Some huge news. After well over a year of silence, Netflix has finally acknowledged that David Fincher’s “The Adventures of Cliff Booth” exists; the streamer has announced the film will be released in IMAX theaters worldwide on November 24 for an exclusive two-week run, and then premiere on Netflix on December 23.
“Cliff Booth” is now getting the originally slotted date of Greta Gerwig’s “Narnia,” which was recently delayed to February 2027. AMC has facilitated this despite the short window.
Netflix had actually planned for “Cliff Booth” to be released earlier; I had even heard rumors of it opening the Venice Film Festival on September 1, but the delay on “Narnia” left Netflix with the choice to release it in November.
Last year, Variety reported that Netflix was contemplating a “robust rollout” for “Cliff Booth,” a spinoff of Quentin Tarantino’s 2019 original “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.” Is this what you would call a “robust” rollout? By Netflix standards, I guess.
The budget on “Cliff Booth” is said to be north of $200M. The cast includes Brad Pitt, Carla Gugino, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Elizabeth Debicki, Scott Caan, Corey Fogelmanis, and Karren Karagulian.
Not much is known about the plot, just that it picks up after “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood,” following Pitt’s enigmatic stuntman into a new story set eight years later. Fincher’s go-to DP Erik Messerschmidt is the cinematographer on this one, replacing “Hollywood” DP Robert Richardson.
This is a big movie, and it’s a real shame it is not getting a proper theatrical rollout from Netflix. Will it still premiere at Venice? Well over two months before its theatrical release? No word yet.