Word: wildly
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...them, it seems, went to the movies this weekend to channel their inner child, or the monster lurking in their psyches. In a weekend whose gross revenue was 38% over the previous one's, and 59% over the same one last year, the top spot went to Where the Wild Things Are, which set an opening-day record for a live-action PG film and, according to early studio reports, will end the session with $32.5 million. The serial-killer thriller Law Abiding Citizen slashed its way to second place, with $21 million, while the haunted-house horror movie Paranormal...
Warner Bros., the studio behind Wild Things, had been plenty apprehensive about director Spike Jonze's ages-in-the-making version of the 1963 Maurice Sendak classic, which is essentially a kid-size retelling of the Tarzan or Sheena-style fable about a white person becoming the monarch of a remote land. This was no sure-shot, cuddly animated feature but a spikier live-action fantasy - essentially an art-house fairy tale - whose special effects were, as co-screenwriter Dave Eggers, marvels, "just people in big suits." Think of the beasties as members of the Snuffleupagus family, with a Catskills...
...Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, which on the previous four weekends had ranked in the top three spots and on Oct. 15 cracked $100 million at the North American box office. It's an open question whether the Jonze movie can show those steady legs, but for now, Wild Things is making Warner Bros.'s heart sing...
...when his wife and daughter are murdered in front of him, is transformed into an evil genius, terrorizing assistant D.A. Jamie Foxx and the rest of Philadelphia with murders of a scheming, Saw-like sadism. Saddled with a scathing 16% score from the "top critics" monitored on Rotten Tomatoes (Wild Things nabbed a gentleman's 68%), Citizen won audiences on star quality and the movie marketplace's lack of other adult-themed melodrama - read: crap for grownups. Younger viewers in search of shivers had already lined up for Paranormal Activity, which now stands a fair chance of breaking out from...
...Where the Wild Things Are” is the first in a series of prominent children’s book adaptations that will hit theatres in the coming months, including Wes Anderson’s take on Roald Dahl’s “Fantastic Mr. Fox” and Tim Burton’s live-action remake of Lewis Carroll’s “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.” Thankfully, Jonze steers clear of the common, sanitized book-to-film route that so many directors have followed in the past...