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AICN and MTV’s Movie Blog score the first production still from Spike Jonze’s Where the Wild Things Are. Looks just about perfect.
The vocal cast for Where the Wild Things Are fills out, with Benicio Del Toro, Michael Berry Jr., Paul Dano, Tom Noonan, Catherine O’Hara, Forest Whitaker and Michelle Williams joining in Spike Jonze’s after-bedtime shenanigans.
Catherine Keener joins Spike Jonze’s Where the Wild Things Are, which looks set to go, as Max’s Mom (and the instigator of his adventures in the Wild kingdom.)
Genre director update: As if their Willy Wonka wasn’t creepy-serial-killer enough, Tim Burton and Johnny Depp will soon reunite for Sweeney Todd, the demon barber of Fleet Street. Meanwhile, the Spike Jonze-Dave Eggers interpretation of Where the Wild Things Are lands at Warner Bros. Says author Maurice Sendak of the project: “I am in love with it. If Spike and Dave do not do this movie now, I would just as soon not see any version of it ever get made.“
Word is Spike Jonze will be directing Where the Wild Things Are. (So much for the horror movie.) I’m not sure I like this recent trend of turning ten-minute kids’ books into full-fledged feature films, but if you’re going to do it, Jonze’s your man.
Spike Jonze and Charlie Kaufman, the team behind Being John Malkovich and Adaptation, prepare to make a horror film. I’ll go see it.
By way of Do You Feel Loved, how cool are these? Spike Jonze, Chris Cunningham, and Michel Gondry will each be coming out with tricked-up retrospective DVDs this fall. Here’s one way I can repay Cunningham for unauthorized use of his Bjorkbots in the GitM title image.
In praise of Three Kings, “the most caustic anti-war movie of this generation.”
A slew of teaser posters for long-awaited flicks have hit the web in the past few days, included the one-sheet for Adaptation, four more character-oriented TTT posters, and this first look at the lovely Monica Bellucci as Persephone in the Matrix sequels. (Notice her head isn’t cut off as in the first six preview posters…as it turns out full versions of each of them can be seen at the official site.)