Thanks to a good rapport with Apparition’s Bob Berney, Anne Thompson has closed the case Tree of Life and the pegged, very doubtful, December 2009 release date. Those following the operations at Apparition probably had the same inkling that I had that Malick was still in editing mode when Jean-Marc Vallee’s The Young Victoria hopscotched in a December 18th release date.
What this means for Oscar race is that a film such as The Road could potentially take one of the 10 nominations slots and what this means for the Malick film is that it will find a competition slot alongside Alejandro González Iñárritu’s Biutiful at the 2010 edition of Cannes 2010.
