In the wake of Netflix’s decision to move Greta Gerwig’s Narnia: The Magician’s Nephew—originally planned as an IMAX-exclusive release over Thanksgiving weekend—to February 2027, a new title has stepped into Narnia‘s old holiday slot. The film, the title of which has not yet been officially announced, will screen exclusively on Imax for two weeks starting November 25 in advance of its Netflix debut on December 23.
The film in question will feature Brat Pitt reprising his Cliff Booth character from the Quentin Tarantino-directed Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood. Though Tarantino wrote the screenplay for this new film, it will be directed by David Fincher, whose work since 2014’s Gone Girl—old Hollywood biopic Mank, Michael Fassbender assassin drama The Killer, and several episodes each of Mindhunter and Love, Death & Robots—has all been released on Netflix, with the two films getting a theatrical presence on a handful of screens.
Co-starring alongside Brad Pitt in the ’70s-set drama are Elizabeth Debicki, Scott Caan, Carla Gugino, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Peter Weller, Matt Groove, JB Tadena, Corey Fogelmanis, and Karren Karagulian. Pitt and Ceán Chaffin produce.
In the past, Netflix has released some of its higher-profile titles—Rian Johnson’s Glass Onion (2022) and Wake Up Dead Man (2025) and Alfonso Cuarón’s Roma (2018)—in theaters on Thanksgiving weekend, drumming up interest before a streaming debut shortly before Christmas. In 2019 Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman got a similar treatment, screening in a small number of theaters for a limited time in early November before dropping on Netflix on Thanksgiving weekend.
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