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Summit Takes Icon UK to a Los Angeles Arbitration Tribunal Over Tree of Life
It just didn't make sense that Icon would release The Tree of Life ahead of all the other distributors before Cannes. There had to be a back story. Summit had told me that there was no way that Icon would release the film before Cannes. What I heard from London sources today is that Icon nabbed the ...
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Tree of Life Will Not Open in the U.K. Before Cannes After All, Gets New Poster UPDATED
Thierry Fremaux does not have to fume. After he waited a long year for The Tree of Life to finally debut at the Cannes Film Festival, Brit film mag Empire reported that the Terrence Malick fllm would open first in the U.K., on May 4. Domestic distributor Fox Searchlight now informs me that the story...
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Post-Oscar: Weinstein Co.'s Future Slate, PG-13 King's Speech
The question for The Weinstein Co. post-Oscars: how will the company run going forward? Will Harvey Weinstein's restored Oscar mojo with The King's Speech's four Oscar wins unleash his voracious appetites (he has been in buying mode), or will he keep himself in line?
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Malick's The Tree of Life is Going to Cannes, Duh
Many of us have already reported that Terrence Malick's The Tree of Life is going to Cannes, mainly because the fest had banked on booking it last year and was severely disappointed (and out the cost of a few hotel rooms) when Malick wasn't able to make it. I checked with stateside distributor Searc...
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Terrence Malick's Tree of Life: More Stunning Images
UPDATE: Summit International has sent a legal letter asking TOH to take down the stunning images we posted from Terrence Malick's upcoming The Tree of Life, due in theaters on May 27 after its debut in Cannes. Fox Searchlight acquired the film for domestic release.
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Genre Development: Sci-Fi Runner Lures Forster; Firth, Kidman & Wasikowska's Stoker; After Dogtooth
- The Runner is a futuristic sci-fi story about how the earth's surface is made uninhabitable by an attack and a group of survivors in the Rocky Mountains discover a way to send a man back in time to stop the devastation. But the man they send is secretly motivated by saving the love of his life. Disney is now developing The Runner as a vehicle for director Marc Forster (Finding Neverland, Quantum of Solace); Imagine's Brian Grazer is producing alongside Brad Simpson, Forster's Apparatus Entertainment partner. Dave Andron, who originated the concept with Blacklight Transmedia, will write the script. Imagine and Disney are aiming for a transme...
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Development Watch: Franco and Hudson For Deep Throat Lovelace, Gandolfini Gets Busy
- Kate Hudson and James Franco are in talks to star as porn star Linda Lovelace and her pornographer husband, Chuck Traynor, in an adaptation of Eric Danville's book The Complete Linda Lovelace. After Lovelace and Traynor's notorious Deep Throat became a porn classic, she left her husband and accuse...
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Trailer Watch: The Tree of Life
For those of you who missed the trailer in theaters (in front of Black Swan) and on Apple Trailers, here is Terrence Malick's The Tree of Life trailer in all its glory. (And here is our gallery of ten stills.) I can safely predict that given Fox Searchlight's May 27 release date and the eagerness wi...
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The Tree Of Life Trailer: Ten Stunning Images
The Tree of Life trailer is finally online (it debuted in theaters with Black Swan), and is nothing short of brilliant. If it is any indication of the film as a whole, prepare to have your heart left exquisitely aching. Brad Pitt and Jessica Chastain play Mr. and Mrs. O'Brien, Sean Penn plays their ...
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Star Watch: Pitt, Penn in Tree of Life Trailer, Winslet on Mendes' Bond, Depp On Jolie and Paradis
- Stay calm, Terrence Malick fans. The LAT says there's truth to the hype. They provide a sneak peak at the film's trailer (which Fox Searchlight is attaching to Black Swan Friday) and debuted several stills. The trailer suggests a "mystical, rich and satisfying film…a big-canvas movie in the best s...
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