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Focus Features has re-teamed with Indian Paintbrush on Wes Anderson’s Asteroid City and will handle domestic distribution on the film while Universal International handles foreign. The studio previously released the seven-time Oscar-nominated filmmaker’s 2012 comedy Moonrise Kingdom.  In addition to being directed and…

Benedict Cumberbatch can't stop laughing. Speaking to Deadline on Tuesday morning after receiving his Oscar nomination — one of a whopping 12 total noms for Jane Campion's The Power of the Dog — he confessed he had a "nauseating grin" on his face. "It's such a weird, heightened thing," he said. Netflix film The Power o…

Editors note: Deadline’s Read the Screenplay series debuts and celebrates the scripts of films that will be factors in this year’s movie awards race. The French Dispatch isn't even half the full title of the movie. On screen, it's The French Dispatch of the Liberty Kansas Evening Sun. Wes Anderson's latest film is a…

Production designer Adam Stockhausen admits that when he first read Wes Anderson’s script for The French Dispatch and felt its sense of “scale” and “scope,” his response was one of “slight panic.” “Because…you know what you know about the timing and how long it’s going to take to get this together…the panic begins and…

After landing a SAG Award nomination this morning for his work in Jane Campion’s Netflix Western The Power of the Dog, Benedict Cumberbatch spoke with Deadline about his recently-announced, first collaboration with Wes Anderson on a Netflix adaptation of Roald Dahl’s The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar, as well as the…

EXCLUSIVE: Rupert Friend and Richard Ayoade are the latest additions to join the all-star cast of Netflix’s adaptation of Roald Dahl’s The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar, which Wes Anderson is writing and directing. Friend and Ayoade join the previously announced Benedict Cumberbatch, Dev Patel, Ralph Fiennes and Ben…

Following Netflix’s acquisition of the Roald Dahl Story Company, the streamer has set a major talent to helm its first big Dahl adaptation since the move. Sources confirmed to Deadline that Wes Anderson is on board to write and direct a feature adaptation of The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar. Insiders add that…

EXCLUSIVE: Ethan Josh Lee (Kajillionaire, Mr. Robinson) is the latest confirmed addition to the cast of Wes Anderson’s upcoming film Asteroid City, which has wrapped production in Spain. For now, the film’s plot is being kept under wraps. Lee joins a cast that includes Tom Hanks, Margot Robbie, Scarlett Johansson…

EXCLUSIVE: Jake Ryan (Chad, Moonrise Kingdom) recently reunited with Wes Anderson for Asteroid City, which we hear has wrapped production in Spain. The plot of the feature is being kept under wraps for the moment. Ryan joins a cast that includes Tom Hanks, Margot Robbie, Scarlett Johansson, Tilda Swinton, Sophia…

Neon's Spencer with Kristin Stewart rang in an opening weekend of $2.149 million on 996 screens, a per screen average of $2,158 as the film failed to connect in a market that remains a stubbornly hard sell for specialty and independent films. The well-reviewed (with raves for Stewart as Lady Diana) reimagining by…

With the majors eagerly seeking franchises rather than films, their executives might now pay some attention to a courtly Texan who lives in Paris. For 25 years, Wes Anderson has quietly but systematically built his unlikely and fragile franchise around 10 movies that filmgoers profess to enjoy but not understand. His…

EXCLUSIVE: United Talent Agency (UTA) has signed up Wes Anderson’s The French Dispatch breakout star Lyna Khoudri. UTA has signed Khoudri, who recently won the Most Promising Actress gong at France’s César Awards for her role in Papicha, in all areas and she will continue to be represented by Agence Adéquat. The…