(L to R) George Clooney, Julia Roberts and Brad Pitt. Photo: Warner Bros.
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George Clooney says ‘Ocean’s 14’ budget has been approved.
The movie, with director David Leitch attached, should be shooting next year.
Stars Julia Roberts, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon and Don Cheadle are all likely to return.
It has been years since we last saw the heist-happy crew of the ‘Ocean’s’ movies. There has been chatter about an ‘Ocean’s 14’ in recent years, and things are clearly moving forward. ‘The Fall Guy’s David Leitch was reported as in talks to direct in January, and now, per star/producer George Clooney says that it’s looking good for production in 2026.
“We just got the budget approved at Warner Bros. and we’re trying to set up. It’s just scheduling, so it’s just setting a start date for us. Probably start in about nine or 10 months, shooting.”
The cast of 2001’s ‘Ocean’s Eleven’. Photo: Warner Bros. Pictures.
The original ‘Ocean’s’ trilogy, directed by Steven Soderbergh, launched in 2001 with ‘Ocean’s Eleven,’ a critical favorite and a commercial hit with just over $450 million at the worldwide box office.
‘KPop Demon Hunters’ is the technical winner of this week’s box office.
The movie has been on Netflix for two months but landed in theaters for a sing-along version.
‘Weapons’ also continues to do well.
Netflix is not traditionally a company that releases its movies on the big screen, preferring to drive people towards the app on TVs and elsewhere. There have been exceptions –– award-worthy movies scored short qualifying theatrical runs and Greta Gerwig negotiated an IMAX run for her in-the-works ‘Narnia’ effort.
But there hasn’t been anything like ‘KPop Demon Hunters’, the story of a K-pop superstar girl group who also just so happen to save the world from demonic forces, which has been on the streaming services servers for two months now, surging to become the second-most watched movie on the platform, with some of its songs soaring into download charts.
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Netflix decided to ride the movie’s popularity, and released it as a “sing-along” version on 1,700 screens across North America (and more internationally), scoring a reported figure of between $18-$20 million, which makes it the highest grossing release of the weekend. But there’s an asterisk…
Here’s where things get more complicated. Since Netflix doesn’t release box office figures and wouldn’t comment about ‘Demon Hunters’ actual earnings, the data comes via exhibition sources and rival studios with access to certain data.
So the actual, final tally may never be known.
Which means that Zach Cregger’s successful horror pic ‘Weapons’ technically counts as the top earner for the weekend with $15.6 million from 3,631 cinemas in its third week for an impressive global total of nearly $200 million, through Sunday.
What else happened at the box office this weekend?
If we are to fully count ‘KPop Demon Hunters’ as the top of the charts, that makes ‘Weapons’ a strong second place.
Disney’s ‘Freakier Friday’ fell to third place, making $9.2 million for a global total of $112.3 million.
Fourth was ‘Fantastic Four: First Steps’, which despite early promise hasn’t really lived up to Marvel’s hopes. It took in $5.9 million for a current global total of $490.1 million.
And in fifth, we find animated outing ‘The Bad Guys 2’, which made $5.1 million and had earned $149.1 million globally.
In other box office news, Apple’s ‘F1’, the Brad Pitt-starring racing drama, roared past $600 million worldwide this weekend to become the most successful original movie of 2025.
Can I watch the Sing-Along version of ‘KPop Demon Hunters’ at home?
You can! In a move that surprised few, Netflix announced that the sing-along version of the movie would arrive on servers on Monday August 25th, so by the time you’re reading this, you’d be able to go and sing along to “Golden” or ‘Takedown” in the comfort of your own home (though from the viewing figures, plenty of you were already doing that).
Quentin Tarantino has been talking about his abandoning ‘The Movie Critic’.
He also discussed why David Fincher is a good choice for his ‘Cliff Booth’ script.
Tarantino says his current focus is theatre.
Though it looked for a while there like ‘The Movie Critic’ –– its details largely wrapped in secrecy even despite leaks that the filmmaker has since debunked –– might be Quentin Tarantino’s final movie.
But despite developing the idea as first a TV series and then a movie, he ultimately decided against it.
“There was a challenge that I gave to myself when I did it. Can I take the most boring profession in the world and make it an interesting movie? Every Tarantino title promises so much, except ‘The Movie Critic’. Who wants to see a TV show about a f***ing movie critic? Who wants to see a movie called ‘The Movie Critic’? If I can actually make a movie or a TV show about somebody who watches movies interesting, that is an accomplishment. I was so excited about the writing, but I wasn’t really that excited about dramatizing what I wrote once we were in pre-production.”
So now we know. But that wasn’t all that was on QT’s mind! He also talked about why he chose not to make the more direct ‘Hollywood’ sequel, which is currently titled ‘The Adventures of Cliff Booth’. More on that one below…
What did Tarantino have to say about David Fincher directing the Cliff Booth movie?
Brad Pitt as Cliff Booth in ‘Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.’ Photo: Sony Pictures.
While we’ve gotten over our surprise that anyone save Tarantino would make the follow up to his most recent movie –– or that there would be a sequel to one at all –– ‘The Adventures of Cliff Booth’ has been shooting for a while, with David Fincher overseeing old pal Brad Pitt as Booth.
Tarantino was asked about why he handed it over to Fincher:
“I love this script, but I’m still walking down the same ground I’ve already walked. It just kind of unenthused me. This last movie, I’ve got to not know what I’m doing again. I’ve got to be in uncharted territory. I think me and David Fincher are the two best directors. So the idea that David Fincher actually wants to adapt my work, to me, shows a level of seriousness towards my work that I think needs to be taken into account.”
At least his ego remains unchanged…
‘The Adventures of Cliff Booth,’ in case you’d missed some of the recent news stories, will be released via Netflix.
What is Tarantino working on now?
While he hasn’t revealed details, Tarantino has said he’s more focused on writing a play than anything to do with movies right now, and explained why in true QT style:
“They pay a lot of f***ing money to get into that seat. There’s no f***ing taping it, there’s no cell phone, you own the audience for that time. They are all yours, they are in the palm of your hand. It’s not just about doing art, it’s about wowing them, it’s about giving them a great night out. This to me is f***ing existing. It’s the last frontier.”
Quentin Tarantino accepts the Oscar® for original screenplay for “Django Unchained” during the live ABC Telecast of The Oscars® from the Dolby® Theatre, in Hollywood, CA, Sunday, February 24, 2013.
Things have been quiet of late –– presumably because the script has proved a tough nut to crack. Still, there is some news to report now, with Deadline bringing word that ‘Twisters’Lee Isaac Chung is in talks to direct the movie.
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Robbie and Gosling are not confirmed for the movie just yet, but if Chung makes a deal, it points to some positive forward movement.
The cast of 2001’s ‘Ocean’s Eleven’. Photo: Warner Bros. Pictures.
Deadline’s report mentions that the script remains secret, though previous stories brought word that it’ll be set in 1962, and focus on a pair of thieves who target expensive earrings during a mansion event followed by a plot to steal precious diamond in Monte Carlo.
Seeking payback after something goes wrong, they recruit a team to sabotage his Monaco Grand Prix victory and swipe the gem.
Carrie Solomon wrote the most recent draft of the screenplay, but there may well have been others involved since then.
The likes of Jay Roach and Molly Rose have been talked up as directors previously, but it would seem Chung is the current choice given the success of ‘Twisters’.
What else is happening in the ‘Ocean’s world?
George Clooney in ‘Ocean’s Eleven’. Photo: Warner Bros. Pictures.
But since those initial stories there has been little update.
Clooney, who is a producer on the ‘Ocean’s franchise in addition to its lead actor, told Uproxx about a development for the future back in 2023:
“We have a really good script for another ‘Ocean’s’ now, so we may end up doing another one. It’s actually a great script. the idea is kind of like ‘Going in Style.’ ”
Brad Pitt stars in ‘Bullet Train.’ Photo: Scott Garfield. Copyright: 2022 CTMG. All Rights Reserved.
Unlucky assassin Ladybug (Pitt) is determined to do his job peacefully after one too many gigs gone off the rails. Fate, however, may have other plans, as Ladybug’s latest mission puts him on a collision course with lethal adversaries from around the globe—all with connected, yet conflicting, objectives—on the world’s fastest train.
In year 1250 B.C. during the late Bronze age, two emerging nations begin to clash. Paris (Orlando Bloom), the Trojan prince, convinces Helen (Diane Kruger), Queen of Sparta, to leave her husband Menelaus (Brendan Gleeson), and sail with him back to Troy. After Menelaus finds out that his wife was taken by the Trojans, he asks his brother Agamemnon (Brian Cox) to help him get her back. Agamemnon sees this as an opportunity for power. They set off with 1,000 ships holding 50,000 Greeks to Troy.
Outlaw Jesse James (Pitt) is rumored to be the ‘fastest gun in the West’. An eager recruit into James’ notorious gang, Robert Ford (Casey Affleck) eventually grows jealous of the famed outlaw and, when Robert and his brother (Sam Rockwell) sense an opportunity to kill James, their murderous action elevates their target to near mythical status.
Danny Ocean’s (George Clooney) team of criminals are back and composing a plan more personal than ever. When ruthless casino owner Willy Bank (Al Pacino) doublecrosses Reuben Tishkoff (Elliot Gould), causing a heart attack, Danny Ocean vows that he and his team will do anything to bring down Willy Bank along with everything he’s got. Even if it means asking for help from an enemy.
In the last months of World War II, as the Allies make their final push in the European theatre, a battle-hardened U.S. Army sergeant named ‘Wardaddy’ (Pitt) commands a Sherman tank called ‘Fury’ and its five-man crew on a deadly mission behind enemy lines. Outnumbered and outgunned, Wardaddy and his men face overwhelming odds in their heroic attempts to strike at the heart of Nazi Germany.
Brad Pitt in ‘World War Z’. Photo: Paramount Pictures.
Life for former United Nations investigator Gerry Lane (Pitt) and his family seems content. Suddenly, the world is plagued by a mysterious infection turning whole human populations into rampaging mindless zombies. After barely escaping the chaos, Lane is persuaded to go on a mission to investigate this disease. What follows is a perilous trek around the world where Lane must brave horrific dangers and long odds to find answers before human civilization falls.
On the day of his retirement, a veteran CIA agent (Robert Redford) learns that his former protégé (Pitt) has been arrested in China, is sentenced to die the next morning in Beijing, and that the CIA is considering letting that happen to avoid an international scandal.
Unscrupulous boxing promoters, violent bookmakers, a Russian gangster, incompetent amateur robbers and supposedly Jewish jewelers fight to track down a priceless stolen diamond.
Despite pulling off one of the biggest heists in Las Vegas history and splitting the $160 million take, each of the infamous Ocean’s crew have tried to go straight, lay low and live a legit life … but that’s proven to be a challenge. Casino owner Terry Benedict (Andy Garcia) demands that Danny Ocean (George Clooney) return the money, plus millions more in interest. Unable to come up the cash, the crew is forced to come together to pull off another series of heists, this time in Rome, Paris, and Amsterdam – but a Europol agent is hot on their heels.
In early 20th-century Montana, Col. William Ludlow (Anthony Hopkins) lives on a ranch in the wilderness with his sons, Alfred (Aidan Quinn), Tristan (Pitt), and Samuel (Henry Thomas). Eventually, the unconventional but close-knit family are bound by loyalty, tested by war, and torn apart by love, as told over the course of several decades in this epic saga.
In the year 2035, convict James Cole (Bruce Willis) reluctantly volunteers to be sent back in time to discover the origin of a deadly virus that wiped out nearly all of the earth’s population and forced the survivors into underground communities. But when Cole is mistakenly sent to 1990 instead of 1996, he’s arrested and locked up in a mental hospital. There he meets psychiatrist Dr. Kathryn Railly (Madeleine Stowe) and the son of a famous virus expert (Pitt) who may hold the key to the Army of the 12 Monkeys; thought to be responsible for unleashing the killer disease.
Taking a break from their dreary lives, close friends Thelma (Geena Davis) and Louise (Susan Sarandon) embark on a short weekend trip that ends in unforeseen incriminating circumstances. As fugitives, both women rediscover the strength of their bond and their newfound resilience.
A husband (Pitt) and wife (Angelina Jolie) struggle to keep their marriage alive until they realize they are both secretly working as assassins. Now, their respective assignments require them to kill each other.
Clarence (Christian Slater) marries hooker Alabama (Patricia Arquette), steals cocaine from her pimp (Gary Oldman), and tries to sell it in Hollywood, while the owners of the coke try to reclaim it.
Racing legend Sonny Hayes (Pitt) is coaxed out of retirement to lead a struggling Formula 1 team—and mentor a young hotshot driver (Damson Idris), while chasing one more chance at glory.
Less than 24 hours into his parole, charismatic thief Danny Ocean (George Clooney) is already rolling out his next plan: In one night, Danny’s hand-picked crew of specialists will attempt to steal more than $150 million from three Las Vegas casinos. But to score the cash, Danny risks his chances of reconciling with ex-wife, Tess (Julia Roberts).
Born under unusual circumstances, Benjamin Button (Pitt) springs into being as an elderly man in a New Orleans nursing home and ages in reverse. Twelve years after his birth, he meets Daisy (Cate Blanchett), a child who flits in and out of his life as she grows up to be a dancer. Though he has all sorts of unusual adventures over the course of his life, it is his relationship with Daisy, and the hope that they will come together at the right time, that drives Benjamin forward.
When a disc containing memoirs of a former CIA analyst (John Malkovich) falls into the hands of gym employees, Linda (Frances McDormand) and Chad (Pitt), they see a chance to make enough money for Linda to have life-changing cosmetic surgery. Predictably, events whirl out of control for the duo, and those in their orbit.
Brad Pitt in ‘Moneyball’. Photo: Sony Pictures Releasing.
The story of Oakland Athletics general manager Billy Beane’s (Pitt) successful attempt to put together a baseball team on a budget, by employing computer-generated analysis to draft his players.
In Nazi-occupied France during World War II, a group of Jewish-American soldiers known as “The Basterds” are chosen specifically to spread fear throughout the Third Reich by scalping and brutally killing Nazis. The Basterds, lead by Lt. Aldo Raine (Pitt) soon cross paths with a French-Jewish teenage girl (Mélanie Laurent) who runs a movie theater in Paris which is targeted by the soldiers.
Two homicide detectives are on a desperate hunt for a serial killer (Kevin Spacey) whose crimes are based on the “seven deadly sins” in this dark and haunting film that takes viewers from the tortured remains of one victim to the next. The seasoned Det. Somerset (Morgan Freeman) researches each sin in an effort to get inside the killer’s mind, while his novice partner, Mills (Pitt), scoffs at his efforts to unravel the case.
A ticking-time-bomb insomniac (Edward Norton) and a slippery soap salesman (Pitt) channel primal male aggression into a shocking new form of therapy. Their concept catches on, with underground “fight clubs” forming in every town, until an eccentric gets in the way and ignites an out-of-control spiral toward oblivion.
Brad Pitt in ‘Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.’ Photo: Sony Pictures Releasing.
Los Angeles, 1969. TV star Rick Dalton (Leonardo DiCaprio), a struggling actor specializing in westerns, and stuntman Cliff Booth (Pitt), his best friend, try to survive in a constantly changing movie industry. Dalton is the neighbor of the young and promising actress and model Sharon Tate (Margot Robbie), who has just married the prestigious Polish director Roman Polanski (Rafał Zawierucha).
(L to R) Director-Producer Joseph Kosinski, Damson Idris, Brad Pitt, and Kerry Condon attend a Press Conference in Mexico City on June 10th, 2025 for Warner Bros. Pictures / Apple Original Films ‘F1’. Photo Credit: Chino Lemus. Copyright: Chino Lemus 2022.
Director Joseph Kosinski’s ‘F1 The Movie’ stars Brad Pitt as Sonny Hayes, FORMULA 1’s most promising phenomenon in the 1990s before an accident that ended his career. Thirty years later, he is a racer for hire who moves from city to city picking up jobs.
His former teammate Ruben Cervantes (Javier Bardem) is the owner of a struggling FORMULA 1 team and convinces Sonny to come back for one last chance to be the best in the world, and to save the team, of course. Joshua Pearce (Damson Idris) is the team’s hotshot rookie who wants to do things his way which causes them to butt heads at times.
Moviefone was in attendance of a virtual press conference featuring Brad Pitt, Kerry Condon, Damson Idris, Joseph Kosinski, and Jeremy Kleiner, to learn behind-the-scenes details and what it was like to make such a high-octane movie.
1) Joining ‘F1 The Movie’ Was A No Brainer For Brad Pitt
Brad Pitt attends a Press Conference in Mexico City on June 10th, 2025 for Warner Bros. Pictures / Apple Original Films ‘F1’. Photo Credit: Chino Lemus. Copyright: Chino Lemus 2022.
Brad Pitt explains that he has been trying to do a racing film for decades and is extremely thankful that not only did it finally pan out, but that it did so in this way.
Brad Pitt: It was just a no-brainer. When Joe has this audacious plan to embed us in the racing season, to put us actually in the cars, it was just a dream come true. I’ve been trying to do a racing film for literally decades, and whether it was on bikes or whether it was in cars, for whatever reason, it just didn’t pan out. I’m so grateful because the experience Joe gave us, putting us in the car, putting us in this ecosystem of the F1 racing season with all the drivers, with the teams, was just an extraordinary experience. Nothing like I’ve ever experienced in all my decades doing this. And I will always thank Joe for this film that we’re able to bring to you today and just being the architect of this insane idea.
Director Joseph Kosinski crated a new FORMULA 1 team, complete with garages and the actors driving, in order to perfectly blend reality and fiction.
Joseph Kosinski: There’s nothing like being at a real FORMULA 1 race. You just can’t fake that energy, the energy of the crowd, the sound. I knew that if we were going to make a film in this world, we had to shoot it at the races. Stefano Domenicali, who runs Formula 1, Brad and Jerry and I went very early on the project and pitched the idea of what we wanted to do and he got it right away. The partnership has been really incredible. I think we learned so much from them. I think they learned a little bit from us. The partnership has been amazing and I can’t wait for people to see the result.
3) Brad Pitt & Damson Idris Are Really Driving The Cars In ‘F1 The Movie’
Damson Idris and Brad Pitt attend a Press Conference in Mexico City on June 10th, 2025 for Warner Bros. Pictures / Apple Original Films ‘F1’. Photo Credit: Chino Lemus. Copyright: Chino Lemus 2022.
Brad Pitt and Damson Idris discuss what it was like to do their own stunts in ‘F1 The Movie’ and what it was like to actually drive cars going at such high speeds.
Brad Pitt: The idea of being in the car and dealing with these forces, G-forces, the physics of it all, is just something you cannot fake. Joe said it. I want to make the most immersive, visceral racing film that’s ever been done. That’s how he got Lewis in, that’s how he got me in, that’s how he got all of us in. So we started this training and we ended up getting to drive for basically two years in the making of this. I would almost wish we could shoot it again because by the end of it, Damson and I, I’d say we were quite tasty as drivers.
Idris added:
Damson Idris: Before I even got the part, I drove up somewhere in California and got in simulators and got the guy to put all the race tracks there so I could learn them before I even came to London. Then I downloaded the F1 game, created a fake character, and won a championship. I was doing a lot of manifesting. When I finally got the part, it was about the training, intense training from Rockingham to Silverstone, Palm Springs. We were in Austin, Texas, all the way from F4 up to F1. Just really learning and immersing myself in the world of Formula 1.
4) A Whole New Camera System Was Built To Capture The Speed Of The Cars
‘F1 The Movie’ is extremely immersive, causing viewers to feel as if they are in the car alongside the drivers. Director Joseph Kosinski explains that they needed to build a new camera system to pull that off.
Joseph Kosinski: In order to capture what it’s like to be in one of these FORMULA 1 cars, we had to come up with a whole new camera system that was very light and very small. So we took the system we developed for ‘Top Gun: Maverick‘ and we miniaturized it. We made it as small as we could. I’m sure these guys wish it was a little smaller because it was right in front of their face the whole time while they were driving. You don’t think about that as you’re watching the movie, but they have four cameras pointing at their faces while they’re driving around the track. These cameras also move, which was a new innovation that we developed for this film. But the reason it feels immersive is because it’s really happening. These guys are driving the cars at 180 miles an hour. The cameras are mounted to the cars. We’re shooting it during a real race weekend between practice and qualifying sessions. And the audience can feel that. When you go to all that effort to do it for real, I really believe you feel it when you’re watching the film.
5) FORMULA 1 Driver Lewis Hamilton Was A Key Part Of Making ‘F1 The Movie’
Brad Pitt explains that ‘F1 The Movie’ could not have been made without the incredible support that they received from FORMULA 1 and in particular, driver Lewis Hamilton.
Brad Pitt: We couldn’t have done this without the support of F1, the teams, the principals, the drivers themselves. We all went to even driver meetings to try to earn their trust, let them know how much we respect their sport, how much we want to get it right, and we want to include them. And if we’re ever in the way, please tell us, and we’ll scram. But exactly what Damson was saying about Lewis Hamilton coming in, it was so smart of Joe to bring him in first and foremost because his knowledge is unfathomable. We would have meetings with him, some 12-hour meetings just as we developed the story, developed the script, and he would tell us his experiences. A lot of him is in the film as far as certainly our summation where we end. He is so knowledgeable even in the post portion of the film, putting the film together. He could tell you if we were in the wrong gear at turn six or that there’s a reverb when you go down the straight and make sure you add that.
6) One Scene Could Have Gone Horribly Wrong… But Thankfully Didn’t
Kerry Condon attends a Press Conference in Mexico City on June 10th, 2025 for Warner Bros. Pictures / Apple Original Films ‘F1’. Photo Credit: Chino Lemus. Copyright: Chino Lemus 2022.
The cast and filming crew felt extreme pressure during a key scene because they knew they could cause a racing team to be disqualified.
Kerry Condon: We were all nervous. Even the camera people were nervous because they had to walk backwards. And we were told 20 times by F1, don’t touch the cars. It’s the end of the race. That’s when the cars all pull in at the end and they have to check that they didn’t cheat or whatever. They have to weigh them and stuff. And so you can’t touch them. If you touch them, they’re disqualified. So everyone was so nervous about touching these cars. And then it was a beautiful moment for our team in the movie, so we had to have a great feeling. Everybody worked together, the AD department and the camera department and the sound department and stills photography. It was like all of us had to be great at the exact same time. So just the feeling when we did it was like, I was so high for so long.
7) Sonny’s Line “New Day, New Challenge” Is Something Director Joseph Kosinski Will Always Take With Him
Director-Producer Joseph Kosinski attends a Press Conference in Mexico City on June 10th, 2025 for Warner Bros. Pictures / Apple Original Films ‘F1’. Photo Credit: Chino Lemus. Copyright: Chino Lemus 2022.
Joseph Kosinski compares his experience in filmmaking to a line that Brad Pitt’s Sonny Hayes says in ‘F1 The Movie’.
Joseph Kosinski: He has a line in the film, New Day, New Challenge, and for me, that’s what I think about when approaching a film. What’s something I’ve never done before? What’s something that’s going to inspire me to get up out of bed every day and want to tackle it? So I think that’s one thing I’ll take away from this experience.
8) Filming ‘F1 The Movie’ Is An Experience Brad Pitt Will Never Forget
Brad Pitt is a fan of FORMULA 1 racing so for him to be able to sit in the drivers seat was not just another day at work, but rather an experience he will never forget.
Brad Pitt: It’s a religion for me as well. It’s incredible what these guys can do. We all think we’re backseat drivers in a way that we would know how to handle it. The precision, as Kerry said, they’re changing time zones. They’re taking these corners, they’re pulling 5Gs. It is staggering. And the idea that these guys can go around a four-mile track, a three-and-a-half-mile track, and all be within one second of each other, it’s awesome. So for us to even get to experience a hint of that, it’s such a high… I would love to explain what downforce feels like, the way these cars can stick. It is awesome. I don’t know how to do any better than that because there’s nothing I can compare it to. It is such a high… And the fact that we got to be tourists in this ecosystem for a little bit was an experience I’ll never forget.
9) FORMULA 1 Is Full Of Stories, Which Is Something This Movie Worked Hard To Capture
Brad Pitt is walking away from making ‘F1 The Movie’ knowing that the sport is full of stories. It is not just about the races, but the athletes and people behind-the-scenes, their lives, and the stories they tell.
Brad Pitt: F1 is full of stories, and each individual has their own quest and their own forces that they’re fighting against. Me, myself, for Sonny, he’s a character who had an early existence in F1, and it didn’t pan out for him, and he thinks he’s made his peace with that and has structured his life around that and moved on. But as life does, those unanswered things seem to circle back around, and we have to address them again, and that’s the Sonny story as I see it, which I’m quite moved by. But there’s many more stories to our story. There’s an underdog story, they’re a last-place team, how do they fight within the rules, how can they become a winning team? Kate’s fighting against a glass ceiling, in a sense. Damson’s character is a new and young phenomenon. He’s trying to find his way in a sport under great scrutiny, and still trying to operate at his best, and Javier is someone who’s trying to maintain this dream. He anchors it. So there’s multiple things going on in our story, and just like if you follow any racing weekend, the headlines are full of individual stories, and that’s the same for us.
10) Kerry Condon Never Thought She Would Be In A Hollywood Blockbuster
Kerry Condon admits that the main reason she joined the cast of ‘F1 The Movie’ is because she never thought she would be in a blockbuster film.
Kerry Condon: It was a blockbuster movie, and I grew up watching them in Ireland. I never thought I would have been in a big Hollywood movie with the music and the effects. It was just crazy thinking that I was even up for it, to be honest. I just wanted to be in it because it was one of those movies I had watched as a child.
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What is the plot of ‘F1”?
Sonny Hayes (Brad Pitt), a Formula One driver who raced in the 1990s, has a horrible crash, forcing him to retire from Formula One and start racing in other disciplines. A Formula One team owner and friend, Ruben (Javier Bardem), contacts Hayes and asks him to come out of retirement to mentor rookie prodigy Joshua “Noah” Pearce (Damson Idris) for the Apex Grand Prix team (APXGP).
Carla Gugino is the latest to join the ‘Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood’ follow-up.
‘The Adventures of Cliff Booth’ will star Brad Pitt.
David Fincher is the director.
As David Fincher continues the preparation work to shoot the follow-up to Quentin Tarantino’s ‘Once Upon a Time… In Hollywood’ (yes, take a moment to keep convincing yourself that this surprising project exists), he’s added another cast member to the ensemble.
The movie, which we now know is called ‘The Adventures of Cliff Booth’ will find Brad Pitt reprising his role as the stuntman character from Tarantino’s 2019 film, and will also boast Carla Gugino in its cast.
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Deadline brings word of Gugino’s casting, but there are zero details about who she’ll be playing. We’re honestly just happy to see her added to the movie.
What do we know about the ‘Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood’ follow-up?
Brad Pitt as Cliff Booth in ‘Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.’ Photo: Sony Pictures.
We know that this riff on ‘Once’s Booth character –– the movie isn’t strictly a sequel, more a spin-off ––is something that Tarantino was noodling with and could potentially have been born from his scrapped script ‘The Movie Critic,’ which supposedly included Pitt.
Now QT has turned it into a new script, and with both Fincher and Pitt aboard, Netflix has put together the deal, which will probably end up being around a $200 million budget (the streamer reportedly paid a cool $20 million for the script) to shoot in California this July. We’re talking real fast track here.
But what of Sony, which released ‘Once?’ A couple of things… it has a deal to send much of its output to Netflix and ‘Once’ was a special case anyway; Tarantino’s deal for the original included him hanging on to certain rights. Presumably, he could take Cliff where he wanted.
Handing it to Fincher is no bad compromise if we’re not to get another slice of that character from his creator alone.
There’s more! Reporter Jeff Sneider is adding to the story, bringing word that Leonardo DiCaprio has been trying to hash out a deal to also appear in the movie. It’s not yet closed and he may not even end up in the movie, but surely the appeal of A) another Tarantino script, B) working with Fincher and reuniting with Pitt is strong.
What was the story of ‘Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood’?
(L to R) Leonardo DiCaprio and Brad Pitt star in ‘Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.’
Tarantino’s original movie is set during the summer of 1969, as Hollywood’s Golden Age is winding down.
Television actor Rick Dalton (DiCaprio) and his stunt double Booth endeavor to achieve lasting success in Hollywood while meeting several colorful characters along the way.
Not the least is Sharon Tate (Margot Robbie), who in this alternate version of history ends up saved from death by the members of the Manson family.
When will ‘The Adventures of Cliff Booth’ be in theaters?
Fincher is looking to shoot this one later in the year, so it seems this will likely arrive next year.
But will it be on a big or small screen? While Fincher and Pitt are certainly big names, the director didn’t warrant a theatrical release for his previous movie, ‘The Killer,’ despite his established professional relationship with the streaming service.
Still… a follow-up to a Tarantino movie? Starring Brad Pitt and potentially Leonardo DiCaprio? Surely a candidate for at least a limited theatrical push.
(L to R) Damson Idris, Kerry Condon and Javier Bardem star in ‘F1 The Movie’.
Moviefone recently had the pleasure of sitting down in-person with Javier Bardem, Kerry Condon and Damson Idris to talk about their work on ‘F1 The Movie’. Condon and Bardem discussed how they approached their characters and filming during real Formula One races, while Idris talked about preparing for the intense driving sequences.
You can read the full interview below or click on the video player above to watch our interviews with Bardem, Condon and Idris, as well as director Joseph Kosinski, and producer Jerry Bruckheimer.
Moviefone: To begin with, Kerry, can you talk about your approach to playing Kate and was this a fun character for you to portray?
Kerry Condon: Yeah, it was of course, because it was a super intelligent character that wasn’t one note. It wasn’t like, “This is the intelligent, nerdy character.” It was like there was lots of different flavors to her that made her more of a real person. I was really encouraged to go with my instinct and bring a lot of my own personality and to have fun too, which was wild to be encouraged to have fun on such a high-pressure job. I was encouraged to enjoy it.
MF: Javier, how did you approach playing your character and can you talk about his relationship with Sonny Hayes?
Javier Bardem: For me, it was more about the relationship, the love relationship of a friendship with Brad’s character and how much they respect each other, need each other, and despise each other when they’re not in the same page. It was about creating that relationship and bringing it to the screen, for us to understand that at the end of the day, you really must sacrifice yourself to make the team win. All the personal things must be forgotten to make it more about the team.
MF: Damson, I understand you did your own driving in this film, what was that experience like and how did that help your performance?
Damson Idris: That was the first thing I asked when I first met with Joe (Kosinski) and Jerry (Bruckheimer), I said, “When you guys did ‘Top Gun’, the actors were in the planes for real, right?” They’re like, “Yeah.” “Are we going to be driving the cars for real?” “Yeah.” I was like, “Oh,” and I put on my poker face. I was like, “I could do that easy,” but growing up I always loved fast cars, so getting in the cars and going through these corners, I knew it was going to be just the most fun. We trained for four months every single day so we could look real on screen. Yeah, it was the best experience. Going from track to track, I don’t think anyone’s ever going to be able to experience what I have. No actor, anyway.
MF: Finally, Javier, when you shot the racing scenes, they were at real races in front of real Formula One fans. What was that experience like for you performing in front of all those people?
JB: I remember Silverstone, it was the first day of shooting for me, and Joe and Brad were with the drivers and the planes flying overhead and then the camera will follow them through the whole crowd. We have a conversation, Brad and I in front of thousands of people. That’s a different kind of energy, like a theater play, but seen by thousands of people at the same time. That puts you in a place of really a lot of adrenaline.
Editorial Note: Krisily Fernstrom conducted this interview and contributed to this article.
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What is the plot of ‘F1”?
Sonny Hayes (Brad Pitt), a Formula One driver who raced in the 1990s, has a horrible crash, forcing him to retire from Formula One and start racing in other disciplines. A Formula One team owner and friend, Ruben (Javier Bardem), contacts Hayes and asks him to come out of retirement to mentor rookie prodigy Joshua “Noah” Pearce (Damson Idris) for the Apex Grand Prix team (APXGP).
Director Joseph Kosinski masterfully put together a dream team, both in front of and behind the camera, to deliver a perfectly orchestrated high octane thrill ride that is expertly choreographed. The movie will pull you in and have you at the edge of your seats with excitement and have viewers cheering along with the race fans in the film. With a heartwarming underdog story and plenty of laughs in between, both new and old Formula One race fans will be taken on an adrenaline ride full of excitement.
When the trailer for ‘F1 The Movie’ was released, it did an amazing job at building suspense, showing action packed moments and explaining the plot of the film. But in case you missed it, the film follows Sonny Hayes (Brad Pitt), a driver that is known as a bit of a reckless cowboy who never quite made it but appears to not have a care in the world, even if he is known as “the greatest that never was.” When Sonny’s old friend Ruben (Javier Bardem), a former driver turned team owner, is about to lose his team he turns to Sonny for help, offering him one last shot at being the best driver in the world. The pressure is on, and Sonny holds the fate of the entire team as well as the ego filled, up and coming driver and his Formula One teammate Joshua Pearce (Damson Idris), in the palm of his hands. Keeping viewers in suspense all while waiting to discover if he will be able to save the team or if he will blow it all up to pieces.
When we meet Sonny he is leaving a race and seems to live moment to moment, without a care in the world, always heading to the next race. After deciding to join Ruben’s team, Sonny is the black sheep always moving to the beat of his own drum and not quite meshing with the extremely well-oiled pit and tech crew of the APXGP F1 team. Butting heads with the team’s technical director Kate (Kerry Condon), who has her own points to prove is fun to watch, but it’s the rival tension between Sonny and Joshua Pearce that becomes the driving force of what could make or break the fate of the entire F1 crew and the film itself.
Putting together the perfect crew of his own, Kosinski brings the same action-packed intensity he gave viewers with ‘Top Gun: Maverick” this time trading fighter jets for F1 cars and once again putting viewers directly in the driver’s seat. Working seamlessly with F1 creating an authentic experience for F1 fans, while also teaching a master class on F1 for viewers who don’t know anything about the sport was just one of the highlights of Kosinski’s excellent direction.
Taking a story about a team about to lose everything and carefully weaving the lives and careers of two drivers that couldn’t be more different is where the film builds an entirely different sort of tension and experience that every movie fan will utterly enjoy. Each morsel of information or backstory given feeling as if it was earned by trust, making you feel as if you are part of the process, like a gift from the film to its viewer.
But it is in the third act of the film that Kosinski’s craft of perfection is truly shown to its fullest. Taking powerful and action-packed adrenaline-fueled driving sequences and carefully sewing them between emotionally driven heart tugging moments that will keep viewers at the edge of their seats with bated breath. Putting both Brad Pitt and Damson Idris in the drivers seat of an actual Formula One car at 200 MPH, may have been a risk, but the payoff was the reward of once again delivering audiences both extraordinary action sequences with an authentic and visceral F1 experience.
Brad Pitt gives a brilliant performance as Sonny Hayes, he is the perfect fit as the icon, the rough and tumble cowboy driver who has nothing and everything to lose. Pitt has been known for his love of both driving and speed over the years and looks completely comfortable in the driver’s seat even at top speeds. His performance in the final sequence of the film is what had the potential to make or break the film as a whole, and he met it with passion and brilliance that left a long lasting impression.
Damson Idris nails the cocky and arrogant, while still wet behind the ear’s teammate Joshua Pearce. He brought emotion and depth to an extremely layered character and held his own in every scene. Kerry Condon was perfection as the team’s first female technical director who’s lost her confidence and feels like she has something to prove. And the scenes of her character sparring with Pitts character were always enjoyable.
But there is something about Javier Bardem’s performance that to me ties everything together on an emotional level in the end that stands out on its own and should be applauded. Because in the end it’s all about the love of driving.
When you think about what they did to achieve the authenticity of this film it is absolutely extraordinary. They took an idea and a story and to make that a reality they quite literally embedded an entire film crew into a F1 season on every track, in every country all while maintaining the integrity of a sport. They put actors in F1 cars at top speeds alongside F1 drivers and crews, with F1 fans in the stands. All to give viewers the ride of their lives. They took shots in minutes that most movies take a day just to set up. The sheer magnitude of that alone should have movie fans everywhere lining up to see this film on the big screen.
Kosinski alongside producer Jerry Bruckheimer (‘Top Gun: Maverick’) and seven-time Formula 1 world champion Lewis Hamilton took every vital step and then some to give audiences the most authentic and what Pitt calls “the most visceral driving experience that’s ever been put on film.” With an almost nostalgic feel of the best action movies of the 80’s and 90’s paired with an incredible and at times heart pumping score from Hans Zimmer paced perfectly in every scene, ‘F1 The Movie’ is everything I want in a movie going experience and should be experienced in the theatre.
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What is the plot of ‘F1”?
Sonny Hayes (Brad Pitt), a Formula One driver who raced in the 1990s, has a horrible crash, forcing him to retire from Formula One and start racing in other disciplines. A Formula One team owner and friend, Ruben (Javier Bardem), contacts Hayes and asks him to come out of retirement to mentor rookie prodigy Joshua “Noah” Pearce (Damson Idris) for the Apex Grand Prix team (APXGP).
(Left) Yahya Abdul-Mateen II in 2021’s ‘Candyman.’ Photo: Universal Pictures. (Right) Brad Pitt in ‘Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.’ Photo: Sony Pictures Releasing.
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Yahya Abdul-Mateen II is the latest cast member for the ‘Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood’ follow-up.
‘The Adventures of Cliff Booth’ will star Brad Pitt.
While Tarantino wrote and directed the 2019 original, this will be a collaboration between Brad Pitt –– who played stuntman Cliff Booth –– and director David Fincher.
The other latest development on the movie is that it’ll be titled ‘The Adventures of Cliff Booth’, which makes sense, since Pitt’s character will be at the core of the new movie.
What do we know about the ‘Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood’ follow-up?
Brad Pitt as Cliff Booth in ‘Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.’ Photo: Sony Pictures.
We know that this riff on ‘Once’s Booth character –– the movie isn’t strictly a sequel, more a spin-off ––is something that Tarantino was noodling with and could potentially have been born from his scrapped script ‘The Movie Critic,’ which supposedly included Pitt.
Now QT has turned it into a new script, and with both Fincher and Pitt aboard, Netflix has put together the deal, which will probably end up being around a $200 million budget (the streamer reportedly paid a cool $20 million for the script) to shoot in California this July. We’re talking real fast track here.
But what of Sony, which released ‘Once?’ A couple of things… it has a deal to send much of its output to Netflix and ‘Once’ was a special case anyway; Tarantino’s deal for the original included him hanging on to certain rights. Presumably, he could take Cliff where he wanted.
Handing it to Fincher is no bad compromise if we’re not to get another slice of that character from his creator alone.
There’s more! Reporter Jeff Sneider is adding to the story, bringing word that Leonardo DiCaprio is in the middle of hashing out a deal to also appear in the movie. It’s not yet closed and he may not even end up in the movie, but surely the appeal of A) another Tarantino script, B) working with Fincher and reuniting with Pitt is strong.
Deadline’s report mentions that Mateen, while not confirmed, is playing a character in the vein of Jim Brown, who famously ended his Hall of Fame football career early to focus on acting starring in such hits as ‘The Dirty Dozen.’
What was the story of ‘Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood’?
(L to R) Leonardo DiCaprio and Brad Pitt star in ‘Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.’
Tarantino’s original movie is set during the summer of 1969, as Hollywood’s Golden Age is winding down.
Television actor Rick Dalton (DiCaprio) and his stunt double Booth endeavor to achieve lasting success in Hollywood while meeting several colorful characters along the way.
Not the least is Sharon Tate (Margot Robbie), who in this alternate version of history ends up saved from death by the members of the Manson family.
As for the follow-up, it certainly shoves everything else on Fincher’s To Do list down a notch or two. Apologies to ‘20,000 Leagues Under the Sea’, you just got pushed deeper down.
We could potentially see this on screens as early as next year –– an exciting prospect for sure.
But will it be on a big or small screen? While Fincher and Pitt are certainly big names, the director didn’t warrant a theatrical release for his previous movie, ‘The Killer,’ despite his established professional relationship with the streaming service.
Still… a follow-up to a Tarantino movie? Starring Brad Pitt and potentially Leonardo DiCaprio? Surely a candidate for at least a limited theatrical push.
