EXCLUSIVE: Glaringly displayed in broad daylight Monday on the list of movies receiving the latest round of California film-tax credits was an untitled Netflix movie receiving a massive $20 million. Sources tell us that it’s the David Fincher-directed, Brad Pitt-starring The Adventures of Cliff Booth.
Netflix didn’t have any comment.
The reported budget is not known, though the movie is expected to have $105.9M in qualified expenditures in the state.
Deadline told you that the project, a Quentin Tarantino-penned follow-up to Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, focuses on the subsequent adventures of Pitt’s Cliff Booth character. Netflix is financing the movie, which is very hush hush; today’s tax credits release only reveals that it will be shot 110 film days in California, with 128 cast and 428 crewmembers hired, and 3,960 days for background players worked.
Pitt did tell Deadline today on the London red carpet for his new movie F1 that Cliff Booth will begin shooting in July.
Already cast in the film, as Deadline first told you, is Carla Gugino and Yahya Abdul Mateen II, as well as Elizabeth Debicki and Scott Caan.
Tarantino’s multi Oscar-winning Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, which also nabbed Pitt a Best Supporting Actor Oscar, was shot in the City of Angels and lensed at such famed landmarks as Hollywood Boulevard, the Cinerama Dome and Musso & Frank restaurant.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom is looking to boost the state’s film and TV credits to $750M annually, a plan that is on “the legislative precipice of coming true,” per Deadline’s Dominic Patten. The latest round of tax credits announced this morning counted 48 projects totaling about $96M, with 43 of the 48 projects indie films with budgets of $10M or less.
The 48 projects are expected to yield $664M in total spending throughout the state, including $485M in qualified expenditures and $302M in wages for California workers, according to the California Film Commission.
Nada Aboul Kheir contributed to this report.
