Learn About a Children's Production Of the Roald Dahl Classic! Plus, Some Of the Latest Media Coverage Of the Film...

FANTASTIC MR. FOX opens in select theatres November 13th. Below are some of the latest news items related to the movie, including the deets on a local kids' production in Arlington, Massachusetts! The three production stills below the children's photo were featured as part of The New York Times' online slideshow.

"Local Kids Bring 'Fantastic Mr. Fox' to Life Nov. 8th & 9th"

Read about the young actors and their upcoming show in Arlington, Mass. this weekend!

'Boggis and Bunce and Bean, One short, one fat, one lean. These horrible crooks, so different in looks, were nonetheless equally mean.' Families won't want to miss the stage production of Roald Dahl's tale 'Fantastic Mr. Fox' at the Arlington Center for the Arts on Saturday and Sunday, Nov. 8th and 9th at 2 PM."

"Backstage With 'Fantastic Mr. Fox's' Wes Anderson and Jason Schwartzman"

Read it on the LA Times' blog now.

'When I was kid, I only went to see comedies, so while I enjoyed them, I always thought it was music that spoke most deeply to me,' [Schwartzman] explained. But at some point in his teenage years, he found himself preparing for an acting audition without really understanding what movies could have to say. When he confided his concerns to his mother, she told him to stay put while she hurried off to a video store. She returned with three movies: 'The Graduate,' 'Dog Day Afternoon' and 'Harold and Maude,' which Schwarztman watched all in one sitting that night. 'It totally changed my life,' he said..."

Read it on the New York Times Web site now. And check out their slideshow! We've included some of their photos in this post.

FROM a young age Wes Anderson has felt proprietary about Roald Dahl's classic children’s novel 'Fantastic Mr. Fox.' 'It was the first book at our household that was considered to be mine,' he said. 'I was obsessed with anything involving hidden passageways or underground tunnels.'

Mr. Anderson's live-action films have always existed in parallel realities — elaborately storyboarded, art-directed parallel realities, no less — and so it is not too great a leap for him to be conjuring a world from scratch for his stop-motion animated version of 'Fantastic Mr. Fox' (opening Nov. 13)."

"Jason Schwartzman Gets Down and Dirty With George Clooney"

Read his hilarious and eye-opening interview on Parade's Web site now. For instance, on staring at George:

Typically when you're working with someone it's not kosher to just kind of gaze at them because you're usually on camera as well. But when we were sitting around a table with just a recorder, it was really nice for me to be able to look at George. I admit I might have actually been staring. Obviously, he's a handsome gentleman, but what I found fascinating was just kind of watching him work. It was like having a front row seat in an acting class."