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  • ‘To The Wonder’ has been acquired by Magnolia Pictures!

    Terrence Malick's new film wil have a hybrid theatrical/VOD release in 2013...

    September 28, 2012

    Well, it’s looking like we can officially take ‘To The Wonder’ off of our 2012 Oscar predictions, not that the Early Reviews didn’t already suggest that. Terrence Malick’s film has gone without a buyer for a surprisingly long time, but that’s changed today as Magnolia Pictures has stepped in to pick up the movie for release. They’re said to be planning a multi-platform distribution model, which would fit in with most of the work they put out. They’re also going to wait until next year to do this, so dreams of 2 Malick films in 2 years are dead for now, unless his next projects are moving quickly too. We’ll see about that, but after the jump I’ll get into what this means. Suffice to say, it’s not going to be another ‘The Tree of Life’ for the filmmaker. Read on below for more…

    With a much smaller studio than usual backing the film this time around, Terrence Malick’s flick will have to reach audiences in a new way. I think this is both a good and bad thing. On the one hand, it really takes it out of the Oscar race not just this year, but next year as well. On the other hand though, it can potentially get to a new group of people who will give something a chance with VOD that they wouldn’t in theaters. Time will tell how ‘To The Wonder’ ends up doing, but I’ll be taking notice.

    -Thoughts? Discuss in the comments!

    About Joey Magidson


    When he’s not obsessing over new Oscar predictions on a weekly basis, Joey is seeing between 200 and 300 movies a year. He views the best in order to properly analyze the awards race/season each year, but he also watches the worst for reasons he mostly sums up as "so you all don't have to". In his spare time, you can usually find him complaining about the Jets or the Mets. Still, he lives and dies by film. Joey's a voting member of the Internet Film Critics Association as well. Today the IFCA, tomorrow the world!

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    7 Comments

    1. Well, at least we know that it’s coming out, if not until next year…

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    2. So Magnolia isn’t even going to do a late December release just for awards consideration?

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      • Nope, maybe they’ll do the second half of this year, but I haven’t heard anything about a 2012 qualifying run…

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    3. This is great news. I knew Malick wouldn’t go without a distributor for long.

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    4. “I see the pattern… To the Wonder WILL WIN best picture of 2012.”
      Tehe.

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