Everyone loves it when trend pieces talk, like when you have Jim Windolf at Vanity Fair complaining about our obsession with "cuteness" and A.O. Scott at the New York Times taking on "grimness." In some ways they're actually worried about the same thing. Windolf proposes that...
This week's favorite Oscar topic, besides last night's announcement that Alec Baldwin and Steve Martin will be co-hosting the awards, is where all the original screenplays have gone. The Hollywood Reporter's Steven Zeitchik points out the a dearth of obvious candidates for the "Best...
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It's expected that a blockbuster like "Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen" get nonsensical tie-ins like Strawberry-Peanut Butter M&Ms -- junk movies spawn junk food. And we don't squawk in protest at "Twilight: New Moon" band-aids, if only because it takes a certain amount...
It's not a great time to be either Kanye West or one of his fans. After his umpteenth public freak-out, interrupting Taylor Swift at the MTV Video Awards, his tour with Lady Gaga was canceled, and rumors are flying that West is hiding out somewhere, doing his best to purge himself of the demons that...
By Steven Zeitchik Readers of this space might know that we've been a little obsessed with "Where the Wild Things Are" for a number of months now. The reshoots, the self-promotional short doc, the indie soundtrack, the humanity. It's...
Anne Thompson at indieWIRE believes "Where The Wild Things Are" is too expensive to succeed commercially, and I think she's probably right. Standard movie math says a studio film needs to gross two and a half times its budget before it can start being profitable; in that case, "Where...
There's two good profiles published in the last few days about polar opposite Great White Hopes of Hollywood film. The New York Times profiles Spike Jonze in anticipation of his adaptation of Maurice Sendak's "Where The Wild Things Are"; Anthony Breznican tackles Jason Reitman for USA...
By Steven Zeitchik There have been so many rumors and murmurs about "Where the Wild Things Are," Spike Jonze's adaptation, via a Dave Eggers script, of the Maurice Sendak classic, that the very fact that there's now tangible footage...
Finally, we get a glimpse of Spike Jonze's long-awaited kiddie (?) flick.