Tuesday, June 30, 2026

Oscars: It’s the Year of Brad Pitt with “Ad Astra” (Watch Trailer) and “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood”

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Unless something goes wrong, this is the year of Brad Pitt. The new trailer for James Gray’s “Ad Astra” has dropped and it’s a winner. The space opera will be here in a few weeks, starting probably with the Venice Film Festival and maybe Toronto (fingers crossed). The film launches in late September. Look at this cast: Liv Tyler, Tommy Lee Jones, Ruth Negga, Donald Sutherland.

Before that we get “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood,” the hotly anticipated Quentin Tarantino movie, next Friday! Brad in a comedy, Brad in a drama. Top notch films. We could be talking about two Oscar nominations. And wouldn’t that be swell?

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Roger Friedman
Roger Friedman
Roger Friedman is the founder and editor-in-chief of Showbiz411. He wrote the FOX411 column on FoxNews.com from 1999 to 2009, where he covered Michael Jackson, and previously wrote the "Intelligencer" column at New York magazine in the mid-1990s, where he covered the O.J. Simpson trial. He also edited Fame magazine. His bylines have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the New York Daily News, the New York Post, Vogue, Details, and the Miami Herald. He is a voting member of the Critics Choice Awards (Film and Television branches), and his movie reviews are tracked by Rotten Tomatoes. With D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus, he co-produced the 2002 documentary "Only the Strong Survive," which screened at Directors' Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival.

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