Where the Wild Things Are Articles

Saoirse Ronan in The Lovely Bones (Barry Wetcher / DreamWorks/Paramount) Avatar, Inglourious Basterds, The Lovely Bones, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, and The Hurt Locker are five of the fifteen nominated films in the Art Directors Guild's three categories for excellence in production design in 2009. The lists' most glaring absentee is Rob Marshall's elaborate musical Nine. In the fantasy category, joining Avatar and [...]

2009 Chicago Film Critics Association Awards 2009 Chicago Film Critics winners: Dec. 21, 2009 ("*" denotes the winner in each category)   Kathryn Bigelow's The Hurt Locker (Jonathan Olley / Summit Entertainment)   BEST PICTURE * The Hurt Locker Inglourious Basterds A Serious Man Up in the Air Where the Wild Things Are BEST FOREIGN-LANGUAGE FILM Broken Embraces Red Cliff Sin Nombre Summer Hours * [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]