Fire in the House

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I had a whole bunch of plans to get caught up on things this weekend that flew to the wayside due to a couple of unforeseen happenstances, the most important of which was I won tickets to see Arcade Fire play in Brooklyn (at the renowned Grand Prospect Hall, no less!) on Friday. I posted a couple more photographs on my Instagram. Oh and there's a video of two songs, which you can watch below. Anyway I am disastrously behind on things, so let's try to catch up tomorrow. Or tomorrow's tomorrow? Or et cetera? Indeed. Bye til then.

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Happy Atomic Blonde Weekend

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Listen, I know the world sucks right now, so let's all go see Atomic Blonde together this weekend, ogle some sexy half-naked James McAvoy while Charlize Theron kicks all kinds of unholy ass around him, and just pretend for a few hours that things are colorful and fun and crazy but in a good way, mkay? It's a deal.
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I'm off again for a three-day weekend (and it's an incredibly busy three-day weekend at that) which is actually kicking into high-gear earlier than planned cuz I just got a happy surprise in my inbox (that sounds like a dirty euphemism, I know) so I gotta run. See y'all Monday if the world's still here...

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I Am Link

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--- Top Bureau - A thriller called Imperium which stars Daniel Radcliffe as an FBI agent is gathering up a nice little supporting cast - Variety reports it's just added Toni Collette, Tracy Letts and Sam Trammell to its roster. Doesn't "Imperium" sound like a wand curse from Harry Potter? Anyway what I most hope is I hope that Daniel gets to motorboat Trammell on-screene. Those jugs of his should never go to waste.

--- Dead Things - I'm sad to see that Freeheld, the lesbian drama with Ellen Page and Julianne Moore, has done poorly box-office-wise; I too have been too busy to see it. Any of you recommend making time for it? Anyway Ellen's lining up her next thing and it's apparently a remake of Flatliners of all things? I said all I have to say about that on Twitter. I wish Prime Billy had done more stuff.

--- Matt Bomer's Butt Boy - Yesterday after I posted all of them gifs of Matt Bomer's Buttocks in the season premiere of American Horror Story: Hotel, I tweeted out a query asking who the actor was that joined Matt in the fourgy, and I was told his name is Nathan Peterson. Turns out I wasn't the only person wondering -- here's a morning-after interview with the actor, including a few choice beefcake shots for good measure. He's goin' places!

--- House of Horrors - We just wished Guillermo Del Toro a happy birthday but we missed this (thanks Mac) -- his home, which we knew already to be full of amazing horror movie props, was profiled in the New York Times and they've got a great gallery of his cabinets of wonders. I am so fuckin' jealous of him for the lot of it. Bastard!

--- Uniformed Frenzy - Reading that both Henry Cavill and Luke Evans have signed on to star in an Army action-drama opposite Nicholas Hoult kinda makes me wanna pull Nicholas Hoult close (as if I didn't already wanna pull Nicholas Hoult close) and protect him... and part of me wants to grab Nicky by the shoulders and throw him to the sexy noted homosexual wolves -- as long as there are cameras pointed at it all. Devour him, boys! Anyway I am not surprised that Henry & Luke are working together again, they have so much in common.

--- Top Bird - There's a lovely long chat with Tippi Hedren in The Detroit News (thanks Mac) -- no I don't know why, but it's lovely. She talks about her friendship with her Birds co-star Rod Taylo (who just passed away recently) and like any sane person would she seems to light up when mentioning she got to work opposite Marlon Brando. And she tells the Hitch stories o' woe again, which she must be sick to death of by now.

--- Cary's Song - This was apparently first talked about several years ago so forgive me if I have forgotten it completely (if I bothered to do a search I'd probably find a mention here on the blog) but I guess Cary Fukunaga's been working on making a musical with Owen Pallett (aka Final Fantasy and a member of Arcade Fire) and Zack Condon (aka Beirut, who I just saw perform at Radio City several days ago!) for ages, and he says he thinks it will be on stage first, before being a movie. But it all sounds still rather fetal. In related news, just a week to go for Beasts of No Nation!

--- Big Bite - I can't remember if I mentioned that the great Anne-Marie over at The Film Experience is devoting her "Woman's Pictures" series about female directors to horror movies all month long -- here's her take on the great (and only) Civil War Cannibal Movie Ravenous, directed by Priest director Antonia Bird. I love this movie like a third leg.

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Purify The Colors Purify My Mind

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I considered not going for a minute but I'm really glad I forced myself out of my doldrums last night and made my way out to Brooklyn to see Arcade Fire perform the final night of three - it turned out to be just what I needed to get my mind off of things. I had a fantastic spot on the floor; if you want to see more of my pictures I posted them over at Facebook, and I also posted several videos you can see at YouTube. The biggest deal for me was when David Byrne came out and performed with them for a song - you can watch that below.

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I Am Link

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--- Oh My - Big news from production house Wild Bunch out of Cannes today - they're bank-rolling a sequel to Harmony Korine's Spring Breakers, which will be written by Trainspotting author Irving Welsh and directed by music-video legend Jonas Akerman and called Spring Breakers: The Second Coming. (Lord that title.) But that's not all! Gaspar Noe's making a threesome-movie called Love, and most excitingly of all - Paul Verhoeven has a new movie in the works! And it sounds super Verhoeveny - it's an adaptation of a French novel called Oh! about a businesswoman getting revenge on her rapist. Be afraid slash excited.
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--- Off Dick - Michel Gondry isn't going to adapt Philip K. Dick's book Ubik anymore - he says he got a draft of the script from the writers which convinced him the book is unfilmable. Good work, writers! Then again I ain't never read that book so's what do I know? I just wanted a Michel Gondry Philip K. Dick movie, was all.

--- Kill Them All - Maniac Madness has broken out over at Final Girl! (That's kind of like Freak Fever, but with fewer pustules.) Stacie's got us voting on our favorite murderous ghouls, goblins, gals and so forth, step on over and make your opinions known! This first round has chubby Cenobites and possessed floor lamps. Yes please.

--- Death Stars - AICN is reporting that the working title for JJ Abrams' new Star Wars movie is Star Wars Episode VIII: The Ancient Fear. Their source says, and I quote, that "it refers to Max Von Sydow's villain who makes Pazuzu look like a pussy!" Mkay. On a related note, you did all see Kirsten Dunst's Star Wars dress at the Met Gala last night right? She wins everything, all the awards. I looooove it.

--- Gunk Love - John Lithgow says that he turned down the lead role in David Cronenberg's The Fly because he found it just too "icky." I mean... it is icky, so it's not like he's off-base or anything. I love John Lithgow (I really need to write up my thoughts on Love is Strange, dammit) but I'm glad that this part went to Jeff Goldblum in the end - Lithgow never would've brought the disturbing sexiness that Goldblum did.

--- Mo Oh Ses - I've seen The Ten Commandments way more times than any atheist should admit to, but what can I say - Anne Baxter, you guys. So I ate up Andrew's post on that very subject over at The Film Experience. I ate it right up!

--- The Fault in Shaileene - I knew I couldn't stand Shaileene Woodley for a reason! Her whole crunchy granola deodorant-free existence was irritating enough to me, but now she said some dumb-ass shit about feminism, which Pajiba rips to shreds hilariously - I was right all along. You guys need to trust my instincts.

--- Daily Dork - Saving this article for myself to read during lunch - here's The Daily Beast on fan culture and Battlestar Galactica and George RR Martin's books that little TV show those spawned and how those things changed the world of geekery.

--- Mountain Movie - The director of The Great Beauty, a movie I loved, is working on his next film and is snatching up a bunch of big-name Hollywood-type stars for it - Rachel Weisz, Paul Dano, Harvey Keitel and Michael Caine will star in Youth (aka In the Future), and it's about two old friends (Keitel and Caine) vacationing in the Alps. Hey if I could make any movie I wanted to after a rousing success I'd make a movie set in the Alps too, just to hang out there as long as possible.

--- And Speaking of The Great Beauty director, his right-hand man on that film is making his own first movie now, and he snatched up no less than Juliette Binoche to star in it! It's called The Wait and it's about a mother facing off with her son's fiancee, and it's set in Sicily. Similarly I would set my movie in Sicily so I could hang out in Sicily. Really, I'm just ready for another vacation already, seems to be the thing.

--- And finally, I was waiting to see if they'd release the entire video (and they probably will five minutes after I post this) but here's a snippet of the new Arcade Fire video, which stars Andrew Garfield in (and out, most importantly out) of drag:

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This Post is For You, Spike Jonze

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I guess there's more to the Oscars that I want to talk about then I expected - namely, and I can't believe this skipped my mind earlier, that the most adorable director in all of the land Spike Jonze won a statue! Hooray! Look at that look he gives the camera at the end, with the head nod - that is pure unadulterated sex, delivered straight into my bloodstream. It's making me lightheaded even now. Also making me light-headed...

... apparently Spike has an Instagram account. I can't even believe I didn't know this. And he posted that shirtless picture a couple of weeks ago asking, "Who wore it better?" Does anybody know who the other dude is? Anyway since he asked...

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poll by twiigs.com

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Don't let me down, people. Anyway back to the Oscars - obviously Spike made the rounds last night and there were cameras and he was kissing everybody...

... he could get his lips on so after the jump,

  a gallery of Spike Jonze being adorable at the Oscars. 

Spike Jonze + Greta Gerwig + Arcade Fire

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Excuse me whilst I go gather up 

the pieces of my brain from the floor. (via)

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And Now Another, Her

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Busy day for trailers - first we got Fassy in linen pants getting in deep and now the new Spike Jonze joint - Her stars Joaquin Phoenix as a man who falls in love with a computer operating system. It co-stars Amy Adams and Rooney Mara and Chris Pratt (so happy Chris Pratt is becoming a thing), as well as the voice of Scarlett Johansson as the computer (who recently replaced Samantha Morton, sad face). This is Jonze's first full-length film since making my favorite film of 2009 Where the Wild Things Are (as an aside, Where the Wild Things Are is showing at MoMA this weekend, I must go). 

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Her will be out in November. I am begging, begging, begging, for it to play the New York Film Fest. Begging. How good does it look? I am already in love with this movie, I swear. When was the last time we saw Joaquin smile so much? And the colors! Oh and the soundtrack is from Arcade Fire. Must have want need dying for this inside of me.

I Am Link

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--- Horror Show - Hey look over here's a chat with Bryan Fuller about Hannibal, which is so close I can practically taste it. (Mmmm fleshy.) April 4th, y'all! He tweeted that picture from the set last night of himself with stars Hugh Dancy and Mads Mikkelsen (oh and a corpse dangling from antlers, natch), saying they're just about done shooting the entirety of the first season. I only got to visit the set one time, boo. Well here's to hoping we get tons more seasons and I can go back.

--- End Sooner - Edgar Wright tells us via Twitter the good news - The World's End, his third film with Simon Pegg and Nick Frost following Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz, is going to hit the US a couple of months earlier than expected - it'll be out on August 23rd.

--- Winter Treatise - Our pal Sean chatted with a Game of Thrones writer about the upcoming season and its adherence, or lack thereof, to the corresponding book. If you read between the lines, let's just say... Reek, right? Reek.

--- Here Comes Trouble - I'm gonna sneak a little music news in here, just cuz - Pitchfork has some info on The National's new album, including its cover which you can see there to the right. It's called Trouble Will Find Me and it's set to come out in May. There's also a doc about them that will be opening up the Tribeca Film Fest. We love The National! We're seeing a collaboration between one of the band's members and Sufjan Stevens in Brooklyn this weekend, about which we are pants-wettingly enthusiastic.

--- Fired Up - Also in music news - Arcade Fire is working on a new album right this minute! Well maybe not right this actual minute, it's still sort of early in the day in NYC for that sort of thing. But probably later today, and tomorrow, and so on until they're done! (thx Mac)

--- We Fight Hard - When you label something as "ninja on ninja action" and one of said ninjas is possibly played by our big-time crush Lee Byung-hun, then you'd better deliver what I am thinking of. This clip does not deliver what I was thinking of.
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--- Mars Landing - If you want some details on the Veronica Mars movie that we paid for - you have paid some, right? RIGHT? - then head on over to The Playlist, where they've rounded up some of what Rob Thomas has had to say on the subject. I am still getting such a thrill writing "the Veronica Mars movie" and knowing it's a thing. A thing!!!

--- The Other Man - Bridesmaids adorable Chris O'Dowd apparently has a cameo in the second Thor movie, but it's him on a date with Natalie Portman and not him on a date with Chris Hemsworth, so nobody cares.

--- Sunny Side Benedict - I haven't watched the new Cumberbatch-centric Star Trek Into Darkness trailer but it's right here so's you and I can do that when we do that. I was just tempted to write "Yo Gabba Gabba Cumberbatch" and I have no idea where that came from but let's pretend it never happened.
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--- Start Good - Here's a list of what Film.com calls The 50 Greatest Opening Scenes Of All Time, although I'd say "All Time" is a misnomer because I don't see anything B.C. up on there.

--- Bigger Ben - We don't know much about it except it's called Silk Road and it's a thriller in the vein of The Prisoner, but British horror director Ben Wheatley - he made Kill List and Sightseers - is setting up a tv show at HBO. Don't trust the execs there, Ben! They're Enlightened-murdering monsters!

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I Am Link

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--- Put A Pin It It - Hooray it's that time of the year when my most trusted poster-fetishist gets to work naming the best and worst movie posters of the year! That'd be Glenn at Stale Popcorn, whose eye is unerring. First up he's given us his top 50 best posters of 2012 and there are a bunch o' beauts - indeed I'd never seen a lot of them and now my eyes are positively buzzing. Like that one there for Killing Them Softly, which I just reviewed yesterday - gorgeous!

--- The Actor - We were just bitching that Nicole Kidman weren't getting no love for her crazy work in The Paperboy, and today the SAG nominations come out and she's nominated for Best Supporting Actress - coincidence? You tell me! Also a nom for Javier Bardem in Skyfall! (For Supporting Actor, not Actress, you scamp.) Unfortunately they also nommed Helen Mirrren, so it's not all rainbows.

--- Best Song - And since it's all awards-talk all the time these days, you can read Nat's take on the narrowed down list of Oscar possible songs over at The Film Experience - we could have Arcade Fire and Karen O on that stage, so all is not lost. (Sigh, they'll never make it.)

--- Boo Babs - Barbara Hershey will also be back in the second Insidious film, meaning its pretty much the entire cast from the first one up in there. (Hopefully less of those ghost-puppet people, though.) Anyway can't wait! I love the way Barbara's botox strains for screaming.

--- Bat Free Zone - I might praise Richard Corliss for putting Amour and Dark Horse in his top ten for the year at Time (indeed Haneke's film is his number one!) but the good stuff is equalized by a number five placement for The Dark Knight Rises, which just is not acceptable. Do you hear me, all you list-makers out there? Putting TDKR on your top ten instantly invaldates everything else. So says I.

--- For Score - Clint Mansell is probably my favorite movie composer right now - I was rewatching Moon the other day and got lost in the music. I am seeing him perform next year! Super excited about that. Anyway his work with Darren Aronofsky is impeccable, so I'm psyched to hear he's going to do the music for Noah. Perhaps he will play some for us in April!

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Spike in the Suburbs

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He'll hate me for sharing this, but I was sitting on the couch last night, innocently minding my own business, when from across the room and behind his computer my boyfriend announced, "Spike Jonze is so cute." And naturally I agreed, and we took a moment to allow our hearts to flutter. Aww. Adorable.  Spike Jonze is adorable! Anyway here's the trailer for his collaboration with the band Arcade Fire, called Scenes From the Suburbs. (via)

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The National Arcade Fire Start A War

Like the title says. Here's The National's Matt Berninger and Arcade Fire's Win Butler singing "Start a War" from their show last night in Chicago. Oh, to have been there! (via)

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Quote of the Day

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Pitchfork chatted with Win Butler of Arcade Fire a little bit about the upcoming film version of their Grammy-winning album The Suburbs, called Scenes From the Suburbs, directed by Spike Jonze, and about that Grammy win:

Pitchfork: Some people are saying that Grammy moment could mark a turning point in music culture. As someone who's actually in the band, do you even think about stuff like that?

Win Butler: Sometimes. I basically think of everything in terms of Radiohead, and I do remember when Radiohead's OK Computer lost Album of the Year to Bob Dylan. So I think it's a meaningful for people who are into music right now-- I would be excited if a band I liked won a Grammy. We'll see if people remember it half a generation from now.

I think that the sentence "I basically think of everything in terms of Radiohead" might be the finest bit of advice ever given, in words.

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I Am Link

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--- Feet Hot From the Pavement - Pitchfork has a little bit more info on Spike Jonze's thirty-minute film Scenes From the Suburbs based off the music of Arcade Fire's latest album, including that poster for it right there. It's still set to screen at the Berlin Film Festival this month.

--- Coffy Kick Ass - I keep forgetting that RZA and Eli Roth are making a martial arts movie together. Roth's producing, that is. New word has Pam motherfuckin' Grier having joined the cast. Hell yes. I wish the Lady Grier would work more often, I always love watching her on-screen. I need to watch Jackie Brown again sometime soon is what I need to do.

--- Ready Set Magic - Over at The Film Experience Nat's interview with The King's Speech production designer Eve Stewart is a wonderful read - if there's one element of TKS which I get the praise for it's her work, which was gorgeous. Indeed, that wall! And did we know that Gwyneth Paltrow's trying to play Marlene Dietrich for an HBO film? I don't think I knew that.

--- Spankin' Amos - If you haven't seen them yet, the blooper reel for Burlesque is online and it includes extra footage of Cam Gigandet's cookie dance.

--- Blue Eyes Black - Several new shots of Jake in Duncan Jones' Source Code can be seen here. He seems suitably intense.

--- Stake Rare - The director of the gloriously entertaining Orphan is turning his eye to Harker, a script that turns the character in Bram Stoker's Dracula (I mean the book, not Keanu Reeves) from a real-estate broker into a Sherlock Holmes type on Drac's tail. Mkay.

--- Tripper Man - I honestly can't even keep up with James Franco's shenanigans anymore - I read this a couple weeks ago when he was doing the shtick at Sundance and forgot about it but I guess his "art performance" of dramatic takes on Three's Company episodes actually might turn into something more. Good grief.

--- Doctor Spaceman - There are approximately fifty billion pictures from Paul, Simon Pegg and Nick Frost's alien buddy comedy, right here. And I can't find the link this morning but I saw an early review somewhere the other day that mentioned the film is heavy on "Christian bashing," which naturally has made me even more excited for it. Bring it on.

--- Iron Lady - You have seen the picture of Meryl Streep as Margaret Thatcher by now, right? It glimmers with the promise of a little gold man, doesn't it?

--- Pink Bunkadoo - Time Bandits is one of my boyfriend's favorite movies ever so this link's for him: this poster for Gilliam's classic was created for a screening this weekend in Toronto, and it is a lovely thing to behold, isn't it? And if you're up there in Toronto you can win a copy - there are only ten in the world.

--- Hobbit Ho - I don't think they should be so vocal about a start-date for The Hobbit's filming - March 21st, if you haven't seen - since horrible horrible things keep piling up every time we think it's going to start. You're jinxing yourselves! You've obviously just got to film this little thing on the sly, without preparation.
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We Were Already, Already Bored

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Do music videos sometimes help you fall for music that you've been having a tough time with? By the time it'd been out a month or so I liked Arcade Fire's latest album The Suburbs but I wasn't head-over-heels for it, which was making me a little sad since I liked their previous album Neon Bible so much. I had love to give! And it wasn't connecting. Well then along came Spike Jonze's music video for the title track and it was a revelation. His images shuffled the right tone into place and ever since the album's slowly but surely stepped up my playlist. It's on all the time. So this news via Pitchfork is sounding mighty fine to me:

"When Ryan Dombal spoke to Arcade Fire's Win Butler last August, Butler mentioned "a science-fiction B-movie companion piece" to last year's album The Suburbs made in collaboration with filmmaker Spike Jonze. We saw part of that project in the video for the album's title track. But now, Consequence of Sound reports that the full film, titled Scenes From the Suburbs, will debut at the Berlin International Film Festival, taking place February 10-20 in (where else?) Berlin, Germany.

A press release for Berlinale Shorts, the category in which the film is set to appear, states the following about the film: "Spike Jonze expands the music video into a film without abandoning the structure of a clip. The future has become reality. And the threat lies in the proximity of the military. Memories of a past summer."

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Spike Does The Suburbs

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I Am Link

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--- Just Drawn That Way - PopWrap posted a clip from Neil Marshall Centurion today but more importantly also posted that image there of a cartoon Michael Fassbender, which I'd not seen before. Good grief the shameful dirty thoughts I'm now having over a drawing... is there more? Is there a comic? I haven't seen a comic! I want a comic!

--- We Are Sex Bob-omb - Adult Swim is doing some promotional animation for Scott Pilgrim - they're animating a scene from the comics that didn't get into the movie - and you can see the first bit of that right here.

--- Hipster Paradise - Spike Jonze and Arcade Fire are teaming up to make a science-fiction short film in Austin, and there's a little slice on info on it at that link. It's got to do with Arcade Fire's new album, which has taken up a hefty portion of my brain this week. Exhibit A.

--- Farley Forever - There's never a bad moment to stop and smell the Farley Granger. (via Nat)

--- Beaver Everywhere - Kyle Gallner has just joined the cast of Kevin Smith's looooong talked about horror movie Red State - that title seemed clever back when I first heard it around the time of the 2004 elections and everyone was paying attention to red versus blue states - putting Mr. Gallner in yet another horror film after a steady stream o' scares. Jennifer's Body, the Elm Street remake, Jack Ketchum's Red, The Haunting in Connecticut. Beaver's come a long, creepy way from Neptune!
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Dick On The Box

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I just went through every post I've done on Richard Kelly's next flick The Box to see when it was the first time I heard about the movie being made - and if you know of A) my style of "post the shit out of every tiny morsel of news that's revealed" on the things that obsess me, as this film surely is, as well as B) how long this movie's been delayed for since inception, then you know that was a lot of things to look through - and found out that it was way back in July 0f 2006. Right here. I'd forgotten this but it had supposedly started as a sort-of-collaboration between Kelly and Eli Roth, which appropriately blew my mind back when. Roth was supposed to do the film first and... didn't. Kelly took it over. Made it his own. Cut to three full years later... and the flick still hasn't come out.

But come out it shall! Or say they promise. It's got a release date of October 30th and Richard seems very very happy with where things stand right now judging from this great new interview with him over at AICN. I highly recommend reading it if you've fetishized the Donnie Darko director even a tenth of the amount I have - believe me, a tenth is enough for any sane person to handle. He talks about all sorta of shit, from the technical aspects of what he's accomplished - he mentions that he was trying to make the film look like vintage Polanski, which swoon - to how he took Richard Matheson's short-story "Button Button" on which the film is based and broadened it by taking a whole slew of his own personal history and mashing the two together.

He brings up the trailer - which apparently will be hitting online within the next week, yay! - which leads to him bringing up the film's score, which you may recall has been created by a collaboaration between Arcade Fire and Final Fantasy:

"Kelly: ... It was a long, long courtship to get them to do it. The score from the trailer is not them. It's sort of trailer score, you know?

AICN: And this is the score that will be on the final trailer?

Kelly: Yes, I believe so. Just so you know that, when you hear the score, it's not Win and Regine. You've probably heard the trailer score before. But in a weird way, when you're trying to broadly market a film... I don't question the science of it. Because they do have it down to a science. But the score that [Win, Regine and Owen] did is very Bernard Herrmann. It's very lush. They did eighty minutes of score.

AICN: Really? Depending on the run time of the movie, that's a lot. Did you let them score long passages of the film?

Kelly: There's a sequence in the library with no dialogue for four minutes that's all music. It's a very score-heavy film. And there's pop songs in it, too. We have Eric Clapton, Grateful Dead, Wilson Pickett, Scott Walker and The Marshall Tucker Band. It's Virginia 1976, so I wanted to have that Southern Rock flavor.

(Laughs) I'm just grateful to have a film coming out on more than fifty screens with a marketing budget of more than $300,000."

Yeah no kidding, Richard. Being a fan of his work is exhausting - looking through all the posts I've done on him only proved that I similarly went through years of anguished anticipation for Southland Tales release and, well, we know how that went. Not that I haven't developed a healthy appreciation for that flick. But he sounds positive, as if the studio's finally getting behind him and the film now.

Also, I wanted to add that he talks a great deal about Frank Langella's character in The Box, and his appearance - apparently they digitally removed a third of his face! I was wondering why we'd seen so little of Langella in the admittedly scant press materials released so far.


So a trailer within a week, y'all! Exciting! And Kelly's all set to show some shit at ComiCon too. And hopefully the release date stays put. This time. For the love of god.
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Show Me Your Box

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Richard Kelly took to his MySpace blog to give some info on where his Marsden-Diaz flick The Box stands right now. Here are the choice bits:

"- WB is releasing the film on October 30, 2009. The release date has been shuffling around a bit, but this is common with studios, and everyone feels like this is the best date for the film.

- The film was digitally photographed using the Panavision Genesis camera. In my audio commentary on Tony Scott's Domino, I mentioned that I would never shoot a 1970s period piece using a digital camera. My position on this changed when I saw David Fincher's extraordinary Zodiac. It can be done.

- Win Butler, Regine Chassagne (of Arcade Fire) and Owen Pallett (Final Fantasy, frequent collaborator with Arcade Fire) recorded more than 80 minutes of score for the film.

This is my most personal film to date, and I'm very proud of how it turned out."

Win Butler already told the world about having done the score back in January, but it's nice to have further confirmation via the lips of pretty-boy wunderkind director Kelly as well.
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Where The Wild Trailer Is

Thank Spike Almighty the Where the Wild Things trailer is here at last! Watch it over at Apple. And here's a slew o' the screen-grabs per my usual racket.

This trailer is gonna make me cry.
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