PTA & LDC Speak About "One Battle After Another" For First Time

Good evening! 

September is close, can't you just feel it?

That means we are that much closer to the world wide release of Paul Thomas Anderson's 10th feature film, One Battle After Another.

Today, PTA & Leonardo DiCaprio inaugurated the press campaign for the film in Esquire with a really cool self-interview, complete with portraits of LDC courtesy of PTA himself.

Read the whole article yourself here -- at your own personal peril of very light spoiler talk, of course, 

The film's relationship (or lack thereof) to Thomas Pynchon's Vineland is touched on, as well as a maybe-surprising-ish influence or two on the new movie. The whole thing is interesting, charming, and well worth reading.

T minus 44 days!

C&RV

One New Trailer After Another For OBAA

Hello!

It would appear that WB has rolled out yet another brand new trailer for One Battle After Another this morning. Peep it above!

Additionally, the studio has released a few new character posters for the film. Peep them below!

t-minus 64 days!

C&RV

New "One Battle After Another" Trailer Lands Online

Hello hello!

If you ventured out to see the new Supes flick from DC in theatres this last week, chances are good you were also treated to a brand new trailer for One Battle After Another from Paul Thomas Anderson - and now it would appear that that trailer has made its way onto the Warner Bros youtube channel, albeit unlisted (?)

For now, it's embedded above for you to see - though I will make a humble plea that it does play well on the big screen, if you should feel like schlepping yourself to your nearest 'plex.

Additionally, WB also recently released a character poster for Chase Infiniti's character in the film...

...and also a smaller new teaser trailer for the film, featuring some new footage mixed in with a fair amount of previously released footage:

T-minus 66 days!
C&RV

First OBAA Teaser Posters Arrive

Rise 'n shine! Here are the first promotional teaser posters for One Battle After Another:

Hopefully this all means the marketing machine is just about ready to go brrrrrr.

WATCH: Full Trailer for Paul Thomas Anderson's "One Battle After Another"

Today's the day! 

Not sure there's much we need to say here. Watch the damn thing. Get damn excited.

Teaser For "One Battle After Another" Trailer Arrives!

Well then -

Warner Bros announced today that they will release a full trailer for Paul Thomas Anderson's forthcoming One Battle After Another next week - and has dropped a 20-second teaser to entice you.

Good morning! 

ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER. Coming 9.26.25.

 

Hello hello!

Today, Variety confirmed two long-speculated but previously unofficial pieces of information about PTA's hotly anticipated new one:

• It is untitled no longer! And is indeed called One Battle After Another. 
  Intense.
  
  
• To less fanfare, Warner Bros has pushed the movie back a handful of weeks to now open in wide release on September 26 from its originally scheduled August 8 slot.
  
  

Variety attributes the delay to an exciting piece of information we didn't already know:

• Warner Bros is currently working with theatre chains to retrofit their screens with VistaVision projection systems to be able to show the film properly. 
  
  

Gulp.

Beyond that, we also now know that Warner Bros has test-screened the movie a couple of times over the last month+, and while much about the outcome of those screenings is not known, there have been persistent whispers that the film does indeed track Thomas Pynchon's Vineland quite closely and that the runtime is in the neighborhood of three hours (!) 

Whether this will be a formal adaptation by way of credit is not yet clear, and whether there may still be trims forthcoming is also not clear, so do take the information with a grain of salt. At any rate, this is starting to take on a 'Willard-finally-nearing-Kurtz' vibe.

It's close... you can feel it.

More soon, hopefully sooner than later! 

Benicio Del Toro Also Appearing in BC Project, Apparently

An interesting tidbit tucked into the bottom of a wholly unrelated Hollywood Reporter story this morning indicates that Paul Thomas Anderson will be reuniting with Inherent Vice collaborator (and fucking brilliant actor) Benicio del Toro on the new untitled flick that is set for release next summer.

Images surfaced recently showing that the movie was still filming in southern California (remember, it started in late January!) and we speculated that that meant the movie was roughly now in the wheelhouse of time it took for principal photography to be completed for Magnolia.

So this would seem to be PTA's longest shoot in quite some time and, notably, THR says Del Toro will need to wrap up the other Anderson's new movie before joining BC Project.

So, assuming the production is not in reshoots, this could well end up being the biggest shoot of PTA's career.

Hard not to let one's imagination run away with itself when one considers what the size of this production will yield for audiences next year...

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Untitled PTA Film Set For 2025 Release... IN IMAX

 

The hits keep on coming...

Today, Warner Bros announced their intention to release Paul Thomas Anderson's forthcoming 10th feature film...

...on August 8th, 2025... in IMAX...

Okay, so the first part feels... well, like a fucking eternity. bluntly. But in combination with the second part and in combination with the fact that this is by a million miles the biggest production budget PTA has ever had... and in combination with the fact that WB is deeming this an "event" indicates that the swings here really will be as big as we've all been guessing.

We still don't know what the hell the movie is, per se, and that's one of the most exciting parts of the PTA fan experience, but to editorialize, it really seems hard to imagine such resources would be poured into another pure Pynchon adaptation. And if it is that Vineland adaptation we've all been guessing on, well then Mike DeLuca and Pam Abdy deserve some kind of medal of valor for pushing their chips in on something like that.

We here at C&RV will be perfectly happy with whatever subject matter that is ultimately cooked up here, of course.

But folks, let's call a spade a spade: this. is. major.

More soon, we hope/guess/think