“where the wild things are” trailer released!

This is going to be all over the internet in a few hours, but I love it so much I don’t care. I’ve been a major fan of Spike Jonze for years, ever since his amazing vid for Björk’s “It’s Oh So Quiet.” Now the first official trailer for Jonze’s crazily-anticipated “Where The Wild Things Are” was released online on Apple today, following an airing this morning on “The Ellen DeGeneres Show.”

I grew up reading Maurice Sendak’s legendary childhood mainstay, and as an adult it’s seriously trippy to see it so beautifully realized on film. The imagination running through the movie is going to be just as genuine as it was in the book.

Last week the interwebs freaked out over the pure awesomeness of the movie poster, but this trailer is too much to handle. Epic. This movie is gonna be amazing!

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Via Cinematical. Trailer via Trailer Addict.

michel gondry + leos carax + bong joon-ho: tokyo!

There is too much goodness here going on for me to handle. I would see anything Michel Gondry touches, because I basically worship him, but add in Leos Carax and Bong Joon-ho and this just totally blows me away.

The film’s site hands over one of the greatest film synposes of all time:

“In ‘TOKYO!’, three of the world’s greatest filmmakers come together for an omnibus triptych examining the nature of one unforgettable city as it’s shaped by the disparate people who work, live (and even run amok!) inside one enormous, constantly evolving, densely populated Japanese megalopolis – the ravishing and inimitable Tokyo. Triptych, rhapsody, psychogeography, urban valentine, freak show, mindwalk and many other things, ‘TOKYO!’ is a fantasy in three movements that will make you see one of the world’s greatest cities – if not any cities – in unpredictable new ways.”

Holy shit. You can’t tell me you don’t want to see this.

“the adventures of tintin: the secret of the unicorn” begins production…

When I was 8 there were only two things that really mattered to me: Super Mario and Tintin.

I could count time in Tintins. The drive to my grandparents house was equivalent to the time it took to read four Tintins. As a unit of measurement, this reads as 4 TTs. Flight to Montréal: 7 TTs. The wait from the time I woke up on Christmas morning until the time I was allowed to wake up my parents at 8:00am: 10 TTs. The time it will take me to write this post: approx 0.4 TTs.

When I was 22 I went to Europe for the first time, and as soon as I got to Belgium  (home of Hergé, Tintin’s creator, and a country where Tintin is as universally iconic and loved as Superman is in North America), I went right to Brussels. In case you’re wondering, Brussels is Tintin-central. I went to the Tintin Museum, the Tintin store and amassed a large amount of quality European Tintin souvenirs, including the replica of the Cold War-era rocket from “Destination Moon.” Yes, I’m a fanboy.

I’ve been following the buzz about the upcoming Tintin feature film for a few years and now that it’s finally coming to fruition I don’t think it could be in better hands.  Paramount and Sony announced this week that principal photography has begun on “The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of  the Unicorn.” A combination of the plots from the original “The Secret of The Unicorn” and “Red Rackham’s Treasure”, the film (get this…) is being directed by Steven Spielberg, produced by Spielberg,  Peter Jackson (that’s right, Peter muthafucking Jackson) and Kathleen Kennedy, and shot in 3-D motion capture by the geniuses at Jackson’s own Weta Digital.  Epic. These men are titans in this genre. This movie. Will be. The shit.

Plus, there’s a scene where Tintin drives around in a submarine shaped like a shark. I can’t wait to see what Spielberg does with that. What else do you need, really?

Jamie Bell (best known for “Billy Elliott”) is playing Tintin, Daniel Craig is playing the pirate Red Rackham, and Andy Serkis (Golum from the “Lord of the Rings” films) is Captain Haddock. I understand that if you’ve never read Tintin this means nothing to you. However, if you did and love it as much as I do, then this news will trigger a wave of old skool nostalgia and fits of euro-comic giddiness.

The option is up for two more films to follow (the second, reportedly, to be directed by Jackson). It’s not clear yet if the first movie will cover just “The Secret of The Unicorn”, with the planned sequel moving into “Red Rackham’s Treasure”, or if the first film will blend them both. IMDB lists the release date as 2010, but most media sources are saying 2011. Either is too far away.

Thanks to Harry for the info.