Unveiled: Paul Thomas Anderson’s Enigmatic Leonardo DiCaprio Film Lands Official Title & Date
We finally have some clarity—a keyhole’s worth—about Paul Thomas Anderson’s mysterious new film starring Leonardo DiCaprio.
Warner Bros. announced on Wednesday that Anderson’s film has gotten a slight bump in its release schedule from August 8 to September 26. This moves the film from the summer blockbuster season into the typical awards contender release window. This would make sense for an Anderson film, given how singular and lauded the auteur’s work is, from his most recent release, Licorice Pizza, to Phantom Thread and his more or less flawless There Will Be Blood.
There’s more—Anderson’s film, which stars Leonardo DiCaprio and co-stars Sean Penn, Benicio Del Toro, Regina Hall, and Teyana Taylor, finally has a title: One Battle After Another. The little known about Anderson’s movie is that it’s an American crime thriller. Anderson’s no stranger to crime stories, given that There Will Be Blood was a kind of Godfather of the oil boom era in the early 20th century American West, and his Inherent Vice was an adaptation of Thomas Pynchon’s stoner detective novel.
While Anderson’s One Battle After Another is easily one of the most anticipated films of the fall now, another movie people are excited about, Maggie Gyllenhaal’s The Bride!, will now be premiering a little later than expected, moving from this September to March 6, 2026. Gyllenhaal’s film features Christian Bale as Frankenstein’s monster and Jessie Buckley as Frankenstein’s bride, co-starring Penélope Cruz, Annette Bening, and Gyllenhaal’s partner, Peter Sarsgaard. The film is inspired by James Whale’s 1935 film Bridge of Frankenstein, which was itself adapted from Mary Shelley’s iconic 1818 novel “Frankenstein.”
Gyllenhaal’s fresh take on Frankenstein’s monster isn’t the only film set to play with this deathless gothic tale—Guillermo del Toro’s got his own Frankenstein film, starring Jacob Elordi as the monster, Oscar Isaac as Dr. Frankenstein, Christoph Waltz as Dr. Pretorious, and Mia Goth as Elizabeth, Dr. Frankenstein’s fiancé due this November, from Netflix.
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Featured image: CANNES, FRANCE – MAY 23: (EDITORS NOTE: Image has been digitally altered) Leonardo DiCaprio attends the screening of “The Traitor” during the 72nd annual Cannes Film Festival on May 23, 2019 in Cannes, France. (Photo by Vittorio Zunino Celotto/Getty Images)
