Where the Wild Things Are News

From Goldfrapp to Badly Drawn Boy, from Karen O to Nick Cave, more and more big names are lining up to write music for films.

For every Coraline or The Iron Giant , there's a rash of beloved children's stories that lost their charm en route to the big screen.

Rating: * * * * Having first made his name as a music clip director for the likes of R.E.M., Bjork and the Beastie Boys, Spike Jonze's recruitment of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs frontwoman Karen O to soundtrack his latest movie would seem to fit his scenester sensibilities.

Dan sez, "Where the Wild Things Are was my favorite book as a child. It was the first book I gave to my five year olf daughter India and my 6 month old son Aldous has a fresh copy waiting for him.

The Other Half and MadProfessah decided to go see Where The Wild Things Are in the theaters last weekend before it disappears to a television, computer screen or DVD.

This week, the Fight Club starts again with the release on Blu-ray of a tenth anniversary edition of David Fincher 's fan favourite.

After interviewing Patrick, the manager of the Royal T III, about the movie theater closing, I decided to slip in and catch one of the last showings.

Maybe ita s a coincidence that two gifted young filmmakers - Wes Anderson and Spike Jonze - have latched on to kid lit and puppets for inspiration in the same year - first Jonze with Maurice Sendaka s Where the Wild Things Are, and now Anderson, having artful fun with Roald Dahla s Fantastic Mr.

Spike Jonze had a pretty impeccable record, from directing Christopher Walken's triumphal dance in the video for Fatboy Slim's "Weapon of Choice," to producing MTV's transcendently stupid pain-porn Jackass , to his magnificent collaborations with Charlie Kaufman on Being John Malkovich and Adaptation .

On Sunday, Jason Schwartzman finished an eight-episode first season as Craigslist-advertising private detective Jonathan Ames on HBO's Bored to Death .

Spike Jonze's adaptation of Maurice Sendak's beloved children's story Where the Wild Things Are has been met with mixed reactions.

The best thing about Fantastic Mr. Fox? Director Wes Anderson liberates commercial animated cinema from the limits of children's movies.

DMN Newswire--2009-11-10-- AJA Video Systems, a leading manufacturer of professional video interface and conversion solutions, announced that its KONA 3 digital video I/O cards were used by the "Where the Wild Things Are" editorial team to build efficiencies into their digital production and post workflow.

Given his preference for static, symmetrical, scrupulously color-coordinated and art-directed compositions, it's less surprising that Wes Anderson has gotten around to directing an animated feature than that it took him this long to do it.

Image from the movie 'Where the Wild Things Are'. Puppets are spreading to other performance genres and Canada is quickly becoming a hotbed for art puppetry.

Sarasota resident Libby Bennett carves away at her Where the Wild Things Are-themed sculpture under the watchful eye of the character Carol during the 23rd annual American Sandsculpting Championship Festival on Sunday, Nov.

Although Maurice Sendak's 1963 children's book "Where the Wild Things Are'' consists of only 10 sentences, it has been a big international hit.

Shawn Records only let his son Max star in the film of the classic storybook "Where the Wild Things Are" after a careful debate of the pros and cons with his wife, Jenny Fleenor.

As movie-to-game adaptations go, "Astro Boy: The Video Game" is pretty weak. It's a bland, side-scrolling action game for one or two players that switches between on-foot brawler segments and airborne shooting segments.

Giving us another dose of its lineup with Where the Wild Things Are, Medicom Toy release an additional figure in the collaborative series, this time coming in the form of a 400% Max figure.