Wes Anderson On Building ‘Asteroid City’, His Next ‘Three-Hander’ Film & Working Again With Bill Murray – Crew Call Podcast

Another Wes Anderson movie, another stacked ensemble cast: such is the case for “Asteroid City,” the director’s latest. But Anderson fans will notice a regular of his conspicuously absent from his latest film: Bill Murray, who’s had parts in each of Anderson’s past nine movies.

Wes Anderson has said he’s afraid to look at people’s TikTok tributes of his films.During a new interview with Le Monde, Anderson opened up about the new trend on the video streaming platform, which has seen users turning everyday content into Anderson-esque footage using elements of his signature style.Anderson told the publication he wasn’t a fan of the the videos, saying: “I protect myself from that. I’d be afraid to think: ‘Is this really how people see my films?'”He did say that he was a fan of the Accidentally Wes Anderson Instagram account, which posts photos that look like they are from an Anderson film.

Wes Anderson’s “Asteroid City” is in wide release this weekend (read our review), and as we’ve noted over the last few weeks, the filmmaker is moving at a quick pace never seen before in his career. 2022 and 2023 saw back-to-back Cannes premieres, “The French Dispatch” and “Asteroid City,” and later this year, he will release yet another film for Netflix, “The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar,” which is actually only 37 minutes long.

here.“Asteroid City” takes place in a fictional American desert town circa 1955.

Already in limited release, Wes Anderson’s “Asteroid City” opens in a wider release this weekend, Friday, June 23. Essentially split into two parts, the film centers on a grieving father (Jason Schwartzman) who travels with his tech-obsessed family to a small rural ‘Asteroid City’ to compete in a junior stargazing event, only to have his perspective on life— his cosmology as it where— disrupted forever by world-altering events.

Margot Robbie, Matt Dillon, Tilda Swinton, Edward Norton and Steve Carell couldn’t make it today for what’s already resembling an Oscars’ night selfie. Who we do have is Scarlett Johansson, Maya Hawke, Adrien Brody, Tom Hanks, Jeffrey Wright and Bryan Cranston, plus the director himself, Wes Anderson. So, what makes this quirky comedy-romance-sci-fi set around a 1955 junior stargazer competition in the desert such a hot ticket? Well, it’s a Wes Anderson movie.

Wes Anderson’s Asteroid City has been released – check it out below.Set during a junior stargazer convention in 1950s America, the film stars a mix of new and frequent collaborators from Anderson’s past works, including Jason Schwartzman, Scarlett Johansson, Tom Hanks, Jeffrey Wright, Tilda Swinton, Bryan Cranston and Edward Norton.The comedy-drama had its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival in May 2023, where it competed for the Palme d’Or prize. It was later released in cinemas on June 23.Alexandre Desplat created the film’s score, who has previously worked with Anderson on Fantastic Mr. Fox, Moonrise Kingdom, The Grand Budapest Hotel, Isle Of Dogs and The French Dispatch.His other notable credits include Guillermo Del Toro’s Shape Of Water, Little Women directed by Greta Gerwig and both parts of Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows.Desplat’s score is joined by various other country-orientated songs, including tracks by The Springfields featuring Dusty Springfield, Slim Whitman and Bing Crosby.Jarvis Cocker, who has a cameo in the film, contributes two original songs to the soundtrack titled ‘Dear Alien (Who Art In Heaven)’ and ‘You Can’t Wake Up If You Don’t Fall Asleep’.

Jarvis Cocker and Richard Hawley celebrated the release of Wes Anderson’s Asteroid City last night at a tiny, immersive gig in London.Cocker and Hawley have written two songs for Anderson’s new film, in which they play as the group Gauchos Calientes.“Welcome to the Asteroid City diner,” Cocker told the crowd by way of a welcome at an immersive exhibition dedicated to the film at 180 Studios on the Strand on Wednesday June 22. “You didn’t realise, but as soon as you walked into this place, you travelled back to the year 1955.”He continued: “A lot of things happened that year, didn’t they? I wasn’t alive, but they did happen.

Wes Anderson has become one of the most recogniseable auteur filmmakers in Hollywood through his unique visual and narrative style.The director made his feature film debut with 1996’s Bottle Rocket, which also marked the acting debut of brothers Owen and Luke Wilson. Over his career, he’s been nominated for 15 Oscars and 20 BAFTAs, winning five of the latter for The Grand Budapest Hotel.His latest film is Asteroid City which, like nearly all his works, features a huge ensemble cast including Jason Schwartzman, Scarlett Johansson, Tom Hanks, Jeffrey Wright, Tilda Swinton, Bryan Cranston, Margot Robbie and Edward Norton.Asteroid City is the director’s eleventh feature film, and the eighth time he’s collaborated with Schwartzman, who first debuted in his 1998 film Rushmore.

Asteroid City from director Wes Anderson boasts another impressive ensemble cast.Set during a junior stargazer convention in 1950s America, the film stars a mix of new and frequent collaborators from Anderson’s past works, including Jason Schwartzman, Scarlett Johansson, Tom Hanks, Jeffrey Wright, Tilda Swinton, Bryan Cranston and Edward Norton.The comedy-drama had its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival in May 2023, where it competed for the Palme d’Or prize. It was later released in cinemas on June 23.Despite being set in western America, Asteroid City was filmed between two small towns outside of Madrid, Spain.

@BryanCranston @MayaHawke @AsteroidCity #WWHL pic.twitter.com/A7mNJbnfHpCranston went on to describe Anderson as a director and as a person, summarizing what makes so many A-list stars want to work with the filmmaker.“He is a lovely, vulnerable, wonderful, kind, generous man,” Cranston said. “And that’s why everybody wants to work with him.

Maya Hawke has said she has “mixed” feelings about her character Robin having a girlfriend in the fifth and final season of Stranger Things.In the show’s fourth season, Robin navigates her crush on Vickie (Amybeth McNulty) with help from close friend Steve (Joe Keery). It culminates in a scene where Robin and Vickie make sandwiches together, leaving the door open for a potential relationship in season five.Speaking about the possible romance to Yahoo Entertainment, Hawke said she wasn’t entirely sold on the idea.

Wes Anderson’s soundtracks were initially known for their Rolling Stones, David Bowie, The Who, and lots of ’60s and 70s rock at first. Eventually, that started to change; Anderson split with composer Mark Mothersbaugh, found a new ally in French composer Alexandre Desplat, and the music choices were less immediately identifiable, not quite as conventionally hip, but still tasteful choices (think the use of Hank Williams in “Moonrise Kingdom,” The Bobby Fuller Band in “Fantastic Mr.

Rupert Friend has rounded out cast of New Line’s Companion from writer/director Drew Hancock and the filmmaking team behind the breakout horror hit Barbarian. He joins a cast that already includes Sophie Thatcher, Jack Quaid, Lukas Gage, Megan Suri, Harvey Guillén. The film will mark Hancock’s directorial debut from his original screenplay.

Naman Ramachandran Warner Bros.’ superhero film “The Flash” debuted atop the U.K. and Ireland box office with £4.2 million ($5.4 million), according to numbers released by Comscore. In second place, in its third weekend, Sony’s “Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse” swung to £2.6 million for a total of £20.3 million. In third position in its fourth weekend, Disney’s “The Little Mermaid” earned £1.3 million and now has a splashy £22 million total. Paramount’s “Transformers: Rise Of The Beasts” collected £1.1 million in fourth place in its second weekend for a total of £4.99 million. Elysian’s “Greatest Days” debuted in fifth position with £536,955.

Asteroid City delivered a massive jolt to the arthouse and specialty world this weekend as the Wes Anderson film presented by Focus Features blew past records with an estimated $790k three-day gross and $890k estimated for the four-day weekend in just six theaters.

Owen Gleiberman Chief Film Critic I’ve always been shy when it comes to writing about Wes Anderson, because he’s a filmmaker I rarely connect with. When I watch one of his movies, I can’t help but see his talent (the visual wizardry, the debonair lapidary cleverness), but I feel like I’m experiencing something that was made on a different planet from the one I live on. I have felt that way from his very first feature, “Bottle Rocket” (1996), and I really felt it at the Toronto Film Festival in 1998 when I saw “Rushmore” — because everyone there did a backflip of ecstasy, already hailing Anderson as the filmmaker of his generation, and I didn’t get it. I mean, I kind of saw what people were talking about: that “Rushmore” was like “The Graduate” for the new millennium, that the Jason Schwartzman hero had a formidable Holden Caulfield-gone-meta-deadpan attitude that was equal parts devious and desperate, that the Bill Murray character seemed the apotheosis of Bill Murray, and other things. But the bottom line for me is that “Rushmore,” on some essential chemical cinematic level, was too flip, too ironic, too whimsical, too in love with its cheeky postmodern self, and (yes, let’s use the word! How could we not?) too twee.   

Wes Anderson has stated that Netflix was the perfect place for his new short film, because “it’s not really a movie”.The director, whose new film Asteroid City will arrive in cinemas later this month, has directed a Roald Dahl adaptation for the streaming service, which is set to be released later this year.Anderson’s The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar, which is based on Dahl’s short story collection from 1977, stars Ralph Fiennes, Benedict Cumberbatch and Ben Kingsley.In a new interview with IndieWire, the director revealed that his new film will be just 37 minutes long. He said that he had wanted to adapt the short story collection for 20 years, but “by the time I was ready to do it”, the rights to Dahl’s works had been sold to Netflix.“Suddenly, in essence, there was nowhere else you could do it since they own it,” Anderson said, suggesting he only worked with Netflix because he had no choice.The director then added: “But beyond it, because it’s a 37-minute movie, [Netflix] was the perfect place to do it because it’s not really a movie.”Anderson said that he “had only a good experience with Netflix”, but added: “I’m very happy to be putting Asteroid City in cinemas.

Big news in specialty this weekend as Asteroid City arrives in theaters with Wes Anderson and his army of fans behind it and a major marketing campaign by Focus Features. The director’s latest opens at six locations in New York and Los Angeles, where Focus has partnered with Landmark for the reopening of Sunset, the five-screen theater it took over from AMC early this year.

Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson are gearing up for their latest team-up.The couple stepped out at the New York City premiere at the Alice Tully Hull at Lincoln Center on Tuesday night to promote Wes Anderson's newest film featuring an A-list ensemble. Hanks plays Stanley Zak, father to Jason Schwartzman's war photographer Augie Steenbeck, while Wilson is also featured in the film.The star-studded cast also features Scarlett Johansson, Margot Robbie, Tilda Swinton, Bryan Cranston, Edward Norton, Adrien Brody, Steve Carell, Hong Chau, Liev Schreiber, Jeff Goldblum, Rupert Friend, Hope Davis, Matt Dillon, Maya Hawke, Willem Dafoe, Jake Ryan and many more. It received a six-minute standing ovation at its premiere at the Cannes Film Festival last month.«I'm going to say we throw ourselves into the loving hands and the delightful care of Mr.