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I think Fincher, out of all the high-profile 1990s music video directors, has fizzled the least.

Spike Jones hasn't made a feature since 2013. Michel Gondry, in director jail since The Green Hornet, makes movies no one seems to watch outside of France. Belly remains Hype Williams' only feature, even though it's got a huge cult following. Michael Bay is still doing Michael Bay things, just on a much smaller scale. Roman Coppola is a longtime collaborator with Wes Anderson, but hasn't made his own feature since 2012. I have no idea what Stéphane Sednaoui is doing.

Of course, Jonathan Glazer, Mike Mills, and Anton Corbijn are all successful, respected feature directors, but none of them nearly as prolific or bankable as Fincher.

Matt wrote: Tue Feb 10, 2026 1:23 am I think Fincher, out of all the high-profile 1990s music video directors, has fizzled the least. He

Spike Jones hasn't made a feature since 2013. Michel Gondry, in director jail since The Green Hornet makes movies no one seems to watch outside of France. Belly remains Hype Williams' only feature, even though it's got a huge cult following. Michael Bay is still doing Michael Bay things, just on a much smaller scale. Roman Coppola is a longtime collaborator with Wes Anderson, but hasn't made his own feature since 2012. I have no idea what Stéphane Sednaoui is doing.

Of course, Jonathan Glazer, Mike Mills, and Anton Corbijn are all successful, respected feature directors, but none of them nearly as prolific or bankable as Fincher.

Jonathan Dayton/Valerie Faris really flamed out quickly after Little Miss Sunshine. Samuel Bayer regrettably decided to make the Nightmare on Elm Street reboot.

Russell Mulcahy and Steve Barron, who really laid the foundation for the music video aesthetic alongside Zbigniew Rybczyński, both retreated back to television and advertising

This will release in IMAX theaters for two weeks starting Thanksgiving weekend, and will appear on Netflix proper on Christmas (taking the newly-vacated IMAX spot previously occupied by the Greta Gerwig Narnia movie)

Maladroit Aggregator wrote: Sun Sep 13, 2026 6:05 pm https://youtu.be/ljLZBsJXrHM?si=qq0yhyrRJ9Wxmehe

Cliff Booth.

Pitt doing his best Glen Powell doing his best Brad Pitt impression.

So far it makes Hal Needham look like Ingmar Bergman.

Official trailer now up, here.

Looks ugly and overly self-impressed, can't wait!

It doesn't look very good, but I appreciate how much is still being withheld so I'm still cautiously optimistic

This trailer played before a screening of Resident Evil at the Vista Theater and the bag in the trailer was censored for some reason. Had they not cleared the rights to use the School House Rock logo until later? I was also surprised to be in a theater owned by Tarantino and the trailer to get little reaction. That Led Zeppelin song must’ve been obscenely expensive. The trailer for The Devils got a far larger response with whispers and talking as soon as it started.

Not sure what the context of the theater shots are, but amused to see that the New Beverly Cinema in the film is actually my childhood theater, the Highland Theater, where I saw many Tarantino films upon first release (and recently purchased by Kristen Stewart) and the large movie palace with the man crawling is the Garden Cinema in the South Bay, the last standing single screen palace operating as a theater in that area.

God, Robert Richardson's 35mm photography looks so much better than the digital sheen here.

Can’t imagine a much less appropriate pairing than the Fincher precise, antiseptic style and what looks like even more of a retro-fetishist hangout movie than Hollywood. A hard sell even if both Tarantino and Pitt didn’t give me hives now.

Oof. If not for Fincher, Tarantino, and Pitt, that trailer would have set my interest to 0%.

Funny, this thing won't play for me even though I'm in the US. My interest was pretty much non existent to begin with. Wasn't a fan of
Hollywood and nothing Fincher has done after Zodiac has even remotely come close to matching it. I couldn't even finish The Killer.

Finch wrote: Mon Sep 21, 2026 7:52 pm Funny, this thing won't play for me even though I'm in the US.

The link has been dead for me all day as well, but when you click on it there should be other options to watch it on the right-hand side

Apologies, may have had both the U.S. and Canadian trailers in my feed and went with the longer, which was the latter. (The only difference is that the release date is a date, not "Thanksgiving.") Have changed the link.