Cliff Booth is returning to the big screen. “The Adventures of Cliff Booth,” the unofficial title for the sequel to Quentin Tarantino’s “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood,” will debut in Imax this Thanksgiving.
Netflix has announced the film will get an exclusive two-week run on Imax screens starting Nov. 25. It will land on the streamer on Dec. 23.
“Cliff Booth,” which brings back Brad Pitt in his Oscar-winning role as a longtime stunt-man, is taking the theatrical slot from another high-profile Netflix release, director Greta Gerwig’s “Narnia: The Magician’s Nephew.” Previously set for Thanksgiving 2026, “Narnia” has been delayed to 2027 and will receive a traditional theatrical run — a first for Netflix. Although Netflix appears to be warming to movie theaters, with token releases for “Kpop Demon Hunters” and the finale of “Stranger Things,” insiders at the company have stressed there’s no change to its strategy, which prioritizes all things streaming.
AMC, which until recently had refused to schedule movies from Netflix, will be among the major cinema chains that play “Cliff Booth.”
David Fincher is directing “Cliff Booth,” which will be written by Tarantino. Plot details have been kept under wraps, though the logline teases the story takes place in 1977 — “and it’s a very different Hollywood.” That’s after the events of the original, which followed Leonardo DiCaprio and Pitt as aging actor and his longtime stunt double who are struggling to find their place in show biz. “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood,” which paid tribute to the golden age of Hollywood, was set in the late 1960s against the backdrop of the Manson family murders. (Margot Robbie plays Sharon Tate, the up-and-coming actress married to director Roman Polanski, who moves in next door to the boys.)
Pitt will star in “Cliff Booth” alongside Elizabeth Debicki, Scott Caan, Carla Gugino, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Peter Weller, Matt Groove, JB Tadena, Corey Fogelmanis and Karren Karagulian.
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