SXSW Sets Judd Apatow’s ‘The King Of Staten Island’ As Opening Night Film, Unveils Features And Episodics

The director's longtime producer shares plans beyond the 10th feature

GÖTEBORG, Sweden —  Norway’s Stian Kristiansen (“Homeground”, “The Man Who Loved Yngve”) has signed on to direct “Doppler” for long-time production partners at Motlys (“Louder than Bombs”, Homeground”).

If there's one thing that Jimmy Fallon has taught us over the years, it's that he's game for anything, even if that's trying to keep up with fitness icon John Cena in about five different sports. The 45-year-old Tonight Show host does just that in the 2020 Super Bowl commercial for Michelob Ultra.

The movie will star the likes of Benicio Del Toro, Tilda Swinton and Timothée Chalamet

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Standing up for his star! Judd Apatow cleared up some common misconceptions about Pete Davidson after working alongside him for the upcoming film The King of Staten Island.

The Berlin Film Festival is unveiling its main competition line-up this morning, alongside additional galas.

The International Film Festival Rotterdam's main Tiger competition may currently be in full flow, with 10 films up for the event's top honor, but the winners of its smaller sibling have already been unveiled.On Sunday night in the Dutch city, the jury for the Ammodo Tiger short competition unveiled their list of winners, with three films — Apparition by Ismaïl Bahri, Communicating Vessels by Maïder Fortuné and Annie MacDonell, and Sun Dog by Dorian Jespers — sharing the prize.

If you didn't know better, you might almost imagine that The Nest, writer-director Sean Durkin's long awaited follow-up to his debut Martha Marcy May Marlene (2011), was inspired by a lost Henry James novel.

All work and no play makes Rory O’Hara a dull boy — which is to say, one can scarcely overlook the connections between Sean Durkin’s subtly unsettling second feature, “The Nest,” and Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining,” even if this is by far the more tedious of the two movies. While the obsessive dad Law plays here doesn’t fly off the handle quite so spectacularly as Jack Nicholson did, the horror hits closer to home, since what’s haunting the O’Haras isn’t supernatural.

GÖTEBORG, Sweden  All3Media is to handle international rights on Icelandic crime series “Black Sands” which, currently in development, is to be pitched at the Göteborg Festival’s TV Drama Vision confab on Thursday.

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The script has been published on The Black List

Judd Apatow’s The King of Staten Island, starring Pete Davidson of Saturday Night Live, will make its premiere as the opening night film at this year’s South by Southwest Film Festival.The Austin, Texas, festival on Wednesday announced that “The King of Staten Island” will kick off SXSW on March 13. The movie, Apatow’s first fiction film as director since 2015′s Trainwreck, is Davidson’s highest profile project yet.Universal Pictures will release The King of Staten Island in June.