Download Trailers for One Battle After Another (2025)

I have two trailers for One Battle After Another (2025), the upcoming Paul Thomas Anderson film with an ensemble cast including Leonardo DiCaprio, Benicio Del Toro, Sean Penn and others. I heard that this is Anderson’s biggest budget film at approximately $110 million. An interesting aspect to this film is that it is shot in VistaVision.

I did not know about VistaVision until a few days ago. I will share with you what I have learned, as it is quite interesting. In the early part of the 20th Century, cinema screens were largely 1.37:1 (the Academy ratio). This is a fairly square image, similar to the old 1.3 aspect ratio of television sets. As televisions became more popular in the home, the movie industry moved to wider images to differentiate from the television screen.

In 1952, 20th Century Fox created a format called Cinerama, which offered a very wide 2.59:1 aspect ratio utilizing huge screens. Shortly after, 20th Century Fox introduced CinemaScope, which used anamorphic lenses to display a wide 2.35:1 aspect ratio image that we are familiar with today. But back in the 50’s these formats provided challenges for both filming and exhibition. Cinerama required three projectors (I am not sure how that was sync’d) and of course CinemaScope required anamorphic lenses, which can create distortion at the film edges.

To address these challenges, Paramount came up with a rather ingenious solution. They took standard 35mm film, and rotated it 90 degrees to arrive at a widescreen frame that was over 2.6 times larger than the standard 35mm. This increased the resolution providing greater detail and since it did not need an anamorphic lens, was distortion free.

The first film to be shown in VistaVision was White Christmas in 1954. Hitchcock used it for Vertigo (1958). However, the even larger Todd-AO 70mm format arrived and made VistaVision obsolete. The last Hollywood film in VistaVision was One Eyed Jacks (1961).

Last year, The Brutalist (2024) was shot with VistaVision and this year One Battle After Another (2025) and Bugonia (2025). There are more films set to come out next year, including Netflix’s Narnia adaptation. Between 1961 and 2024, due to its high resolution and low distortion, VistaVision was used for special effects scenes in a wide array of films beginning with Star Wars (1997).

You can find the trailers at the One Battle After Another (2025) page.