Wolfs , a new film starring George Clooney and Brad Pitt, was going to get a robust theatrical release. But the company is curtailing that plan. When Apple won a bidding war in 2021 for the rights to make the action comedy Wolfs with George Clooney and Brad Pitt, it did so in part because it promised the stars it would put the movie into a large number of movie theatres.
“Brad and I made the deal to do that movie where we gave money back to make sure that we had a theatrical release,” Clooney said last year in an interview with the Hollywood trade publication Deadline. But this month, just six weeks before the film was set to show up in thousands of theatres around the United States, Apple announced a significant change in plans. Wolfs will now be shown on a limited number of movie screens for one week before becoming available on the company’s streaming service September 27.
(Internationally, it won’t appear in theatres at all with the exception of the Venice Film Festival, where it will premiere September 1.) “ Wolfs is the kind of big event movie that makes Apple TV+ such an exceptional home for the best in entertainment,” Matt Dentler, the head of features for Apple Original Films, said in a statement. “Releasing the movie to theatres before making it widely available to Apple TV+ customers brings the best of both worlds to audiences.
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