Seymour Cassel, an Oscar-nominated longtime actor whose 200-plus screen credits include several John Cassavetes movies and three for Wes Anderson, died Sunday of Alzheimer’s complications in Los Angeles. He was 84. Cassel scored a Supporting Actor Oscar nom for Cassavetes’ 1968 film Faces, a role that also earned him…

When two-time Oscar-winning composer Alexandre Desplat goes about his work, he spends a lot of time imagining, striving for a score and a sonic world unlike any heard before. With Wes Anderson's Isle of Dogs—set in a dystopian near-future Japan, and following a boy in search of his dog on an island of refuse—this…

An Oscar nominee who leaped into the Wes Anderson ensemble with Isle of Dogs, Bryan Cranston knows how to paint a picture. Before signing on for the director's second stop-motion outing, Cranston had never met the director; he'd only seen him in photos, and looking to understand the nature of one of the industry's…

In his first collaboration with Wes Anderson on Isle of Dogs, Paul Harrod translated an auteur's live-action style to stop-motion, a medium that allowed for a spectacular visual presentation, but came with a set of limitations that proved problematic. Gathering reference materials and establishing certain visual…

UPDATED at 12:30PM PT with more numbers and analysis. Wes Anderson's stop-motion-animated Isle Of Dogs opened via Fox Searchlight in 27 theaters, grossing $1.57M and averaging $58,148, tops for any 2018 opener to date despite being the widest-ever Anderson opener. The film, which had its world premiere last month in…

In Wes Anderson’s latest pic, Isle of Dogs, he continues to give his diorama storytelling whimsy to tell the story of a young boy (Koyu Rankin) in Japan looking for his lost dog after all the canine pets have been exiled to a garbage dump. The stop-motion animated feature has all the Wes Andersonisms expected from his…

No matter the subject matter, you can always count on Wes Anderson to come up with something unlike anything else out there. From his most recent Oscar-winning The Grand Budapest Hotel and past gems like Moonrise Kingdom, The Royal Tenenbaums and The Life Aquatic, Anderson’s movies may be an acquired taste for some…

China last month rang in the Year of the Dog, and on April 20 will spread the puppy love with Wes Anderson’s Isle Of Dogs. The stop-motion animated pic debuted as the opener of the Berlin Film Festival in February and yesterday secured an official release date in the Middle Kingdom. This is the third Fox Searchlight…

Wes Anderson’s stop-motion animated Isle of Dogs took the Audience Award in the Headliners section at SXSW, a trophy previously won the past three years by such movies as Baby Driver, Demolition and the Sally Field pic Hello, My Name Is Doris.  Isle of Dogs, which opens Friday, follows a young boy (Koyu Rankin) in…

Wes Anderson first dipped a paw into the stop-motion canine world with 2009’s fantastic Fantastic Mr. Fox, which was based on the Roald Dahl book. Coming off nine Oscar noms for 2014’s The Grand Budapest Hotel — including one for his original screenplay — and four wins, the filmmaker is back with his second animated…

Twentieth Century Fox’s games and virtual reality division FoxNext used the global stage of the Consumer Electronics Show to offer a sneak preview of Isle of Dogs Behind The Scenes (in Virtual Reality), an experience to screen in full at the New Frontier at Sundance. The VR experience takes audiences inside the…

After charming audiences with 2014’s Silver Bear Grand Jury Prize winner The Grand Budapest Hotel, Wes Anderson is returning to the Berlin Film Festival. The filmmaker’s stop-motion animated Isle Of Dogs has been set to world premiere in competition as the opening night film of the 68th Berlinale on February 15…