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I thought that was a new ewox film for a second lol

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You're probably the wrong age group :p but this movie is based on

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Maybe :) yeah it looks familiar...I never read it thats for sure but I think some of my friends may have been reading it when I was at my first boarding school...the cover looks like I have seen it before

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[quote=feather;727216]You're probably the wrong age group :p but this movie is based on

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WOW Feather now that brings back some memories. Think my folks prolly got tired of reading that one. Actually just got it for my kids.8)

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yeah, i remember that from grade school.

im gunna go see this on shrooms for sure. :)

btw. a little related to this, but does anyone remember that one picture book with all those really weird illistrations, and eerie/mysterious one-line descriptions of the illustration at the bottom of each page!?? been trying to hunt it down FOREVER. you have my gratitude.

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Yeah I bought it for my friend's daughter :lol:

What kinda weird illustrations? Was it a small hardcover? Was it

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oh nice. no that's not it. its a really strange book bro, and the illistrations are really really good. i can vaguely remember but only a few from the book, some can be described like this:

• a train (?) descending into the ocean

• a nun in a chair floating way up high in a cathedral (i remember part of the riddle to this one: "and the fifth ended up in france(?)")

• a house taking off

• a kid skipping a rock on water, and it skipping back on a certain number. ( "...and on the ... it skipped back")

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k i found it after a little google work. should have thought of that sooner. so cool.

it's "The Mysteries of Harris Burdick" by Chris Van Allsburg.

[URL]http://www.houghtonmifflinbooks.com/catalog/titledetail.cfm?titleNumber=597424[/URL]

here are some of the illustrations:

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[IMG]http://www3.isrl.uiuc.edu/%7Eunsworth/courses/bestsellers/images/A17191000214164622.jpg[/IMG]

"Chris Van Allsburg came across the pictures of Harris Burdick through a friend, Peter Wenders. Apparently, Burdick presented the pictures with their titles and captions to Wenders in hopes that Wenders would be interested in purchasing the stories that accompanied the illustrations. Wenders was intrigued by the pictures and asked Burdick to submit the corresponding stories the next day. However, Wenders never heard from Harris Burdick again, so the "true" stories behind the pictures were never revealed." www.

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ah anyways, thanks a lot for posting where the wild things are, it reminded me of that book so much.

cant wait to go see it in the theaters.

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I still have my copy from when I was a kid. I loved this book! I still read it with my son from time to time so I'm looking forward to seeing the film! :)

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holy shit lucky, i was going to say you must be talking about a chris van allsburg book before you figured it out! i am not joking. too bad i saw this thread too late. i prob would have freaked yout out. just from your first brief description made me think of this guy, i remember coming across this guys work when i was as kid and seeing his books, his illustrations are really gorgeous, but have a very creepy/otherworldy look to them. i really love the black and white stuff, so amazing. this is funny someone else has bought this up, these had a big influence on me when i was a kid. never got into where the wild things are much, but the preview looks pretty fun. i'm looking forward to cloudy with a chance of meatballs more.

fav van allsburg books:

garden of abdul gasazi [url]http://bit.ly/4iGQH[/url]

the stranger [url]http://bit.ly/3Qnvo[/url]

the wreck of the zephyr [url]http://bit.ly/U0VpX[/url]

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fvch yeah! thx homie. im gunna have to cop those soon. cheers.

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im so stoked, i just told my nephew im gunna take him to go see this. 8)

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Spike Jonez had a working version ready about a year ago ready to go into the theatres, but junked it when kids at the test screening got scared through most of the movie. He went back to the drawing board and re-shot most of it.

I want to see what the scary version of this looked like.

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Yeah hope he releases the scary version on DVD.

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Would love to see that one too!

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wow I just saw this. I'm way excited for it :D

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Posters look beautiful.

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Some interesting issues around the film.

[B]Marketing 'Where the Wild Things Are' Won't Be Child's Play[/B]

			[B]Warner Has Its Hands Full With Director Spike Jonze's Adaptation of Beloved Children's Book Classic[/B]

			  				by [EMAIL="cbrodesser@adage.com"]Claude Brodesser-Akner[/EMAIL]   				

			[I]Published:[/I] [URL="http://adage.com/results?endeca=1&return=endeca&search_offset=0&search_order_by=score&search_phrase=05/14/2009"]May 14, 2009[/URL]  				

[IMG]http://adage.com/images/bin/image/large/wildthings051409big.jpg[/IMG] LOS ANGELES (AdAge.com) -- At Warner Bros. Pictures' marketing suites, a wild rumpus is about to start.
A year late and millions of dollars over budget, Spike Jonze will deliver his big-screen adaptation of "Where the Wild Things Are" to studio executives later this month. But the marketing department is flummoxed: While the film's new trailer is drawing plaudits from many online fans, the movie's darker-than-expected, adult tone (and bloated budget) has many at Warner Bros. privately worried about its appeal to children and parents. "It doesn't look like a family movie," said the head of creative advertising at a rival studio familiar with Warner's angst. "Are they going for the cineastes or are they going to convince kids to go? It's the most interesting marketing problem in town right now." In an interview with Advertising Age, "Wild Things" producer Gary Goetzman said, "Spike has made a film that crosses all demographics." But that might just be the problem. In Mr. Jonze's "[URL="javascript:pop('http://adage.com/brightcove/single.php?title=23201679001',%20715,%20600);"]Wild Things[/URL]," 9-year-old Max accidentally witnesses his single mom canoodling with her new boyfriend on the living-room sofa. It's a poignant scene, but also the sort of stark departure from the source material that might make some parents reluctant to bring to theaters the 4- to 8-year-olds Maurice Sendak's book has been entertaining since 1964. [B]'It respects the original'[/B] Andrew Percival, senior VP at Mojo, one of the Los Angeles trailer houses that helped cut the "Wild Things" trailer and design its posters, said, "The film has taken these themes in the book to a very real place. For that, I do applaud it. There is an originality to this film -- it doesn't speak down to kids; it speaks with them." "Wild Things" animation supervisor Daniel Jeannette also dismissed the idea that the film is too dark or mature for kid audiences. "The book, too, was received as too dark for children at the time [it was published]," Mr. Jeannette said. "So in a sense, the film might not follow the track of the four-quadrant children's film. But it doesn't exclude anyone; it appeals to children of all ages, including adults. It respects the original material." The book has sold more than 10 million copies. How does a costly motion picture intended to be a broadly accessible, kid-friendly family film turn out not to be so? And how does a studio market such a surprise? Marketing executives at Warner Bros. wrestling with that issue declined to be interviewed by Advertising Age. Nevertheless, the studio appears to be facing at least one of two equally scary realities. The first is that it may simply have lost control of the creators. Mr. Jonze, the director of quirky, sophisticated adult films such as "Being John Malkovich" and "Adaptation," was hardly a "safe" choice for a kids' movie. The "Wild Things" script comes from the Gen X literary icon Dave Eggers, author of "A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius." Neither man screams "Bambi." [IMG]http://adage.com/images/bin/image/photo/wildthings050609.jpg[/IMG] About all the studio and the filmmakers agree on is that their discussions about the tone of the film, which has been shooting since April 2006, have been contentious. Mr. Jonze, in a recent interview with fan site Ain't It Cool News, said he had "freaked the studio out" because his movie "wasn't a studio film for kids, or it wasn't a traditional film about kids." It's unclear if that was possible because Mr. Jonze wangled what's known in Hollywood parlance as "final cut," a contractual concession that gives the director final approval of what goes into a film. Whoever wins final cut effectively determines what sort of film will be made and to whom it can be marketed. Production insiders said Mr. Jonze has final cut on the picture; studio insiders said he does not. [B]Not Warner's kind of movie[/B] The second, unavoidable reality is that regardless of who had creative control, Warner Bros. no longer has the dedicated infrastructure or expertise to market sophisticated, adult movies. It shut down both its Warner Independent Pictures and Picturehouse labels in May 2008 but greenlighted "Wild Things" back in 2006. In other words, while Warner Bros. suits may never have expected to get a traditional kid-friendly picture along the lines of a "Harry Potter" when they hired Mr. Jonze, they also had no idea the marketing division best-suited to sell "Wild Things" would be extinct two years later. Indeed, with its realistic view of childhood fears and confusions, "Where the Wild Things Are" appears to be precisely the kind of tricky-to-market, sophisticated movie Warner Bros. has decided it is not interested in releasing: Last year, for example, the studio dropped Danny Boyle's "Slumdog Millionaire" just as it was coming to market. Fox Searchlight scooped it up, taking home both the best-picture Oscar and $141 million in domestic grosses. Meanwhile, despite Mr. Goetzman's insistence that "everyone is going to go see this picture," it doesn't appear the studio thinks many kids will be coming: "Wild Things" will make its debut on Oct. 16, and, according to the head of marketing and distribution at a rival studio, "when you don't have a single kids' holiday nearby, that's not fertile ground for family pictures." Indeed, only three films released in October have ever opened at more than $40 million: "Scary Movie 3," in 2003; "Shark's Tale," in 2004; and "High School Musical 3," in 2008. "Wild Things" will need to open well above those lofty October numbers to justify its $100 million-plus production and marketing budget. If it doesn't, the question will go from whether "Wild Things" can be profitable to how wildly unprofitable it will be.

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^Marketing controversies huh? I'll see it just because of that...hmmm

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its like vinces meadiean. from entourage.. hahahaha

i know i fucked that spelling.. ;)

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The stills are beautiful man.

[IMG]http://www.dontpaniconline.com/var/uploads/mag/images/photo_1242137507.jpg[/IMG] [URL="http://www.dontpaniconline.com/magazine/imagination/where-the-wild-things-are---casey-storm"] Interview with costume designer[/URL].

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[url]http://weloveyouso.com/blog/[/url]

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^ that is a really nice blog!

october is gun be fun this year. :D

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[INDENT][QUOTE][B]What do you say to parents who think the Wild Things film may be too scary?[/B] Sendak: I would tell them to go to hell. That's a question I will not tolerate. [B]Because kids can handle it?[/B] Sendak: If they can't handle it, go home. Or wet your pants. Do whatever you like. But it's not a question that can be answered. Jonze: Dave, you want to field that one? Eggers: The part about kids wetting their pants? Should kids wear diapers when they go to the movies? I think adults should wear diapers going to it, too. I think everyone should be prepared for any eventuality. [/QUOTE]

[url]http://www.newsweek.com/id/216997/page/3[/url] [/INDENT]

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Should be at the advance screening tomorrow, I will report back when I have time.

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It's not bad at all, very strong in the visuals department, but it's a bit thin in the way of story when it comes to overall script department. I really, really liked it for what it was trying to do, and overall well worth seeing.

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But I suppose that can't be helped considering the book about 48 pages and this is a feature film. It's certainly no Lord of the Rings where details had to be pruned.