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Movie Name: The Phoenician Scheme
Directed by: Wes Anderson
Starring: Benicio del Toro, Mia Threapleton, Michael Cera, Tom Hanks, Bryan Cranston, Riz Ahmed, Mathieu Amalric, Jeffrey Wright, Richard Ayoade, Scarlett Johansson, Benedict Cumberbatch
Genre: Action, Thriller, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Running Time: – Minutes
Release Date: May 30, 2025
Rating: –
Languages: English
Production House: American Empirical Pictures, Indian Paintbrush, Studio Babelsberg
Budget: $- million
The story of a family and a family business.
The Phoenician Scheme: Movie Overview
The Phoenician Scheme is an upcoming espionage black comedy film produced, written and directed by Wes Anderson from a story he conceived with Roman Coppola. The film will feature an ensemble cast including Benicio del Toro, Mia Threapleton, Michael Cera, Riz Ahmed, Tom Hanks, Bryan Cranston, Mathieu Amalric, Richard Ayoade, Jeffrey Wright, Scarlett Johansson, Imad Mardnli and Benedict Cumberbatch. An international co-production between the United States and Germany, it will be produced by Babelsberg Studio, Anderson’s company American Empirical Pictures and Steven Rales’s company Indian Paintbrush.
Anderson talked about the film in June 2023 while promoting Asteroid City; he said it had already been written before the 2023 WGA strike began. That September, he revealed that del Toro and Cera were planned to join the cast, and he hoped to begin filming soon after the 2023 SAG-AFTRA strike ended. The rest of the cast signed on between January and June 2024. Filming took place at Babelsberg Studio in Germany, between March and June 2024, with cinematographer Bruno Delbonnel. Frequent Anderson collaborator Alexandre Desplat returned to compose the score.
The Phoenician Scheme will premiere in the main competition of the 2025 Cannes Film Festival, before being released theatrically in the United States on May 30, 2025.
