Wes Anderson‘s next feature has found a home. Focus Features has picked up global rights to The Phoenician Scheme, and set a May 30 limited release for the project, which will expand wide on June 6.
In a case of natural counter-programming, Lionsgate’s John Wick spinoff Ballerina also opens June 6.
Phoenician Scheme is described as “the story of a family and a family business.” It stars Benicio del Toro as Zsa-zsa Korda, one of the richest men in Europe; Mia Threapleton as Sister Liesl, his daughter/a nun; and Michael Cera as Bjorn Lund, their tutor.
Other stars include Tom Hanks, Bryan Cranston, Riz Ahmed, Mathieu Amalric, Jeffrey Wright, Scarlett Johansson, Richard Ayoade, Rupert Friend, Hope Davis and Benedict Cumberbatch.
Anderson penned the script, from a story he wrote with Roman Coppola.
The film hails from Indian Paintbrush, and is the third teamup with Anderson, Indian Paintbrush and Focus, which also released Asteroid City (2023) and Moonrise Kingdom (2012). Anderson produced the feature via his American Empirical Pictures banner. Steven Rales of Indian Paintbrush also produced, with Jeremy Dawson and John Peet.
Anderson is known for doing repeat business with collaborators, from cast to crew, and noted the same was of his Germany-based shoot.
“People who are newcomers on the set or [to] the process of making one of my movies find it strange,” Anderson said at Annecy last year. “It’s not necessarily the way movies are normally made. Probably every director is like that. We have our own strange methods, which began in some ways with the first film I made.”
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