

It was constantly changing and ever evolving sets. Then, we kept watching Jeffrey and I was like, "This is just so wrong." I found another wallpaper and at the last minute, they changed the wallpaper and then they made the beige wall pink. We had put this wallpaper up, which Adam and I kept looking at, and it kept looking like a funeral home to us. So, his office was going to be a little bit more decorated than everybody else's.

He was described to us as a combination of James Baldwin, maybe a little bit of Truman Capote thrown in there. How did the colors change? What did the office look like originally? Then the truck would go around and pick everything up.
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They should have been making a movie of it, it was amazing. It was the greatest, I was in France, I was going to flea markets once a month, and just racing through and having my three French assistants follow after me. He wants you to really get into a location and find what you can find there, and that's what we did. We were finding the coolest stuff in the world, which is what Wes loves. Then we got to Angoulême and everything changed, because it was like, "Wow, look at this town." There were old abandoned warehouses and factories, and furniture makers. Then I started shopping and seeing what I could come up with, which also helped steer what the sets were going to look like. We had Wes' storyboards and then we had the animated storyboard, then we had the photo reference library that Adam had amassed, so that gave us a good idea of what we wanted the film to look like. I had a general idea of what we were going for. We started prepping in Paris and I had great assistants who were taking me around. Judging by the anticipation already building around the project, it appears Anderson is poised to add yet another critical and commercial success to his eclectic filmography.At first, I wanted to get the lay of the land. This film will chart the exploration of Roald Dahl's darkest side, played by Ralph Fiennes, and how it sets the stage for Cumberbatch's enigmatic character. The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar, starring Benedict Cumberbatch in the lead role, is a four-part short film set to premiere on Netflix. In a testament to Anderson's relentless creativity, it has been announced that the prolific director is already onto his next project. This complex, multi-layered storytelling is further highlighted by the character of General Gibson (played by Jeffrey Wright), who finds himself battling alien invasions even as love blossoms in the town. Johansson's portrayal of Campbell not only becomes a pivotal part of the narrative but also her real-life romance introduces an additional layer of complexity, making the film all the more compelling. In typical Anderson fashion, the film boasts an ensemble cast brimming with renowned talents. Currently, Asteroid City boasts global earnings of $34.6 million. Asteroid City has now surpassed The French Dispatch's domestic earnings of $16.1 million, and seems set to finish its run with a total haul closer to that of The French Dispatch and Isle of Dogs than to the director's highest-grossing film to date, The Grand Budapest Hotel, which made $173 million on a budget of $25 million. In a similar vein, The French Dispatch, another of Anderson's brainchildren, concluded its cinematic run with a global total of $46.3 million.


The animated adventure, Isle of Dogs, bagged $64.2 million upon its 2018 release, featuring performances from Hollywood stalwarts like Bryan Cranston, Edward Norton, and Tilda Swinton. This performance places it firmly on the trajectory to regain its production costs, underlining Anderson's continued appeal to audiences and the consistent profitability of his distinctive filmmaking style.Īsteroid City's latest box office surge, which saw it rake in an additional $2.23 million this past weekend, places it on par with other titles in Anderson's body of work.
