This is an image from the official press website for SXSW 2025. Horror is a much maligned genre often criticized for its over-reliance on booming music, jump scares and narrative tropes to carry its ...

This is an image from the official press website for South by Southwest 2025’s Animated Short Program. Short films are given a bad rep. They often have no published IMDb ratings, giving viewers no way ...

Max, formerly known as HBO Max, officially has a new logo on Sunday night, March 30. The new logo for Warner Bros. Discovery's steaming platform was unveiled on Sunday evening. The new logo gives ...

Podcaster Joe Rogan has a $14.8m mansion in Austin and his own comedy club SXSW is a useful metaphor for what is going on in Austin more widely — and the future of global cities, where tech and ...

South By Southwest's (SXSW) standing as Texas' most preeminent music festival isn't changing anytime soon. Despite numerous headlines suggesting the music component of the now 38-year-old festival ...

There was a surprising pattern that emerged from the buzziest sci-fi movies that premiered at this year’s SXSW Film & TV Festival: the alien invasion isn’t coming, it’s already long over.

Ryan Kampe’s Visit Films has licensed UK, Germany, Australia and Middle East rights on recent SXSW action thriller 40 Acres starring Danielle Deadwyler. Vertigo Releasing will distribute in the ...

For PR and brand leaders, SXSW is a hub for the best brand activations and case studies for how to engage Gen Z. But artificial intelligence has simultaneously dominated conversations about how ours ...

No event is more synonymous with the teenage American experience than prom. And the film industry, Satan bless it, has never lost sight of that fact. Prom movies are dime a dozen in the high ...

Then, on Sunday afternoon, The Austin American-Statesman reported the four-day music-focused portion of SXSW will be eliminated in 2026, with music events folded into a shortened version of the ...

Macklemore performs at Austin City Limits Live at the Moody Theater during the South by Southwest Music Festival on March 17, 2023, in Austin, Texas.(Jack Plunkett / Jack Plunkett/Invision/AP ...

Do you need a crowdpleaser? An indie gem? An awards contender? Look no further than this year’s just-wrapped SXSW Film & TV Festival, which touts all these sorts of films (and more!), ...