Once Upon a Time in Hollywood was a Sony movie, so seeing Brad Pitt’s Cliff Booth return on the Netflix streaming release schedule has been a little confusing. Sony distributed Quentin Tarantino’s 2019 film, watched Pitt win an Oscar for playing the laid-back stuntman and seemingly had every reason to keep the character’s next adventure in-house. Instead, David Fincher’s follow-up The Adventures of Cliff Booth is heading to IMAX before landing on the streaming service. So why is it headed to streaming, anyway?
Sony Pictures chairman Tom Rothman finally explained the studio swap during a recent interview with Variety. According to Rothman, Sony planned to make the 2026 calendar release while Tarantino was attached to direct his own script. As he put it:
