An dem Abend, als Max seinen Wolfspelz trug und nur Unfug im Kopf hatte, schalt seine Mutter ihn: "Wilder Kerl!" - "Ich fress dich auf", sagte Max, und da musste er ohne Essen ins Bett. Genau in der Nacht wuchs ein Wald in seinem Zimmer...
[17.12.2009]
Heute startet "Wo die wilden Kerle wohnen" in den deutschen Kinos...
[19.10.2009]
CS! berichtet über die US-Kinocharts... [...] What's turning out to be an October for the record books continues to thrive with the second movie to open over $30 million, as filmmaker Spike Jonze's take on Maurice Sendak's Where the Wild Things Are opened with approximately $32.7 million in 3,735 theaters including IMAX screens, surpassing some expectations but not all. With a solid average of $8,693 per site, the film benefited from a solid marketing campaign and praise from critics that made it apparent that it was far more than just a kiddie film, and in just three days, it is the auteur director's biggest theatrical take so far. [...]
[18.10.2009]
Mr. Beaks von AICN sprach mit dem Regisseur Spike Jonze... Ausserdem gibt es bei AICN eine Kritik von Harry Knowles... [...] This is the most authentic & brilliant film about childhood that I have ever seen. It is tremendous at every fathomable level. From production design, costumes, dialogue, effects, music, photography, editing, sound design and most of all performances. Performances from the humans, and astonishingly tender, horrible and mind-blowing work from the Wild Things.
See this movie!
[14.05.2009]
Unter WeLoveYouSo.com gibt es einen sehr unterhaltsamen Blog rund um die Entstehung des Films - Zitat aus der Beschreibung... [...]
The film represents years of work from hundreds of different artists, writers, photographers, musicians, actors, and creators of all degrees.
This place has been established to help shed some light on many of the small influences that have converged to make this massive project a reality. [...]
[23.03.2009]
Bei USA Today gibt es sehenswerte Szenenbilder... Max Records, 11, is the boy with anger issues who escapes to a land where giant beasts roam in Where the Wild Things Are, the film version of Maurice Sendak's 1963 storybook classic.
Such same-name casting is the type of coincidence that could only happen to a filmmaker who once placed a portal in an actor's head in Being John Malkovich.
"It's just fortuitous, kismet, circumstance," says Spike Jonze, who cast Max after a director friend sent him a tape. "I can't imagine anyone else playing Max. Max is the soul of the movie. He's a very special sort of kid. Deep and thoughtful. Sweet and sincere."
Audiences will get a chance to check out both Maxes on Friday in a trailer accompanying Monsters vs. Aliens.
The Portland, Ore., sixth-grader spent four months on the film, which was shot outside Melbourne, Australia. His parents - Shawn, a photographer, and Jenny, a librarian - along with brother Sam, 7, joined him Down Under.
Max has been in videos for Death Cab for Cutie and Cake but has almost no performing experience other than a bit part in school "that was pretty pathetic." Save for Star Wars, he says, "I wasn't a huge movie person. "I'm not into what won the Oscars this year."
What he is into is books, and Wild Things is one of his favorites. "It's sort of different and not a simple story."
Max, who also can be seen in The Brothers Bloom (May 29), would like to continue to act. "But not gigantic parts. I'm in school and stuff. It's too disruptive." He did get some encouragement - from Sendak himself.
"I got to meet him last September," he says.
What did the author say to him? "Good job."
[18.03.2009]
Bei CS! gibt es ein Teaser-Poster !!!
[17.01.2009]
Bei CS! gibt es Bilder der vielgestaltigen Wilden Kerle, wie sie auf Skateboards für Mädchen zu finden sein werden... *g*
[19.11.2008]
Moriarty von AICN sprach ausführlich mit dem Regisseur Spike Jonze und zeigt zwei Bilder... Hier nur ein kurzer Abriss zum Stand der Dinge... [...] We just locked picture about three weeks ago, and we’ll probably finish all the effects by, like, May or so. Then we mix in May and we have our dates in October [...]
[06.09.2008]
Variety.com berichtet über das finanzielle Wagnis und die Sorgen der Studios... [...] Director Spike Jonze has never made a wide-audience commercial studio movie. His highest-grossing pics, New Line's "Being John Malkovich" and Sony's "Adaptation," were considered arthouse crossovers, grossing $46 million and $32 million worldwide, respectively.
He has never made a family movie, nor a visual effects picture.
Thus it is not a huge surprise that his and Dave Eggers' adaptation of Maurice Sendak's "Where the Wild Things Are" has run into some turbulence at Warner Bros., which took the $75 million budget movie in turnaround from Universal.
Jonze's initial idea was to shoot the wild things in nine-foot suits with animatronic faces in the jungles of Australia and New Zealand. CG-faces would be required. After a disastrous December 2007 preview of Jonze's first cut, the studio shut down the project. The movie is "dark, adult and deep," wrote Cinemaniac1979 on aint-it-cool-news, "heart-wrenching and scary. This isn't a movie for children -- it's a movie about childhood."
Jonze did reshoots a year after he first shot the movie, mostly of the young lead, Max Record. About 10 minutes were added: two scenes at the start and one at the end.
"We wanted more emotion for the story on the whole," says Warners president Jeff Robinov, who will screen the new cut this month. "He's making a Spike Jonze family movie. I can't tell you how young it's going to play, or its intensity. It's magical, and beautifully shot. It was a long process to end up in a good place." The visual effects won't be added until Jonze has locked the final cut.
ESTIMATED COST: $78 million-$80 million. While the studio is aiming for a fall 2009 release, the movie doesn't seem to be the family-friendly commercial picture the studio had in mind. [...]
[28.02.2008]
Bei AICN gibt es einen offenen Brief bzgl. der möglichen "Vernichtung" von Spike Jonze's Werk, welches nochmals komplett überarbeitet und erst im Oktober 2008 veröffentlicht werden soll... [...] I’m writing to you tonight out of desperation. I heard through the grapevine that Spike Jonze’s Where the Wild Things Are is in danger of being recast, rewritten, and reshot. Having seen an early cut in December, all I can say is I’m beside myself with shock and dismay at this news. But before we delve any further into that, I feel I should explain why this is the most terrible news I’ve heard since Michael Bay created Platinum Dunes. [...]
I really can’t begin to tell you how much I love this film. Even in its most incomplete form, WTWTA is startlingly dark, adult and deep, but it’s also the most accurate depiction of childhood and that moment where we begin to lose our naïve thoughtless innocence that I’ve ever seen. [...]
Please, Harry, help me save this movie from becoming The Cat in the Hat. [...]
[20.02.2008]
CS! meldet... A clip believed to be from Warner Bros. Pictures' big screen Where the Wild Things Are was recently leaked online. Today, however, director Spike Jonze told us that the footage seen is not actually from the film.
"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," Jonze said. "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." [...]
[18.02.2008]
Bei AICN kann man einen Blick auf einen Clip / Ausschnitt werfen, der wohl als Test gedacht ist/war...
[02.12.2007]
Bei AICN gibt es erste Kritiken zu einer Rohfassung des Film !!!
[26.11.2007]
HollywoodReporter.com meldet... Lauren Ambrose is going into the wild, voicing one of the title roles in Spike Jonze's fantasy film "Where the Wild Things Are" for Warner Bros.
In the feature adaptation of Maurice Sendak's children's tale, Ambrose will play KW, one of the giant creatures in the land of the Wild Things. When a young boy named Max visits their strange world, KW and company turn him into their king.
Ambrose is replacing the previously cast Michelle Williams. According to a production source, the filmmakers enjoyed working with Williams, but her voice didn't match their original vision of how the Wild Thing should sound.
Warner Bros. is producing the Playtone/Wild Things production in association with Legendary Pictures and Village Roadshow. Jonze and Dave Eggers wrote the adapted screenplay. Tom Hanks, Gary Goetzman, Sendak, John Carls and Vincent Landay are producing the film, which will use real actors, computer animation and live-action puppeteering. The film is set for release in fall 2008.
Ambrose is starring in the Fox series "The Return of Jezebel James" and appears opposite Frank Langella in Roadside Attractions' drama "Starting Out in the Evening." During the summer, she played Juliet in the Public Theater's Shakespeare in the Park production of "Romeo and Juliet" in New York.
Ambrose, who starred on HBO's "Six Feet Under," is repped by UTA, manager Michael Garnett and attorney Harris Hartman.
[26.06.2007]
Der MTV Movies Blog liefert ein erstes Bild !!!
[24.07.2006]
AICN-D meldet... [...] Last week, it was the news that Spike Jonze's adaptation of WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE is definitely set to shoot in Melbourne. Tom Hanks is doing the producing, and the film will shoot at the Melbourne Central City Studios... which is probably a good thing, as no local productions can afford to do so. I was surprised to see a bit of confirmed casting go unreported (at least, in the places I read): Australian actor Angus Sampson has joined the production. I don't know who he's playing (I'm guessing one of the beasties), but it's a terrific break-out for the local actor/comedian. [...]
[04.05.2006]
HollywoodReporter.com meldet... A diverse group of vocal talents, including Academy Award winner Benicio Del Toro, Michael Berry Jr., Paul Dano, Tom Noonan, Catherine O'Hara, Forest Whitaker and Michelle Williams, has been recruited to provide the voices of the titular characters in writer-director Spike Jonze's adaptation of Maurice Sendak's classic children's book "Where the Wild Things Are." The film, which Warner Bros. Pictures is producing in association with Legendary Pictures, will combine voice performances, live-action puppetry and computer animation to dramatize the ad-ventures of Max, a rebellious young boy who runs away from home after a fight with his mother and finds himself in a forest where the wild things roam.
[26.02.2006]
Better than Fudge meldet... At the top of any self-respecting film fan’s "what the hell is that gonna be like" list has to be the long in development adaptation of Maurice Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are.
It’s common knowledge that Spike Jonze has been attached to direct this for some time. Well now it seems we’re getting closer to seeing what that keen mind has in store for us...
Catherine Keener speaking to Charlie Rose on Thursday’s show:
"I’m getting ready to work with him again. He’s doing Where the Wild Things Are. He’s doing it in New Zealand. I’m playing the mom looking for Max. Then there will be six actors or so performing the roles of the monsters, the wild things. And then Henson’s company is making puppets." [...]
[09.01.2006]
Blickpunkt:Film meldet... Statt Universal wird nun Warner die lange von den Playtone-Partnern Tom Hanks und Gary Goetzman geplante Kinderbuchadaption "Where the Wild Things Are" in die Kinos bringen. Spike Jonze soll den Film nach einem Drehbuch von ihm und Dave Eggers Ende des Jahres realisieren. Neben den Playtone-Partnern produzieren auch Buchautor Maurice Sendak und John B. Carls das Projekt, das Warner im großen Stil auswerten will.
Seit fünf Jahren ist das Projekt bereits im Umlauf. Mit verschiedenen Drehbuchautoren und Regisseuren wurde gearbeitet, mal war es als Trick-, mal als Live-Action-Adaption geplant. Nun will man die Geschichte als Live-Action mit vielen Computereffekten angehen.
[28.10.2003]
Blickpunkt:Film meldet... Spike Jonze wird für Universal "Where the Wild Things Are" inszenieren. Die Live-Action-Verfilmung des Kinderbuchklassikers von Maurice Sendak (im Deutschen unter dem Titel "Wo die wilden Kerle wohnen" erschienen) wird von Tom Hanks' und Gary Goetzmans Playtone zusammen mit John Carls und Maurice Sendak produziert. Die 1963 zum ersten Mal publizierte Geschichte handelt vom frechen Spitzbuben Max, der ohne Abendessen zu Bett geschickt wird und sich dort in das Land der wilden Kerle träumt, dessen König er ist.
Ursprünglich war Eric Goldberg als Regisseur im Gespräch gewesen.
Wo die wilden Kerle wohnen DVD & Video
Wo die wilden Kerle wohnen Regionalcode 2 FSK: Freigegeben ab 6 Jahren Erscheinungstermin: 23. April 2010
Die DVD bietet folgende Extras; Die absurde Schwierigkeit, einen Hund zu filmen, der zur gleichen Zeit läuft und bellt;
Der große Streich; Die Vampir-Attacke; Die Kinder übernehmen die Dreharbeiten
Die Blu-ray bietet darüberhinaus weitere Extras: Higgelti Piggelti Popi oder es muss im Leben mehr als Alles geben;
HBO First Look; Maurice und Spike; Die Familie Records; Carter Burwell
Dave Eggers Bei den wilden Kerlen
Gebundene Ausgabe
240 Seiten (14. Oktober 2009)
Roman nach dem Kinderbuch "Wo die wilden Kerle wohnen" von Maurice Sendak und dem Drehbuch "Wo die wilden Kerle wohnen" von Dave Eggers und Spike Jonze...
Den Song "All is love" kann man bei MySpace.com anhören...
Wo die wilden Kerle wohnen Spiele
Passend zum Kinostart erschien das Videospiel
"Wo die wilden Kerle wohnen" für PlayStation 3,
Nintendo Wii,
Xbox 360 und
Nintendo DS...
Im Videospiel schlüpfen Spieler in die Rolle des ungestümen jungen Max und erforschen die Insel der wilden Kerle, bereisen gefährliches Terrain, überwinden schwierige Hindernisse und bekämpfen böse Kreaturen. Nachdem sein Boot an der geheimnisvollen Insel der wilden Kerle gestrandet ist, befreundet sich Max rasch mit den furchterregenden, doch liebenswerten Kreaturen und wird zum "König der wilden Kerle" gewählt. Schon bald wird ihm klar, dass die Insel dem Untergang geweiht ist. Max muss zusammen mit den wilden Kerlen entkommen, bevor es zu spät ist. Die Versionen für Wii, PlayStation 3 und Xbox 360 werden von Amaze Entertainment, einem Entwicklerstudio von Foundation 9, entwickelt. Für die Nintendo-DS-Version zeichnet WayForward verantwortlich.
Im Laufe des actionreichen Abenteuers werden die Spieler neue nützliche Fähigkeiten erlernen und sich mit den wilden Kerlen - die alle über eigene Spezialfertigkeiten verfügen- verbünden, um gemeinsam einen Weg in die Sicherheit zu finden...
Wo die wilden Kerle wohnen
