creative differences
Spike Jonze Relates ‘Wild Things’ Delays to Bad Case of Gender Confusion
6:37AM STV | Where the Wild Things Are director Spike Jonze recently gave his most expansive interview yet about his troubled, tortured, presumed-dead and reanimated fantasy epic, which Warner Bros. is now committed to opening Oct. 19, 2009. And while light-treading Jonze makes his biggest statement about the delay by offering virtually no statement at all, a teasing philosophical aside about his young star Max Records summarises pretty much all you need to know about Jonze v. Warners: More »
Terrence Howard At Peace With ‘Pimps’ Who Cut Him Out of ‘Iron Man 2′
4:40AM STV | In an appearance Saturday on NPR’s Weekend Edition, Terrence Howard interrupted his discussion of his new album with a Zen meditation on his recent departure from the Iron Man franchise. And if it seemed unusual last week that Howard might bow out of the blockbuster’s sequel, leaving his role as Tony Stark confidante Jim Rhodes (and his own heroic alter-ego War Machine) to the capable, cheaper hands of Don Cheadle, the scenario didn’t get any clearer as the actor wavered between the high road and calling Marvel Studios a scandalous gang of thieves and pimps: More »
Take it From its Director: ‘Babylon A.D.’ Sucks
2:25AM STV | After the stirring creative success of his English-language debut Gothika — still hovering around a 15% approval rating at Rotten Tomatoes — no one could really fault French filmmaker-actor Mathieu Kassovitz for expecting miles of auteurist latitude on his new film, the sci-fi Vin Diesel thriller Babylon A.D. Least of all Kassovitz himself, it appears, whose journey to the farthest-flung frontiers of studio hackery (or Eastern Europe, whichever came first) nevertheless found him face-to-face with micromanagers from 20th Century Fox — “lawyers who were only looking at all the commas and the dots,” he recently told inquiring minds at AMC. More »
‘Where The Wild Things Are’ Gets New Release Date: Never
9:40AM Defamer Hollywood | We hoped you liked the clip “test footage” of Spike Jonze’s troubled adaptation of Where the Wild Things Are, which made the rounds in February amid rumours of the $75 million film’s slow demise at Warner Bros. We’re reading now that that may be all you see for at least a few more years while Jonze tinkers and tweaks on Warners’ watch, prompting Alan Horn to offer an update today to his bloggy BFF Patrick Goldstein. More »
Is The Wild Rumpus Over Before It Even Began?
9:52AM Seth | And now back to the ongoing drama revolving around Where the Wild Things Are, Spike Jonze’s reported $75 million adaptation of the classic Maurice Sendak picture book for Warner Bros. After some early test footage surfaced, a statement from the director qualified that the Wild Thing suit and child actor featured in the scene were both placeholders for what was to come. Still, Slashfilm floated rumors that early test screenings tanked with audiences, calling it “too adult and even too scary for children.” (Translation: Probably genius.) Now CHUD.com reports twitchy suits are on the verge of pressing the panic buttons beneath their desks that would conveniently dispense with creator and floundering project through their office trapdoor: More »
