Event

Where The Wild Things Are: Advance Benefit Screening for 826 Boston

826 Boston is proud to announce an advanced benefit screening of:

Where The Wild Things Are
Directed by Spike Jonze
Screenplay by Dave Eggers

Where The Wild Things Are is the new live-action movie produced by Warner Bros. based on Maurice Sendak's famed children's classic. The film stars Catherine Keener, Mark Ruffalo, James Gandolfini with music by Karen 0 and Carter Burwell.

View the trailer: http://wherethewildthingsare.warnerbros.com/

An audience Q & A with Dave Eggers will precede the 90-minute screening.

Tickets are:
VIP: $100 each include pre-screening cocktail party with Dave Eggers from 5:30 - 7:00 PM at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel, 10 Avery Street, just around the corner from the movie theater.

General Admission: $30 each include pre-screening Q&A with Dave Eggers.

826 Boston volunteers can purchase tickets for $25.

Where the Wild Things Are is Eggers' latest project. His screenplay and forthcoming novelization was undertaken with the enthusiastic support of the book's author Maurice Sendak. Eggers first novel, "A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius," was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. Since then, he has published What is the What and, most recently, "Zeitoun," a non-fiction account of one New Orleans family in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. His screenwriting credits also include "Away We Go."

In 2002, Eggers co-founded a national non-profit organization dedicated to supporting the writing skills of underserved students, and to helping urban teachers inspire their students to write. 826 Boston is the seventh chapter of this organization and offers free writing and tutoring programs in Roxbury's Egleston Square and in Boston public school classrooms. Proceeds from this event help support its mission.

More information about 826 Boston can be found at www.826boston.org.

826 National and 826 Boston would like to thank the following national sponsors:
Warner Bros. Pictures
GOOD Magazine
Urban Outfitters
Filter Magazine
Harper Collins
Random House Mondadori
McSweeneys