I can't wait for this!

hi mel!

oh wow!

let's get extras parts.

I wanna be a monster!

Who is playing Max?

Hey girlwho, I was thinking exactly the same thing but just got a faxer saying Tom Hanks is going to produce!!!

What the fuck?? He will taint our soil and poison our water supplies. It's un-Australian, damn it.

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO to Tom Hanks!!!!!!!!!

Uh, hi overground... I'm not sure who you are. Should I know?

he may get stranded on an island on the way here melly, we can only hope...

trying to get some work on this sucker is proving pretty difficult.

not meaning to brag or name-drop.. but the guitarist in my band is working on this film at the moment, building props/models etc, and met Spike Jonze the other week. From all accounts.. is gonna be rather interesting

yeah, N was trying to get us a hook-up on it.

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mcgauz, can you PLEASE find out the name of the casting company they are using. I am going to extra in this movie, or die trying.

Let me know pleaase! I'd make a great monster!

This is awesome!

Will the producers be busing in Queensland crews, as per Ghostrider and many others...?

Anyone here familiar with the payroll tax issue? I've heard many horror stories from gaffers/grips/DPs etc concerning past productions & inability to find work

And did you know that if you go to Melbourne Studios there is no lighting rig in the fucking studio ceiling?! For insurance reasons. So productions have to provide it themselves, and bear the insurance cost in that regard. I wonder what concessions were made to the "Wild Things.." production regarding this?

I'm sick of international productions being given carte blanche down here, at the expense of local productions, so that politicians can say "Look at our healthy film industry"

I love the "Wild Things..." book & Maurice Sendak, and I like Spike Jonze, but I'll be skeptical about this production and how beneficial it is for Melbourne until we learn the finer details.

If you have wear this suit, getting work as an extra on the film should be pretty easy.

Spike Jones will be interesting... this is something Tim Burton should have thought of first.

Yeah I thought he was doing it.

here's one for the melbourne people:

23 july - 29th october at the jewish museum of australia, there is a 'where the wild things are - maurice sendak in his own words and pictures' exhibition.

it features images and stuff taken from the original work which is housed in an archive in the states.

the postcard advertising the exhibition is rad. they chose the best picture for it.

Hey Angus... either way, it will be the highest quality film to be shot in melb for a while..

That's a good thing for melbourne crews. Do you know how much it sucks working your guts out to bring someones 'vision' (read peice of shit) to the screen??

would've been good if they hadn't talked at all.

Saw it last night, thought it was a total downer. Can't understand the logic of turning beloved childhood characters into whiny, narcissistic bores. The first leaping about scene was great but what was the point of the clod fight? And the soundtrack is awful.

What could be more narcissistic than their cry in the book ''We'll eat you up, we love you so''?

If they can't keep Max, no one can have him...

Down with the haterz. This film fucking rules.

Eh. I'm a hater.

i thought it was pretty decent. the whole bob and terry section should have been cut though.
i did like how the fort looked like the death star, very funny.
saw it in those cinemas under the sofitel on collins street, awesome discovery, only three other people in the cinema and it seemed to be $7 monday discount, I'm never going to nova on a tuesday to see a general release again.

I found it really dull after a great opening. lazy storytelling. But I've always found Spike an overrated annoying director.

I agree with anok and albert four dots.

update on the nephew seeing this with his class: his sister says ''he HATED it''

the whole bob and terry section should have been cut though.

That was my favourite part, hilarious. I liked it, 3.5 spuds.

this was such a boring pile of shit, we turned it off after nearly falling asleep. what a let down.

ditto svelte slacks!

We fell asleep then woke up and turned it off halfway through.
SO BORING.

I'm trying to figure out why you'd change the best thing about the (10 page) book and add in that stupid dirt throwing scene.

got to see this at last....

this was such a boring pile of shit, we turned it off after nearly falling asleep. what a let down.

yep. totally agree.

And the soundtrack is awful.

yep. totally agree there too. very disappointing all round.

well, so worth the effort to post all that then, eh?

Maurice Sendak passed away this morning

I have nothing now but praise for my life. I’m not unhappy. I cry a lot because I miss people. They die and I can’t stop them. They leave me and I love them more. … What I dread is the isolation. … There are so many beautiful things in the world which I will have to leave when I die, but I’m ready, I’m ready, I’m ready.
– Maurice Sendak (from his 2011 NPR interview)

Sendak was not a fan of ebooks, stating, > ''Fuck them is what I say, I hate those e-books. They can not be the future… they may well be… I will be dead, I won’t give a shit!''

Sendak was definitely an original.

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