Celebrating Our 20th Anniversary!
by Alex Billington
June 15, 2026
Source: YouTube
“I plan on being a star. A big, bright shining star.” Park Circus has revealed a new official trailer for the 4K restoration & re-release of the early PTA classic Boogie Nights. Years before he would go on to finally win his Oscars, Paul Thomas Anderson’s breakout movie was this one – Boogie Nights in 1997. It premiered at the Toronto & New York Film Festivals in the fall before opening in theaters in October that year and doing pretty well at the box office for a little film about adult films. Boogie Nights is PTA’s swirling portrait of the porn industry in California of the 1970s & 1980s. Through the rise and fall of Dirk Diggler, the film sketches a world full of ambition, fame, addiction, and a craving for family. Big, energetic and tragicomic: a modern American classic about people who want to be seen. Featuring Mark Wahlberg, Julianne Moore, Burt Reynolds, Don Cheadle, John C. Reilly, William H. Macy, Heather Graham, Nicole Ari Parker, and the iconic Philip Seymour Hoffman. It earned a few Oscar noms but didn’t win any. All these years later and it’s still considered one of PTA’s best movies, about a lot more than just pornography. Roger Ebert wrote: “Through all the characters and all the action, Anderson’s screenplay centers on the human qualities of the players… Boogie Nights has the quality of many great films, in that it always seems alive.” Boogie on.
Here’s the new 4K restoration trailer for Paul Thomas Anderson’s movie Boogie Nights, from YouTube:
And here’s the original 90s trailer for Paul Thomas Anderson’s movie Boogie Nights, also on YouTube:
“We’re about to make film history, right here… on videotape.” 📼 During disco’s 1970s heyday, 17-year-old busboy Eddie Adams (Mark Wahlberg) is looking for a break when he is spotted by veteran porn director Jack Horner. Horner rechristens Eddie “Dirk Diggler” and makes him a star of adult cinema. Enjoying his new-found fame and a hedonistic lifestyle, Eddie is little prepared for the changes in the porn industry that are to come with the arrival of the 80s and the rise of video tape. Boogie Nights is both written and directed by acclaimed American filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson, his second feature at the time just after Hard Eight (1996) and before making Magnolia (1999). Produced by Lloyd Levin, John Lyons, Paul Thomas Anderson, JoAnne Sellar. With cinematography by Robert Elswit. This initially premiered at the 1997 Toronto Film Festival. New Line Cinema first released PTA’s Boogie Nights in theaters October 1997, earning a solid $43.1M at the box office that fall. Park Circus is re-releasing Boogie Nights in 4K starting June 12th, 2026 in the UK only. No US re-release is set this year yet. Any fans of this? One of your faves?
