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Like so many rampantly successful entities before it, SXSW Film appears to have improbably fallen for Pete Davidson: The festival announced today that the Saturday Night Live star’s semi-autobiographical new film, King Of Staten Island, is scheduled to open this year’s fest. Directed by Judd Apatow, the film stars and was co-written by Davidson, and centers on a young man in his whatever-age-Pete-Davidson-is’s who’s living at home with mother Marisa Tomei. As The New York Times notes, the film is Apatow’s first narrative film since he released Trainwreck back in 2015; he’s spent the intervening five years working and producing mostly in TV, including on series like Crashing and Love.