But it doesn’t always work that way. Sometimes, issues of studio interference, creative differences, budget disputes or bankruptcy interfere with the pipeline, and a movie can sit on the shelf for years.
In honor of “Tulip Fever,” which The Weinstein Company is finally releasing this Friday, after years of bouncing around the release schedule, here are seven other movies (listed with the years of completion and eventual release) that took a long time getting into theaters.
Filmmaker Noel Marshall thought it was a brilliant idea: Make a movie about a biologist (played by Marshall) in Africa who let the big cats he was researching have the run of his home, and do it for real, with lions and tigers loose in a remote house in Southern California.