Via MySpace, here are the new character posters for Spike Jonze/Dave Eggers’ Where the Wild Things Are, opening October 16th. Pretty cool, but I miss some of the old characters from when Michael Bay was directing.  Like Badonkadonk, who was illiterate and had gold teeth and a boombox.  Or KY, the Catholic teen who loves to pole dance.  “Kids love this stuff,” he’d say, exploding a car.

Hey, kids.  Do you like Wes Anderson and unnecessary voice over?  Then you’ll love the first seven minutes of Rian Johnson’s* The Brothers Bloom (starring Rachel Weisz, Adrien Brody, and Mark Ruffalo, none of whom appear in this clip).  It actually started to win me over towards the end. The guy can clearly tell a story, it’d just be nice if he eased off the oh-so-precious elements, like little kids who dress like Charlie Chaplin and talk like Our Gang.  Also: can we stop with the little-kids-falling-in-love plot device already?  If 10-year-old boys are gonna start trying to impress chicks all the time, I’m gonna knock them in the mud and put frogs down my pants just to even things out.

*Says Johnson’s wikipedia page: “Johnson is also an accomplished folk singer.” Gee, you don’t say.

[and sorry about the video, non-U.S. peeps, but there's not much I can do when the only place hosting it is Hulu. Write to them and complain, because it's frustrating for me too.]

USA Today has a batch of new pictures from Where the Wild Things Are, the Spike Jonze/Dave Eggers adaptation that will finally hit theaters October 19th, with the first trailer attached to Monsters vs. Aliens this Friday.  Jonze said of his star, Max Records (who plays a kid also named Max) “I can’t imagine anyone else playing Max. Max is the soul of the movie. He’s a very special sort of kid. Deep and thoughtful. Sweet and sincere.”

Records, who previously appeared in videos for Cake and Death Cab for Cutie, is becoming something of a commodity.  My imaginary sources even tell me Brett Ratner wants him for his next project, calling Records “sexy as hell.”