French director Patrice Leconte is developing a live-action Tintin movie, but there are rights issues that are standing in the way.
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In this edition of Sequel Bits: Peter Jackson gives a potential Tintin sequel update. Ralph Breaks the Internet features some internet stars, plus: check out early story notes Bumblebee screenwriter Christina Hodson talks about crafting a Transfomers movie for a wide audience. The Croods 2 is still happening, and Peter Dinklage has joined the cast. Karl Urban would…
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It's been a year and a half since the first Tintin film was released, but the partnership between Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson may still be on track to return to theaters in a couple years. While Peter Jackson, who will direct the mo-cap footage for the next Tintin film, is pretty busy with two…
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Peter Jackson's latest film is just about to hit theaters, but with the expansion of The Hobbit adaptation into a trilogy, he'll still be a busy guy for the next couple years. While the next two films are shot (mostly -- there will probably be some additional shooting at some point) loads of post-production work…
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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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This is the first edition in a new regular series where I attempt to answer your questions about the film industry. We'll be taking a look at the box office, forgotten Hollywood landmarks, the marketing process and more. Sometimes I'll attempt to answer the question myself, and other times I will contact experts in the…
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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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James Curran (aka Slimjim Studios) made a great opening title sequence for Steven Spielberg's The Adventures of Tintin, and last week it earned the animator no small amount of new fans. One of those fans was evidently Steven Spielberg, who invited Curran to the premiere of Tintin this past weekend, and offered him a job.…
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There's a lot of Tintin around today thanks to the reviews that hit the web over the past couple days. But none of those items are as much fun as this unofficial opening credits sequence. The animation below is the work of animator James Curran, who stripped ideas and images from the twenty-four Tintin books…
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The first review of Steven Spielberg's The Adventures of Tintin hit last week, and we offered up a few choice quotes from that generally very positive assessment. Over the weekend quite a few other reviews hit, and we've sampled them below. The aggregate impression is generally positive, with a lot of praise aimed at the…
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Steven Spielberg's The Adventures of Tintin premieres in Paris next weekend, and on October 26 will start to hit theaters in the UK and Europe. But you don't have to wait two more weeks for some elements of the film. Previews of John Williams' score have hit the internet, so you can hear a few…
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The past few hours saw a whole bunch of release date shuffles as both of Steven Spielberg's 2011 releases, The Adventures of Tintin and War Horse, got new US dates, Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol will now open five days earlier than planned, but will only play in IMAX for those days, and Gangster Squad…
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It's been three years since Steven Spielberg last had a film in theaters bearing his credit as director. This year, however, we get two: the WWI stage play adaptation War Horse, opening on December 28, and the long-in-development The Adventures of Tintin, which hits Europe in little over a month and will play in the…
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For his first trip to Comic-Con, Steven Spielberg showed off some brand new Tintin footage, finally answering some of our lingering questions about the film's 3D motion-captured aesthetic. The good news: Tintin looks fantastic. While there are still some signs of the uncanny valley, this is the first motion-captured film I've seen that does a…
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Here's the first full-length trailer for The Adventures of Tintin, which Steven Spielberg directed as a mo-cap animated adaptation of one of Herge's classic Tintin tomes. This is our first good look at the action and adventure promised by the title and poster, and our best look yet at the animation, produced by Peter Jackson…
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This is potentially a big year for Steven Spielberg, who hasn't had a feature in theaters since the fourth Indiana Jones movie, but will soon have two new films opening: War Horse and The Adventures of Tintin. But it's not like he's got an easy path. The trailer for War Horse didn't convince everyone, and…
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This week, Dave, Devindra, and Adam discuss the transcendence of Tree of Life, delve into some television season finales, and debate the hypocrisy of the Cannes film festival. Special guest C. Robert Cargill joins us from Ain't It Cool News. You can always e-mail us at slashfilmcast(AT)gmail(DOT)com, or call and leave a voicemail at 781-583-1993.…
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Did you want more out of the first teaser for The Adventures of Tintin that arrived earlier this week? Then check out the international version, which still shies away from showing much of Tintin's face, but does offer a few new shots. I'm waiting to see an extensive dialogue sequence before jumping to any conclusions…
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The first collaboration between Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson, The Adventures Of Tintin: The Secret Of The Unicorn, opens in the UK on October 26 and in the US on December 23, but we've seen almost nothing of the film so far. A few images have been released, and that's it. No clips, no trailer.…
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The first Tintin film, The Adventures of Tintin: Secret of the Unicorn, with actors being directed in motion capture by Steven Spielberg, who passed off that raw data to WETA to animate, is still quietly in production. The actors wrapped a year and a half ago, we don't see the film for several months, and…
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Even though James Cameron used it to blockbuster critical and financial success, film fans are still divided on the issues of motion capture and 3D. Some see motion capture as the next step in an acting evolution which will eventually see the actor disappear, while others see it as an uncomfortable midpoint between animation and…
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We're still waiting to see a trailer for The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn, which is the ground-breaking team-up between directors Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson. We've seen a few images, and now there are high-res versions of three of them. So you can see all the minute detail that is going…
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At the beginning of this week we showed you the first look at Tintin (Jamie Bell) and Captain Haddock (Andy Serkis), from The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn, directed by Steven Spielberg and with post-production mocap work by Peter Jackson and WETA. More specifically: we showed you their rendered forms as they'll…
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Empire Magazine teased a first look at The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn all weekend. The film, directed by Steven Spielberg with Peter Jackson overseeing WETA's CGI mocap animation over the live-action footage, hasn't been seen in CGI form, until now. That's a look at Tintin, played by Jamie Bell, above. Hit…
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The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn doesn't see release until over a year from now -- on December 23, 2011 to be exact. But the live-action footage upon which the mocap animated film will be based was directed by Steven Spielberg a year ago, with Jamie Bell playing the title character. (Tintin,…
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In the wake of yesterday's news that Guillermo del Toro has walked away from directing the two Hobbit films for MGM and Warner Bros., the big question is 'who will do the job now?' The first name that comes up is Peter Jackson -- after he essentially revitalized big-budget fantasy with the Lord of the…
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What will Steven Spilerberg's Tintin look like? The motion-capture work for his adaptation of Hergé's classic comic character was shot last year, with Peter Jackson and WETA now working on post-production. We have yet to see a single design that shows off what the character will look like when the film appears in theaters next…
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