Wes Anderson's Asteroid City Sets 2023 Release Date

Wes Anderson's latest film is almost ready to take off.

Focus Features, in partnership with Indian Paintbrush, has set a limited theatrical release for "Asteroid City" on June 16, 2023. The film will be released widely a week later on June 23. The offbeat premise for Anderson's "Asteroid City" was recently revealed, with Focus Features handling the comedy-drama cast.

This is the first collaboration between Focus and Anderson since the 2012 Oscar-nominated coming-of-age story "Moonrise Kingdom." His films since — "The Grand Budapest Hotel," "Isle of Dogs" and last year's "The French Dispatch" — have all been distributed by Searchlight. Universal Pictures, the parent company of Focus Features, will handle the international distribution of "Asteroid City".

"We are beyond thrilled to be the global home of 'Asteroid City', to bring Focus back to business with Wes and his producing partners," said Peter Kujawski, President of Focus Features. “Wes is a generational talent whose films delight audiences around the world; and we're sure the combination of his incredibly moving story and vision, combined with the incredibly talented cast of actors he's assembled, will mean 'Asteroid City' will be no different."

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"Asteroid City" is produced by writer-director Anderson and his longtime collaborators Steven Rales, founder of the production company Indian Paintbrush, and Jeremy Dawson. Alexandre Desplat composed the music for the film during his sixth collaboration with Anderson.

For full details on the upcoming film, including its star-studded cast, see below.

“Asteroid City” will be a “poetic meditation on the meaning of life”

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In classic Wes Anderson fashion, the description of the upcoming movie is as quirky, stylistic, and vague as it gets. "Set in a fictional American desert town circa 1955 and its Junior Stargazer convention, the film brings together students and parents from across the country for college competitions, rest and recreation, comedy, drama, romance, etc.", reads an official description.

Anderson co-wrote the screenplay with Roman Coppola, who is credited with a "story of" for "The French Dispatch" and "Isle of Dogs." The "Mozart in the Jungle" creator also wrote "Moonrise Kingdom" and "The Darjeeling Limited" with Anderson.

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