{"id":299348,"date":"2025-12-04T22:01:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T22:01:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/299348\/"},"modified":"2025-12-04T22:01:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T22:01:06","slug":"boots-rileys-i-love-boosters-will-open-sxsw-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/299348\/","title":{"rendered":"Boots Riley’s I Love Boosters will open SXSW 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

The next edition of SXSW in Austin, Texas<\/a> is mere months away. This upcoming year will be the festival\u2019s 40th outing, and the team in Texas announced this morning that it will kick off with Boots Riley\u2019s sophomore feature, I Love Boosters, making its world premiere as the Opening Night Film of the 2026 Film & TV Festival.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The film follows a group of shoplifters who \u201ctake aim at a fashion maven\u201d and stars Keke Palmer, Naomi Ackie, Taylour Paige, Poppy Liu, Eiza Gonzalez, LaKeith Stanfield, Don Cheadle and Demi Moore. Being a Boots Riley joint, it\u2019ll probably be irreverent and pretty left politically. Riley\u2019s feature debut, 2018\u2019s Sorry To Bother You<\/a>, focused on how capitalism has the capacity to turn us into animals, while his 2023 Prime Video series I\u2019m A Virgo took aim at policing via a super hero metaphor.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Velvet Gang has officially cased Austin and decided Opening Night at SXSW 2026 will be the start of their global takeover! We are beyond thrilled to kick off the festival with the World Premiere of Boots Riley\u2019s I Love Boosters,\u201d SXSW\u2019s VP of Film & TV Claudette Godfrey says in a statement. \u201cBoots has created another wildly original and boundary-pushing vision that\u2019s deliciously unpredictable. We can\u2019t wait for our audience to be sucked into his singular, subversive world where razor-sharp social commentary meets fearless, surreal storytelling and eye-popping imagery\u2014all powered by a ridiculously stacked cast of some of the most talented actors on the planet. I Love Boosters is audacious, entertaining, and guaranteed to get our festival off to an unforgettable start. Trust us, you\u2019ll want to be there when The Velvet Gang bursts onto the scene!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The next edition of SXSW in Austin, Texas is mere months away. This upcoming year will be the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":299349,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-299348","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=299348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299348\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/299349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}