“Another Simple Favor,” Paul Feig’s sequel to his 2018 noir comedy starring Anna Kendrick and Blake Energetic, will open the SXSW Movie and TV Pageant.
Organizers of the Austin, Texas, pageant introduced Tuesday that the long-awaited “A Simple Flavor” sequel will kick of this 12 months’s version on March 7. The Amazon MGM launch plots one other twist-filled spherical of homicide and betrayal, with Stephanie Smothers (Kendrick) and Emily Nelson (Energetic) heading to an Italy wedding ceremony on Capri.
“When we saw this film last fall, we instantly knew it had to open SXSW — it gave us that electric feeling we live for as programmers,” mentioned Claudette Godfrey, pageant vp, in a press release.
SXSW has hosted Feig’s movies earlier than, together with a work-in-progress screening of “Bridesmaids” in 2011 and the premiere of “Spy” in 2015.
The premiere of “Another Simple Favor” shall be Energetic’s first new film since final 12 months’s “It Ends With Us” and the next authorized drama involving Energetic and that movie’s director and co-star, Justin Baldoni.
In late December, Energetic sued Baldoni, his manufacturing firm and others for sexual harassment and assaults on her popularity and sought unspecified damages. Baldoni sued final month, accusing Energetic and her husband, “Deadpool” actor Ryan Reynolds, of defamation and extortion and searching for no less than $400 million in damages.
A trial date of March 2026 has been set.
SXSW beforehand introduced one other opening night time premiere: the upcoming Seth Rogen Hollywood comedy sequence “The Studio.” The movie pageant, now in its thirty second 12 months, runs March 7-14.
