Where the Wild Things Are (film) $100 million. "Where the Wild Things Are" was a joint production between Australia, Germany, and the United States, and was filmed principally in Melbourne. The film was released on 16 October 2009, in the United States, on 3 December in Australia, and on 17 December in Germany. The film was met with mostly positive reviews and appeared on many year-end top ten lists. However the film flopped commercially at the box office, making $100.1 million from a budget of $100 million. The film was released on DVD and Blu-ray on 2 March 2010. Max, a lonely boy with an active
Where the Wild Things Are the film. The screenplay was novelized by Eggers as "The Wild Things", published in 2009. In 2012, indie rock quartet alt-J released the song "Breezeblocks", inspired in part by the book. Alt-J keyboardist Gus Unger-Hamilton said the story and the song share similar ideas about parting with a loved one. "Breezeblocks" reached certified ARIA Gold status in Australia. In 2016, Alessia Cara released her second single, "Wild Things", which charted at number fifty on the "Billboard" Hot 100. In an interview with ABC News Radio, Cara stated she took inspiration from "Where the Wild Things Are", saying "each 'Thing' represents