Sacramento-shot Leonardo DiCaprio feature film has a name and a 2025 release date

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.

Academy Award-winners DiCaprio and Sean Penn are joined in the Warner Bros. picture, for months known only as “The BC Project” during filming, by Regina Hall and Tenaya Taylor.

This story was originally published September 20, 2024 at 10:29 AM.

Darrell Smith

The Sacramento Bee

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Darrell Smith is a local reporter for The Sacramento Bee. He joined The Bee in 2006 and previously worked at newspapers in Palm Springs, Colorado Springs and Marysville. Smith was born and raised at Beale Air Force Base and lives in Elk Grove.