Sandra Bullock and Pete Davidson Movies, ‘Atlanta’ Season 3 Lead 2022 SXSW Film Lineup
variety.comMatt Donnelly Senior Film WriterTwice thwarted by the COVID-19 pandemic, the SXSW Film Festival is making a major return to form this year — featuring premium studio projects from Sandra Bullock and Pete Davidson, notable indies and docs, and a closing night premiere from the new season of Donald Glover’s “Atlanta.”In 2020, the Austin-based conference was the first major event to fall to the rapidly-escalating first wave of coronavirus, and was similarly forced to go virtual in 2021 thanks to the Delta variant.
Now preparing for an in-person program beginning on March 11, Hiollywood and indie hopefuls are coming out in force.Sandra Bullock and Channing Tatum’s “The Lost City,” Pete Davidson and Amandla Stenberg’s secret A24 slasher film “Bodies, Bodies, Bodies,” Richard Linklater and Jack Black’s coming-of-age story “Apollo 10 1/2: A Space Age Childhood,” and Nicolas Cage’s “The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent” will all populate the headliners section.
In the episodic section, Glover’s long-awaited third chapter of “Atlanta” will close the festival with the first episode of its new Europe-set adventure.
The full program joins the previously-announced opening night film “Everything Everywhere All at Once,” starring Michelle Yeoh. “The last two years have been complicated, and full of uncharted new waters for all of us.
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