{"id":2238940,"date":"2026-01-17T17:18:54","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T17:18:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2238940"},"modified":"2026-01-17T17:18:54","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T17:18:54","slug":"pizza-movie-starring-stranger-things-star-gaten-matarazzo-set-for-sxsw-premiere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/pizza-movie-starring-stranger-things-star-gaten-matarazzo-set-for-sxsw-premiere\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Pizza Movie\u2019 starring Stranger Things\u2019 star Gaten Matarazzo set for SXSW premiere"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">\n<div class=\"medium-insert-images ui-sortable medium-insert-active\" style=\"\">\n    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hungamaexpress.com\/assets\/uploads\/updates\/2026-01-17\/39436_2813954_8_updates.jpg\" alt=\"\u2018Pizza Movie\u2019 starring Stranger Things\u2019 star Gaten Matarazzo set for SXSW premiere\" id=\"474464\" class=\"uploaded-jshare-image\" width=\"1200\" height=\"686\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\u2018Pizza Movie\u2019 starring Stranger Things\u2019 star Gaten Matarazzo set for SXSW premiere<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A new movie filmed in Syracuse and starring <i>Stranger Things <\/i>actor Gaten Matarazzo is heading for a major festival debut.<\/p>\n<p><i>Pizza Movie<\/i> produced by American High will premiere at the SXSW Film &amp; TV Festival in Austin, Texas running March 12\u201318, according to The Hollywood Reporter.<\/p>\n<p> The film has been selected for the festival\u2019s \u201cNarrative Spotlight\u201d section.<\/p>\n<p>The comedy stars Matarazzo alongside Sean Giambrone (The Goldbergs) and follows a group of college students whose late-night pizza run turns chaotic when they realise they are extremely high on a homemade drug.<\/p>\n<p> What should be a simple trip to their dorm lobby becomes a bizarre and reality-bending adventure.<\/p>\n<p>The film is co-written and co-directed by former Saturday Night Live writers Brian McElhaney and Nick Kocher.<\/p>\n<p> It is produced by Jeremy Garelick, Will Helps and Molle DeBartolo under the Liverpool-based production company American High.<\/p>\n<p>Filming took place in and around Syracuse last spring. <\/p>\n<p>The cast also includes Lulu Wilson, Peyton Elizabeth Lee, Sarah Sherman, Marcus Scribner and Justin Cooley.<\/p>\n<p>The movie previously went by the working title <i>The Untitled BriTANicK Pizza Movie. <\/i><\/p>\n<p>Garelick joked online that SXSW \u201cfinally forced us to make a decision\u201d adding, \u201cHope you\u2019re not lactose intolerant, because THE PIZZA MOVIE is heading to Austin.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Following its festival run <i>Pizza Movie <\/i>is expected to stream on Hulu under American High\u2019s deal with the platform.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.hungamaexpress.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Pizza Movie\u2019 starring Stranger Things\u2019 star Gaten Matarazzo set for SXSW premiere A new movie filmed in Syracuse and starring Stranger Things actor Gaten Matarazzo is heading for a major festival debut. 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