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Where The Dirty Hipsters Are

2:00PM Jess McGuire | Given the amount of hipster hype over Spike Jonze’s film version of Where The Wild Things Are, it was probably only a matter of time before some clever wag out there on the Internets decided to take the mickey out of the movie’s coolsie credentials. Folks, here’s the trailer for a movie I think most of us would enjoy – Where The Dirty Hipsters Are. More »
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The Defamer Guide To Saving The Oscars

6:30AM Richard Rushfield | The show may or may not get higher ratings than an Idol finale, but the subject of who will host and produce the 82nd Academy Awards telecast remains Hollywood’s perennial obsession. More »
Flotsam & Jetsam

Wild Things Scares Away Kids But Still Rules The Weekend

3:33AM Richard Rushfield | As the US box office tea leaves are sifted, many in Hollywood are searching for a way to take the glory away from Spike Jonze. But whatever your feelings about the hipster icon, we all bow before an opening weekend victory. More »
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Twilight Assault Begins With Star-Laden Soundtrack Dropping Today

3:15AM Richard Rushfield | It’s Halloween monster time in Hollywood — but which is more scary, the ones with fangs in Twilight or Wild Things, or the ones with spray on tans like Jon Gosselin, or the ones with really big wallets like Rupert? More »
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Are Wes And Spike Headed For Boy Genius Dammerung?

8:15AM Richard Rushfield | A decade ago they were the child auteurs who could do no wrong. Wes Anderson and Spike Jonze were not just proclaimed the saviours of the cinema, but of modern civilisation as well. More »
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Maurice Sendak —

8:38AM Gabriel Snyder | — when asked whether Spike Jonze’s movie based on his book Where the Wild Things Are is too scary for kids in a Newsweek interview.

Meet The Long-Delayed Monsters Of ‘Where The Wild Things Are’

7:57AM Kyle Buchanan | The Spike Jonze film Where the Wild Things Are has been delayed so often, not even a newly-assured release date could get our hopes up. However, these leaked pictures of the Wild monsters just might. More »

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 »

9:25AM STV | When the Wild Things Are: For those waiting for a shred of good news to emerge from the long industrial nightmare that is the Where the Wild Things Are release date saga, today might be your day. Warner Bros has reportedly announced Spike Jonze’s troubled fantasy will finally land in theatres on Oct. 19, 2009 — almost a year after its original date, which Warners scuttled for re-shoots that didn’t seem help matters much as they dragged on. It’s too long a wait for us to hold our breath, but we’ll keep quiet from here lest some WTWTA curse abides. You can never be too careful. [Coming Soon via Vulture] More »