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Wes Anderson’s new film, The Phoenician Scheme, has unveiled an action-packed trailer at CinemaCon in Las Vegas.The film stars Benicio del Toro and Mia Threapleton as a father and daughter struggling to overcome their difficult relationship. Unusually for the director, known for quirky comedy, the trailer shown to the convention crowd featured a lot of combat.

Focus Features took CinemaCon attendees inside the mind of Wes Anderson on Wednesday afternoon, showing off footage of his upcoming The Phoenician Scheme. This marks the filmmaker’s third major collaboration with Focus and tells the story of a family and a family business.

Wes Anderson brought the impossibly twee “The Phoenician Scheme” to Las Vegas while Yorgos Lanthimos and Emma Stone showcased the creepy, bee-filled “Bugonia” at CinemaCon. Anderson’s latest film, an espionage thriller, debuted a first-look trailer on Wednesday as part of Universal’s presentation to theater owners.

Labor Day weekend this year won’t be sleepy. Searchlight is jumping into the mix on Aug. 29 with their Jay Roach-directed comedy The Roses starring Benedict Cumberbatch, Oscar winner Olivia Colman, Andy Samberg, Oscar winner Allison Janney, Ncuti Gatwa, Jamie Demetriou, Zoë Chao, Belinda Bromilow and Kate McKinnon.

Katcy Stephan Searchlight’s “The Roses” starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Olivia Colman, will release on Aug. 29. The dark comedy is directed by Jay Roach (“Bombshell,” “Meet the Parents”) and is written by Tony McNamara (“Poor Things,” “The Great”).

As Adolescence sheds light on the growing online radicalization of young men, Jack Thorne is attempting to make a difference.

Alex Ritman It’s just been pointed out to me that my eyes have been wide open — like ‘what the hell just happened’ wide open — for some time. The appearance of my eyes is of little concern to me right now, however. My current predicament involves trying to assemble the jumble of very recently-collected and wildly colourful emotions and memories in my head into some sort of coherent and easy-to-access order.

Benedict Cumberbatch is doing promo work at the 2025 Berlinale International Film Festival.

Costars Margaret Qualley and Ethan Hawke showcased just how close they’ve gotten while promoting their new movie Blue Moon at the 2025 Berlinale International Film Festival on Tuesday (February 18).

Elsa Keslassy International Correspondent Benedict Cumberbatch spoke about his relationship to masculinity in his films at the Berlin press conference for “The Thing With Feathers,” in which he stars as a father of two sons grieving the devastating death of his wife. The actor, who also produced the film through his company SunnyMarch, attended the press conference alongside director Dylan Southern and Richard and Henry Boxall (picture above), who played his sons in the movie.

Benedict Cumberbatch and writer-director Dylan Southern arrived in Berlin for the European bow of their family drama The Thing With Feathers, which recently had its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival.

Cannes Film Festival bow, which could see Tom Cruise injecting some serious star power into the event. Paramount, which declined to comment for this article, will be releasing the movie in theaters on May 21, which falls during the second week of the festival.

Glastonbury for Benedict Cumberbatch.The former star of The Good Place and mental health advocate shared the anecdote during a new interview with Paloma Faith, as part of a new episode for the latter’s Mad Sad Bad podcast.During the discussion, Jamil explained some of the hardships she has faced in recent times, and shared that the 2024 edition of Glastonbury came during “one of the saddest” times of her life. This, she recalled, was because of the unexpected and “sudden” death of a friend.While at the Worthy Farm event, Jamil was still in a vulnerable state and found herself getting emotional during Coldplay’s massive headline set on the Pyramid Stage.

Benedict Cumberbatch has landed his next movie role.

Wes Anderson is set to release his new film The Phoenician Scheme this summer.The espionage comedy drama tells the story of a family business and stars Benicio del Toro as Zsa-zsa Korda, one of the richest men in Europe while Mia Threapleton plays his daughter and Michael Cera portrays her tutor.The film features an all star cast which also includes Tom Hanks, Bill Murray, Bryan Cranston, Riz Ahmed, Jeffrey Wright, Scarlett Johansson, Richard Ayoade and Benedict Cumberbatch.According to Variety, Focus Features has landed the domestic distribution rights to the movie, which is set to land in the US on a limited release on May 30 before a wide release on June 6.Universal Pictures, Focus’ parent studio, is handling international distribution but a date is still to be set for a UK release.In addition to directing The Phoenician Scheme, Anderson has also penned the script with the story co-written by Roman Coppola.Elsewhere, the director recently opened up about his experience making 2009 stop-motion film Fantastic Mr. Fox, and the challenges he faced getting his crew on board with his approach to directing.Speaking to Variety at the time, Anderson said: “My ideas for how to go about making the movie were probably unconventional in ways I didn’t realise … and so I ended up doing a lot of things that made it a lot more difficult.”Those “things” included unusual ways of capturing audio as well as redoing takes and lighting.Anderson went on to tackle stop-motion again with 2018’s Isle Of Dogs, which NME called his “best work yet” in a five-star review.Meanwhile, the director won his first Oscar at the 2024 ceremony for Best Live Action Short Film for the Benedict Cumberbatch-starring The Wonderful Story Of Henry Sugar – but was

Focus Features is reteaming for a third time with Wes Anderson and producer Indian Paintbrush on their next movie The Phoenician Scheme in what is a global distribution rights deal.

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Variety reported on how Cumberbatch, best known for playing Doctor Strange in Marvel movies and the titular detective in “Sherlock,” cringed at having played a non-binary fashion model named “All” in the “Zoolander” sequel.In the 2016 comedy, the two main characters, played by Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson, meet the character named “All” and immediately have questions.The character, with shaved eyebrows and an androgynous appearance, is asked by Stiller’s character, “So… are you, like, a male model or a female model?”“All is not defined by binary constructs,” Cumberbatch’s character replies.“That’s cool, I don’t like labels either,” Wilson’s character says. “But I think he’s asking, ‘Do you have a hot dog or a bun? You have a wiener or a ‘vageener’?”This and other awkward moments featuring this character were condemned by liberal critics.“I’ve had to apologize for that quite a lot.

Benedict Cumberbatch is looking back at his career.

Zack Sharf Digital News Director Benedict Cumberbatch recently participated in Variety’s “Know Their Lives” video series and shared some regret over his controversial role in Ben Stiller’s “Zoolander 2.” The “Doctor Strange” actor played a non-binary fashion model named All in the comedy sequel, which was an infamous box office flop in 2016 with just $28 million at the domestic box office. “I’ve had to apologize for that quite a lot. It’s a difficult one to talk about,” Cumberbatch said about playing a non-binary role.

The film adaptation of Michelle Zauner‘s best-selling memoir Crying in H Mart, first announced as in development in 2023, is currently on hold.