SXSW’s Lineup For Return To In-Person Festival Includes Movies With Sandra Bullock, Nicolas Cage, Pete Davidson, Rose Byrne & More
deadline.comAfter being online over the last two years because of Covid, SXSW’s film lineup returns with a vibrant in-person edition for its 29th 2022 edition, running March 11-20, 2022; teed off with the types of rollercoaster, Hollywood event films that the event is known to spur great national buzz for.Anyone who was jonesing to get their film festival fix in the wake of Sundance’s cancellation, there’s plenty to see down in Austin, TX this spring, and this city couldn’t be more thankful as SXSW during pre-pandemic times counts an attendance of 280K with a reported $355.9M positive impact to the local economy.This is the festival that shot A Quiet Place, Ready Player One and Us out of a canon to the world, and this year sitting on top of SXSW’s 99 features (of which 76 are world premieres) are Paramount’s Sandra Bullock-Brad Pitt-Channing Tatum-Daniel Radcliffe adventure The Lost City, Lionsgate’s Nicolas Cage self-action satire The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent, A24’s Pete Davidson horror movie Bodies Bodies Bodies, Netflix’s animation adventure comedy Apollo 10 1/2: A Space Age Childhood from local Texan Richard Linklater, and for closing night, the long-awaited season 3 premiere of FX’s Atlanta TV series.On the narrative side there’s indie features starring Rose Byrne, Patton Oswalt, Alison Brie, Alessandro Nivola, Jim Gaffigan, Winona Ryder, Rita Moreno, Andrea Riseborough, Allison Janney and more.
Frank Marshall will be debuting his documentary Jazz Fest: A New Orleans Story. Episodic Highlights include: Brené Brown: Atlas of the Heart directed by Paul Dugdale; Paramount+’s episodic take of hit videogame Halo, DMZ directed by Ava DuVernay; The Last Movie Stars directed by Ethan Hawke; The Man Who Fell To Earth directed
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