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Halloween costume contest entries

That’s it, that’s it! It’s all over! The 2009 Rushmore Academy Halloween Costume Contest has come to its conclusion. You can view all of the entries in the gallery below (please contact me if your photo is not included). The editors will select our finalists over the weekend and post their entries for public voting sometime early next week. Winners will will receive a Fantastic Mr. Fox soundtrack, poster, and tie, along with some other goodies. We also expect to give away some Noah and the Whale CD/DVD sets, courtesy of Sneak Attack media.

Thanks to everyone who participated this year and to Fox Searchlight for sponsoring our contest.

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View the gallery.

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If someone posted your photo without your permission, please contact me: edwardappleby@yankeeracers.org

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New behind-the-scenes videos

“Behind Mr. Fox: Bill Murray as Badger”

“Behind Mr. Fox: George Clooney as Mr. Fox”

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Win free passes to the L.A. screening of Fantastic Mr. Fox

First announced on our Twitter page, we are giving away 25 passes (1 +  1 guest) to see Fantastic Mr. Fox at the Arclight Hollywood on November 12. The first twenty-five people to e-mail edwardappleby@ yankeeracers.org Subject: LA Screening Passes will win a set. Please include your mailing address. Update: We’re fresh out of passes. Thanks to everyone who entered.

Preview of tomorrow’s post on the November/December issue of Film Comment:

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Remember that tomorrow is the deadline for the Halloween Costume Contest!

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New videos: Fantastic Mr. Fox

“Recording the Voices,” a new featurette:

TV spots:

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Fantastic Mr. Fox soundtrack now available

Download it on Amazon.com!

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Sounding Fantastic. If the trailers for Wes Anderson‘s stop-motion-animation adaptation of the Roald Dahl children’s book Fantastic Mr. Fox aren’t enough to suggest great stuff ahead (the film opens Nov. 20), the sound track should clinch the deal. An integral component of the writer/director’s movies thus far (think John Lennon‘s “Oh Yoko!” in Rushmore, Nick Drake‘s “Fly” in The Royal Tenenbaums), the collection of songs and tunes for Fantastic Mr. Fox includes such furry numbers as “The Ballad of Davy Crockett” from the Wellingtons, two from the Beach Boys, the Rolling Stones‘ “Street Fighting Man,” and a handful of Burl Ives incantations – yes, Burl Ives! – guaranteed to spark a Burl revival. Throw in some Art Tatum, Jarvis Cocker, and Bobby Fuller Four, plus beautiful instrumental sketches from French composer Alexandre Desplat, and you have one of the loveliest, most eccentric sound tracks to come along since – well, since Anderson’s The Darjeeling Limited. (Philadelphia Inquirer, October 25, 2009)

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Remember to enter the Halloween costume contest

Happy Halloween! Remember to document your Halloween costume for the Third Annual Rushmore Academy Halloween Costume Contest (details).  We are giving away three fantastic Fantastic Mr. Fox prize packages and great new music from Noah and the Whale.  Remember that your costume must be inspired by the films of Wes Anderson or Wes Anderson himself.

From previous years:

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NYT: “Animal Wrangling in Miniature”

From tomorrow’s New York Times (article | slideshow):

FROM a young age Wes Anderson has felt proprietary about Roald Dahl’s classic children’s novel “Fantastic Mr. Fox.” “It was the first book at our household that was considered to be mine,” he said. “I was obsessed with anything involving hidden passageways or underground tunnels.”

Mr. Anderson’s live-action films have always existed in parallel realities — elaborately storyboarded, art-directed parallel realities, no less — and so it is not too great a leap for him to be conjuring a world from scratch for his stop-motion animated version of “Fantastic Mr. Fox” (opening Nov. 13).

Controversy flared recently when some crew members grumbled to The Los Angeles Times about Mr. Anderson’s absence from the film’s London set during the shoot. He has acknowledged that he did much of his work from Paris, where he has an apartment, sending detailed instructions, photos and videos to the animators. In any case, the finished film, which he wrote with the filmmaker Noah Baumbach, suggests that Mr. Anderson was anything but hands-off. This may be his first animated film, but his fingerprints are everywhere, from the dollhouse cross sections to the funny-sad family dynamics to the belief that production design is intimately linked with character.

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Upcoming Fantastic Mr. Fox events

From Inside Searchlight:

Borders Northridge (For Kids)
Saturday November 7, 2009 @ 11AM
From the movie: Jason Schwartzman

9301 Tampa Ave.
Northridge, CA 91324

o    Clips from film will be shown.
o    Jason will talk about his character, Ash. (See Ash in the production still above; he is the character on the right.)
o    Reading from ‘Fantastic Mr. Fox’ (movie) original book – Chapter 11: “A Surprise for Mrs. Fox”
o    Audience Q&A
o    Signing

Apple Santa Monica (For Kids)
Saturday November 7, 2009 @ 4PM
From the movie: Jason Schwartzman

1248 Third Street Promenade
Santa Monica, CA 90401

o    The trailer and clips from the film will be shown.
o    Jason will talk about voicing the role of Ash in the film.
o    Reading from ‘Fantastic Mr. Fox’ (movie) original book – Chapter 11: “A Surprise for Mrs. Fox”
o    Audience Q&A

92Y Tribeca (Sold Out!)
Tuesday November 10, 2009 @ 8PM
From the movie: Director Wes Anderson, Jason Schwartzman

200 Hudson St
New York, NY 10013

o    The trailer and clips from the film will be shown.
o    Moderated discussion
o    Audience Q&A

Apple Soho Store (NYC)
November 11, 2009 @ 7PM
From the movie: Director Wes Anderson, Meryl Streep, Jason Schwartzman

o    The trailer will be shown.
o    Moderated discussion
o    Audience Q&A

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Fantastic Mr. Fox comes in third

Fantastic Mr. Fox came in third at the UK box office this weekend. It made £1,517,312 on 481 screens, losing out to Up and Saw VI. A little disappointing, no doubt, but a good start.