Monday's Important News: Wild Things We Love You, Polanski Updates and Monster Squad in Name Only
Hello Monday! What you got for us? Because we got news and a bunch of it.
- -Where The Wild Things Are was this weekend's number one with $32.4 million. That's 10 million more than Jonze's previous highest grosser: Adaptation. [TOH!]
- -Roman Polanski has been moved from prison to a hospital for "medical updates." [Variety]
- -Mike Mitchell (The Next Fucking Shrek Movie) will take over WB's in-development Monster Squad, which...sure has a familiar title. [Variety]
- -Eighteen shots of pipe smoking mean Land Of the Lost caused "124 million tobacco impressions." Oh noes! [NYT]
- -Looks like The Lives of Others' Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck will bring The Tourist out for 2011. [Variety]
- -Astro Boy tie-in Burger King toys prove that even treatises on atomic energy and humanism can sell burgers. [ANN]
- -Infomania's own Jason O'Malley's co-production, Wet, won first place at the Chicago Int'l Film Festival. [THR]
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