Thursday, May 26, 2011 5:00PM - By Damon Houx
In 2010, there was word that Cannes was holding up announcing their slate in hopes that Terrence Malick‘s Tree of Life would be ready in time. Cannes got Tree of Life- where it recieved some boos and won the Palme D’or – but a year later, as Malick and company were still deep in post-production. Most filmmakers have scant months (and sometimes weeks) to do their post-production, but such lengthy tinkering with the final cut is part of the legend of Terrence Malick, a mercurial talent who’s proved more productive over the last ten years than he had for the first thirty of his career. Tree is Malick’s fifth film, and easily his most personal. It goes out on limited release this weekend…
Wednesday, March 23, 2011 9:25PM - By Damon Houx
The speculation on when the world would see Tree of Life – Terrence Malick’s latest film, which stars Brad Pitt and Sean Penn – became a great sport of inside baseball until Fox Searchlight picked it up and announced a May release date. For Tree of Life there were likely to be two periods of release: Cannes or award season. With the May date, it seemed the film premiering at Cannes was inevitable, and now Variety has confirmed that it will be playing the festival – though it is unknown if it will play in or out of contention.
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Tuesday, February 24, 2009 8:30AM - By Krystal Clark
Two-time Academy Award winner Sean Penn is already circling a new project and guess what? It’s a drama. According to Variety, the thespian is nearing a deal to star in Fair Game. Penn is being courted to play Ambassador Joseph Wilson, the husband of a C.I.A. agent who inadvertently compromises his wife’s career. The wife in question is Valerie Plame Wilson whom Penn’s 21 Grams co-star Naomi Watts is set to play. Ambassador Wilson wrote op-ed columns that accused the Bush Administration of falsifying information about weapons of mass destruction to justify their invasion of Iraq.
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