This month, Brad Pitt will reprise his Oscar-winning role as Cliff Booth from Once Upon a Time in Hollywood in a new spin-off movie, The Further Mis-Adventures of Cliff Booth. Unlike the original, which was written and directed by Quentin Tarantino, the spin-off has been helmed by Pitt's regular collaborator David Fincher, with Tarantino performing only writing duties. It's a massive project, with Netflix having reportedly spent $200 million on it. Before The Further Mis-Adventures of Cliff Booth begins its IMAX-exclusive run later this month, Pitt's latest film will make its debut on the PVOD market.
The movie in question served as a follow-up to Pitt's highest-grossing hit as a leading man, F1, which was released last year. The sports drama, directed by Joseph Kosinski, grossed more than $630 million worldwide against a budget reported to be as high as $300 million. Pitt quickly began work on The Further Mis-Adventures of Cliff Booth, but his immediate follow-up to F1 was a far riskier bet.
The movie in question reunited him with his Fury director David Ayer, who was on a hot streak at the time with two Jason Statham vehicles — The Beekeeper and A Working Man. His survival thriller with Pitt turned out to be his third critical and commercial success in three years — a welcome return to form, considering the difficult phase Ayer endured after the Suicide Squad fiasco.
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The set of Fury was no cakewalk, and Pitt and Ayer reportedly butted heads over the final cut of their new movie as well. However, they arrived at common ground, and the movie emerged as a rollicking crowd-pleaser. We're talking, of course, about Heart of the Beast, which has so far grossed more than $180 million worldwide against a reported budget of $82 million. It remains to be seen if it has the legs to hit the $200 million mark, given that it has lost the majority of its theaters over the last few weeks.
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