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The children's classic gets a 3D videogame makeover to coincide with the release of Spike Jonze's film. Out today on Xbox 360, PS3, Wii and DSAuthor: itngameandgadgets Tags: where the wild things are gaming videogame warner bros xbox presents games christmas maurice sendak children spike jonze Posted: 27 November 2009 Rating: 0.0 Votes: 0

Michael Jackson's This is It was the only new wide release this weekend, and essentially had the box office to itself. This may seem weird, but this is as it should be -- and it has more to do with Halloween falling on a Saturday than with any show of respect for the King of Pop. Predictably, This is It won the weekend, grossing $21.3 million for a total of $32.5 million since its Wednesday opening. That's a good number, and monumental for a documentary, though it is also an instance where the studio's hype machine may have led people astray. Those who read the breathless press releases about the trumped-up advance ticket sales frenzy surrounding This Is It may be disappointed (or in any case surprised) by these figures. But over $30 million in five days for a concert documentary is nothing to sneeze at -- and I don't think that expecting much more was reasonable. (As a footnote, too, the movie made nearly $70 million outside of North America -- which also makes sense.) The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day bowed on 68 screens and grossed just under half a million in 16th place, which isn't bad, really -- confirming the small cult following for Boondock Saints that everyone already knew existed. Among holdovers, Paranormal Activity continued to add screens, and continued to hold up well -- it should break $100 million by this time next week. Saw VI and Where the Wild Things Are both suffered drops over 60%; Wild Things will top out around $70 million (pretty good for an art film), while Saw VI will wind up making around (or just over) half of the next lowest grosser in the franchise. Will the next one go straight to DVD? (Probably not, but it might be time to start asking the question.) The full top 10 after the jump.Filed under: New Releases, Box OfficeContinue reading Weekend Box Office: Long Live the King of Pop Permalink | Email this | Comments

October 23 - 25, 2009. Can Hoffman pick up where Jigsaw left off – box office wise? Host Grace Randolph gives you the latest box office report plus her own review of Amelia! Ranked 2.99 / 5 | 614 views | 0 comments Click here to watch the video (04:36) Submitted By: NextNewNetworks Tags: BeyondTheTrailer ParanormalActivity SAWVI Saw6 WhereTheWildThingsAre CirqueDuFreak AstroBoy Categories: Entertainment

Ever since Where the Wild Things Are debuted that much buzzed-about trailer featuring a re-vamped version of Arcade Fire's "Wake Up", we've seen countless spoofs pop up across these internets, some of which were funnier than others. And while timing would suggest that we're pretty much finished spoofing that trailer (since the film has been in theaters for a couple weeks now), I still couldn't help but let out a Friday chuckle when our friends from Secret Sauce TV sent over their latest video: a spoof on the Wild Things trailer called Where the Dirty Hipsters Are. These are the same folks behind the Hot Chicks in Black and White Flicks series, as well as the My Little Pony: Reign of Buttercup Sprinkles video, and their latest replaces those lovable, huggable Wild Things with a group of dirty hipsters from Los Angeles. Poor Max in his cute, white animal outfit -- all he wants to do is throw mud and start a Wild Rumpus, but the Dirty Hipsters are too busy bumming smokes, compiling mix CDs featuring indie bands you've never heard of and going to see Fellini movies at the Art House. It's probably a touch funnier if you're familiar with Los Angeles culture, but every city has their collection of hipsters and so I'm fairly certain you'll all "get" this in one way or another. Watch the video after the jump.Filed under: Fandom, Trailers and ClipsContinue reading 'Where The Dirty Hipsters Are' Spoofs 'Wild Things' Permalink | Email this | Comments

October 23 - 25, 2009. Can Hoffman pick up where Jigsaw left off – box office wise? Host Grace Randolph gives you the latest box office report plus her own review of Amelia!Author: beyondthetrailer Tags: BeyondTheTrailer ParanormalActivity SAWVI Saw6 WhereTheWildThingsAre CirqueDuFreak AstroBoy AmeliaMovie Amelia BoxOffice MovieReview GraceRandolph IndyMogul NextNewNetworks Recap MovieNews Posted: 26 October 2009 Rating: 0.0 Votes: 0

October 23 - 25, 2009. Can Hoffman pick up where Jigsaw left off box office wise? Host Grace Randolph gives you the latest box office report plus her own review of Amelia!

Catherine Keener talks about her involvement in Where the Wild Things Are.

All the hand-wringing over whether or not Where the Wild Things Are is "for children," or "kid-tested, mother-approved," or whatever, turned out to be mostly academic: the kids didn't go. And the movie cleaned up anyway. According to figures cited by this David Germain piece in the AP, parents with kids made up only 27% of the $32.5 million Wild Things earned this weekend. The prevalence of adults (who I gather grew up on the book, unlike the current generation of tykes) probably bodes well, or at least better, for the box office staying power of the divisive, challenging film. Gerard Butler's Law Abiding Citizen opened to $21.3 million in second place -- the highest ever opening gross for young distributor Overture. That may have been at the expense of Screen Gems' The Stepfather, the unscreened, bloodless PG-13 horror remake that debuted in fifth place with $12.3 million. That's still not bad given the total lack of expensive name-brand talent involved. Paranormal Activity continued its slow roll-out charge, adding 600 screens (760 total) and adding $20 million to its gross. (That's around $26,000 per screen.) How much the idiotic "we-won't-open-in-your-city-unless-you-go-online-and-DEMAND-it" shtick had to do with this is debatable. (Would the movie have made even more had Paramount just held the film back and then put it into wide release this weekend?) But the "breakout hit" label is difficult to resist at this point. Good job everybody. Down at number 21, the omnibus New York, I Love You goes on the probably-should-have-kept-it-in-the-arthouses category. Its predecessor-of-sorts, Paris Je T'aime, expanded to around 200 screens rather than starting there, and did considerably better than New York will, foreign language handicap and all. The full top 10 after the jump.Filed under: New Releases, Box OfficeContinue reading Weekend Box Office: 'Wild Things' a Hit with Grown-ups Permalink | Email this | Comments

Most people look at Kanye West as a bit of a joke these days, and to be fair he's responsible for most of the damage to his own reputation as an egomaniac and a bit of a blowhard. But I guess it takes the directorial genius of Spike Jonze to remind us that there's probably more going on underneath Kanye's surface than we give him credit for, and no matter what you may think of West he does have pretty good taste in his pop culture 'associations' -- and the latest is an 11-minute short film directed by Jonze that premiered at the Los Angeles Film Fest earlier this summer and is now available online. Unfortunately I can't really tell you much about it, because frankly, you have to see it to believe it. But here is what I can tell you: the film is titled We Were Once a Fairytale and it starts out with Kanye being his usual drunken and obnoxious self (though luckily Taylor Swift is nowhere in sight). But keep in mind this is Jonze's short, and as to be expected, things take a very strange (and somewhat disturbing) turn. Hopefully the success of Jonze's Where the Wild Things Are this weekend means we will be seeing more from the director this year, because this short reminds us that there's nobody that makes movies like Jonze -- not to mention that he does the impossible with this short: he makes Kanye West seem almost human. After the jump: West's life imitates Jonze's art in We Were Once a Fairytale...Filed under: Celebrities and Controversy, DIY/Filmmaking, Trailers and ClipsContinue reading Watch This: Spike Jonze and Kanye West Make a Short Film Permalink | Email this | Comments