Cate Blanchett and Michael Fassbender's "Black Bag" Gets Release Date

Focus Features has set a release date for Steven Soderbergh‘s upcoming “Black Bag,” starring Cate Blanchett and Michael Fassbender. The spy drama will hit  on March 14.

Universal Pictures International will handle the international release with Focus Features handling domestic distribution.

The high-stakes mystery also stars Regé-Jean Page, Marisa Abela, Naomie Harris, Tom Burke, and Pierce Brosnan. 

“Jurassic Park” scribe David Koepp, who collaborated with Soderbergh on “Kimi” and his most recent feature “Presence,” wrote the screenplay. Casey Silver and Greg Jacobs are producing.

Plot details for Soderbergh’s latest are being kept under wraps. Two-time Oscar nominee Fassbender previously collaborated with Soderbergh on the action movie “Haywire,” while Blanchett starred in “The Good German” and “Ocean’s 8.” 

Blanchett, a two-time Oscar winner, is starring in video game adaptation “Borderlands,” which opens August 9. Fassbender stars in the Irish feature “Kneecap,” opening August 2.

Focus Features has a substantial upcoming slate including “Piece By Piece,” an animated biopic from Morgan Neville that tells the life story of Pharrell Williams using Lego bricks. 

Also in the lineup are Robert Eggers’ “Nosferatu,” Edward Berger’s thriller “Conclave,” Sundance award-winner “Dìdi” from Sean Wang, Yorgos Lanthimos’ “Bugonia” with Emma Stone, and Jesse Plemons and the third feature in the “Downton Abbey” franchise.