'Serious Moonlight' at AFF Opening Night

On Thursday night, Austin Film Festival screened its opening-night movie, Serious Moonlight, at the Paramount. Director Cheryl Hines, pictured above, attended the screening and held a Q&A afterwards. The movie stars Meg Ryan, Timothy Hutton, Kristen Bell and Justin Long, and was written by the late Adrienne Shelly (Waitress).

A number of film-pass holders were lined up for the film -- it turned out to be a good-sized audience, but everyone was able to get in.

Cheryl Hines was great fun on the red carpet. One of the TV photographers made her crack up laughing:

She was also a cut-up for photos, striking a bunch of silly poses:

And you won't believe what she said about Slackerwood. We've got it all captured on audio and will be publishing a podcast of our red-carpet interview soon. If you want to see actual photos of Debbie Cerda and I on the Serious Moonlight red carpet, working away (and giggling away), Austin 360 has a full photo set from the event and we're in at least three of the pictures.