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For $750 You Can Pretend to Be Spike Jonze Directing the Beastie Boys

Personally, I’d rather play Chris Cunningham directing Aphex Twin, but it’s probably for the best I’ll never get that opportunity. If you have $750 knocking around, the Beastie Boys are selling their three 11.5-inch figurines from their latest music video. The money will be donated to two charities, the Pablove Foundation and Alex’s Lemonade Stand.…

Tech News Kat Hannaford Aug 2

New Beastie Boys Video Is an Action Figure Orgy of Violence, Action, and Explosions

Your average rap video, this is not! In the 11-minute course of Don’t Play No Game That I Can’t Win, the plasticized trio gets shot at, shoots back, escapes in a submarine, takes Santigold waterskiing, and kills many bad guys. The stupendous Spike Jonze video will please anyone who enjoyed Team America, likes toys murdering…

Tech News Sam Biddle Jul 19

The first Total Recall reboot set photos reveal the police of the future! Plus see an extreme closeup of the new Spider-Man costume!

New Man of Steel set photos reveal all’s not peaceful in Smallville. Joe Johnston explains the heart of Captain America. A Shaun of the Dead star joins Snow White and the Huntsman. Plus the Evil Dead reboot is really happening! It’s spoilers all the way down! Top image from The Hobbit. Amazing Spider-Man Want to…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins Jul 14

Watch Spike Jonze and the Arcade Fire’s 30-minute dystopian movie, Scenes From The Suburbs

Remember The Suburbs, the totalitarian-urban-sprawl music video collaboration between Being John Malkovich’s Spike Jonze and indie darlings Arcade Fire? Now you can watch a much longer companion piece, Scenes from the Suburbs. Growing up sucks in a police state. https://gizmodo.com/two-futures-decades-apart-arcade-fires-suburbs-vs-ru-5760333 Here’s the synopsis from Mubi (where you can also watch it): Director Spike Jonze teams…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Jun 28

Spike Jonze’s suburban apocalypse music video

Arcade Fire collaborated with Spike Jonze to create this weird, moving portrait of suburban life slowly going to hell as the military rounds people up. I’ve never seen anyone successfully create a wistful apocalyptic tone the way Jonze does here. Arcade Fire’s indie rock soundscape perfectly compliments Jonze’s images of bored, innocently destructive teens in…

io9 Annalee Newitz Nov 19

Arcade Fire making a science fiction “B movie” with Spike Jonze

Arcade Fire’s new album’s generating tons of excitement, but we’re more stoked about their collaborations with genre film’s leading lights. Spike Jonze is directing their science fiction short film, and Terry Gilliam’s directing the webcast of their August 5 concert. Arcade Fire’s Win Butler describes the Spike Jonze project in an interview with Pitchfork: It’s…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders Aug 3

Watch Spike Jonze’s Robot Love Fable “I’m Here” Online

In Spike Jonze’s 30-minute short movie “I’m Here,” two adorable robots fall for each other…and fall apart for each other. You can now watch the entire flick online. Just don’t be surprised if your optical circuits begin leaking tear formula. We previously noted that I’m Here had made its debut at Sundance. Since then, this…

Movies Cyriaque Lamar Mar 27

Watch Robot Boy Meet Robot Girl in Spike Jonze’s I’m Here

I’ve been excited for Spike Jonze’s I’m Here ever since the trailer hit, and today the beautifully produced, 30-minute film is finally available for viewing online. But you’re gonna need to hurry if you want to watch it today. https://gizmodo.com/spike-jonzes-short-film-shows-us-that-robots-handle-the-5454011 I’m Here, sponsored by Absolut Vodka but free of any distracting product placement, originally debuted…

Movies Brian Barrett Mar 19

Jonze’s Sweet Robot Romance, Boll’s Next Pic, And Sherlock Holmes’ Dino Caper

We’ve got a grab bag of crazy for you this week at Cult. Spike Jonze is back and ladling out the hipster love in his new short I’m Here. Plus, meet a tire named Robert who wants to murder you. I’m Here Spike Jonze is back on the big screen with the Sundance premiere of…

Movies Meredith Woerner Jan 24

Spike Jonze’s Short Film Shows Us That Robots Handle Their Relationship Problems Just Like We Do

By getting drunk. Spike Jonze latest project I’m Here, a 30-minute tale about the ups and downs of robot love, is set to premier at the Sundance Film Festival. It’s also being used in an ad campaign for Absolute Vodka. Click to view Fast Company discusses the film with executive producers Mark Figliulio and Matt…

Movies Sean Fallon Jan 21

The Secret Connection Between Highlander And Duran Duran

Long before directors like Spike Jonze and Michel Gondry made the jump from music videos to movies, Russell Mulcahy innovated on MTV and directed Highlander. What would movies even look like without him? Mulcahy is still around and still directing movies — he directed Resident Evil: Extinction, which was a much, much better film than…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders Oct 27

If Rob Zombie Had Adapted “Where the Wild Things Are”

Spike Jonze‘s Where the Wild Things Are is an indie rock meditation on childhood fears, but what if there had been a different director at the helm? G4 shows us Rob Zombie‘s gory, apocalyptic vision for the beloved children’s book. [G4 via Metafilter]

io9 Lauren Davis Oct 23

Kanye Vs. Stomach Demon Is Our New Wild Things

How do you follow up a successful movie adaptation of a beloved kids’ book that’s a surprise smash success? If you’re Spike Jonze, you release a short movie online about Kanye West‘s inner demon… literally. The 11-minute movie, We Were Once A Fairytale, was supposed to have been released last month but only hit the…

io9 Graeme McMillan Oct 19

The Wild Things Don’t Really Love You

Spike Jonze is known for making uncomfortable films — I still can’t think about the ending of Being John Malkovitch without squirming — but Where The Wild Things Are may be his coldest comfort yet. Major spoilers below… Let’s get this out of the way right away: Jonze’s Wild Things is only an adaptation of…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Oct 16

Maurice Sendak To Concerned Parents: Go To Hell!

If you’re worried about taking your kids to see Where The Wild Things Are after reports of crying children having to leave screenings of the rough cut, halfway through, then Maurice Sendak has a message for you: “Go to hell.” http://defamer.gawker.com/358585/where-the-wild-things-are-test-screenings-are-making-children-cry A story in the Oct. 19 Newsweek contains this classic exchange: What do you…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Oct 12

The One “Wild Things” Change That Bothered Maurice Sendak

When Spike Jonze and Dave Eggers set about adapting Where The Wild Things Are into a movie, Maurice Sendak encouraged them to take a free hand and change stuff. But Eggers and Jonze tell us one change made Sendak nervous. This feature definitely includes some spoilers for the movie version of Where The Wild Things…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders Oct 1

Wild Things’ Biggest Flaw Revealed: The $610 Overgrown Child Suit

I’ve been supremely cautious about getting excited about Spike Jonze‘s Wild Things film because whenever I get excited about a piece of indy pop culture, crap like this happens. Witness badvertising at its height: a man-child suit, costing just $610. It even forgot the whiskers and the crown! This whole incredibly overpriced fiasco just makes…

Movies Meredith Woerner Sep 29

Dazzling Behind The Scenes Shots With Spike Jonze’s Wild Things

Get so close to Spike Jonze‘s live-action Carol beastie, you can see the pores on his giant monster nose, in our massive collection of Where The Wild Things Are stills and behind the scenes shots. In other Wild Things news the entire soundtrack can be streamed at imeem. God help me I keep singing the…

Movies Meredith Woerner Sep 29

Wild Things Video Game Cuts Into Your Childhood Like A Skinned Knee

We’re all for imaginative takes on past childhood delights, so we’re primed to sob like toddlers when Where The Wild Things Are comes out. But the video-game trailer screams “money-making tie-in” so hard, it sucks the charm right out.

Movies Meredith Woerner Sep 23

4 Wild Thing Monster Close Ups Will Melt Your Beastly Heart

A pack of new character posters from Spike Jonze‘s Wild Things shoot rainbows and hot chocolate out of their warm, stuffed-animal eyes. It’s a rarity that something with horns and fangs can radiate so much warmth, even without a soundtrack. James Gandolfini voices the mighty Carol while Catherine O’Hara speaks for Judith and KW is…

Movies Meredith Woerner Sep 11

For $750 You Can Pretend to Be Spike Jonze Directing the Beastie Boys

New Beastie Boys Video Is an Action Figure Orgy of Violence, Action, and Explosions

The first Total Recall reboot set photos reveal the police of the future! Plus see an extreme closeup of the new Spider-Man costume!

Watch Spike Jonze and the Arcade Fire’s 30-minute dystopian movie, Scenes From The Suburbs

Spike Jonze’s suburban apocalypse music video

Arcade Fire making a science fiction “B movie” with Spike Jonze

Watch Spike Jonze’s Robot Love Fable “I’m Here” Online

Watch Robot Boy Meet Robot Girl in Spike Jonze’s I’m Here

Jonze’s Sweet Robot Romance, Boll’s Next Pic, And Sherlock Holmes’ Dino Caper

Spike Jonze’s Short Film Shows Us That Robots Handle Their Relationship Problems Just Like We Do

The Secret Connection Between Highlander And Duran Duran

If Rob Zombie Had Adapted “Where the Wild Things Are”

Kanye Vs. Stomach Demon Is Our New Wild Things

The Wild Things Don’t Really Love You

Maurice Sendak To Concerned Parents: Go To Hell!

The One “Wild Things” Change That Bothered Maurice Sendak

Wild Things’ Biggest Flaw Revealed: The $610 Overgrown Child Suit

Dazzling Behind The Scenes Shots With Spike Jonze’s Wild Things

Wild Things Video Game Cuts Into Your Childhood Like A Skinned Knee

4 Wild Thing Monster Close Ups Will Melt Your Beastly Heart

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