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SXSW Film & TV Festival Announces 2026 Audience Award Winners
You came, you watched, and you voted on your favorite SXSW Film & TV Festival screenings from March 12–18. Announcing the Audience Award winners for the 33rd SXSW Film & TV Festival!
Audience Award Winner: Over Your Dead Body
‘Over Your Dead Body’ Review: Jason Segel and Samara Weaving Are Out to Kill Each Other in a Mad Thriller That May Be the Quintessential SXSW Movie
SXSW may be the only film festival where the quintessential movies that play there aren’t just defining — they’re practically a genre. Here are some of the qualities of what has come to be seen as the classic SXSW film. It is violent. It is funny. It is aggressive.
Your Exclusive First Look at the Bloody Ballet Action-Thriller Pretty Lethal
“A vision of vengeance in bloody tutus. What’s not to love?”
That’s how actress Uma Thurman describes the campy action-thriller Pretty Lethal, set to premiere at SXSW on March 13 before landing on Prime Video on March 25.
Jason Segel And Samara Weaving Plan A Killer Retreat For Each Other In Over Your Dead Body Trailer
Jason Segel and Samara Weaving go head-to-head in a new dark comedy.
PEOPLE has the exclusive trailer for Over Your Dead Body ahead of its March premiere at SXSW. Segel, 46, and Weaving, 33, star as a married couple who both resolve to end tension in their marriage by plotting to kill the other.
Big-Budget Jason Statham-David Leitch Action-Comedy ‘Jason Statham Stole My Bike’ Arrives To Heat Up Berlin Market; Black Bear On Sales & Domestic With Leitch & Kelly McCormick Producing
EXCLUSIVE: Big-budget action-comedy Jason Statham Stole My Bike has been dropped into the European Film Market in Berlin and becomes the big-ticket new project on sale for commercially-oriented buyers.
SXSW 2026 Adds ‘The Comeback’ Season 3, Bloody Ballerina Thriller ‘Pretty Lethal’ and Red Hot Chili Peppers’ Hillel Slovak Doc
South by Southwest has added a second wave of programming to its 2026 film and TV lineup.
“Pretty Lethal,” a thriller film starring Uma Thurman and the buzzy young actresses Iris Apatow, Lana Condor, Millicent Simmonds, Avantika, Maddie Ziegler as ballerinas, has been added to the headliners section.
‘Novocaine’s Dan Berk & Robert Olsen To Direct Ludacris In ‘Limited Edition’ Actioner For Universal & 87North
Universal Pictures and 87North are developing Limited Edition, an action film to star the Fast & Furious franchise’s Ludacris which has locked in Novocaine helmers Dan Berk and Robert Olsen to write and direct.
Braden Aftergood Joins 87North
87North, the production company of Kelly McCormick and David Leitch, has hired veteran producer and executive Braden Aftergood to help lead the company’s film division.
Why did the Oscars introduce new casting and stunt categories, and how will they work?
We wait years for a new Oscar category – and then two come along in swift succession, recognising casting and, eventually, the fall guys.
Pete Davidson and David Leitch Team for Stunt Design Showdown: ‘People Really Don’t Understand How Hard These Guys Work’
87North, the production company behind films such as “The Fall Guy,” “Nobody” and the John Wick franchise is back for the Stunt Design Showdown.