‘French Dispatch’ Music: Alexandre Desplat and Randall Poster on a Soundtrack Ranging From Classical Piano to Jarvis Cocker

Neon’s Spenser with Kristin Stewart rang in an opening weekend of $2.149 million on 996 screens, a per screen average of $2,158 as the film failed to connect in a market that remains a stubbornly hard sell for specialty and independent films.

Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentBlue Fox Entertainment has acquired all U.S. rights to Martin Bourboulon’s “Eiffel,” a big-budget historical romance drama about celebrated engineer Gustave Eiffel starring Romain Duris (“Mood Indigo”) and Emma Mackey (“Sex Education”).Pathe co-produced the film and is handling international sales.

EXCLUSIVE: United Talent Agency (UTA) has signed up Wes Anderson’s The French Dispatch breakout star Lyna Khoudri.

Focus Features presents Edgar Wright’s Last Night In Soho, a twisty psycho-thriller with a great soundtrack, as Wes Anderson’s The French Dispatch goes wider, testing the appeal of a director whose films have been called the arthouse equivalent of Marvel.

Leo Barraclough International Features EditorDenis Villeneuve’s “Dune,” with cinematography by Greig Fraser, Wes Anderson’s “The French Dispatch,” with cinematography by Robert D. Yeoman, and Ridley Scott’s “The Last Duel,” with cinematography by Dariusz Wolski, are among the movies selected in the main competition section of EnergaCamerimage.

feel like an anthology, but it was all part of an organic whole.) You can feel Anderson invigorated by the possibility of the anthology format, and he certainly maximizes that possibility – the movie shifts from black and white to color (and back again) and frequently hopscotches between aspect ratios, with detours into both stop-motion animation and 2D animation (undoubtedly computer-generated, but with the charm of more traditional, hand-drawn animation).

Opening in 14 cities, “The French Dispatch” is estimated to earn $1.3 million this weekend for an average of around $25,000 per venue. By comparison, the per-theater average for “Venom: Let There Be Carnage,” which set a post-shutdown opening record of $90 million in wide release, had an average of $21,300.

Wes Anderson’s The French Dispatch did what a glum arthouse market was waiting for, revved it up with a smashing three-day average. “If Wes builds it, they will come,” said an elated Searchlight Pictures after a two year wait to get the film into theaters.

Rebecca Rubin Film and Media Reporter“The French Dispatch,” director Wes Anderson’s tribute to 20th-century magazines, opened at the domestic box office with a robust $1.3 million from only 52 theaters.For platform releases like “The French Dispatch,” the key metric is per-theater average rather than overall box office tally because indie movies kick off in a handful of theaters while commercial pictures start in thousands of venues.

Selling Sunset star Heather Rae Young has officially tied the knot with her "soulmate" Tarek El Moussa.Taking to Instagram, the newly married pair documented their lavish celebrations attended by 34 year old Heather's Netflix castmates and the 40 year old Flipping 101 host's daughter Taylor, 11, and son Brayden, 6, who he shared with ex-wife Christina Haack.

Tarek El Moussa and Heather Rae Young are married! The HGTV star, 40, and his actress partner, 33, tied the knot on Saturday, Oct. 23 at a Santa Barbara hotel after two years of dating. Heather looked gorgeous in a corset style dress that included French lace by Israeli designer Galia Lahav — see the photos via PEOPLE magazine here. Meanwhile, Tarek was dapper in a black velvet blazer.

Anna Tingley All products and services featured by Variety are independently selected by Variety editors. However, Variety may receive a commission on orders placed through its retail links, and the retailer may receive certain auditable data for accounting purposes.It’s been more than seven years since Wes Anderson has transported viewers to a delightfully eccentric world constructed for the screen.

trailer, “The French Dispatch” ticks off all of these boxes. Set in the fictional French city of Ennui-sur-Blasé, “The French Dispatch” is a collection of stories from the final issue of an American magazine staffed by a colorful cast of expatriate journalists.

The French Dispatch,” when Winkler had an idea for quirky director Wes Anderson.“Here is a true story,” Winkler, 75, told The Post. “We’re standing on a bridge.