Focus Features has acquired the worldwide rights to the next film from Kenneth Branagh, “Belfast,” which he wrote and directed and stars Caitriona Balfe, Judi Dench, Jamie Dornan, Ciaran Hinds and newcomer Jude Hill.
“Belfast” is described as a humorous and tender film about a boy’s childhood during the tumult of the late 1960s. It stars Dornan and Balfe as a glamorous yet working-class couple caught up in the mayhem, with Dench and Hinds playing the grandparents of the family to the young Hill.
“Belfast” is produced by Branagh, Laura Berwick, Becca Kovacik and Tamar Thomas, and the film will open in theaters in 2021.