Richard Linklater's college baseball comedy Everybody Wants Some will open next year's the South by Southwest Film Conference and Festival in Austin.
SXSW announced Tuesday that Linklater's follow-up to his Oscar-winning drama Boyhood will kick off the 23rd annual edition of the festival on March 11. The film, written and directed by the Austin-based Linklater, is about a group of college baseball players adjusting to "unsupervised adulthood."
Named after a Van Halen song, it's a kind of spiritual sequel to Linklater's Dazed and Confused, which partly centered on high-school football and baseball players.
Janet Pierson, head of SXSW Film, said the film is "instantly quotable and filled with great new talent ... a paean to competition and coming of age in the '80s."
Paramount will release Everybody Wants Some on April 14.
