Deadline are reporting that Terrence Malick’s The Tree of Life, which won the Palme d’Or at Cannes last month, the highest award given at Cannes, has finally got its UK release date. Mark your calendars for 8th July, everybody. It’s going to be a great day.
Malick’s latest film, the first he’s made in six years, was originally to be released here at the start of May, prior to Cannes. However, doing so would have disqualified it for Cannes, and its release was then delayed. Until now.
The film, starring Brad Pitt, Sean Penn, and Jessica Chastain, has already had a limited release in the States, and made $8m. of its $32m. budget, which is very impressive for a limited release. The States will be getting the film on a wide release the same day as us, so we can all look forward to that day on both sides of the Atlantic.
So far, The Tree of Life has received highly commendable reviews from the majority of its viewers, and whilst it is of course too early to say anything for sure, it could well be a contender for next year’s Academy Awards.
After going six years without releasing anything, Malick has already filmed his next project, which is as-yet-untitled, and will star Rachel McAdams, Rachel Weisz, Ben Affleck, Javier Bardem, and Olga Kurylenko, to name but a few, and should get its release next year. Until then, we can look forward to 8th July, when we get to see (and not just hear, like in Megamind) the excellent Brad Pitt on the screen for the first time since Inglourious Basterds in 2009. I can’t wait.
