Spike Jonze

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    • Where the Wild Things Are

      (2009) NR

      Directed by: Spike Jonze

      Starring: Forest Whitaker

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    • Synecdoche, New York

      (2008) R

      Directed by: Charlie Kaufman

      Starring: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Philip Hoffman, Samantha Morton

      Overview: A theater director struggles to deal with work and the women in his life.

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Monday, September 15

  • Where Are the Wild Things?

    Where the Wild Things AreHas Spike Jonze finally tamed his version of the Maurice Sendak children's classic, Where The Wild Thing Are, enough to accommodate the nervous game wardens who rule the Warner Bros. jungle? According to Entertainment Weekly, the movie finally has a release date: October 2009. Which should give Warner Bros. plenty of time to change its mind again, and everyone else plenty of time to wonder about whatever happened to Spike Jonze. (Quiz: How many years has it been since Jonze's last feature hit theaters? Answer here.)


    Posted 09/15/2008 by reelz

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Monday, June 2

  • Wild Things Reshoots, Sans Director Jonze?

    No, not those Wild ThingsHorror site Bloody-Disgusting broke the news yesterday that Warner Bros. is gearing up for a month of reshoots for its perpetually troubled movie adaptation of Maurice Sendak's Where the Wild Things Are. The reshoots are scheduled to commence this Thursday and run through June 30th, and it's unclear at this point whether Wild Things director Spike Jonze will be running the show. When all is said and done, the movie could end up being an Alan Smithee production.

    Jonze's version of Where the Wild Things Are came under fire in February when reports emerged that children attending test screenings were leaving in tears, shaken by the director's scary take on Sendak's novel.

    Source: Bloody-Disgusting


    Posted 06/02/2008 by Thomas

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Thursday, February 21

  • Wild Things in peril

    No, not those Wild ThingsIt's been a rough week indeed for Spike Jonze's big-budget adaptation of Maurice Sendak's classic children's tale Where the Wild Things Are. First, some strange footage from the film found its way to the internet, eliciting near-unanimous ridicule from Sendak fans. Reaction was so poor, in fact, that Jonze was prompted to issue a statement assuring that the clip was "a very early test" shot for visual effects purposes. Then, reports emerged that children at test screenings were scared to the point of tears. Now, according to a report at CHUD.com, Warner Bros. and Legendary Pictures, the studio and production company behind the Where the Wild Things Are, are apparently leaning towards completely scrapping Jonze's version and re-shooting the whole thing. 

    Hard to predict how this thing will end; we're guessing "very badly."

    Sources: Slashfilm, CHUD


    Posted 02/21/2008 by Thomas

    Related: Spike Jonze | Where the Wild Things Are

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