New Blu-Ray Releases: 'Deadpool 2', 'Hereditary', 'The Tree Of Life', 'Upgrade', 'The Terror'
Our latest round-up of new Blu-ray releases includes Deadpool 2, Hereditary, The Tree of Life, Upgrade and The Terror.
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Check Out 90 Unused Posters For Terrence Malick's 'The Tree Of Life' [Removed]
Terrence Malick movies mean so much to so many different people. Films such as The Tree of Life are packed with interesting images and ideas; it's almost impossible to come up with a singular reading, or one feeling to take away from the experience. Which is why he's so beloved (and sometimes hated) by various…
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Terrence Malick Prepping 'The Tree Of Life' Director's Cut; 'Voyage Of Time' Coming In 2014
Terrence Malick is notorious for deleting subplots and even entire characters during the editing process, but for a director's cut of The Tree of Life he's going to put some of that extra footage back in. Malick's longtime editor Billy Weber recently revealed that the filmmaker is working on a new edit that'll include some…
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American Society Of Cinematographers Announces 2011 Award Nominations
Briefly: Here's the award nomination for for those whose interest in film runs just a bit deeper than others. Today the American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) announced its nominees for Best Cinematography of 2011. The nominees are: Guillaume Schiffman (The Artist), Jeff Cronenweth (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo), Robert Richardson (Hugo), Hoyte van Hoytema…
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VFX Oscar Shortlist Down To Ten Films, Including 'Harry Potter,' 'Hugo' And 'Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes'
The process of doling out Oscars is a lot more transparent in some than in others. While the core categories like Best Picture, and writing, directing and acting are all the subject of great speculation for months before the nominations are even announced, The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is much more open…
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Terrence Malick: 'The Tree Of Life' Storyboards Reveal Cain & Abel Scenes; Actors Talk Upcoming Films
Awards and top ten lists and all of that be damned: months after its release people are still talking about Terrence Malick's The Tree of Life, and with good reason. Dispute the effectiveness of the bookending Sean Penn sequences, sure, but the core of the movie is a powerful family story that works precisely because…
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Angie's Top 10 Movies Of 2011
I find it difficult to say whether 2011 was an unusually strong or unusually weak year for films. As in any year, there were pleasant surprises and disappointments alike. If I had to pinpoint the one thing my favorites tend to have in common, though, it's a sense that each of them were made with…
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Watch THR's Hour Long Interview With 2011's Award-Worthy Producers
We've posted the directors, actors, actresses, writers and now it's time for the people who bring them all together. Every year during awards season, The Hollywood Reporter organizes the schedules of basically every single actor, actress, writer and director of the year's best films to sit down and discuss them. This, in itself, is pretty…
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Awards: AFI Names Best Of 2011; LA And Boston Critic Groups Honor 'The Descendants' And 'The Artist'
We're getting into the full swing of the awards season for 2011, and this evening four organizations announced their picks for best achievement in film in 2011. The biggest group is the American Film Institute, which released a simple unranked list of ten 'movies of the year,' which includes Bridesmaids, The Girl With the Dragon…
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John Waters' Top 10 Films Of 2011 Include 'The Skin I Live In', 'Mildred Pierce', And 'Justin Bieber: Never Say Never'
Year-end top 10 lists can get pretty mind-numbing, as you see the same titles crop up again and again and again... and again, but filmmaker John Waters has set himself apart by both by posting his a bit early and by, oh yeah, being John Waters. You wouldn't seriously expect the man who gave us…
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Even Sean Penn Did Not Care For Sean Penn's Role In 'The Tree Of Life'
Not only is Terrence Malick's Tree of Life one of the most beautiful films of the year, it's also sparked some of the most fascinating online discourse. Critics are fairly divided, with some arguing that "The Tree Of Life has a vision that makes most movies look like crude stick drawings," while others opine, "Tree of…
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Terrence Malick Prepping A Six-Hour Version Of 'The Tree Of Life'?
The answer to that question may, possibly, be 'yes.' (But my gut says 'no.') We hear about super-long cuts of movies relatively often; many a film has been the subject of rumor about an early edit running four, five, even six hours. These often refer to early, raw assembly edits that are never meant to…
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Video: Christopher Nolan And David Fincher Praise Terrence Malick In New 'The Tree Of Life' Promo Featurette
I'm not convinced that this isn't just preaching to the converted, but a new featurette in which David Fincher and Christopher Nolan gush about the work and influence of Terrence Malick is pretty cool regardless. Fox Searchlight put this together either to draw some new audiences in to see The Tree of Life, or just…
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/Filmcast Ep. 151 - Super 8 (GUEST: Director Rian Johnson)
This week, Dave, Devindra, and Adam continue their discussion about Tree of Life, find something redeemable about the Pirates sequels, and get excited about Darren Aronofsky's next project. Special guest director Rian Johnson returns. Check out Rian's films on Netflix and Amazon. His newest film, Looper, will be in theaters September 2012. You can always e-mail…
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Terrence Malick's 'The Tree Of Life' To Open July 8 In The UK
Briefly: Good news for film fans in the UK who want to see the new Terrence Malick film: after Icon Entertainment totally botched release plans for The Tree of Life by announcing a plan to open it in London ahead of the Cannes premiere, Fox Searchlight and int'l right holders Summit International got more than…
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Terrence Malick's Instructions On How To Project 'The Tree Of Life;' Plus Another Film From The Director?
Terrence Malick's epic dissection of life, love and everything in between, The Tree of Life, continues its limited expansion today, opening in cities like San Francisco, Austin, Atlanta, Boston and Chicago. As more people get to experience Malick's passion project, the famously reclusive filmmaker is apparently worried about the film's presentation and he's written a…
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Brad Pitt Confirmed To Narrate Terrence Malick's 'Voyage Of Time,' More Details Revealed
The past couple of weeks have been like Christmas for Terrence Malick fans. A new film (The Tree of Life, opening limited tomorrow) and information about two more films: the IMAX documentary Voyage of Time and a new drama possibly to be called The Burial. We just got confirmation that Voyage of Time would still…
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Terrence Malick Still Wants To Make IMAX Film 'Voyage Of Time'
The past couple years have been slightly confusing with respect to Terrence Malick's slate of new films. We knew he was making The Tree of Life, which opens limited this weekend after premiering last week at Cannes, where it won the Palme d'Or. For some time it also seemed like he had spun some Tree…
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Cannes: 'The Tree Of Life' Takes Palme d'Or; 'Melancholia,' 'The Artist' And 'Drive' Win Big Prizes
The Cannes jury, headed by Robert De Niro, has selected the winners of this year's competition slate, and the results are slightly surprising. In the early days of the fest two films quickly emerged as seeming front-runners for the top prize, Lynne Ramsay's We Need to Talk About Kevin and Michel Hazanavicius' silent black and…
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Early Buzz: Terrence Malick's 'The Tree Of Life'
Well, it's out in the open now. Terrence Malick's new film The Tree of Life, many years in the making and the subject of massive speculation and anticipation over the past two years, has premiered at the Cannes Film Festival, and the reaction is mixed. I've been generally avoiding reviews in anticipation of my own…
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'The Tree Of Life:' See A New Clip, Sample Tracks From The Score
The premiere of Terrence Malick's new film The Tree of Life is only days away. (May 16 in Cannes; it opens for real on May 27.) This is only his fifth feature in a career that spans forty-plus years, so forgive us for being a little bit (ok, extremely) excited. All involved have been quite…
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Fox Searchlight Launches 'The Tree Of Life' Website Packed With Images And Footage
Briefly: Fox Searchlight and Summit International, the two big distributors behind the release of Terrence Malick's new film The Tree of Life, have been aggressive and thorough in controlling how images from the film filter out onto the net. But their plan changes now with the launch of a website called Two Ways Through Life,…
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UK Release Date For 'The Tree Of Life' Leads To Legal Entanglement
The weirdest movie business story of the week involves Terrence Malick's new film The Tree of Life. Fox Searchlight bought the film for US distribution, and in concert with Summit International, which holds rights to the film in other territories, planned to premiere the picture at Cannes just before a late May opening in the…
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New 'Tree Of Life' Poster; Will Premiere In UK Before Cannes
Fans who are anticipating The Tree of Life, Terrence Malick's first film since 2005's The New World, have a beautiful new image to dissect to their heart's content. The Internet Movie Database has premiered a stunning new mosaic theatrical poster for the Fox Searchlight release and, much like the first trailer, it's full of gorgeous…
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Terrence Malick's 'The Tree Of Life' Confirmed For Cannes
Years of speculation about The Tree of Life, the latest film from reclusive and very slow-working master director Terrence Malick, will finally end in May. We had a very good idea that the film would play the festival, given that Fox Searchlight set a May 27 release date after picking up the film a few…
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/Filmcast Ep. 128 - TRON: Legacy (GUEST: Annalee Newitz From io9)
This week, David Chen, Devindra Hardawar and Adam Quigley reflect on Jon Favreau's decision not to direct the next Iron Man, wonder how much The Tree of Life has in common with The Fountain, and ponder the unnecessaryness of sequels for Shakespeare in Love, Bad Santa, and Rounders. Special guest Annalee Newitz joins us from…
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Terrence Malick's 'The Tree Of Life' Trailer
If you held out and managed not to watch an online bootleg version of the trailer for Terrence Malick's highly-anticipated fifth film The Tree of Life, your patience has been rewarded. The trailer has been officially released online, and it is stunningly beautiful. Apple has the trailer in HD, and I can't recommend highly enough…
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