No show @ major film Festivals

August 3rd, 2010 • By admin :: tree of life

It looks like no major film festivals are getting the trio of Terrence Malick, Brad Pitt and Sean Penn to appear on their red carpet this year. Following the initial Venice and TIFF lineup announcements made last week, and given the absence of Terrence Malick’s highly anticipated “The Tree Of Life” from either festival’s schedule, it’s not surprising to learn that the wait for the film will continue.

TIFF co-director Cameron Bailey spoke to the Toronto Star and revealed that though the festival tried very hard to secure the film, “none of us really expects that to happen at this point.”

Bailey continues, “It would be a lovely surprise, but we’re not holding our breath. We know he’s definitely still working on the film, and he’s tired of being pushed by people. We’ve backed off and Venice has backed off.”

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No Tree of Life soon

July 22nd, 2010 • By admin :: tree of life

Terrence Malick’s long-delayed “Tree of Life” with Brad Pitt and Sean Penn is conspicuously absent from Variety’s new list of films it predicts will be in the Venice Film Festival lineup to be announced next week.

The mysterious generation-spanning supernatural drama, which does not have a release date, had been tipped to bow at Venice ever since it failed to make the list at the Cannnes Film Festival in May.

Variety doesn’t even mention “Tree of Life,” but says that Darren Aronofky’s supernatural ballet thriller “Black Swan” with Natalie Portman and Mila Kunis is “likely” to be the Venice opener on Sept. 1.

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Tree of Life gets rated

July 10th, 2010 • By admin :: tree of life

Terrence Malick’s (The Thin Red Line) upcoming film The Tree of Life has just received its rating from the MPAA. Via Rope of Silicon, the film will be PG-13 for “some thematic material.” While knowing the film’s rating is nice (if you’re into that sort of thing), the real pull here is that someone has actually seen the long delayed film. In fact, when you consider that no official images and/or trailers have been released for it to date, the rating itself takes on a whole new life of its own as hope that it may actually get released around the time of its latest purported release date, November 2010.

In case you need a refresher for the film, hit the jump to read what we know about it thus far and to check out an official synopsis.

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Cannes 2010

April 15th, 2010 • By admin :: tree of life

Terrence Malick’s Tree of Life, which stars Pitt, was long expected to make the cut, but was suspiciously absent when the entrants were announced at a press conference this morning. Festival director Thierry Fremaux said that he saw a rough cut of the film a few months ago but that it was not quite ready for the curtain to rise.

Read more. Thanks Busra.

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Brad Pitt Talks Tree Of Life

April 15th, 2010 • By admin :: tree of life

Terrence Malick’s Tree Of Life is rumoured to be featured in the Cannes Film Festival line-up for this year that’s set to be announced tomorrow – but you’d be hard-pressed to find anyone who knows much about the film. That’s why we are thrilled to be able to share a few tidbits that Brad Pitt let slip about the film he calls “a bit ambitious”, which may enlighten you a little further.

When we asked him if this was a science fiction film (yes, even that is in doubt), Pitt replied, “Well, in a way. It’s this little tiny story of a kid growing up in the 50s with a mother who’s grace incarnate and a father who’s oppressive in nature. So he is negotiating his way through it, defining who he’s gonna be when he grows up. And that is juxtaposed with a little, tiny micro-story of the cosmos, from the beginning of the cosmos to the death of the cosmos. So that’s where the sci-fi – or the sci-fact – comes in.”

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Cannes 2010

April 13th, 2010 • By admin :: tree of life

Age hasn’t withered the star power of the Cannes Film Festival. The 63rd edition, from May 12-23, should deliver appearances by Brad Pitt and Sean Penn, whose multi-generational saga, Tree of Life for Days of Heaven director Terence Malick, is being touted as a shoo-in entry.

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Some Tree of Life Info

March 13th, 2010 • By admin :: tree of life

To take with lots of caution though.

Peter Hammond is reporting a few small details about the film that come by way of Berney, i.e. the guy releasing the film. So take them with a certain informed caution, since the guy has a vested interest. These details are small and verging on hearsay, but bear with me. It’s a slowish news day, and this is a movie about which I know a lot of people are keen to know more.

Berney said at the Independent Spirit awards that Tree of Life would see release in the beginning of November, and is “very likely to show up in Cannes.” (Emphasis on ‘very’ is Hammond, not me.) He’d previously given that November date to Anne Thompson as well.

Hammond reports that Berney says Tree of Life is “like a dream and Malick fans are going to be extremely happy.” Berney compares Brad Pitt to Robert De Niro in This Boy’s Life, which is not really what I expected to hear. He also highlights Jessica Chastain, who plays Pitt’s wife, as a performer to watch out for.

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Tree of Life Officially Hitting Theaters in November

March 10th, 2010 • By admin :: tree of life

We’ve been bringing you release updates on Terrence Malick’s The Tree of Life over the last year because that’s all we’ve got on it. There are some vague plot details involving Brad Pitt and a story which “centers around a family with three boys in the 1950s. The eldest son witnesses the loss of innocence.” But it’s cryptic and no one really knows much about it because Malick is so secretive, but it looks like we now know when we’ll all be able to experience Malick’s newest film in all of its glory on the big screen. Apparition pres Bob Berny told Anne Thompson (via The Playlist) that Tree of Life “is definitely set for release in November.”
As for the claim from January of this year that The Tree of Life might be premiering for the very first time at the Cannes Film Festival in May, it was rumored a little while back that it might not make that premiere and will hit later on. However, Berney says a November release “doesn’t mean it won’t be ready for Cannes,” but it sounds like they don’t expect to make a big splash there because they’re unsure if Malick will be done by then. At least we know it’ll be ready by November and it could hit some of the later festivals like Toronto even if it doesn’t show up at Cannes.

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