South by Southwest announced the 2024 lineup for their 31st Film & TV Festival, occurring March 8-16 in Austin, Texas. The festival unveiled the first titles in its Headliner, Feature and Short Competitions, Midnighter, Global and XR Experience categories.
SXSW announced Pamela Adlon’s Babes and David Leitch’s The Fall Guy as two film headliners, both making their world premiere at the festival. Distributed by Neon, Babes stars Ilana Glazer, Michelle Buteau, John Carroll Lynch and Hasan Minhaj. Glazer additionally wrote the pregnancy comedy alongside Josh Rabinowitz. The film marks a directorial debut for comedic actress Adlon, best known for her Emmy-winning role as the voice of Bobby Hill in King of the Hill. The Fall Guy was additionally announced as the festival’s 2024 Centerpiece Film. The comedic thriller marks the latest action flick from Leitch, the director behind John Wick and Atomic Blonde. The film follows stuntman Colt Seavers (played by Ryan Gosling) as he replaces a missing actor in a big studio production, only to discover the sinister plot behind the mysterious disappearance. Emily Blunt, Hannah Waddingham, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Winston Duke and Stephanie Tsu also star in the action-comedy.
Netflix’s 3 Body Problem, created by True Blood executive producer Alexander Woo and Game of Thrones creators David Benioff and D. B. Weiss, was selected as the festival’s opening-night TV premiere. The sci-fi mystery series, based on Liu Cixin’s trilogy of the same name, comes to Netflix on March 21. The series, starring Rosalind Chao, Jovan Adepo, John Bradley, Liam Cunningham, Saamer Usmani, Marlo Kelly and Jess Hong, follows a group of scientists facing a cataclysmic threat dating back to 1960s China.
Other premieres at SXSW 2024 include season three of HBO’s Hacks, the final season of Star Trek: Discovery and the documentary Cheech and Chong’s Last Movie. You can find the full lineup of announced titles here. More movies and TV appearing at the fest will be announced in February.
Sage Dunlap is a journalist based in Austin, TX. She currently contributes to Paste as a movies section intern, covering the latest in film news.