Ari Aster’s ‘Eddington’ To Open Fantasia Festival

Ari Aster’s ‘Eddington’ To Open Fantasia Festival

This year’s Fantasia Festival will open with Ari Aster’s latest feature, Eddington. Eddington screens at Fantasia following its debut at Cannes last month. The thriller/black comedy is set in May 2020 and stars Phoenix, Pedro Pascal, Emma Stone, Austin Butler, Luke Grimes, Deirdre O’Connell, Micheal Ward, Clifton Collins Jr., and Amélie Hoeferle. Phoenix plays small-town […]

Ari Aster’s ‘Eddington’ Will Open Fantasia Fest 2025 — More from the Second Wave Lineup

A24's 'Eddington' with Pedro Pascal and Joaquin Phoenix leads the Montreal festivals second wave film lineup, also including Takashi Miike and more.

Ari Aster’s ‘Eddington’ to open Fantasia 2025, plus more titles added in second wave announcement

This July, Montreal will play host the 29th edition of Canadian genre film festival Fantasia. THN will be once more covering the event, with this being our tenth year supporting the festival. It seems that Fantasia knew it was a big milestone for us as they have cooked up a rather tasty looking line-up. The […]

Fantasia 2025: Second Wave Announced, Ari Asters' EDDINGTON to Open Fest!

The second wave of titles for this year's 28th edition of Fantasia has been announced. Once again, our trio of writers and editors planning on attending this year's festival have another list of banger tirles to pour over and anticipate watching this Summer.    Before we draw out some of the highlights the festival has announced that it will begin a day early, on July 16th. The remaining titles for this year's festival will be announced in early…

Ari Aster’s ‘Eddington’ to open Fantasia 2025

Festival to open one day earlier than previously announced, runs in Montreal July 16 to August 3.