Co-Editor-in-Chief, Film
Wolf 2 is already in the making and will also be released on Apple+ a week after the cinema broadcast
EXCLUSIVE: Apple has set its sights on the Jon Watts-directed George Clooney & Brad Pitt-starrer Wolfs, which makes its world premiere at the 81st Venice Film Festival. Apple Original Films has inked a deal with Watts to write, direct and produce a sequel for Clooney and Pitt.
At the same time, Apple has changed its plan to give Wolf a wide theatrical release before appearing on Apple TV+. Instead, it will get a limited theatrical release on September 20 and debut worldwide on Apple TV+ on Friday, September 27.
Apple confirmed the release pivot, but sources said it doesn’t mark a change in its hybrid strategy of a streaming service release preceded by a wide theatrical release with P&A that it attempted with Killers of the Flower Moon and Napoleon. Apple will stick to a wide theatrical release of its other film starring Pitt, the Formula One drama F1, directed by Joseph Kosinski and produced by Jerry Bruckheimer. The Instigators, the Doug Liman-directed heist film starring Matt Damon and Casey Affleck, is in limited release this week before premiering Friday on Apple TV+.
