Cliff Booth Sequel Nears Release Still Unseen
No festival, no press screenings, no industry showing. Fincher's film reaches its November 25 IMAX opening as awards season's most mysterious movie.
Fincher's Cliff Booth film opens in IMAX on November 25 unseen by critics or the industry, with Academy screenings November 14 and 20.
Three weeks before release, almost nobody in Hollywood has seen David Fincher's Cliff Booth film — no festival, no press screenings, no industry showing. [Brad Pitt 'Once Upon a Time in Hollywood' sequel shrouded in secrecy weeks ahead of debut — Page Six]
The secrecy breaks this month. Academy screening invitations are out for November 14 at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Los Angeles and November 20 at MoMA in New York, with Fincher and cast members — not Pitt — taking questions afterward. [Brad Pitt 'Once Upon a Time in Hollywood' sequel shrouded in secrecy weeks ahead of debut — Page Six]
"No one has seen it," a Hollywood insider told Page Six of The Further Mis-Adventures of Cliff Booth. "It hasn't been shown at any festival, it hasn't been shown anywhere. It hasn't been seen by the industry." The only public look so far is the one Quentin Tarantino controlled himself: he surprised AFI Fest last month by screening the film's first 17 minutes. Tarantino wrote the script; Fincher directs, with Brad Pitt returning as Booth, set in 1977. [Brad Pitt 'Once Upon a Time in Hollywood' sequel shrouded in secrecy weeks ahead of debut — Page Six]
The rest of the cast runs Elizabeth Debicki, Scott Caan, Carla Gugino, Timothy Olyphant and Yahya Abdul-Mateen II. The score is new news this week: Fincher's frequent collaborators Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross are behind it, announced a day before Page Six's report. [Brad Pitt 'Once Upon a Time in Hollywood' sequel shrouded in secrecy weeks ahead of debut — Page Six]
The release plan explains some of the tension around the secrecy. The film plays exclusively in IMAX for two weeks from November 25, then streams on Netflix from December 23 — a theatrical window short enough that Regal and Cinemark are boycotting the release. Awards voters get their screenings on November 14 and 20. Everyone else waits for the IMAX opening, which makes this the rare awards-season film whose reputation starts from zero on opening day. [Brad Pitt 'Once Upon a Time in Hollywood' sequel shrouded in secrecy weeks ahead of debut — Page Six]
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