Searchlight Will Release Malick’s “Tree” (Eventually)
Fox Searchlight Pictures has acquired U.S. rights to Terrence Malick’s eagerly awaited “The Tree of Life” from River Road Entertainment. The fate of “Life,” which stars Brad Pitt, Sean Penn and Jessica Chastain, had been left hanging when Bill Pohlad, who heads River Road, shut down distributor Apparition in the wake of Bob Berney’s resignation in May. Searchlight now says it will release the film in 2011. The film, which tells the story of a Midwestern family in the 1950s chronicling the journey of the eldest son, Jack (played as an adult by Sean Penn) from childhood to his disillusioned adult years as he tries to reconcile his complicated relationship with his father, played by Pitt, was produced by Pohlad, Sarah Green, Pitt, Dede Gardner and Grant Hill.
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