David Fincher’s ‘Cliff Booth’ Movie Gets 2 Weeks in IMAX Before Netflix Premiere

The film will open in theaters November 25 before dropping on Netflix on December 23, which is the slot vacated by Netflix's own "Narnia" movie.

Netflixan announced on Wednesday that David Fincher‘s “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” spinoff movie starring Brad Pitt reprising his Oscar-winning role as Cliff Booth will open in IMAX for a special two-week engagement on November 23. It will then premiere on Netflix on December 23.

The slot is the one vacated by Greta Gerwig’s “Narnia: The Magician’s Nephew,” vacating the slot and moving to a release in 2027. That film now opens February 12 but will have a wider and longer release than previously planned, and it will debut on Netflix on April 2.

An individual with knowledge says this still isn’t a change in Netflix’s theatrical strategy, but the streamer has done more and more of these event theatrical plays as they secure bigger titles. It’s unclear if the film will get a longer theatrical release after that initial two weeks on other traditional screens. “Narnia” was meant to be exclusive to IMAX but will now have a theatrical window of over 45 days before it debuts on Netflix, which is a first for the streamer.

The still-untitled film (“The Adventures of Cliff Booth” was said to be one of the early titles floating around) is written by Quentin Tarantino but was handed off to Fincher to direct Pitt in the role. We got a teaser for the film during the Super Bowl this year, but there’s still a lot to discover about the film. The teaser showed Cliff lounging at a bar, wandering some film sets, and racing a derby car around a dirt track.

Though “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” was a theatrical release that made nearly $400 million at the box office, when Fincher came on board to direct, he has a deal with Netflix that found the movie landing there instead.

Here’s the logline: “Brad Pitt returns to his Academy Award-winning role as Cliff Booth, only this time it’s 1977 and it’s a very different Hollywood.” The film is directed by Fincher from a screenplay by Tarantino, and it also stars Elizabeth Debicki, Scott Caan, Carla Gugino, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, and Peter Weller. Not returning, at least not as far as we know, is Leonardo DiCaprio’s Rick Dalton.

Pitt is also producing the “Cliff Booth” film, along with Ceán Chaffin.