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Benicio del Toro’s “The Phoenician Scheme” Headed to Peacock on July 25

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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.

Benicio del ToroThat’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.

Trailer Released for del Toro’s Drama “Jimmy P.”

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Benicio del Toro is going native (and psycho) in his next project…

The 46-year-old Puerto Rican Oscar-winning actor is starring in Jimmy P., Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian.

Benicio del Toro in Jimmy PBenicio del Toro in Jimmy P

del Toro stars as a Native American riddled with postwar mental trauma Mathieu Amalric portrays the Hungarian Jewish doctor bent on solving the mystery locked in his patient’s mind.

Writer-director Arnaud Desplechin (A Christmas Tale, Kings & Queen) adapted Jimmy P. from real-life psychotherapist Georges Devereux‘s study of a Blackfoot Indian who’d served in World War II. The case is cited as prime example of dream interpretation and the “talking cure,” a verbal therapy utilized by Sigmund Freud.

Reviewing from the 2013 Cannes Film Festival, where Jimmy P. debuted in competition, The Hollywood Reporter praised the film for avoiding cliches and capitalizing on its two stars: “The whole project is saved largely thanks to the subtext of ethnic discrimination that runs through the film, and two riveting central performances, which overcome a wobbly start to find emotional balance by the final reel.”

IFC Films will release Jimmy P., Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian in theaters on February 14 and through VOD Feb. 20.

IFC Films Acquires US Rights to Del Toro’s “Jimmy P: Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian”

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Benicio Del Toro’s latest project will play in more places than the Plains…

IFC Films has acquired the U.S. distribution rights to the Arnaud Desplechin-directed Jimmy P: Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian.

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The film, which stars Del Toro and Mathieu Amalric, premiered at Cannes and was just screened at the New York Film Festival.

Desplechin, Kent Jones and Julie Peyr adapted the script from the George Devereux book Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian.

The series is about the author’s relationship and multidisciplinary study of Jimmy Picard, a Blackfoot Indian, who fought in World War II and suffered from psychological distress.

IFC is expected to release the film in early 2014.

Worldview Entertainment Acquires Rights to del Toro’s “Jimmy P”

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Benicio del Toro’s latest project will be heading to American theaters…

Worldview Entertainment has acquired the U.S. rights to Jimmy P: Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian, which stars the 46-year-old Puerto Rican actor as the titular Native American character.

Jimmy Picard

The film is directed by Arnaud Desplechin and adapted from Georges Devereux‘s 1951 study Reality and Dream: Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian.

The drama will make its debut at the Cannes Film Festival, where it has been selected to compete for the Palme d’Or.

The website Ioncinema.com rates the film favorably; judging it potentially the best film at Cannes and the second-most anticipated film of 2013.

The film also stars L.A. Law alumn A Martinez, Mathieu Amalric and Gina McKee.

del Toro to Star in “Jimmy Picard”

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Benicio Del Toro is about to have an Indian summer…

The 45-year-old Puerto Rican actor has been cast in Jimmy Picard, a drama being adapted from Reality and Dream: Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian by acclaimed ethnologist and psychologist Georges Devereux.

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It’s the true story of the friendship between a Native American and a French psychoanalyst.

The Oscar-winning actor will play the title character, a Plains Indian member of the Blackfeet nation who returns from the World War II battlefield and experiences various medical symptoms, none of which can be explained physically. He travels to the famed Winter Hospital in Topeka, Kansas, where he encounters Georges Devereux, a French ethno-psychiatrist considered to have a strong understanding of the modern Native American. Through their sessions, the two men, foreign to themselves and to their country, become friends.

Shooting on the film, which will also star Mathieu Amalric and Gina McKee, is set to begin on June 18 in Michigan.

Meanwhile, del Toro will next appear in the Oliver Stone’s Savages with Salma Hayek and Blake Lively.