Spike Jonze Articles

Lance Bangs and Spike Jonze's Tell Them Anything You Want: A Portrait of Maurice Sendak and Agnès Varda's Les plages d'Agnès / The Beaches of Agnès (above) will be screened as the next installment in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ 29th annual “Contemporary Documentaries” series on Wednesday, November 3, at 7 p.m. at the Linwood Dunn Theater in Hollywood. Admission to all [...]

George Clooney in Up in the Air (Dale Robinette / Paramount) The Indiana Film Journalists Association — I hadn't heard of this group before — have also announced their list of winners. (Four of the Association's nine members can be found at The Film Yap. I hadn't heard about them because this is their first year giving out awards.) Will it influence the Oscars? Not [...]

2009 Indiana Film Journalists Association Awards 2009 Indiana Film Journalists Winners   Vera Farmiga, George Clooney in Up in the Air (Dale Robinette / Paramount)   Best Film: Up in the Air Runner-up: Fantastic Mr. Fox Other Finalists: (500) Days of Summer, District 9, The Hurt Locker, Julie & Julia, Moon, Nine, Up, Where the Wild Things Are Best Foreign Language Film: Sin Nombre Runner-up: [...]

Sony Pictures’ Michael Jackson documentary This Is It prevailed at the North American box office this weekend, with $21.3 million in ticket sales, according to studio estimates Sunday. The Kenny Ortega-directed film opened at 3,481 locations Wednesday, bagging $11.1 million in two days. The domestic total of This Is It currently stands at a solid $32.5 million. Most of the film's footage was shot in [...]