Festival Predictions

2024 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Ti West’s MaXXXine

Published on November 14, 2023

Sundance and SXSW programmers might be duking it out for the final part in Ti West‘s trilogy. Critically acclaimed horror films X (2022 – a SXSW preem) and Pearl (2022 – a Venice preem) were surprise hits on the fest circuit and MaXXXine looks poised to burn the entire village down (80’s Los Angeles). Completed back in October of last year, Mia Goth returns as Maxine and is surrounded by Michelle Monaghan, Elizabeth Debicki, Bobby Cannavale, Kevin Bacon, Lily Collins, Giancarlo Esposito and Halsey, the A24 folks could be packing some cool swag.

Gist: The film follows Maxine (Goth), after the events of X, as the sole survivor who continues her journey towards fame setting out to make it as an actress in 1980’s Los Angeles.

Production Co./Producers: Jacob Jaffke, Harrison Kreiss, Kevin Turen, Ti West.

Prediction: Midnight section.

U.S. Distributor: A24.

Eric Lavallée

Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).