Warner Bros. is shuffling the deck of its release date calendar. Having already moved “The Batman—Part II” a year back to October 2026, the studio is making additional moves. The biggest of these is the dating of Paul Thomas Anderson’s untitled new drama starring Leonardo DiCaprio. WB has dated the film for August 8, 2025, and that’s generally one of the last viable dates of the summer before it turns into the dog days of theatergoing.
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On top of DiCaprio, the film stars Sean Penn, Regina Hall, Teyana Taylor, Wood Harris, Alana Haim, and Chase Infiniti. Anderson wrote and produced the film with Sara Murphy and Adam Somner, and WB is making sure the filmmaker will have access to IMAX screens, a little boon to cinephiles.
Official details on the project remain scarce, but the strong, persisting rumor is that the movie is a modern adaptation of Thomas Pynchon’s “Vineland.” That said, the film was also heavily rumored to be about a young girl training in martial arts, as if it is a sweet coming-of-age film—elements that do not correspond with “Vineland,” so who knows (a hybrid of both?).
WB has made one last change to its schedule while we’re here. The Barry Levinson-directed Robert De Niro mobster movie “Alto Knights” has been pushed from November 15, 2024, to March 21, 2025. De Niro plays twin mob bosses in the film, which co-stars Debra Messing, Cosmo Jarvis, Katherine Narducci, and Michael Rispoli.
