This has been happening a lot in recent years to several films, "Shutter Island" being the last one I can remember.

Big name director (critically at least), Pitt, Penn. I don't get why they wouldn't stretch the budget to fit this into the fall/winter schedule. I really don't feel like waiting yet another year for this to drop. This was my most anticipate release of 2010.

However, I'm happy Mallick is already working on another film. Dude has been sitting on so many ideas (and age is catching up with him) that I'm excited to see how these two films end up being.