Tree Of Life finds home
It was being reported in recent days that Bill Pohlad of Apparition had been screening and shopping Malick's highly anticipated film and it appears he has found a buyer.
Per the article,
"Fox Searchlight has acquired the Terrence Malick-directed The Tree of Life from Bill Pohlad's River Road Entertainment. Though the film might be an awards season magnet with Brad Pitt and Sean Penn starring, the distributor is flush with those kinds of films already, and will release in 2011. At the Toronto International Film Festival, Searchlight will fete 127 Hours, Black Swan, Conviction and Never Let Me Go"
Obviously Fox Searchlight has a season full of contenders with not enough room to campaign a movie of this magnitude. This is bad news for those of us desperate to see a new film from this director but it is good news overall for the film itself. Fox Searchlight is the cream of the crop of small budget film distributors and has done an exemplary job marketing its big players in recent years (Juno, Little Miss Sunshine and Slumdog Millionaire).
Looks like we will have to wait one more year.
