Latest in SXSW

EXCLUSIVE: Metrograph Pictures has acquired U.S. rights to The Black Sea, the offbeat comedy from Crystal Moselle and Derrick B. Harden which debuted at this year's SXSW Film Festival. Metrograph will release the pic theatrically later this year. Inspired by Harden's travels to Bulgaria, and…

The South by Southwest festival is expanding to London in June, 2025. The SXSW brand, which originated in Austin, Texas almost four decades ago, has grown to become synonymous with the celebration of the convergence between creativity, culture and technology. London is the latest expansion outpost…

EXCLUSIVE: Brooklyn-based indie film distribution and production company Factory 25 has acquired North American theatrical rights on writer-director Kit Zauhar's sophomore feature This Closeness, which debuted at SXSW 2023.  The film will begin its theatrical run at the IFC Center in New York City on…

History repeats itself in this ingenious but surprisingly heartfelt sci-fi, which takes the premise of Groundhog Day and fashions from it a poignant statement about life and mortality. Refreshingly for the genre, it focuses on a middle-aged woman — a scientist-slash-physicist, even — whose 55th birthday…

SXSW organizers on Monday announced the Audience Award winners for the festival’s recently wrapped 31st edition. The list includes Tracie Laymon’s dramedy Bob Trevino Likes It, which prevailed in Narrative Feature Competition, and the action thriller Monkey Man marking Dev Patel’s directorial debut…

Two men allegedly plotted to kill a rapper performing at a show last week during Austin’s South by Southwest Music Festival. The alleged hit would have taken place at a March 10 show unaffiliated with the festival, according to an affidavit obtained by Fox 7 Austin. Many shows take place in…

The 2024 SXSW Film Festival kicked off March 8 in Austin with the opening-night world premiere screening of Doug Liman’s Road House remake starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Conor McGregor. It started nine days of debuts including for movies starring Rooney Mara, Isabelle Huppert, Gael García Bernal, Kristen…

In Michael Showalter's The Idea of You, based on the novel by Robinne Lee, Amazon MGM Studios brings to the screen a narrative that tantalizes with the prospect of exploring the complexities of love, age disparity and the pursuit of happiness in the digital…

Anne Hathaway and Nicholas Galitzine are closing SXSW with the premiere of The Idea of You, which will be available on Prime Video on May 2. The Idea of You is based on a novel by Robinne Lee about a single mother who takes her daughter to Coachella and ends up in a relationship with the lead singer of a boyband. RELAT…

EXCLUSIVE: Amazon MGM opened this year’s SXSW with a bang with Road House, and the fest is going to end tonight with another one, that being Michael Showalter’s Anne Hathaway-Nicholas Galitzine romance movie, The Idea of You. Related Stories …

Alex Garland’s latest film Civil War, from A24 and featuring a star-studded cast including Kirsten Dunst, Cailee Spaeny, Wagner Moura, Stephen McKinley Henderson, Jesse Plemons and Nick Offerman, aims to hold a mirror up to a society spiraling out amongst…

One of the most anticipated movies in a contentious Red vs. Blue election year, A24’s Civil War made its grand splash Thursday night in the Texas democratic stronghold of Austin — and the media, on which this feature casts a spotlight, savored it like a stack of beef ribs. The dystopian future movie…