Where the Wild Things

Where the Wild Things Are is an upcoming 2009 film adaptation of the Maurice Sendak 1963 children's book of the same name. The film is directed by Spike Jonze and written by Jonze and Dave Eggers. The film combines live action, suitmation, animatronics, and CGI. Its release is currently scheduled for October 16, 2009. The film concerns the imaginary adventures of a young boy named Max (Max Records), who is angry when his mother, Connie (Catherine Keener), invites her boyfriend over. After causing one mischievous antic after another, he is sent to his room without supper. Feeling angry and unloved, he then creates a forest bordering a massive ocean, and sails away to an island inhabited by many imaginary monsters called the Wild Things, who crown him as their ruler.

Where the Wild Things Are was originally set for release from Universal, and a teaser of the film was attached to the 2000 film The Grinch. However, disagreements between Universal and Jonze led him to take the film to Warner Bros.

Filming began in April 2006 at Central City Studios in Melbourne, Australia. According to Jonze, most of the film was shot with a handheld camera in order to compliment the "evocative" "other-worldly" feel of the film. Adam Keenan and John Nolan are responsible for the animatronics. The film is currently in post-production.

The cast includes Catherine Keener, Max Records, James Gandolfini, Angus Sampson, Forest Whitaker, Lauren Ambrose, Catherine O'Hara and Paul Dano.

The seven creatures are portrayed by actors in suits up to nine feet tall made of foam, with computer-generated faces.

The film score is written by film composer Carter Burwell and Karen O of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs with songs by Arcade Fire.

On February 20, 2008, rumors emerged that Warner Bros. was considering reshooting the entire film.Producer Gary Goetzman responded, "We support Spike's vision. We're helping him make the vision he wants to make." Academy Award winning make-up effects supervisor Howard Berger (The Chronicles of Narnia) turned down offers to work on the film four times. Although the book inspired him as a child to work in special effects, he felt filming it was a "horrible idea".

Cast

• Catherine Keener as Connie, Max's Mother
• Mark Ruffalo as Connie's boyfriend
• Max Records as Max
• Lauren Ambrose as KW (voice)
• James Gandolfini as Carol (voice)
• Catherine O'Hara as Judith (voice)
• Forest Whitaker as Ira (voice)
• Tom Noonan as Douglas (voice)
• Paul Dano as Alexander (voice)
• Steve Mouzakis as Mr. Elliott
• Angus Sampson (role unknown

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The Boat That Rocked

The Boat That Rocked is an ensemble comedy film, released in the UK on 1 April 2009. Set in 1966, it tells a story about a fictitious pirate radio station broadcasting from a ship to the United Kingdom. The film was written and directed by Richard Curtis and made by Working Title Films for Universal Pictures. Principal photography started on 4 March 2008 on location off the southern English coast and ended in June 2008.

Carl (Tom Sturridge) arrives on the pirate radio ship, Radio Rock, after being sent to stay with the ship's Captain, his godfather, Quentin (Bill Nighy), to hopefully set his life on a different track after being expelled from school. Here he meets Radio Rock's crew of ramshackle disc jockeys, led by The Count (Philip Seymour Hoffman), a buoyant rock-loving American, along with the suave and bawdy Dave (Nick Frost) and the naive but good hearted Simon (Chris O'Dowd). Also filling the airwaves is self proclaimed New Zealand "nut," Angus (Rhys Darby), the mysterious Midnight Mark (Tom Wisdom) and the even more mysterious and downright disillusioned Smooth Bob (Ralph Brown). Serving as the ship's crew are the shy lesbian cook Felicity (Katherine Parkinson) and radio assistants, Harold (Ike Hamilton) and the appropriately nick-named Thick Kevin (Tom Brooke).

Dave wastes no time in introducing Carl to women, only for both of Carl's attempts to be foiled by Dave himself, including Carl's first crush, Quentin's niece, Marianne (Talulah Riley), although, by the end of the film, Carl and Marianne make up and get together. Simon also is unlucky in love, meeting and marrying the too-good-to-be-true Elenore (January Jones) only to find her affections are really placed with the returning "king of the airwaves", Gavin (Rhys Ifans). The Count objects to Gavin's antics with Elenore, leading to a clash of egos that ends in a truce after both suffer physical injuries jumping from the top of the ship's radio mast.

Radio Rock's controversial on-air antics have ruffled the feathers of a government minister, Dormandy, (Kenneth Branagh), who instructs his subordinate Twatt (Jack Davenport) to find a way to take down pirate radio, despite its popularity among the pop hungry masses. After a couple of attempts to deprive the station of advertising funding backfire, Twatt encounters a news-story of a fishing boat whose call for help failed to get through because of Radio Rock's powerful signal swamping the frequency and realises that this can be used to ban pirate radio for good. He proposes the creation of the Maritime Offences Act, which passes through Parliament without any shown opposition.

With the Act due to come into force, the crew of Radio Rock choose to defy the act, for various different personal reasons, and continue to broadcast. Twatt leads a group of boats out into the North Sea to board the pirate ship and arrest the crew, only to find a fishing vessel moored there instead. Quentin has given the order to fire up the ship's aging engines and move their position. Unfortunately, the strain proved too much for the decrepid boat, which begins to sink. The DJs broadcast their position, but Dormandy forbids Twatt from sending out rescue craft. Fortunately, many fans have also heard the broadcast and come to rescue the crew from the sinking ship.

Cast

• Philip Seymour Hoffman as The Count, "a big, brash, American god of the airwaves"
• Bill Nighy as Quentin, the radio station's boss
• Rhys Ifans as Gavin, Star DJ
• Nick Frost as Dr. Dave, DJ
• Katherine Parkinson as Felicity, the lesbian cook
• Tom Sturridge as Young Carl, Quentin's godson
• Tom Brooke as 'Thick' Kevin, Carl's cabin-mate
• Chris O'Dowd as Breakfast DJ Simon Stafford
• Rhys Darby as Angus Knutsford, DJ
• Will Adamsdale as newsreader John
• Tom Wisdom as 'Midnight' Mark, DJ
• Ralph Brown as Bob 'the Dawn Treader', DJ
• Kenneth Branagh as Minister Dormandy (a loose parody of then-Postmaster General Tony Benn), who aims to shut the station down
• Jack Davenport as Twatt, a civil servant
• Emma Thompson as Charlotte, Carl's mother
• Talulah Riley as Marianne, Quentin's niece
• January Jones as Elenore
• Gemma Arterton as Desiree
• Sinead Matthews as Miss C
• Stephen Moore as the Prime Minister. (Harold Wilson was Prime Minister in 1966.)
• Olegar Fedoro as the Rock Boat Captain

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Planet 51

Planet 51 is an upcoming animated film directed by Jorge Blanco and written by Joe Stillman. It will be projected in RealD 3-D in select theaters. Produced by Madrid-based Ilion Animation Studios and HandMade Films for $60 million, it was acquired for US distribution by New Line Cinema in November 2007. As of 9 July 2008, Planet 51 is slated to be released in the second half of 2009 by Sony Pictures Worldwide via TriStar Pictures.

The film follows a human astronaut named Chuck (Dwayne Johnson) who lands on Planet 51 thinking he's the first to set foot on it. However, he discovers it's inhabited by little green people who live in a white picket-fenced world reminiscent of 1950s America.

Cast

• Dwayne Johnson as Captain Charles 'Chuck' Baker
• Justin Long as Lem
• Seann William Scott as Skiff
• Jessica Biel as Neera
• Gary Oldman as General Grawl
• John Cleese as Professer Kipple

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Armored

Armored is an upcoming 2009 American crime thriller film directed by Nimród Antal, written by first time screenwriter James V. Simpson, and starring Columbus Short and Matt Dillon. It is set to be released on September 18, 2009. It has been rated PG-13 by the MPAA for sequences of intense violence, some disturbing images and brief strong language.

A young armored car guard named 'Ty' (Columbus Short) is persuaded by his veteran cohorts to empty a truck of its $42 million cargo.

Cast

• Columbus Short
• Matt Dillon
• Laurence Fishburne
• Jean Reno
• Skeet Ulrich
• Fred Ward
• Milo Ventimiglia
• Amaury Nolasco

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