The Oscars didn’t rain on Robert Rodriguez’s parade tonight as the filmmaker debuted his long-in-the-works Hypnotic at SXSW’s Paramount Theatre, with crowds being turned away.
Much to Rodriguez’s relief, the $70M Ben Affleck movie –which was delayed by Covid, shut down three times, slapped with an insurance lawsuit and saw its U.S.
distributor Solstice Studios implode — received a rapturous response at the jam-packed Paramount theatre. Throngs are definitely back here at SXSW.
In its first collision with Oscar night, SXSW largely counterprogrammed the big ABC event, read after Friday night’s mega opening night title, Paramount/eOne’s Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves, the next big studio title is tomorrow night’s Lionsgate release John Wick: Chapter 4, followed by Warner Bros.’ Evil Dead Rise and Lionsgate’s Joyride later this week.
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