As most of you probably know, Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson's The Adventures of Tintin, which will be released next week, was originally called The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn. Though the subtitle was dropped and the film pulls from several stories, that's the primary Herge book this first film is based…
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2011 was the biggest year ever for sequels, with a record-breaking 27 scheduled to hit theaters. And while it's too early to say exactly how many we can expect in 2012 and beyond, judging by posts like this one it seems safe to say that the trend won't be dying down anytime soon. After the…
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With so much sequel news breaking every day, this little post we call Sequel Bits is becoming a semi-regular feature. That truth probably makes most of us feel like /Film commenter brock_rox who wrote the following after the last installment. "It's sad that we live in a world where a column especially devoted to sequel…
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When the notion of making performance-capture films based on Hergé's Tintin stories first came up, the plan was to make three films. Steven Spielberg would direct the first, Peter Jackson the next, and there was a theoretical third film mentioned here and there. But financing was problematic, and by the time Spielberg's The Adventures of…
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