Hey folks, Harry here - and holy queso, SXSW just announced some additional goodies that'll be taking place during this year's festival. First - PEE WEE'S BIG HOLIDAY is getting it's world premiere - which is just so awesome that I wonder if that's the secret word for the day! AWESOME!!!! Then, Seth Rogen & Evan Goldberg will be world premiering PREACHER - I'm assuming it'll be the first episode or so... God, it'd be so cool to have the whole show play out marathon style at SXSW, but I don't think we're that lucky, but I'm sure as hell game! AND then we get the North American Premiere of MIDNIGHT SPECIAL - which has had a poster and a trailer that we went gaga over! That's the big 3 that I'm freaking out about today... but there's more!
Beware the Slenderman (World Premiere)
Director: Irene Taylor Brodsky
In this horrifyingly modern fairytale lurks an online Boogeyman and two 12-year-old girls who would kill for him. The entrance to the Internet quickly leads to its darkest basement. How responsible are our children for what they find there?
Chevalier
Director: Athina Rachel Tsangari
Screenwriters: Efthimis Filippou, Athina Rachel Tsangari
Six men on a fishing trip on a luxury yacht decide to play a game to compete. Things will be compared. Things will be measured. Songs will be butchered. Blood will be tested. Friends will become rivals, and rivals will become hungry. (Greece)
Cast: Yorgos Kentros, Panos Koronis, Vangelis Mourikis, Makis Papadimitriou, Yorgos Pirpassopoulos, Sakis Rouvas
Tony Robbins: I Am Not Your Guru (World Premiere)
Director: Joe Berlinger
Granted unprecedented access, Berlinger captures renowned life and business strategist Tony Robbins behind the scenes of his mega seminar Date with Destiny, pulling back the curtain on this life-altering and controversial event, the zealous participants and the man himself.
Midnight Special (North American Premiere)
Director/Screenwriter: Jeff Nichols
A father goes on the run to protect his young son and uncover the truth behind the boy’s special powers in the sci-fi thriller Midnight Special, a film as supernatural as it is intimately human.
Cast: Michael Shannon, Joel Edgerton, Kirsten Dunst, Adam Driver, Jaeden Lieberher, Sam Shepard
Pee-wee’s Big Holiday (World Premiere)
Director: John Lee
Screenwriters: Paul Reubens, Paul Rust
In Pee-wee’s Big Holiday, a fateful meeting with a mysterious stranger inspires Pee-wee Herman to take his first-ever holiday in this epic story of friendship and destiny.
Cast: Paul Reubens, Joe Manganiello, Jessica Pohly, Alia Shawkat, Stephanie Beatriz
Preacher (World Premiere)
Directors: Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg
Screenwriter: Sam Catlin
Preacher is a supernatural, twisted and darkly comedic drama that follows a West Texas preacher named Jesse Custer, who – along with his ex-girlfriend Tulip and an Irish vagabond named Cassidy – is thrust into a crazy world, much bigger than he is.
Cast: Dominic Cooper, Ruth Negga, Joseph Gilgun, Ian Colletti, W. Earl Brown, Lucy Griffiths
These titles are in addition to the previous announcement that Richard Linklater's spiritual sequel to DAZED & CONFUSED called EVERYBODY WANTS SOME will kick SXSW through the uprights opening night! We're due for a host of additional titles to be announced this February! Can't wait - this is like Spring Christmas! So many films to unwrap!
Keep it cool,
Harry
