Now he's taking another big-budget chance, this time on hipster Spike Jonze, director of Where the Wild Things Are, which hits theaters this weekend.

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In the most lavish days of John Landis, Hype Williams and Spike Jonze, video budget was devoted to physical production- actors, location, set creation, etc.

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Other highlights include a 2010 short, Mark on Allen by director Spike Jonze, which chronicles what happens when one of the world's best professional skateboarders tries to master riding a bicycle.

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At first, his creations were available only to a select group of friends, including Johnny Depp, Spike Jonze and Javier Bardem, but later they became available to the wider public.

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With help from Sam Spiegel a hip-hop-schooled producer who's also the brother of filmmaker Spike Jonze Show Your Bones has a big, spacious sound, some pretty, soft moments and fully-formed songs with big choruses and spiky hooks.

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This fantastic weightless comedy (sci-fi without the future or rockets or bad consequences), which was written by Charlie Kaufman and directed by Spike Jonze, plays with notions of celebrity worship and gender reversal, but the best thing about it is the genially deadpan style of its most absurd inventions.

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