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New Movie has a name

Leonardo DiCaprio’s Sacramento-shot thriller has a name and a slated 2025 release date, say reports.

“The Battle of Batkan Cross” is set for an August 2025 theatrical release, according to IMDB. The film shoot took over sections of downtown Sacramento in February, including the Kimpton Sawyer Hotel on J Street and Gordon Schaber Sacramento County Courthouse, with fans hoping to catch a glimpse of director Paul Thomas Anderson, DiCaprio and crew.

The project by Anderson — known for “Licorice Pizza,” “There Will Be Blood,” “Magnolia,” and “Boogie Nights,” among others — is said to be a return to the works of novelist Thomas Pynchon. The film reportedly adapts Pynchon’s novel Vineland for the Northern California-set crime thriller. Anderson’s “Inherent Vice” (2014) starred Joaquin Phoenix and Josh Brolin.

Source: Sacramento Bee