'The Box,' Starring Robots and Unicorns, Is Spurring a Hollywood Bidding War
According to The Hollywood Reporter, a bidding war broke out Wednesday over a sci-fi short film that was made as part of an experiment sponsored by Phillips called Parallel Lines, in which the electronics giant challenged five filmmakers to each make a short film using set pieces of dialogue. So what's the short film that has studio executives tearing at each others' throats? Titled 'The Gift,' ...
Following last year's 'Where the Wild Things Are,' director Spike Jonze has returned to the screen at the Sundance Film Festival with yet another work inspired by a children's book. Instead of stretching a 338-word book into a feature-length film, however, he's decided to keep things a bit more compact with his latest 30-minute short about robot love in Los Angeles. Inexplicably financed by ...








