"Where the Wild Things Are" is out on Friday, so all this week I've been dribbling out brief clips from it here on the blog. In today's clip, embedded below, Carol (James Gandolfini) introduces Max (Max Records) to the gang of Wild Things. Most of 'em anyway. There are a few absences, but you still get to spend some time with Judith (Catherine O'Hara) and Ira (Forest Whitaker), Alexander (Paul Dano), and Douglas (Chris Cooper). Are you ready to unleash your inner wild things this Friday?

by Holly Lunn

Things got a little wild an the New York Public Library yesterday when Forest Whitaker, Catherine Keener and her son Clyde all came out to give a special reading of "Where the Wild Things Are."

The audience was filled past capacity, to the point where they had to turn away kids who wanted to come in and hear the reading. Yet I found that the audience was mostly adults when I entered, people who, like myself, cherish this classic story. Read more...

FROM MTV.COM: It's a rite of passage. It's the flexing of one of our most important muscles: imagination. But most importantly, it's pure and simple fun.

It is the reading of Maurice Sendak's classic 1963 book "Where the Wild Things Are." And for five decades, it has been a childhood tradition.

"It was read to me," 48-year-old Oscar winner Forest Whitaker recalled recently, remembering the first time he became aware of the book that he'll help turn into a feature film this weekend. "First, it was read to me as a kid. And then it was one of those books I was able to like when I got old enough to read. ... I've had it around forever. Now, I read it to my kids."

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Over the years, we’ve seen our share of good American remakes of foreign films (“The Ring,” “Insomnia”) as well as some not-so-good ones (“The Eye,” “Dark Water,” “The Lake House”) that left a bad taste in our mouths. Recently, Cam Gigandet wrapped up his work on another high-profile translation to our shores, this time of “The Experiment,” and he promised us it will fall into that earlier category.

“I just finished a movie in Iowa called ‘The Experiment’ with Adrien Brody and Forest Whitaker,” the “Twilight” star said of the remake, which also stars Maggie Grace and Clifton Collins Jr. “We shot that in Iowa, in Des Moines, and that was a blast.” Read more...

Just as everyone has an opinion, a favorite meal and a nose — albeit a fake one at times — so too does everyone have a birthday. Even celebrities. Here at Birthday Bash, it’s my mission to salute the fine actors, filmmakers and other Hollywood heroes that are celebrating their special day this week. After all, it’s cheaper than mailing a cake.

July is populated with some of the highest profile celebrity birthdays yet to be featured on Birthday Bash, with this week bringing a trio of faces famous for very different roles. Read more...

Earlier this week, I joked about how every week seems to bring a new project for Leonardo DiCaprio. He has officially been beaten by "Twilight" veteran Cam Gigandet, who seems to snag a new project every single day. The latest finds him in Oscar-winning company, as Variety reports that Gigandet will join Adrien Brody, Elijah Wood and Forest Whitaker in "The Experiment."

"The Experiment" will be directed by Paul Scheuring ("Prison Break") from his own screenplay. It's a remake of the 2001 German film "Das Experiment," which centers on a group of ordinary men recruited to take part in a psychological research study. They're divided up and put into prison. Some land jobs as guards, others are locked up as prisoners, all with the intent of studying how they react to their assigned roles, and to positions of power and control. Read more...

You can never predict what concept will spark competition in Hollywood. At the turn of the century it was competing asteroids and volcanoes; this year it has been Jane Austen bloodbaths, the Roman Ninth Legion, and warring Greek gods. Now, Robert Louis Stevenson's "The Strange Case Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" has entered the competition. Last week, we told you Keanu Reeves was set to play the man of violent moods in "Jekyll." Now Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson and Forest Whitaker plan to give him a run for his money in "Jekyll and Hyde."

According to Variety, Abel Ferrara ("Bad Lieutenant") is set to direct a contemporary version of Stevenson's story. Whitaker and Jackson will play the two sides of the same man ... and something tells us that Jackson will probably be embodying the nastier half. But given Whitaker's terrifying, Oscar winning performance in "The Last King of Scotland," we could be completely off. It would certainly be a refreshing change to see Jackson play something like a soft-spoken scientist, wouldn't it? Read more...

There are movies that have the whiff of "multiple Oscar nominee" before they even begin shooting -- and this is one of them. According to Variety, Forrest Whitaker is set to direct and star in "What a Wonderful World," a biopic of the legendary Louis Armstrong -- and he's doing it for Paris-based Legende, the production company behind last year's Oscar favorite, "La Vie en Rose."

Music fans know that Louis Armstrong was an enormous influence on not only jazz, but American music and culture as a whole. He rose from an impoverished childhood, where he worked odd jobs to keep his mother out of prostitution, to one of the most popular jazz musicians of all time. He even had a pretty successful movie career, usually playing himself. Given his impressive life, it's surprising that he didn't earn a big screen biopic before Ray Charles. Read more...