Benicio del Toro is bringing his schemin’ to Peacock.
Wes Anderson’s The Phoenician Scheme. starring the 58-year-old Puerto Rican Oscar-winning actor, will begin streaming on Peacock on Friday, July 25.
That’s a 56-day theatrical window on par with the filmmaker’s previous Focus Features 2023 title Asteroid City‘s screen-to-Peacock premiere.
The Phoenician Scheme follows wealthy businessman Zsa-zsa Korda (del Toro) who is on the run and wanted by myriad governments, the target of scheming tycoons, foreign terrorists and determined assassins. In the midst of chaos he appoints his estranged and only daughter, a nun (Mia Threapleton), to be the sole heir of his estate. She also gets pulled into his globe trotting.
The film also stars Michael Cera, Tom Hanks, Bryan Cranston, Riz Ahmed, Mathieu Amalric, Jeffrey Wright, Scarlett Johansson, Richard Ayoade, Rupert Friend, Hope Davis and Benedict Cumberbatch.
The Phoenician Scheme repped Anderson’s third movie with Focus Features after 2012’s Moonrise Kingdom and Asteroid City.
Following a 7 1/2 minute standing ovation at the Cannes Film Festival, The Phoenician Scheme opened limited in NYC and LA during its first weekend to $560K (or $93,4K opening theater average, the highest year to date).
The film went wide in weekend 2 making $6.2M and finaling at $19.2M domestic, $37.4M worldwide.
This was slightly less than the filmmaker’s Asteroid City which posted a first weekend of $853K (or $142,2K opening theater average — the best of 2023) and had a second weekend of $9M with a final domestic of $28.1M, global of $53.8M.
Anderson won a Live Action Short Oscar last year for his Netflix short The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar.
