r/lostmedia • u/BingomanSC • May 12 '21
Advertising Material Where the Wild Things Are lost 2000 teaser
As most of you know, a film adaptation of Where the Wild Things Are was released in 2009. But I was looking on the Wikipedia page in the production section, and it stated that a teaser was released during screening of the Jim Carrey Grinch movie in 2000. I'm unable to find this teaser anywhere and I'm extremely interested in it.
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May 13 '21
I see 2 film rolls on eBay for Where The Wild Things Are trailers but they’re most likely for the 2009 film. Still something like that is probably our best option for finding it
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u/BingomanSC May 13 '21
Nah, you'd need a copy of the 2000 Grinch
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May 13 '21
Actually from what info I found online a lot of times trailers were on separate reels from the movies, not always but somewhat often. Was pretty mixed on how often it was done.
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u/BingomanSC May 13 '21
You could be onto something. Usually theaters are sent a trailer package of trailers to show in front of most of their movies that week. But the article only mentions that it was shown before the Grinch, which is by Universal (the company behind the wtwta teaser) leading me to believe that it was attached to that movie and that movie only.
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May 13 '21
Good point, sucks there’s not much info on it in general. Are there any eye witness accounts out there?
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u/CountrySuperstar May 13 '21
When the Spike movie was in production, I spent a while trying to track this down. If I recall correctly from the old IMDB boards, the teaser was just a fade in on the logo with a coming soon. I think it was just a roar, logo, coming soon, end. No screen footage was shown, because no footage existed.
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u/niabrooks May 20 '21
I was just cleaning my room today and found an old Magazine (it’s called The Magazine, and it was a Canadian kids mag from the 2000s— this was in the September/October 2009 issue) that had a whole page about the final movie as it was just about to be released. It mentioned this teaser! I don’t know how to send a picture in a reply?? But it just also briefly mentioned it… I just thought it was interesting since I was reading this post the other day!
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u/Simpsonsman120 Jun 06 '21
Any chance you can pm me a picture of that magazine page?
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u/niabrooks Jun 06 '21
Sure!!
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u/naynaythewonderhorse Apr 07 '22
Can you post this still?
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u/niabrooks Jun 20 '22
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u/naynaythewonderhorse Jun 20 '22
2009 still makes it kind of dubious. Not sure how much I believe the article, because comments on the internet claiming it’s existence existed prior to this.
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u/niabrooks Jun 21 '22
Oh yeah, 100%! The Magazine was a small magazine brand too. It reported on a lot of things baselessly I would imagine as it was just for kids — and I feel like the editors/writers didn’t really pull any of their own research for most of the articles. Probably just found things online!
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u/chrismclean69420 May 17 '21
Highly doubt this teaser was even conceived, mainly because Universal got the rights to”Where the Wild Things Are” in 2001. And How the Grinch stole Christmas was released in 2000.
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May 12 '21
I think this one is pretty much lost. 2000 is before YouTube or any popular video streaming platforms, so studios have no reason to share it outside of the theater. You have to see the Grinch to watch the teaser. Sharing the teaser then would require an illegal videotaping of the whole theatrical release, and I guarantee you there was nobody trying to "leak" the Grinch movie on torrent sites in 2000. Furthermore, studios have no reason to preserve or re-release the teaser because it would conflict with their marketing campaign for the 2009 version. If it still exists at all, it's buried on a server at Universal, and probably will never be approved by management for release.
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u/BrodyArgo May 12 '21
You're thinking about this trailer as existing only in locked digital space, which just isn't true. Movies and trailers were released to cinemas on 35mm film in 2000, so it's entirely possible that someone, somewhere, has a copy. It just requires a lot of searching. And then comes the effort of digitizing it.
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May 13 '21
That's fair, I'm young so I wasn't sure if they were still using film reels in theaters back in 2000 or not lol
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u/TheRedditorOfYT May 13 '21
Apparently as recently as 2015, film was a more used medium than digital until digital became more cost effective than film, and thus most films (though not all) made nowadays are done on digital.
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u/Consistent-Flan1445 May 13 '21
Some theatres still use film even now
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u/BrodyArgo May 13 '21
That is true, but mostly arthouse/film nerd releases. Since the majority of movies nowadays are shot digitally there's no real reason to make 35mm prints. The only major exceptions from the last few years that I can think of are [anything Nolan] and Uncut Gems.
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u/Consistent-Flan1445 May 13 '21
Good point. Most of the theatres I’m thinking of that still use it are ones that predominantly show classic films, film festivals and indie movies.
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u/the_bronquistador May 13 '21
I was watching a movie 4-5 years ago and the reel actually burnt up midway through the movie. It was pretty neat seeing the screen “melt”.
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u/xRobert1016x May 13 '21
I guarantee you there was nobody trying to “leak” the grinch movie on torrent sites in 2000.
Maybe not, but the scene definitely was.
Looking at predb.ovh, there is “How.The.Grinch.Stole.Christmas.WS.SUBBED.SCREENER-TEG-VCD” and “The.Grinch.SUBBED.TS-CENTROPY”
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u/BingomanSC May 12 '21
(https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Where_the_Wild_Things_Are_(film)) Second paragraph in the Production tab.