Festival Predictions

2022 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: B.J. Novak’s Vengeance

Published on November 25, 2021

The Blumhouse folks have a good reputation in Park City (Secret Screening world premiere to Get Out comes to mind), perhaps actor B.J. Novak‘s directorial debut might claim the same status showing. A thriller that went into production Albuquerque, New Mexico this past March, Vengeance stars Lio Tipton, Issa Rae, Ashton Kutcher, J. Smith Cameron, and Boyd Holbrook.

Gist: Vengeance is said to follow a radio host from New York City who travels down south to investigate the overdose of a woman he’d been sleeping with but didn’t really care about and discover what happened to her, because her family wrongly thinks they were in love and because he thinks his investigation will make for a great story for his show.

Production Co./Producers: Blumhouse’s Jason Blum, Divide/Conquer’s Adam Hendricks and Greg Gilreath.

Prediction: SECRET SCREENING.

U.S. Distributor: Focus Features.

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).