The Telegraph recently took time out of their busy schedule of making up monkey attack stories to do this Where the Wild Things Are featurette on original author Maurice Sendak.  I’m posting it because it shows a few small snippets of footage from the movie, and I know this stuff is like heroin for college types.  Jesus yak-touching Christ, could they release this g’damn’d movie already?   What the hell do we have to do?  I showed Dave Eggers my personal essay, I had my GRE scores sent to Spike Jonze, and still, here we are, another month and a half before the movie comes out. I wish I’d never been born an overprivileged white intellectual.

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Spike Jonze’s Where the Wild Things Are comes out October 16th, and they just released this new, longer trailer.  The plot’s pretty simple — Max gets mad at his family and then goes to live with some big hairy beasts in the woods, who make him their king.  I think it’s a metaphor for imperialism.  Anyway, I don’t like this trailer as much as the last one because it seems to focus more on Max and his emotions and less on Max partying down with his monsters.  It’s a shame, nothing brings me down like a child’s happiness.  So annoying.

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I may have mentioned this before, but I was once at a reading (*adjusts scarf*) where James Franco read a short story, and much as I wanted him to suck because he’s a handsome movie star, he was actually really good and I ended up having to give Schadenfreude Sloth mouth to mouth.  Anyway, Franco trashes a studio apartment in this promo for the next Wholphin DVD.  The promo is an internet-friendly 51 seconds, and it’s apparently part of a 32-minute film directed by Dave Eggers called The Room Before and After.  Wholphin is the DVD companion to the McSweeney’s literary quarterly, and they do some fun stuff like “Patton Oswalt stares at the camera for four or five minutes.”  If you’ve never heard of Wholphin, it’s probably because you didn’t go to an expensive enough liberal arts college. The other baristas don’t even respect you, man.

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Where the Wild Things Are just released a new poster and oh god the cuteness makes my dick hard.

As a professional movie blogger, I try to keep a level head and not geek out over the things that make me excited, like the Spike Jonze-directed, Dave Eggers-scripted adaptation of Where the Wild Things Are, the best children’s book ever written.  But on the other hand, OMG OMG OMG!  *desperately fans face with hand*

*passes out in giant drool puddle with nerd boner tent in sweatpants*

(added same trailer with a couple different players after the jump, if the one above doesn’t work. also available in HD at Apple)

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