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Fox Searchlight Pictures has acquired worldwide rights to Wes Anderson’s animated “Isle of Dogs” and plans a 2018 release.
The deal was announced a day after Anderson unveiled details of the project in a video with Edward Norton, who is voicing a dog named Rex.
Fox Searchlight revealed Thursday that “Isle of Dogs” is set in Japan and follows a boy’s odyssey in search of his dog. Besides Norton, the voice cast includes F. Murray Abraham, Bob Balaban, Bud Cort, Bryan Cranston, Greta Gerwig, Jeff Goldblum, Akira Ito, Scarlett Johansson, Harvey Keitel, Bill Murray, Kunichi Nomura, Yoko Ono, Koyu Rankin, Liev Schreiber, Tilda Swinton, Akira Takayama and Frank Wood.
“Isle of Dogs” is Anderson’s first movie since 2014’s “The Grand Budapest Hotel” and brings back the same producing team of Anderson, Scott Rudin, Steven Rales and Jeremy Dawson.
Fox Searchlight Pictures will distribute the film in partnership with Indian Paintbrush, »
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