Leo Movie Official Release Date

The film was officially announced in January 2023 under the tentative as it is Vijay's 67th film as a lead actor, and the title of the film was announced a few days later. Principal photography commenced the same month in Chennai along with a sporadic schedule in Kashmir, which was again followed by another schedule held at the former location, and wrapped by mid-July. The film has music composed by Anirudh Ravichander, cinematography handled by Manoj Paramahamsa and editing by Philemon Raj. Leo is scheduled to be released in theaters worldwide on 19 October 2023.

 Cast

Vijay

Trisha

Mansoor Ali Khan

Mysskin

Mathew Thomas

Priya Anand

Sandy Master

Abhirami Venkatachalam

Production

 Pre-production

 It took the Director nearly six months for the writing and pre-production.  Both of them joined the writing team in mid - August 2022. The Director said the film would be completely made in his style, unlike Master, which he considered a 50% Vijay film and 50% his film. 5th December 2022 at AVM Studios in Chennai with the film's cast and crew. On 7 December, the team shot the promotional video for the film for nearly three days.

 In mid-January 2023, Manoj Paramahamsa was announced as cinematographer, marking his first collaboration with Director and third with Vijay after Nan ban (2012) and Beast (2022). Anirudh Ravichander would score the music, in his third consecutive film with the director. The Director further retained most of his norm technicians, including editor Philemon Raj, dance choreographer Dinesh Kumar and art director N. Satheesh Kumar. Balasubramanian was appointed as executive producer of the film by the production house.

 Song

The soundtrack is composed by Anirudh. The music rights were purchased by Sony Music India for ₹16 crore (US$2.0 million). The track "Bloody Sweet" that was featured in the two-minute promo video was released on 3 February 2023, the same date as the promo. It had English lyrics written by Heisenberg, with Anirudh and Siddharth performing. The First Single.

 Release

Theatrical

Leo is scheduled for a theatrical release on 19 October 2023. Apart from Tamil, it is expected to be released in dubbed versions including Telugu, Kannada and Hindi languages

Pre-release business

According to Indian trade sources, Leo is set to become the first Tamil film to achieve a pre-release recovery of ₹422 crore (US$53 million) with the sale of satellite, digital, music, and theatrical rights, out of which, ₹246 crore (US$31 million) has been earned from the film's non-theatrical rights. The overseas theatrical rights were sold to films for ₹60 crore

Home media

The digital and satellite rights of the film were acquired by Netflix and Sun TV respectively.

 Filming

Principal photography began with the first schedule on 2 January 2023 as EVP Film City in Chennai. Minor portions of the film were held in the last week of January and Mysskin shot for some of his portions there as he couldn't allocate dates to travel to Kashmir, where the subsequent schedule would take place. The second schedule commenced in Kashmir on 1 February. During this schedule, footage of Vijay was leaked and went viral, prompting the film's official technology security partner to warn people against sharing leaked content, or they would be deleted. Furthermore, most of the cast and crew members were prohibited from using mobile phones on the sets, to prevent leakage of stills and videos from the shoot. On 27 February 2023, Mysskin tweeted that he had completed filming his portions for the film, which included an intense stunt sequence. In early March, Manon announced that he had completed filming for the film.