Wes Anderson’s Stop-Motion ‘Isle of Dogs’ Gets Release Date and Poster
Wes Anderson’s next film, and his second stop-motion feature film (after Fantastic Mr. Fox), has a release date and an international poster.
Isle of Dogs will be released by Fox Searchlight just under a year from now on April 20, 2018.
The film is set in Japan and follows a boy in search of his dog. The voice cast includes many Anderson collaborators, including Jeff Goldblum, Bill Murray, Bob Balaban, Edward Norton, Frances McDormand and Tilda Swinton, along with first-timers Bryan Cranston, Greta Gerwig, Yoko Ono, Courtney B. Vance and Liev Schreiber as well as a significant Japanese cast that includes Kunichi Nomura, Mari Natsuki, Koyu Rankin, Yojiro Nota, Akira Ito and Akira Takayama.
Anderson’s last feature film, 2014’s The Grand Budapest Hotel, was nominated for 9 Oscars, including Best Picture and Best Director, and won four.
Here is the poster.
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