paige is looking forward to seeing her collaboration with Boots Riley in I Love Boosters. While discussing this weekend’s Season 1 finale of IT: Welcome to Derry, available to stream Sunday at 9pm ET/PT on HBO Max, the…

Eight years after his directorial debut, Boots Riley is unleashing his sophomore feature I Love Boosters on SXSW‘s milestone 40th festival. On Thursday, the Austin film festival announced that the title will make its world premiere as the opening-night film of the 2026 lineup, which is scheduled…

EXCLUSIVE: Quantify has boarded international sales rights to Nastasya Popov's buzzy SXSW comedy Idiotka as it revs up for its debut at the American Film Market. The film, which premiered to rave reviews at SXSW, stars Anna Baryshnikov and Camila Mendes, with Julia Fox, Benito Skinner, Owen…

A second edition of SXSW London has been confirmed, running from June 1 to 6, 2026, with the organizers opening submissions for session proposals for the event’s three verticals of conference, music and screen. Confirmation of the event, which will run once again in East London, follows this…

EXCLUSIVE: Through her recently launched production banner Liston James Productions, Emmy-winner Jaime Pressly has set her sights on a new comedy series, R&R. R&R, from up and coming writer JJ Herz, debuted a 10-minute proof-of-concept pilot at SXSW in March and was snapped up for development by…

Who among us hasn't dabbled in a little wishful thinking about the future until they're shaken to the core by the uncertainties of it all while covered in cold sweat? In the Oscar-qualifying animated short Retirement Plan, writer-director John Kelly and co-writer Tara Lawall have perfected the art of…

Spoiler alert: The following article discusses the entirety of The Threesome. From Oh, Hi to Materialists, there's no shortage of recently released small-to-mid-budget movies excoriating the trials and tribulations of what the modern dating landscape looks like for young people. But where these…

EXCLUSIVE: Bleecker Street is teaming with Fox Entertainment Studios on the U.S. release of Amy Wang's directorial debut Slanted, which premiered at SXSW and won the Grand Jury Prize in the Narrative Feature Competition. A 2026 theatrical release is currently being planned. The satire, sci-fi…

EXCLUSIVE: Film Movement has acquired U.S. rights for Canadian filmmaker Reza Dahya's Toronto-set drama Boxcutter which made its international premiere at SXSW earlier this year. Ashton James (Revenge of the Black Best Friend, Youngblood) stars as Rome, an aspiring rapper whose laptop is…