Five new Where the Wild Things Are images

We've heard every bit of bad news about Spike Jonze's upcoming Where the Wild Things Are: the skepticism about making a story made up of no more than 10 sentences into a feature film, delays, terrified children in test audiences, etc. Still, most of us are excited. Maybe it's the gorgeous photos or the footage. It's probably Jonze himself.

There will reportedly be advance screenings of Where the Wild Things Are open to the public in New York and Los Angeles. Most of us will have to wait until October 16 to catch it, but enjoy the five new photos from the NY Times.

If you missed the TV spots that made their way online a few days ago, here they are:

Paul Dano, cover boy

Paul Dano is on the May 2009 cover of Nylon Magazine. He's probably going to be promoting everything from Gigantic to Where the Wild Things Are (yes, he's it in). There's a sit down interview with Dano, during the Nylon photo shoot in which he speaks briefly about The Extra Man, a film he's currently shooting. I'm still smarting over the fact that Gigantic probably will not be opening in my country, so this interview is going to have to be enough to console me:





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'Where the Wild Things Are' poster

FirstShowing shares the brand new Where the Wild Things Are poster from Yahoo. It's even more magical than the first poster:

'Wild Things' makes my heart sing

The blogosphere sort of went nuts yesterday over the new Where the Wild Things Are trailer. I did too - one look at the trailer and I cried. It all makes me wonder exactly how poor Spike Jonze could be broke. Sigh. Here's the trailer with my childhood memories in tact:

First poster of 'Where the Wild Things Are'

Where the Wild Things Are poster from Nick Magazine via In Contention/Spike Jonze Fan Blog: