Just keeping it weird 24-7” - but that’s not always the case.
With this history, you might think they’d feel assured of a warm reception from a like-minded audience - Rogen joked, “We’re all big guys with beards. Goldberg and Rogen have a long-standing relationship with the festival, having brought multiple projects over the years including “Blockers,” “The Disaster Artist,” “Preacher” and “Sausage Party.” Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg return to SXSW this year with two projects as producers: “Long Shot,” starring Rogen and Charlize Theron, and “Good Boys,” starring Jacob Tremblay. And Jordan’s kind of reinvented that and brought it to a modern audience.”Īmong the other anticipated films premiering at SXSW this year are Harmony Korine’s “The Beach Bum,” Lynn Shelton’s “Sword of Trust,” Chris Morris’s “The Day Shall Come,” John Lee Hancock’s “The Highwaymen,” Michael Dowse’s “Stuber” and Olivia Wilde’s “Booksmart.” The best films that I grew up on had a blend of all of them. This film is horror, this film is drama or this film is a romantic comedy. “Far too often, whether it’s distributors or audiences, people need to peg a film as a certain thing. And that’s what’s exciting,” McKittrick said. “He is the ultimate filmmaker for walking that tight rope between genres within one movie. “And Jordan is much, much more than a horror director. “It’s incredibly exciting that it’s not just being seen as a horror film because it is much more than that,” McKittrick said. Producer Sean McKittrick, coming off back-to-back best picture nominations for “Get Out” and “BlacKkKlansman,” is pleased by the level of anticipation and conversation already surrounding the film. What little is known is that stars Lupita Nyong’o and Winston Duke play a couple who take their children on a summer vacation only to find themselves under siege by what appear to be doppelgängers of themselves. “Us” arrives enshrouded in enigmatic secrecy. The festival will close with another buzzy horror title: the world premiere of Kevin Kolsch and Dennis Widmyer’s remake of Stephen King’s “Pet Sematary.” box office, won Peele an Oscar for original screenplay and became a cultural phenomenon. Peele’s previous film as writer-director, “Get Out,” took in more than $176 million at the U.S. This year’s opening-night film, Jordan Peele’s “Us,” arrives as already one of the most anticipated films of the year. box office and awards season recognition including an Oscar nomination for sound editing. Last year’s opening-night film, John Krasinski’s alien-invasion family drama fright fest “A Quiet Place,” played to a riotous response at the festival and went on to more than $188 million at the U.S. Having already established itself as a home for rowdy comedies, the South by Southwest Film Festival is now looking to lay claim as a destination for heady scares.
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