\n\tAFI Fest\u2019s 2026 schedule is starting to fill up.<\/p>\n
\n\tThe American Film Institute has lifted the veil on more titles selected to screen at its upcoming event in Los Angeles, including a handful of fall festival standouts. New to the red carpet premieres section are Peter Farrelly\u2019s I Play Rocky<\/a> starring Anthony Ippolito and Netflix\u2019s animated Ray Gunn from Brad Bird featuring the voices of Scarlett Johansson and Sam Rockwell.<\/p>\n \n\tRockwell also stars in Martin McDonagh\u2019s Wild Horse Nine<\/a> opposite John Malkovich, and that film, which broke out as a festival favorite following its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival, has been plucked to show as part of AFI\u2019s special screenings section. <\/p>\n \n\tIt will be joined by Ava DuVernay\u2019s documentary 14th, Diego Luna\u2019s Ashes, Tony Gilroy\u2019s Behemoth! starring Pedro Pascal as a gifted cellist, Pedro Almod\u00f3var\u2019s Bitter Christmas, Florian Zeller\u2019s Bunker<\/a> starring couple Javier Bardem and Pen\u00e9lope Cruz, Arie and Chuko Esiri\u2019s Clarissa with David Oyelowo, Sophie Okonedo and Ayo Edebiri, Simon Stone\u2019s Elsinore starring Andrew Scott as Ian Charleson, Beth de Ara\u00fajo\u2019s Josephine starring Channing Tatum, Gemma Chan and Mason Reeves, Ira Sachs\u2019 The Man I Love starring Rami Malek, Rebecca Hall, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, Tom Sturridge and Maisy Stella, Kelly O\u2019Sullivan and Alex Thompson\u2019s Mouse starring Sophie Okonedo and Katherine Mallen Kupferer, and Leah Nelson\u2019s animated pic about Alzheimer\u2019s, Tangles, featuring an all-star voice cast that includes Seth Rogen, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Bryan Cranston, Pamela Adlon, Sarah Silverman, Beanie Feldstein, Abbi Jacobson, Wanda Sykes, Adam Shapiro, Bowen Yang, Phil Rosenthal, Samira Wiley and more. <\/p>\n \n\tThe milestone 40th installment of AFI Fest is set to take place at Hollywood\u2019s TCL Chinese Theatres on Oct. 21-25. The fest opens with the U.S. premiere of Travis Knight\u2019s animated Wildwood, and will feature showings of Netflix\u2019s The Mosquito Bowl from filmmaker Peter Berg and starring Nicholas Galitzine, Bill Skarsgard, Ray Nicholson and Berg, and Sian Heder\u2019s Being Heumann<\/a>. Also as previously announced, Phil Lord<\/a> and Chris Miller<\/a> have been tapped as guest artistic directors<\/a>. The full fest lineup will be unveiled on Sept. 29. In the meantime, passes are now available for purchase.<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cAFI Fest is where the world tells stories in the beating heart of Hollywood,\u201d said Bob Gazzale, AFI president and CEO. \u201cThis year, we are proud to celebrate 40 years of bringing artists and audiences together to be inspired in a powerful sense of community.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AFI Fest\u2019s 2026 schedule is starting to fill up. The American Film Institute has lifted the veil on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":636008,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[263779,171762,321,162520,93,131645,61,60,83843,161131],"class_list":["post-636007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-being-heumann","tag-bunker","tag-celebrities","tag-chris-miller","tag-entertainment","tag-i-play-rocky","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-phil-lord","tag-wild-horse-nine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=636007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636007\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/636008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=636007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=636007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=636007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}