Where The Wild Things Are One Sheet Character Movie Posters

We are now just a week away from the premiere of the live action adaptation of Maurice Sendak’s classic children’s book, Where The Wild Things Are! While The Blot is still super excited to see this film, I am troubled by some of the reviews I’ve read. A lot of movie critics have reported that the film is really scary and not necessarily for children. That bothers me a lot, because bottom line Where The Wild Things Are is a children’s book written for kids.



Now part of me thinks “hey, it was directed by Spike Jonze, what did you expect?” He took a children’s book popular with people our age and made a movie of it for people our age. The fallacy in that way of thinking is the book isn’t just ours. It came out in 1963 and is just as popular today as it was back then. Kids were reading it in the 60s and 70, and they’ll be reading for decades to come. What you would hope for is a timeless adaptation that will hold up for future generations, sort of how I envision the original Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory.



I just know how much I loved this book as a child and can only imagine how excited I would have been back then if a live action movie adaptation of this caliber would been in the works, especially if the kind of CGI special effects they have today was around in the 80s and 90s. With that being said, I am awe of these newly released Where The Wild Things Are promotional character movie posters. Just looking at these one sheet movie posters and seeing these characters from my childhood look so real and alive is amazing.



I was hoping that same kind of excitement and awe would be instilled in children all around the world by looking at these movie posters. But now I worry that even if it is, they won’t enjoy the movie because it’s too adult and scary. Hopefully the critics are wrong and kids today are able to handle more than we could when we were their age, but I’m not so sure. And if they can, is that a good thing? Either way, I’m still really excited to go see this movie and purchase the soundtrack. I could want the film’s trailer everyday and never get sick of it!



Where The Wild Things Are premieres in theaters next Friday, October 16, 2009.

Where The Wild Things Are Max 400% Kubrick

While The Blot has been drooling over the previously announced Where The Wild Things Are 100% Kubricks for months now, the new WTWTA 400% Max Kubrick blows away all other Where The Wild Things Are figures. Just look at this nearly 8 inch tall figure, I dare you tell me it’s not amazing. Not only do you get a 400% Kubrick, but you get one in a legit wolf costume that looks to be removable. The fact that Medicom Toy went so far as to make a real wolf costume out of fabric with a tail and whiskers for this figure is unbelievable!


The Where The Wild Things Are Max 400% Kubrick also includes the crown and cane seen above and comes in window box packaging. The figure is not scheduled to arrive in stores until sometime in December 2009, but it can be preordered now directly from Entertainment Earth for $149.99 here.

Where The Wild Things Are, the live action movie adaptation of Maurice Sendak’s classic children’s book directed by Spike Jonze, debuts in theaters on October 16, 2009.

Where The Wild Things Are Trailer #2 - A Must See!

There is nothing The Blot could possibly say that would do justice to the greatness that is the official second trailer for Spike Jonze’s live action movie adaptation of Maurice Sendak’s classic children’s story Where The Wild Things Are. So I won’t even try. Just trust me and watch it:



I honestly don’t know what’s better, the clip’s story, its visuals or the stunning music tying it all together. Either way this is truly an incredible movie trailer! After I saw it for the first time, I rushed into the other room to show it to Aly. We were seriously both giddy after watching it and now we both want to go read the book again for the first time in decades. Now that is the effect a movie should have on its audience.

Where The Wild Things Are debuts in theaters on Friday, October 16, 2009.

Where The Wild Things Are 100% Kubrick and Be@rbrick Set

Medicom Toy is also releasing a Where The Wild Things Are 100% Kubrick and Be@rbrick set to go along with its Where The Wild Things Are Kubrick series (similar to its Lost releases). This two figure set features a hooded Max with crown and an all black Max/Where The Wild Things Are 100% Be@rbrick.


The Where The Wild Things Are 100% Kubrick and Be@rbrick set is expected to hit store shelves sometime in October 2009 to coincide with the release of the live action Where The Wild Things Are movie based on Maurice Sendak’s classic children’s book of the same name. The WTWTA Kubrick/Be@rbrick set will retail for $19.99.

Where The Wild Things Are Kubrick Series

The live action Where The Wild Things Are movie comes out October 16th, 2009. That same month Medicom Toy will be releasing its Where The Wild Things Are Kubrick series. The Where The Wild Things Are Kubrick series will include Max and all seven Wild Things from Maurice Sendak’s classic children’s book. I don’t know about you guys, but with all of the sculpting and details on the Wild Things Kubricks they don’t really even look like Kubrick figures anymore. Nevertheless, these will be a must get for any die hard WTWTA fan.


Each Where The Wild Things Are Kubrick blind box will retail for $9.99 or you can purchase a case of 24 blind boxes on sale at Urban Collector here for $191.99. I haven’t seen any mention of this set’s ratios yet, but you can be certain some figures will be harder to get than others and I am sure Medicom has a chase or two up their sleeves. Since all of the WTWTA characters are accounted for, I am guessing any variant figures produced will be alternate colorways.

Where The Wild Things Are Teaser Movie Poster

The Blot, like most American kids, grew up reading Maurice Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are. I’ve wondered for years why a live action movie adaptation of the beloved children’s book has never been made. Jim Henson could have definitely made a sick Where the Wild Things Are in the same vein as the 1986 classics The Dark Crystal and Labyrinth. Thankfully the film sat in limbo for years until movie special effects could properly adapt Sendak’s cast of scary yet fun Wild Things.


Much has been made about the stryfe surrounding production of Where the Wild Things Are, but I have faith in Spike Jonze’s vision for this movie. It may be misplaced, but from interviews I’ve read he sounds to have a real passion for this project. I am excited to see how the film’s combination of live action, suitmation, animatronics and CGI turns out. The movie’s first teaser poster was unveiled yesterday and so far so good. The Wild Thing, which dominates the poster, looks awesome and I love Max’s trademark wolf costume and crown. I can’t wait to see the movie’s first official full length trailer, which is set to debut on March 27 before screenings of Monsters vs. Aliens.


Where the Wild Things Are, which debuts in theaters on October 16, 2009, stars Max Records, Catherine O’Hara, Forest Whitaker, Catherine Keener, James Gandolfini, Paul Dano, and Tom Noonan.