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Monthly Archive for February, 2008
Seeing as we’re currently in the midst of a bit of a Where The Wild Things Are bent of late… I thought this installment of our Wallpaper’s section could feature said Wild Things! Well, one of ‘em at least. This is a photo I took of my McFarlane Toys Wild Things posed in front of a page from the book.
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An ‘insider’ reports: “I wish I could be more specific, but because of how I saw it, I can’t offer any sort of real review. I can tell you that there’s something odd about the clip above. The Wild Thing in that clip is Carrol, played in the version I saw by James Gandolfini. That is most definitely NOT Gandolfini’s voice in that clip though. But it’s a very finished piece of film, because in the rough footage, none of the Wild Things have articulated faces. The costumes were all built to have immobile features that would be replaced in post-production by CGI, and it looks like this clip has had that work done on it…”
“…that was a very early test with the sole purpose of just getting some footage to Ben our vfx (visual effects) supervisor to see if our vfx plan for the faces would work. The clip doesn’t look or feel anything like the movie, the Wild Thing suit is a very early cringy prototype, and the boy is a friend of ours Griffin who we had used in a Yeah Yeah Yeahs video we shot a few weeks before. We love him, but he is not in the actually film. Oh and that is not a wolf suit, its a lamb suit we bought on the internet. Talk to you later.”
The film has been pushed back until 2009. Word in the hills is that Warner Bros is extremely unhappy with the finished product. Test screening audiences have complained that the film is too adult and even too scary for children. One audience member wrote:
“I don’t think it’s for young children. They’d probably like the video version from ‘The Children’s Circle’ better.”
Another test screener writes:
“And some kids at my screening began to cry and asked their parents to leave, so that should give you an idea.” “The things are not cute. Max comes off a bit weird and off-putting ‘He slaps his mom!’ and he seems confused and not charming at all.” “No rumpus, no big set pieces, no ’state-of-the-art’ lucrative sequences just some running around on some desert place and thats that.”
According to Spike Jonze’s younger brother, music producer Sam Spiegel, who confirmed it in an e-mail to music blog The Playlist, banshee-voiced Yeah Yeah Yeahs front woman Karen O is writing “pretty much the whole” soundtrack to Jonze’s forthcoming film version of Maurice Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are.
With a gigantic budget of a speculated $80 million, the fiercely protective Maurice Sendak is enthused about the movie adaptation by Spike Jonze and Dave Eggers.
‘Where The Wild Things Are’ will feature the voices of James Gandolfini, Catherine Keener, Forest Whitaker, Paul Dano, Catherine O’ Hara and Lauren Ambrose who recently replaced Michelle Williams.
Audience reviews from surprisingly early test screenings described the $80 million film as unapologetically melancholic, beautifully strange, and very ‘adult’.
Marky Ramone is helping to promote safe sex in the USA by launching a condom kit for sex education company Ready Two Go.
The Sun reports that the drummer is helping to spread the message about the dangers of sexually transmitted diseases.
“The world has lost too many people to STDs of all types, and that is why I joined up with Ready Two Go for my signature series of safer sex tins,” Ramone explained.
The tins have a Marky Ramone emblem on them and include condoms and information on sexually transmitted diseases.
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