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Christopher Walken never buys own clothes, takes them from movie sets
22 December 2009 3:02 AM, PST | Boxwish.com | See recent BoxWish news »
We’re all for recycling and reusing here at Boxwish (and as such never let a plastic bottle go in the rubbish bin!), and are always thrilled to hear of the environmental concerns of Hollywood stars. However, you wouldn’t think that movie actors get paid a fortune for what they do as so many of them have recently come clean about swiping their costumes from film sets. Cameron Diaz goes incognito in the frumpy threads from Being John Malkovich and even a rising star like Zombieland’s Jesse Eisenberg has gotten in on the act (and been shamed for it!) and now the latest minted A-lister to join the list is Christopher Walken who claims he never buys clothes. »
Synecdoche New York: The Film of 2009
21 December 2009 9:22 AM, PST | t5m.com | See recent t5m.com news »
Rather than hit up another top ten list of films from the last 12 months (mine would probably include The White Ribbon, A Prophet, Fantastic Mr. Fox, Milk, Fish Tank, A Serious Man and Encounters at the End of the World amongst others) I instead decided to put one egg in one basket. Its a weird egg too so I must apologise. You know one of those ones with two yolks in it or a smaller egg? One of those that people might say is actually from 2008... you know?... one of them... Over the last 8 months I have seen Charlie Kaufman's almost unpronounceable first film as director, four times. I suppose its power the first time around was its comedy (yes it is in there) and its overwhelming ambition as a piece of film-making. In short at first glance I thought it was fascinating, exhausting and totally unique. Like forcing »
- Neil Innes
16th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards Nominations
17 December 2009 7:11 AM, PST | Manny the Movie Guy | See recent Manny the Movie Guy news »
Nominees for the 16th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards (SAG Awards) for both film and television categories were announced this morning. Michelle Monaghan and Chris O'Donnell announced the nominees at the Pacific Design Center's Silver Screen Theater in West Hollywood.
The 16th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards will be simulcast live nationally on TNT and TBS on Saturday, Jan. 23, 2010 at 8 p.m. Et/Pt, 7 p.m. Ct, and 6 p.m. Mt from the Los Angeles Shrine Exposition Center. Recipients of the stunt ensemble honors will be announced from the SAG Awards red carpet during the TNT.TV and TBS.Com live pre-show webcasts.
If you want to predict the acting categories for the Oscars, look no further than the results of the Screen Actors Guild Awards. Voted by actors' peers, the SAG award has closely resembled the winners of the Oscars in the past few years.
For example, the SAG »
- Manny
Kanye West Calls 'We Were Once A Fairytale' Honor 'Humbling'
15 December 2009 5:29 AM, PST | MTV Music News | See recent MTV Music News news »
Pitchfork names Spike Jonze-directed short film one of its top music videos of 2009.
Kanye West in Spike Jonze's "We Were Once a Fairytale"
Photo: Vimeo.com
These days, any comment from Kanye West is sure to get attention. As 2009 winds down, the chart-topping rapper is finding himself among various year-end lists, but one honor in particular has moved him to post an emotional, all-caps, acceptance-speech-like response on his blog.
"I definitely wasn't expecting all this love at the end of the year," Kanye said of Pitchfork selecting his 11-minute short film with Spike Jonze, "We Were Once a Fairytale," as one of the top music videos of the year. "Love is humbling."
Directed by Jonze ("Being John Malkovich," "Where the Wild Things Are" and dozens of groundbreaking music videos like the Beastie Boys' "Sabotage"), "Fairytale" has a raw West portraying a drunk, pathetic take on his public persona. »
A Christmas Carol enjoys second helpings as UK No 1
15 December 2009 3:18 AM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
With new entries becalmed in the chart before Avatar is unleashed, Robert Zemeckis's animated spectacle surges back to the top in its sixth week of release to become the gift that keeps on giving to Disney
The marathon runner
For the past four weeks, the top spot has been occupied by 2012, The Twilight Saga: New Moon and Paranormal Activity. But now, five weeks after it first entered the chart at No 1, Disney's A Christmas Carol returns to the summit. It's rare for a film in its sixth week of release to be finding much favour with audiences; to dominate the market at this point is an exceptional result. Box-office takings for Robert Zemeckis's animated Dickens adaptation went up on its second weekend by 31%, and has subsequently enjoyed small week-to-week declines of 11%, 13%, 14% and 7%. The film has now grossed over £16m, compared with £12m for Zemeckis's Polar Express (a figure »
- Charles Gant
Tobey Maguire's Next Role: 'Prisoners of Trebek' or Bilbo in 'The Hobbit'?
14 December 2009 11:15 AM, PST | Cinematical | See recent Cinematical news »
In the tradition of great movies based on real game shows (Quiz Show; Slumdog Millionaire), Tobey Maguire is said to be producing and starring in a film called Prisoners of Trebek, based on a true story about a guy who found romance while attempting to master Jeopardy. Pajiba has the exclusive scoop on the project, which was scripted by The Hoax screenwriter William Wheeler and is being likened to the work of Charlie Kaufman. Producing with Maguire's company is Mark Gordon, who worked with Wheeler on The Hoax and regularly collaborates with Roland Emmerich (2012; The Day After Tomorrow).
The Kaufman connection could mean we should expect Alex Trebek to show up as himself in a surreal sort of comedy akin to Being John Malkovich. Or, Trebek could be more similar to Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, which also went behind the scenes of a game show in its biographical portrait »
- Christopher Campbell
The Truth About 'The Muppet Man'
14 December 2009 8:15 AM, PST | Cinematical | See recent Cinematical news »
Remember how The Muppet Man received the top honor on this year's Black List? Well, it looks like things aren't exactly what they appeared to be. While Christopher Weekes' script definitely covers the world of Jim Henson -- it's not a biopic; it's not even based in reality. As The Los Angeles Times reports, it's more whimsical, more Being John Malkovich than any tried and true bio, and that could keep it from ever reaching production.
Weekes "had written, entirely on spec, a script about one of the most enigmatic and private of contemporary artists without having ever met or even read much about him (there exists no major published biography about Henson)." Instead, it's based on photos and bites pulled from Wikipedia. "Even though I was just 10 when he died, Jim Henson had been this Walt Disney-like figure in my life, and I wanted to create a version of »
- Monika Bartyzel
This decade’s film: 2000-2004
14 December 2009 8:08 AM, PST | t5m.com | See recent t5m.com news »
Pottermania, Tolkein-mania, Twilight-mania…it’s fair to say that the noughties have been a strong one for different kinds of mania. Moreover, it’s also been the time for some pretty awesome movies. 2000 marked a particularly promising start: American Beauty, the directorial debut from Sam Mendes was a unique critique on the American dream that attracted widespread acclaim, being nominated for 8 Academy Awards and winning 5; including Best Picture. His next project, Road to Perdition proved this success to be no fluke. Apparently this was a good time for new directors, as further evidenced by Sofia Coppola’s The Virgin Suicides, and Spike Jonze’s Being John Malkovich. Not that the decade was limited to low-budget concept flicks. Box office-smashing comic book adaptations became the name of the game; ranging from the great (Spider-Man, X-Men and Hellboy), to the not so much (Daredevil and Fantastic Four). It became (almost) socially acceptable »
- Uprising
Kieron’s Top 13 Films of 2009
14 December 2009 6:54 AM, PST | ReelLoop.com | See recent Reel Loop news »
Looking back over the past twelve months highlights what a strange year this has been in cinema. Transformers 2 swept up at the box office, Terminator 3 nearly killed the franchise. (500) Days Of Summer’s incredible trailer resulted in an incredibly dissapointing film, Where The Wild Things Are dared to be even better than its Arcade Fire powered trailer suggested it would be. So, even though the year hasn’t been the best quality wise, there have been some absolutely terrific films released. In fact for every Blue, Antichrist or Dead Men Running there has been a film of great quality to counter it to the degree I struggled wittling down my list of favourites to the standard ten entries. So I didn’t bother. Each of the films in this list debuted cinematically in the UK in 2009 with the exception of Cyborg, She which was a direct to DVD release. »
- Kieron Casey
Cameron Diaz is a 'Bad Teacher'
10 December 2009 6:03 AM, PST | Cinematical | See recent Cinematical news »
When we first learned that The Office scribes Lee Eisenberg and Gene Stupnitsky had sold a spec called Bad Teacher, there was -- of course -- chatter about who that teacher should be. Anna Faris, Tina Fey, Elizabeth Banks, Winona Ryder, and Angelina Jolie were names batted around, but they're nothing like the reality.
I'm sorry to report that according to Variety, Cameron Diaz will be the lucky lady Bad Teacher for Columbia Pictures. The film focuses on a foulmouthed gold digger middle-school teacher. When she's dumped by her sugar daddy boyfriend, she turns her romantic attentions to her colleague, but has to battle the school's model teacher -- her rival -- for the honor. (Variety now says she battles a colleague for the affections of the model teacher, but that might be a mix-up.)
Jake Kasdan is helming the comedy, which isn't too bad, but it's not hard to »
- Monika Bartyzel
Review: The Box – can’t get no satisfaction
7 December 2009 7:43 AM, PST | t5m.com | See recent t5m.com news »
Richard Kelly, who wrote and directed Donnie Darko, is behind The Box, and it is essentially another confusing, metaphysical period piece filled with sci-fi sensibilities and half-formed ideas powered by lofty ambitions. Whilst Donnie Darko worked because it integrated this into a story that was essentially about teenage angst and romance, The Box has no such anchoring narrative. As such it drifts into the absurd, feeling inconsistent, incomprehensible and worst of all tedious. Set in 1976, The Box follows the financially troubled family of a Nasa scientist (a character based on the life and work of Kelly’s own father if IMDb is to be believed, and played by James Marsden) whose wife (Cameron Diaz) receives a visit from a disfigured stranger bearing a gift. That gift is a box with a button in it, and instructions on its use. She is told that if the button is pressed within 24 hours »
- Joe West
Spike Jonze: Master of the Wild Things
7 December 2009 1:28 AM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Once the hippest name in music videos, the 40-year-old director will this week terrify children with his adaption of Maurice Sendak's adored tale
A large rubber-band ball sits on the bedside table of the wilful young Max, hero of the new Spike Jonze film, while overhead, on a shelf, sits a bird's nest. Early shots of these odd objects cleverly prelude the virtuoso visual style of this audacious adaptation of a children's classic: the 1963 picture book Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak.
In the hands of the Oscar-nominated Jonze the island of fearful monsters that Max discovers one night when he has been sent to bed without supper becomes a perilous wasteland dotted with spherical wickerwork huts, nest-like forts and rounded boulders. Although Max, along with his ugly, untamed group of new friends, is clearly recognisable from Sendak's book, any parent who returns to their nursery copy »
- Vanessa Thorpe
Exclusive: The World of Where the Wild Things Are
6 December 2009 9:32 PM, PST | Rotten Tomatoes | See recent Rotten Tomatoes news »
It has taken Being John Malkovich and Adaptation director Spike Jonze more than five years to bring Where the Wild Things Are to the big screen. Maurice Sendak, the writer and illustrator of the best-selling children's book (which has sold upward of 20 million copies), identified Jonze as the only man he trusted enough to render his story on film. That story focuses on Max, the boisterous boy in wolf pyjamas who, when sent to his room for bad behaviour, journeys in his imagination and travels to the realm of the Wild Things, a gaggle of hairy monsters who proclaim »
Spike Jonze: 'I'm never going to compromise'
4 December 2009 4:15 PM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
The well-connected director is very good at getting his own way, hence his family unfriendly take on kids' classic, Where The Wild Things Are
Ten years after Being John Malkovich, there are still few people's heads you'd pay to spend 15 minutes inside as much as Spike Jonze's. It would be easy to imagine life from his perspective as a continual flow of way-cool experiences: "Here I am dashing off another era-defining music video. Here I am hanging out with Karen O/Kanye/Mia/the Coppolas. Oh look, I've got another bunch of Oscar nominations. I think I'll pop into Vice magazine and do some cool shit. Now I'm just scrolling through the contacts on my iPhone and thinking how phenomenally well-connected I am." That's the movie version, but real life hasn't been quite so straightforward for Jonze of late. Over the past five years, a random visit to Jonze's »
- Steve Rose
David Thomson on Spike Jonze
4 December 2009 1:10 AM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Here endeth the legend of the genius of the director Spike Jonze: Where the Wild Things Are is nothing but a disaster
The hero of Maurice Sendak's Where the Wild Things Are is Max, and he's six or seven, but 100 on the mischief scale. He's so bad that his mother (never seen in the book), sends him to bed without supper. That's when Max turns deeply angry and when his own room begins to take on the apparatus of a jungle. And so Max heads off in the world, into mischief's imagination, to find the wild things. And when he comes home afterwards, there's his supper waiting on the table in his room, and not a mother in sight.
Many of you know this book: it is a 10-minute read if you spin it out with extra screams and shouts when the wild things go wild. And now, »
- David Thomson
Jm Coetzee's Disgrace | Film
27 November 2009 4:05 PM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Theo Tait on the transition from page to screen of Coetzee's novel
It's often said that good novels make bad films: they're too nuanced, too complex, too long to fit into a slot two hours long. Readers don't thank film-makers for trampling on their treasured mental visions of a book – for making Sebastian Flyte shout "All you ever wanted was to fuck my sister!" at Charles Ryder, as in last year's film of Brideshead Revisited, or for casting Demi Moore as Hester Prynne in The Scarlet Letter or Nicolas Cage as Captain Corelli. The resulting adaptations tend to be, at worst, a travesty (Bonfire of the Vanities, Love in the Time of Cholera) and, at best, faithful and bloodless (Atonement, Revolutionary Road) – weighed down by the desire to do justice to a big reputation.
Few contemporary novels have a bigger reputation than Disgrace, Jm Coetzee's chilly, shocking 1999 tale of post-apartheid South Africa, »
Where are the wild things - Fraggle Rock?
23 November 2009 9:07 AM, PST | t5m.com | See recent t5m.com news »
After a gestation period longer than several female whales, we're finally closing in on the UK release of Where the Wild Things Are. Based on the 'children's' book by Maurice Sendak, the film has been a labour of love for director Spike Jonze. Telling the story of one boy's adventure and an imaginary world of wild monsters, the story has sold nearly 20 million copies worldwide. Despite having Sendak's own illustrations as a guide, there is always a danger in creating a film that so many people picture in different ways. From the look of the trailer, Jonze has worked wonders. The beautifully realised creatures look funny and a little bit scary but most of all empathetic. They remind me - and this is being said as a massive compliment - of the Gorgs - the wonderful creatures who lived above ground in Fraggle Rock. Jim Henson was always the master of humanising his creations. »
- Michael Shelton
Zombieland star Jesse Eisenberg caught taking clothes from film set
18 November 2009 1:34 AM, PST | Boxwish.com | See recent BoxWish news »
Sometimes there’s seemingly no difference between onscreen and offscreen. Just look at the whole Twilight business. Edward and Bella are inseparable and loved-up onscreen and offscreen there are rumours that Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart are likewise. Sure, it might all just be gossip and speculation, but often we like to imagine that what we see at the cinema is the same as real life. And it’s not just us, the viewers that enjoy blurring this line as many Hollywood stars take it a step further by wearing their actual movie costumes in their everyday lives. Just a few months ago, Cameron Diaz admitted she loves stepping out as herself in her Being John Malkovich costumes (see Related Content, right) and now Jesse Eisenberg, rising star of Zombieland and Adventureland (he likes his “lands”) has spoken of his penchant for pinching screen clothes, a tendency that can prove embarrassing… »
Cold Souls | Film review
14 November 2009 4:06 PM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
In this amusing, intelligent, well-acted picture, Paul Giamatti, playing a troubled actor called Paul Giamatti currently appearing in Uncle Vanya, goes to a New York surgery called Soul Storage and exchanges his soul for that of a Russian artist. It's a combination of the Faust legend, John Frankenheimer's Seconds and Spike Jonze's Being John Malkovich, but curiously flimsy.
Philip French
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- Philip French
Where the Wild Things Are: A Monstrously Mediocre Children's Movie
13 November 2009 8:46 PM, PST | Huffington Post | See recent Huffington Post news »
Spike Jonze had a pretty impeccable record, from directing Christopher Walken's triumphal dance in the video for Fatboy Slim's "Weapon of Choice," to producing MTV's transcendently stupid pain-porn Jackass, to his magnificent collaborations with Charlie Kaufman on Being John Malkovich and Adaptation. Nothing about that remotely suggests that he should adapt a children's book, though. He does a great job of evoking the weird and making it normal, but he's never quite pulled off believable emotion. Ultimately, that's what sinks Where the Wild Things Are. It's not just Jonze, though. The entire creative team is bizarre. Karen O of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, best known for fellating her mic at live shows, composed the soundtrack; Dave Eggers, best known for a fictionalized memoir (A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius) and a fictionalized biography (What is the What), adapted the 10 sentences »
- Alex Remington
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