Louisiana International Film Festival gets ‘Spy’ for opening night

Photo of Rose Byrne (left) and Melissa McCarthy (right) in the new Paul Feig comedy “Spy,” which will play on opening night at the Louisiana International Film Festival.

Opening and closing night films plus six more announced for third annual festival

If the first few titles to come from the Louisiana International Film Festival’s (LIFF) 2015 slate are any indication, then the festival’s third year will be its biggest and best yet.

According to an article from Indiewire.com, the new Melissa McCarthy comedy Spy will kick off the Capital City film festival on May 7. This screening will be nearly a month before its theatrical date. The article also states that this year’s LIFF closer will be Me and Earl and the Dying Girl, a drama that took home the 2015 Sundance Grand Jury Prize and the Audience Award.

This year’s LIFF festivities run May 7-10 at Cinemark Perkins Rowe. All access passes, priced at $100, are available now. Lower tier tickets and more information will be available at a later date, leading up to the festival.

The festival has also released the names of six other films that will be appearing this year. Those films include the animated drama Kahlil Gibran’s The Prophet, featuring the voices of Liam Neeson and Salma Hayek; Mangelhorn, the new drama from director David Gordon Green and starring Al Pacino; The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution, a documentary and official selection of the 2015 Sundance Film Festival; I’ll See You In My Dreams, a romantic drama starring Blythe Danner; and In the Name of My Daughter, a French drama starring Catherine Deneuve.