"What a transcendent life this is, doing that I'm doing everything I want to do." - Maurice Sendak, 2009 Maurice Sendak, the author famous for books like Where the Wild Things Are, Outside Over There, and In the Night Kitchen, passed away today at 83. The New York Times reports that complications from a recent…
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Before Where the Wild Things Are, and even before Being John Malkovich, Spike Jonze was developing a big screen adaptation of the acclaimed 1955 children's book Harold and the Purple Crayon. Harold and the Purple Crayon tells the story of a curious four-year-old boy who draws his reality and lives in the imaginary world he…
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Spike Jonze has produced a new live-action/animated adaptation of Maurice Sendak's Higglety Pigglety Pop! or There Must Be More to Life. The film, a collaboration between the National Film Board of Canada and Warner Home Video, will be included on the Blu-Ray release of Where The Wild Things Are, which hits stores on March 2nd.…
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While in Ireland this week for a set visit, two of the more interesting dinner discussions amongst peers regarded the dismal state of studio poster art and the box office potential for Where the Wild Things Are. It's my belief that if WTWTA is a hit, it will signal a shot-call for a new era…
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As viewers and the media gear up for next month's release of Spike Jonze's Where the Wild Things Are, we expect to read more articles and essays waxing on the film's relevance and meaning in pop culture. To me, the project already represents the ideal and inevitable amalgamation of two of the more important, influential,…
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How hungry are you to see new footage from Spike Jonze's Where the Wild Things Are? At this point, anything from this movie is welcome, even if it's only a few seconds. The UK version of that Maurice Sendak featurette we saw back at Comic-Con has about ten seconds of stuff that previously had only…
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It premiered this morning on the Ellen show; now it's hit the internet for your consumption. The trailer for Spike Jonze's Where The Wild Things Are is by turns beautiful, moving, and thrilling. I've always believed that Jonze could deliver a magical adaptation and this certainly does a lot to reinforce my faith in him.…
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Time to cap the day with a few beers, the robot, and a slightly promising tidbit: Warner Bros. has finally set a (final???) release date for Spike Jonze's Where the Wild Things Are. You know, the family film based on the children's book that has united geeks, author Maurice Sendak, hipsters and lil' kids in…
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On June 5th, reshoots are scheduled to begin in Los Angeles on Where the Wild Things Are, director Spike Jonze's borderline infamous adaptation of the classic, visceral and delightfully weird children's book by Maurice Sendak. Jonze's mission? Stop the nation's emo kids (and parents) from crying and having vewey scary nightmares. According to Bloody Disgusting,…
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Sabotage!?! There's incredibly weird, and increasingly depressing, buzz coming off Spike Jonze's Where the Wild Things Are, and now Chud reports that execs at Warner Bros. and Legendary Pictures are considering reshooting the entire $75 million friggin' movie! This news, of course, comes on top of the rather cool test footage that leaked last weekend,…
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