Brian Brooks is a Deadline contributor. This weekend’s specialty newcomers performed blasé at best and that’s despite the debut of a new film by a director who is all but a patron saint to the cineaste crowd. Topping the report Sunday morning is LD Entertainment’s Disconnect. Starring Jason Bateman and Hope Davis, the…

Brian Brooks is a Deadline contributor. Terrence Malick is always an anticipated name among cineastes and his latest, To The Wonder, will undoubtedly be a tour de force among Specialty Releases this weekend. Magnolia Pictures will open the film, which stars Ben Affleck, Rachel McAdams and Javier Bardem in limited…

Magnolia Pictures has released another trailer for Terrence Malick‘s film that the company picked up last fall at the Toronto Film Festival. To The Wonder stars Ben Affleck, Olga Kurylenko, Rachel McAdams and Javier Bardem. Magnolia plans a multi-platform release with an initial theatrical rollout starting April 12th…

Terrence Malick‘s To The Wonder elicited strong reactions when it debuted earlier this year, first in Venice and then in Toronto. Magnolia Pictures acquired the impressionistic love story in Toronto with a view to a theatrical release in 2013. Ben Affleck, Olga Kurylenko, Rachel McAdams and Javier Bardem star in the…

EXCLUSIVE: In what amounts to the last major film to emerge from the Toronto Film Festival with a distribution deal, Magnolia has acquired To The Wonder, the Terrence Malick-directed film that stars Ben Affleck, Olga Kurylenko, Rachel McAdams and Javier Bardem. Magnolia will release it in a multi-platform strategy…

As is typical with a Terrence Malick film, there was a lot of mystery surrounding To The Wonder ahead of its Venice debut this morning. The recent confirmation of who made the director’s final cut was followed by today’s revelation that Olga Kurylenko plays the film’s central character. But it’s Ben Affleck, with only…

To The Wonder, Terrence Malick's impressionistic take on love and religion, was met with a mix of bravos and boos at the end of this morning's first screening in Venice. Applause was hearty in my section of the Sala Darsena, but people I ran into outside were struggling with the almost all-voice-over competition entry…

It’s been confirmed to me by a knowledgeable source that Terrence Malick will not be in Venice OR Toronto for screenings of his latest film, To The Wonder, which debuts Sunday on the Lido. While that's not really such a wonder, the notoriously reclusive director did come to Cannes a little more than a year ago when Tre…

BREAKING: Terrence Malick's To The Wonder debuts in Venice on Sunday, but a handful of actors who were initially part of the film won't be on the big screen in the Sala Grande. I've confirmed that Rachel Weisz, Barry Pepper, Michael Sheen and Amanda Peet were all ultimately left on the cutting room floor. It’s an…