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via Instagram (August 21, 2025)

Started with season 21.

I mean you can say about Ruimy what you want but at least he's always supporting cinema/original movies/everything not sequel, prequel, franchise, IP etc. The 30 Most Anticipated Fall Movies(...) Curiously, the two most anticipated films of the season—Paul Thomas Anderson’s “One Battle After Another” and Josh Safdie’s “Marty Supreme”—are bypassing the fall festival circuit entirely. Neither will be at Venice, Telluride, or TIFF; maybe NYFF can nan ‘Marty,’ but I remain skeptical. I’m also excluding films that already screened at Sundance and Cannes (“Sirat,” “The Secret Agent,” “Nouvelle Vague,” etc.), choosing instead to focus on fall premieres. Here, then, are World of Reel’s 25 Most Anticipated Fall Movies—a preview of the season that might just save 2025 cinema. 1. “One Battle After Another” (Paul Thomas Anderson)Anderson’s latest is set in modern-day California, starring an ensemble that includes Leonardo DiCaprio and Sean Penn. The project is loosely inspired by Thomas Pynchon’s “Vineland,” the film is lengthy (160 minutes) and pricey ($150-175M). It’s skipping festivals entirely, a sign that Warner Bros feels it doesn’t need the validation.

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So sad 🥲 Dougray Scott as his dad broke my heart 💔 What a heartbreaking performance. He made me cry. I understood both so well.

Thx a lot he grows and thrives he's my life 🍀

Bummer if true Box-Office: ‘One Battle After Another’ Tracking Lower Than ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ — $20-22M Opening Warner Bros. is currently in the middle of a hot streak, achieving a historic feat by releasing six consecutive films that each grossed over $40M in their opening weekends. That streak might, sadly, come to a halt next month. Puck’s Matt Belloni reports that, six weeks out, Paul Thomas Anderson’s “One Battle After Another” is facing lower numbers than his “Killers of the Flower Moon.” Scorsese’s ‘Killers,’ an acclaimed 3.5-hour epic, had a domestic opening weekend of approximately $23M, playing in over 3,600 theaters. As it stands, the 161-minute “One Battle After Another,” which has yet to be seen by the press, is tracking at $20M–$22M. This film is an enormous gamble. After all, PTA’s biggest hit, “There Will Be Blood,” only pulled in $76M worldwide. Sure, this new one stars Leonardo DiCaprio and is leaning heavily on an IMAX rollout, but at this point it feels like the very definition of a RISK. More recently, PTA himself described his career and style as “box-office challenged.” Yet “One Battle After Another” will be his biggest commercial swing, with a reported budget anywhere from $150M–$175M. It cost a big pile of dough, and die-hard PTA mavens aside, the mainstream isn’t especially interested—even with DiCaprio figuring prominently in the film’s marketing. Hopefully, the reviews are raves, and this film can be somewhat successful. For the record, I genuinely hope it succeeds. A major-budget PTA hit could open the door for even bolder projects—both for him and for studios willing to take a chance. Nobody wants this to fail. The exciting part is that PTA basically got a blank check to make whatever he wanted. And I love how he somehow convinced Warner Bros. to drop $175M on a Thomas Pynchon adaptation. Did they even realize the story is loosely drawn from Vineland? Maybe not. I can totally picture PTA pitching the project without ever mentioning Pynchon’s name once.

‘One Battle After Another’ Rated R — Runtime is 161 Minutes [Update] UPDATE: It’s official, “One Battle After Another” has received an R Rating for "Pervasive Language, Violence, Sexual Content, and Drug Use" EARLIER: Boston’s Coolidge Corner Theater lists the runtime at 2 hours and 41 minutes, which aligns with my earlier information. It’s worth noting that only about 10 to 15 minutes have been trimmed since the initial test screening back in the spring. EARLIER: An internal Warner Bros. PR document, dated from mid-July, has Paul Thomas Anderson’s “One Battle After Another” having a runtime of 160 minutes. Anderson is known for making deliberately paced, character-driven films, and several of his films run well past the two-hour mark. However, if the runtime sticks, “One Battle After Another” would be the second longest film of his career, 28 minutes behind “Magnolia” which was 188 minutes. In fact, ‘One Battle’ would longer than such PTA epics as “There Will Be Blood” (158 minutes), “Boogie Nights” (155 minutes), and “The Master” (144 Minutes). ‘One Battle,’ by all accounts, is done post-production, and will likely be MPA rated in the coming weeks, or even days. Will it be rated R? PTA has directed nine films in his career, all of then Rated R. People who have seen it tell me there’s no way around it.

Pretty sure I saw @akatosh posting the esquire interview + photos now I can't find them. However pretty sure this cover wasn't among them. https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/movies/a65619469/leonardo-dicaprio-paul-thomas-anderson-interview-2025/

So excited

That's a lot hot Frankensteins, first Jacob Elordi, now him 😚 @Lilja K

Love this series 👍🏼

Thx for the recommendation.

EMMA STONE GETTING READY FOR THE LOUIS VUITTON CRUISE 2026 SHOW

Leonardo DiCaprio in Talks for Michael Mann’s ‘Heat 2’ as Budget Circles $170M, Warner Bros-Apple Co-Finance? I’ve been tracking this one for over a year now, and it’s about time someone caught up. Michael Mann’s long-gestating “Heat 2,” a prequel to his legendary 1995 crime saga, is still very much having money issues. Last year, I reported that Warner Bros. were getting cold feet to fund the $150M+ Mann was asking for. As recently as last month, I noted that casting had finally begun, and that WB was back in talks. Now we’re getting a more details of what’s going on behind the scenes. According to Puck‘s Matt Belloni, Mann’s original budget landed north of $200M, a number that gave Warners serious pause. Since then, he’s reportedly shaved it down to around $170M, which, frankly, is still too steep for the studio to greenlight solo. Keep in mind, the original Heat made $187M worldwide back in ’95—that’s nearly $400M adjusted for inflation—but Mann’s more recent films (“Blackhat,” “Ferrari”) haven’t exactly lit up the box office. Still, WB execs Mike De Luca and Pam Abdy are said to want to make the film happen. The current thinking is: bring in a co-financing partner. Enter Apple, which has received the script and is reportedly considering coming aboard. However, here’s the kicker—and it’s a big one: Leonardo DiCaprio has been in talks with Mann about starring. Nothing signed, just yet. But if he commits, this becomes a different conversation entirely. A DiCaprio-led “Heat 2” suddenly looks a lot more like a global event film, and that might be enough to make this film happen. Mann, now 81, has spent the last few years carefully building the foundation for “Heat 2,” a dual prequel-sequel hybrid based on his 2022 novel co-written with Meg Gardiner. The book charted the early days of Neil McCauley (played by Robert De Niro in the original) and Vincent Hanna (Al Pacino), while also following Hanna’s hunt for a new threat in the aftermath of the original film’s climactic shootout. The timeline for this thing? Still fluid. Mann wants to shoot in 2025, likely for a late 2026 release. I’ll have more on “Heat 2” as it develops.