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It's been well over a decade since "Indiana Jones" filmmaker Steven Spielberg and "The Lord of the Rings" director Peter Jackson teamed up to bring us "The Adventures of Tintin." Based on the works of Hergé, it was an ambitious motion-capture adaptation of the "Tintin" comics that was intended to be the start of a full-fledged franchise. Spielberg directed the first installment, with Jackson expected to direct the sequel. Sadly, that sequel never came. So, what happened exactly? And is the movie still going to happen?

Last we heard about "Tintin 2" was way back in 2018 when Spielberg, who was in the midst of promoting "Ready Player One," suggested that it was still going to happen. Or, at the very least, that he still wanted it to happen. Here's what Spielberg had to say about it at the time:

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Steven Spielberg never had any qualms about the industry he adopted as his own. Hollywood, known for its brutal behind-the-scenes studio politics and overarching artistic ambitions, has instead been a reservoir of Spielbergian dreams. Action, adventure, science-fiction, drama, tragedy, romance, and musical – the director has seen it all and done it all.

Steven Spielberg on the sets of Saving Private Ryan with Tom Hanks [Credit: DreamWorks Pictures, Paramount Pictures]

Meanwhile, the industry has progressed at a steady pace to produce avant-garde cinema. Visions of the scale of Star Wars and Blade Runner were a far cry from the Hitchcock-era thrillers just as Lord of the Rings and Game of Thrones were incomparable to George Lucas’ creations. Spielberg, born between the old and the new, witnessed the changes and contributed to the evolution of Hollywood, helping mold it into a postmodern model of ideas.

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Fans of Hergé’s iconic comic book hero Tintin have reason to be optimistic, as Andy Serkis, star of the 2011 film “The Adventures of Tintin,” recently hinted at a possible sequel in the works. Speaking at the Ace Superhero Comic Con 2024, Serkis offered a tantalizing update on the long-awaited “The Adventures of Tintin 2.”

The original film, directed by Steven Spielberg and produced by Peter Jackson, was a groundbreaking achievement in motion capture animation. It won the Golden Globe for Best Animated Feature and set a new standard for the technology outside of Pixar’s domain. Despite its success and initial plans for a trilogy, the sequel has been in development limbo for over a decade.

Serkis, known for his pioneering work in motion capture performance, expressed confidence about the franchise’s future. Reflecting on his collaborations with Peter Jackson, Fran Walsh, and Phillipa Boyens, Serkis stated, “I’m pretty sure...

More than a decade after the 2011 release of Steven Spielberg’s criminally underrated The Adventures of Tintin hit theaters, fans of Hergé’s beloved characters continue to wonder if we’ll ever see a sequel. Andy Serkis, who voices Captain Archibald Haddock and Sir Francis Haddock in the 2011 original, says Tintin producer Peter Jackson is still working on another film featuring the dynamic duo of Captain Haddock and Tintin. In October 2011, Peter Jackson said he would direct The Adventures of Tintin 2. However, the silence on the project has been deafening ever since.

Originally, Steven Spielberg wanted to release The Adventures of Tintin 2 in 2015, but the legendary filmmaker’s schedule had other plans. At the time, Spielberg said a follow-up to the 2011 animated film would adapt two books in the Tintin saga. Screenwriter Anthony Horowitz was reportedly working on a screenplay but left the project in 2018. Jackson and Spielberg have yet...

Exclusive: Top Belgian distribution and production company Belga Films Group is teaming up with French director Cédric Nicolas-Troyan on an English-language, live action adaptation of the iconic, European comic book The Yellow M.

Nicolas-Troyan’s previous credits include the 2016 fantasy action-adventure tale The Huntsman: Winter’s War as well as Netflix’s action hit Kate and recently launched French-language series Furies.

The Yellow M is the sixth volume in Belgian artist Edgar P. Jacobs’ popular 1950s comic book series Blake and Mortimer, about the adventures of MI5 Captain Francis Blake and his scientist friend Philip Mortimer.

The cult series is considered a masterpiece of ligneclaire (the drawing style pioneered by Tintin creator Hergé) and has sold more than 20 million copies worldwide and has been translated into 15 languages. Franco-Belgian publishing house Dargaud – Le Lombard owns the rights to the comic strip.

Nicolas-Troyan, who is represented by CAA, will produce alongside Patrick Vandenbosch...

For years, Awesome Art We’ve Found Around The Net has been about two things only – awesome art and the artists that create it. With that in mind, we thought why not take the first week of the month to showcase these awesome artists even more? Welcome to “Awesome Artist We’ve Found Around The Net.” In this column, we are focusing on one artist and the awesome art that they create, whether they be amateur, up and coming, or well established. The goal is to uncover these artists so even more people become familiar with them. We ask these artists a few questions to see their origins, influences, and more. If you are an awesome artist or know someone that should be featured, feel free to contact me at any time at [email protected] month we are very pleased to bring you the awesome art of…

Laurent Durieux...

Historically, the relationship between Hollywood and European comic books has been fraught with mutual distrust and cultural dissonance. Not to disparage Steven Spielberg — one of our national treasures — but his 2011 adaptation of The Adventures of Tintin was a bit of a disaster. And when La Femme Nikita director Luc Besson fulfilled a childhood fantasy in 2017 by bankrolling Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets out of his own pocket, the most expensive independent movie ever made landed with the thud of a global box office bomb.

But there’s hope on the horizon. European comic books — specifically, the Franco-Belgian school spearheaded by the Tintin character and his creator Hergé — are both a multimillion Euro industry and a sumptuous art form with dozens of successful franchises waiting to be developed. N

ow that the offerings of Marvel and DC are beginning to feel a tad fatigued, to say the least,...

Action for AIDS, Gayhealth.sg and director Leon Cheo are happy to announce that the Emmy®-nominated short form series is back for a third season on Dec 7, 2023 with the six episodes released weekly on www.youtube.com/gayhealth. The finale episode goes live on Jan 11, 2024. The series' third season explores how community can support but also be destructive.

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“People Like Us: Season 3” continues exploring the lives of Joel, Ridzwan, Rai and Isaac, as they seek love, happiness and acceptance as gay Singaporeans. Post-‘honeymoon' phase, Rai and Haniff face challenges as a serodiscordant couple. Joel and Ridzwan find their own ways to deal with their grief. Meanwhile, Isaac falls deeper into his substance addiction. Will it be happily ever after?

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Co-developed with Action for AIDS Singapore, season two of “People Like Us” was nominated for Best Short Form Series at the 2020 International Emmy® Awards. The first...

The miracle of friendship rather than the image of electric sheep is what occupies the subconscious of the charming android gleefully strolling through “Robot Dreams,” Spanish director Pablo Berger’s first animated venture. Fashioned into moving form from the graphic novel by Sara Varon, this hand-drawn buddy dramedy preserves both the cartoon strip aesthetic and lack of dialogue of the source material for a delightfully bittersweet animated wonder that embodies the medium’s most purely cinematic qualities. Now the fierce battle for the title of the best animated film of the year has a new strong contender.

More akin to the sophisticated world of “BoJack Horseman” than that of Disney’s “Zootopia,” the setting is 1980s New York City — the twin towers of the World Trade Center still frame the skyline — but densely populated with an array of anthropomorphic animals. The bustling energy of the Big Apple shines through in...

For years, Awesome Art We’ve Found Around The Net has been about two things only – awesome art and the artists that create it. With that in mind, we thought why not take the first week of the month to showcase these awesome artists even more? Welcome to “Awesome Artist We’ve Found Around The Net.” In this column, we are focusing on one artist and the awesome art that they create, whether they be amateur, up and coming, or well established. The goal is to uncover these artists so even more people become familiar with them. We ask these artists a few questions to see their origins, influences, and more. If you are an awesome artist or know someone that should be featured, feel free to contact me at any time at [email protected] month we are very pleased to bring you the awesome art of…

Edgar Ascensão...

Disney's upcoming pulp sci-fi animated film "Strange World" is only two months away from release. In the film, a family of explorers heads out into a strange new territory, where odd creatures and plants wait to be discovered. /Film's own Vanessa Armstrong had a chat with "Strange World" Heads of Animation Amy Smeed and Justin Sklar about the creation of characters and how the team came up with their looks.

According to Sklar, the creation of the Clade family and the film's style was a group effort, with everyone "approaching it from a different direction." He said:

"I think [director Don Hall and co-director and writer Qui Nguyen] had a very specific vision about how we're going to approach the pulp thing and that became something for Jin Kim, who was drawing the characters, because it became this kind of French comic thing — there's a little bit of Miyazaki in there...

Every time someone takes a comic book character the world adores and decides to make an animated movie, there’s a risk they won’t do justice to the original designs. “The Adventures of Tintin” comes immediately to mind, since Spielberg and company made the bold choice of swapping artist Hergé’s appealing clean-line designs with appalling performance-capture zombies. Or 2019’s disappointing “The Addams Family” reboot, which effectively turned Charles Addams’ macabre sketches into benign, generic-looking balloon animals.

It’s a problem the folks at On Entertainment take seriously. They’re the ones who translated Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s “The Little Prince” to the screen, erring on the side of overdoing the CG equivalent in that case. Now, the same studio has done right by Jean-Jacques Sempé and René Goscinny’s Petit Nicolas — or Little Nicholas to English speakers, who are almost certainly less familiar with the source material (essentially...

When thinking about our list of the 50 Best Action Movies of the 21st century so far, it became clear that action movies have taken two paths in the past couple of decades. On the one hand, most of the franchise IP blockbusters — especially superhero films — released to massive box-office hauls could qualify as action movies in one way or another, even if they’re less kinetic than pixelated. However, the action movies that depend less on fetishized source material have yielded some of the most personal higher-budget work around. When done well, an action movie can tell great character-driven stories through movement: drama made dynamic.

And that’s what defines so many of the movies on IndieWire’s list: Some are self-consciously quirky character pieces, from Jason Statham needing to keep his heart rate up at adrenalized extremes in “Crank: High Voltage” to Clive Owen and Monica Bellucci having sex...

Hugo Games have announced that they have signed an agreement to bring Tintin to mobile, creating a brand new mobile game based on the original stories, characters and mysteries from the legendary Tintin albums created by Belgian cartoonist Hergé.

This will be the first time a mobile game will be built on the contents of the original Tintin books. The game will be a “Match 3” puzzle game for mobile devices and the game is planned to launch in 2019.

Hugo Games’ CEO Henrik Nielsen is proud to be chosen by Moulinsart to expand the Tintin universe with a puzzle game:

This is great news for Hugo Games and for gamers, because we will bring one of the most beloved characters in comic history, the legendary Tintin, to mobile devices. The key ingredients of a great game are a strong story line and good characters, and you don’t get them much...

With a seemingly endless amount of streaming options — not only the titles at our disposal, but services themselves — we’ve taken it upon ourselves to highlight the titles that have recently hit platforms. Every week, one will be able to see the cream of the crop (or perhaps some simply interesting picks) of streaming titles (new and old) across platforms such as Netflix, iTunes, Amazon, and more (note: U.S. only). Check out our rundown for this week’s selections below.

The Adventures of Tintin (Steven Spielberg)

Leave it to Steven Spielberg to eke more thrills out of an animated feature than most directors could with every live-action tool at their disposal. The Adventures of Tintin is colored and paced like a child’s fantastical imagining of how Hergé’s comics might play in motion, and the extent to which viewers buy it depends largely on their willingness to give...

This winter it will have been five years since Steven Spielberg teamed with Peter Jackson to bring Hergé‘s iconic intrepid reporter to the big screen in The Adventures of Tintin. The motion-capture performance film wasn’t a massive hit in the United States, earning $77.5 million, but since the comic that inspired it is much more […]

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There’s something inherently remarkable about the field of animation: that, with just a paper and pen, one can use infinite imagination to create a world unbound by physical restrictions. Of course, in today’s age it goes far beyond those simple tools of creation, but it remains the rare patience-requisite medium in which a director’s vision can be perfected over years until applying that final, necessary touch.

With Pixar’s 17th feature arriving in theaters, we’ve set out to reflect on the millennium thus far in animation and those films that have most excelled. In picking our 50 favorite titles, we looked to all corners of the world, from teams as big as thousands down to a sole animator. The result is a wide-ranging selection, proving that even if some animation styles aren’t as prevalent, the best examples find their way to the top.

To note: we only stuck with feature-length animations of 60 minutes or longer — sorry, World of Tomorrow, and even Pixar’s stunning Piper — and to make room for a few more titles, our definition of “the 21st century” stretched to include 2000. We also stuck with films that don’t feature any live-action (for the most part) and that have been released in the U.S. thus far, so The Red Turtle and Phantom Boy will get their due on a later date. Check out our top 50 below and let us know your favorites in the comments.

50. The Lego Movie (Phil Lord and Christopher Miller)

Admit it: When The Lego Movie was announced, you did not expect it to wind up any best-of-the-year lists. But, against all odds, Phil Lord and Chris Miller’s first smash hit of 2014 is an unadulterated pleasure. This bold, original film has a wildly clever script (by the directors) with a message of creativity that made it a glorious surprise. It is also well-cast: Lego is the first movie to fully make use of Chris Pratt’s essential sweetness, and offered Elizabeth Banks, Will Ferrell, Liam Neeson, and Morgan Freeman their freshest parts in years. It is not often that a “kids” film entertains adults as much as their children, but The Lego Movie is far more than a piece of entertainment for the young ones. What could have been a headache-inducing, cynical creation is instead a pop treat. Everything is, indeed, awesome. – Christopher Schobert

49. 5 Centimetres per Second (Makoto Shinkai)

Makoto Shinkai’s emotional tour de force is the embodiment of the Japanese term “mono no aware,” which describes a wistful awareness of life’s transience. In the way its characters are haunted by bygone moments in the face of a vast and shapeless future, 5 Centimetres per Second could function as a spiritual companion to the oeuvre of Wong Kar-wai, but whereas Wong’s lovelorn protagonists are stuck in the past, Shinkai’s move forward, steadily, in a state of melancholic acceptance. Time is itself a character here, a fact brought to our attention by shots of clocks, the evolution of technology alongside the characters’ aging, and scenes where narrative stakes ensure that the passing of each second is palpably felt. And yet it is precisely the ephemerality of these seconds that lends them elevated significance —fittingly, the film’s animation is breathtakingly detailed and tactile, allowing us to identify with the characters by having us inhabit each, vivid moment before it vanishes. – Jonah Jeng

48. The Adventures of Tintin (Steven Spielberg)

Leave it to Steven Spielberg to eke more thrills out of an animated feature than most directors could with every live-action tool at their disposal. The Adventures of Tintin is colored and paced like a child’s fantastical imagining of how Hergé’s comics might play in motion, and the extent to which viewers buy it depends largely on their willingness to give themselves over to narrative and technical flights of fancy. Me? Four-and-a-half years later, I’m still waiting for a follow-up with bated breath. – Nick Newman

47. Titan A.E. (Don Bluth, Gary Goldman and Art Vitello)

It’s the movie that took down Don Bluth, netted Fox a $100 million loss, and starred the young voices of Matt Damon and Drew Barrymore. From a script by Joss Whedon, John August, and Ben Edlund, Titan A.E. is a swashbuckle-y tale with stirring visuals and moments of sheer originality that now feels like a more-accomplished precursor to something such as Guardians of the Galaxy. If you’re going to go down, this is an impressive picture to sink with. – Dan Mecca

46. Metropolis (Rintaro)

Metropolis has more than a little in common with the apocalyptic orgy of violence of 1988 anime touchstone Akira, as the story follows the tragic inevitability of mans’ relationship with overwhelming power. But Rintaro’s Metropolis — which is based on Osama Tezuka’s manga and Fritz Lang’s canonical film — is also a story of overwhelming kindness in its central relationship between Kenichi, a well-intentioned and naïve child, and Tima, a cyborg capable of immense destruction. Distinguished by its washed-out watercolor character designs and its inventive cast of characters, Metropolis is a distinctly lighter take on the characteristically dreary dystopia genre. – Michael Snydel

45. Song of the Sea (Tomm Moore)

Animation has never shied away from grief. It’s the bedrock of everything from Grave of the Fireflies to the majority of Pixar’s filmography, but it’s rarely been as unbearably beautiful as in 2014’s unfairly overlooked Song of the Sea. Animated with a mythic tableau style, steeped in Celtic folklore, and filled with a cast of characters worthy of Hayao Miyazaki, Tomm Moore’s work is the rare heartwarming family film that knows it doesn’t need to compromise genuine emotion with fake-outs or Hollywood endings. – Michael Snydel

44. The Secret World of Arrietty (Hiromasa Yonebayashi)

While much of Studio Ghibli’s popularity focuses on the adored writer-director Hayao Miyazaki, some works from other directors deserve equal praise. One of them — which, yes, cheats a bit because Miyazaki scripted it — is The Secret World of Arrietty by first-time helmer Hiromasa Yonebayashi. The film follows a little boy’s fascination with the Borrowers — small humans that live in our world — and weaves the story of him and his family with Arrietty, one of the Borrowers. There are intensely dramatic moments as the Borrowers are constantly striving to survive amidst this world of luxury and easy life that the larger humans enjoy. Much like some of the best of Ghibli’s work, the film works on multiple levels and layers and thus becomes one of the studio’s most beautiful, enjoyable, and enduring works. – Bill Graham

43. ParaNorman (Chris Butler and Sam Fell)

A story of bullies and the bullied, Laika Studios’ second stop-motion film, ParaNorman, was unfortunately overshadowed by their astounding previous effort, Coraline. But time has been kind, and ParaNorman feels ahead of its time in both the exploration of darker themes (witch hunts, child murder, bigotry) and its juxtaposition of a Puritan New England ghost story and a vividly supernatural present. Buoyed by Jon Brion’s characteristically thoughtful score and an inventive reconfiguration of horror movie iconography, ParaNorman is a coming-of-age story that recognizes that even the “bad guys” have their reasons. – Michael Snydel

42. Wallace and Gromit: Curse of the Were Rabbit (Nick Park and Steve Box)

Wallace and Gromit: Curse of the Were Rabbit, Aardman Animation’s second feature collaboration with DreamWorks, brings Nick Park‘s brilliant claymation series about an absentminded inventor and his mute canine companion to the big screen. Working as humane pest removal specialists, Wallace and Gromit have hatched a plan to brainwash every hungry rabbit in town to dislike vegetables, preventing Gromit’s prized melon from being ruthlessly devoured. But the experiment backfires and the Were-Rabbit, a monstrous beast with an unquenchable appetite for veggies, is unleashed on the lush gardens of Tottington Holl. On par with the most uproarious shorts of Park’s career (working this time out with co-director Steve Box), the film slyly evokes fond memories of Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein in never treating its goofy leads as seriously as its surprisingly effective scares. It’s a shame that Park has announced the titular duo are likely retired, due to the failing health of voice actor Peter Sallis. Wallace and Gromit: Curse of the Were Rabbit is a light-hearted and whimsically clever gem that also works as a charming introduction to the horror genre for young cinema-lovers. – Tony Hinds

41. Lilo & Stitch (Chris Sanders and Dean DeBlois)

What other film can pull off starting with an all-out sci-fi adventure and transition into a heartful ode to culture and family? Before they delivered an even more impactful variation on a similar sort of creature-human bond with How to Train Your Dragon, Chris Sanders and Dean DeBlois created this touching tale. Featuring a return to watercolor-painted backgrounds for Disney, as well as a reliance on 2D animation, it’s one of the company’s last in this era to have that long-missed tangibility. As often repeated in the film, “Family means nobody gets left behind,” and, by the end credits, you’ll feel like you’ve added a few new members to your own. – Jordan Raup

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A while back, when we released the 400th episode of the Sound On Sight podcast, a few close friends and longtime listeners requested we compile a list of our favorite shows we recorded over the years. Now that the podcast has officially come to an end, I decided to finally set aside some time in my schedule and give them what they want. Initially, I set out to pick ten, but after 500 recordings and 8 long years, it was simply too hard to choose so few, so I opted for 20 instead. In selecting these episodes, I tried to show the wide range of genres we covered over the years, including Spaghetti Westerns, Italian Horror, Southern Gothic, underground cult, family friendly, foreign language and even Hollywood classics. We’ve been blessed with several guest hosts and interviews with many filmmakers including genre legends George A. Romero and John Landis, to name a few.

“Nothing needs justification less than entertainment, but a movie planned only to entertain that fails has no justification.” That’s Pauline Kael, in one of those many bon mots of hers that seeks intuitive agreement over critical response. As with other of her grand pronouncements, my reply, upon actual reflection, is “Speak for yourself.” Her language about planning aside, the sentence carries the implication of a position she took throughout her career: that there are movies that do nothing but entertain. Myself, I’ve never seen one. From Tsai Ming-liang to James Cameron, a movie that entertains always carries with it—brazenly or subtly—further elements of fascination, things worth parsing beyond the issue of pleasure. I won’t argue that Steven Spielberg’s 2011 CGI film The Adventures of Tintin contains a story of any profundity, nor that it’s a significant intervention in the culture, nor that it brought me to tears.

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Managing Editor

Since opening Nov. 6 with the world premiere of J.C. Chandor’s A Most Violent Year, AFI Fest has hosted the world premieres of Ava DuVernay’s Selma, Rupert Wyatt’s The Gambler and Clint Eastwood’s American Sniper, but it’s also hosted a variety of festival favorites, including Bennett Miller’s Foxcatcher, which closes the festival tonight. Miller, a two-time Oscar nominee, received the best director award at the Cannes Film Festival following the film’s premiere. This biographical film is based on the true story of brothers and wrestling gold medalists Mark (Channing Tatum) and Dave Schultz (Mark Ruffalo) and their relationship with John du Pont (Steve Carell), which ultimately results in Dave’s murder. The film opens in theaters tomorrow. Twelve of the past 14 films to close AFI Fest have received Oscar nominations, two for best picture. Closing-night films at AFI Fest...

It’s been over two years since the release of The Adventures of Tintin, the very successful adaptation of the comic book series by Belgian cartoonist Hergé, which was produced by Peter Jackson and directed by Steven Spielberg. Seeing as the film was a critical success with nearly $400 million at the worldwide box office, a sequel was always in the works with Jackson and Spielberg trading roles. But since the release of the original in December of 2011, we haven’t heard much talk about the follow-up. Now, it appears as if things may be moving forward with news that a completed script for a Tintin sequel is ready and just waiting for Jackson.

In a conversation with the Daily Mail, prolific English novelist and screenwriter Anthony Horowitz (Alex Rider, Foyle’s War) mentioned his work on The Adventures of Tintin. “I’ve just finished writing the new Tintin film for Steven Spielberg,...

The Grand Budapest Hotel

Written and directed by Wes Anderson

USA/UK/Germany, 2014

More than perhaps any other director, the work of Ernst Lubitsch has been the most noticeable influence on Wes Anderson’s style. Though the great German-American writer-director, most prolific in the 1930s and 1940s, was never quite so aesthetically bold in the look of his sets, he too was preoccupied with meticulous staging for comedy within his chosen locales, be they the titular Shop Around the Corner or the Parisian hotel of Ninotchka; The Grand Budapest Hotel is set in a fictional European country, the Republic of Zubrowka, another Lubitsch trait from works like The Merry Widow and The Love Parade, though The Shop Around the Corner happens to be set in the city Anderson’s mountaintop lodging house takes its name from. He garnered the descriptor of ‘the Lubitsch touch’ thanks to the moving sincerity that...

The Adventures of Tintin: Red Rackham's Treasure is still planned for 2015, Steven Spielberg has confirmed.

There have been very few updates on the sequel to 2011's The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn since its announcement last year.

"Don't hold me to it, but we're hoping the film will come out around Christmas time in 2015," Spielberg told The Times of India.

"We know which books we're making, we can't share that now but we're combining two books which were always intended to be combined by Hergé."

Spielberg has previously confirmed that the second film will be based on Hergé's book Prisoners of the Sun, although rumours have since surfaced that other books - including The Calculus Affair - will also be incorporated.

Producer Peter Jackson also stated in December that the sequel is on track for a 2015 release.

Anthony Horowitz has been named as the sole writer for the sequel,...

Director to begin work on sequel to The Adventures of Tintin: Secret of the Unicorn before he completes Hobbit trilogy

Peter Jackson plans to begin work on a sequel to last year's motion capture take on Tintin before he completes his current fantasy trilogy based on Jrr Tolkien's The Hobbit, according to reports.

Jackson told Belgium's Rtbf website during interviews to publicise his return to Middle-earth that he would find time to begin work on the as yet untitled follow-up to The Adventures of Tintin: Secret of the Unicorn next year with the aim of a 2015 release date. The first Tintin film was directed by Steven Spielberg with Jackson as producer; Spielberg revealed in February that the Oscar-winning pair would swap roles for its sequel.

"Anthony Horowitz is writing the script and I will meet him next week, Jackson said. "Then, hopefully, find a time next year – along...

Though one would have thought that a film teaming up Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson would have been a landslide hit, The Adventures of Tintin (The Secret of the Unicorn) only raked in $77 million in the United States. However, the titular intrepid reporter created by Hergé has always been more popular overseas, and worldwide the film landed nearly $300 million. Earlier this year, Spielberg had said Jackson would move right from The Hobbit onto the motion capture stage to start shooting a sequel, and Jackson has confirmed that is still the plan, even with an extra film for The Hobbit also on the way. More below! Rtbf (via Bleeding Cool) has word from Jackson, who was speaking with the Belgian media while doing a press tour for The Hobbit, revealing that he plans to shoot The Adventures of Tintin sequel sometime next year (before the second installment of The Hobbit ...

It's been a full year since the Steven Spielberg-directed The Adventures of Tintin hit theaters and, while its long been said that Peter Jackson would take the reins for the sequel, the Hobbit director has been more than a little bit busy with his epic three-part J.R.R. Tolkien adaptation. Today, however, while speaking with Belgian site Rtbf (via Bleeding Cool ), Jackson revealed that his current hope is to begin shooting another Hergé-inspired adventure in 2013. Although it is known that screenwriter Anthony Horowitz has been working on drafting the Tintin sequel, it is still unconfirmed exactly which published adventure (or adventures) will be adapted for the big screen. "I've got several favorite stories," Jackson told ComingSoon.net back in 2009 . "I...

A graphic designer that goes by the name of Muzski has created an incredibly fun series of art that takes Hergé’s classic comic character Tintin and throws him into the terrifyingly awesome universe of H.P. Lovecraft. I'd love to see how these stories play out! Maybe Peter Jackson and Steven Spielberg's next Tintin film should be The Adventures of Tintin: At the Mountains of Maddness.

Watch our brave adventurers flee from shoggoths, Deep Ones, fish folk, ghouls, Formless Spawn, Mi-Go, Elder Things, nightgaunts, Old Ones, Outer Gods and foreigners (i.e. non-Anglo-Saxons) as they face many an existential crisis regarding their insignificance on a cosmic scale!

What eldritch horrors await our companions as they unearth the secrets from untold aeons in the dark corners of the earth? Will they heroically flee from these abominations from the stars, or will they choose the merciful oblivion that is death...

As this summer’s blockbuster season reminds us comic book adaptations are big business with the latest incarnations of heroes old and new filling the local picturehouse and running merry riot over box office records.

Given the twin benefits of a wealth of material on which to draw and a ready audience primed to see their favourites fleshed out and thrown onto a movie screen it seems that we’ll be seeing many more familiar, and some less familiar, cartoon characters in movies of their own.

Jean Dujardin turned the world into a swooning mess when he led Michel Hazanavicius’ award magnet The Artist last year and in this article Anwar Brett takes a look at another of the actor’s roles, that of Lucky Luke in James Huth’s adaptation of the comic book by Morris, which is out now on DVD, as well as nine other cartoon heroes...

Dreams of a Life; Moneyball; Snowtown; Weekend; The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn; Resistance; Wreckers

While many mawkish middle-of-the-road melodramas are lazily referred to as "heartbreaking", few films are as genuinely deserving of that epithet as Carol Morley's Dreams of a Life (2011, Dogwoof, E). An insightful account of the life and death of Joyce Vincent, a vibrant young woman who lay undiscovered in her flat for years after slipping through the cracks in an increasingly alienated, isolated society, this sobering cocktail of drama and documentary is at once engaging and enraging, enthralling and appalling.

Interweaving soul-searching contributions from Vincent's friends and lovers with hauntingly dreamy reconstruction footage, Morley paints a fable-like picture of a fractured personality, seen in tantalising glimpses through the memories of those who (never really?) knew her. Audiotape recordings of Vincent's voice (she was a promising singer) prompt uncanny reactions from the interviewees,...

To mark the release of The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn on Blu-ray™ 3D, Blu-ray Triple Play and DVD 19th March, we’ve been given 5 copies of the movie to give away on Blu-ray.

From Oscar® winning director Steven Spielberg (1998, Saving Private Ryan; 1993, Schindler’s List) and Oscar® winning producer Peter Jackson (2003, The Lord of the Rings), comes the 3D animated epic The Adventures Of Tintin: The Secret Of The Unicorn, available on Blu-ray 3D, Blu-ray Triple Play (Blu-ray, DVD and Digital Copy) and DVD 19 March, 2012 from Paramount Home Entertainment.

Visionary filmmakers Spielberg and Jackson combine their remarkable talents to bring Hergé’s classic comic book characters to stunning new life in this globe-hopping quest that spans hidden mysteries, menacing criminals and an ancient treasure. Featuring the vocal talents of Jamie Bell (Billy Elliot), Andy Serkis (Rise of the Planet of the Apes), Daniel Craig...

Growing up, I devoured just about all the animated adventure programs on television at the time, meaning I saw early anime series like The Amazing Three and Astro Boy in addition to the adaptations of Belgium’s classic hero Tintin. As a result, I have always known the teen hero and have respected Hergé’s amazing output of graphic albums until his passing. I even paid a visit to London’s Tintin store, amazed at the variety of offerings that were nicer and less kitschy than the American tonnage devoted to the most meager of properties.

It always surprised me that a live action Tintin movie was never made so was excited to hear that two legends, Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson, were going to collaborate on a series of films. The quirk was that it would all be done with state-of-the-art motion capture plus shot for 3-D. Since Robert Zemeckis first explored motion capture,...

Based on One of the World’s Most Beloved Characters, Critically-Acclaimed daptation Debuts on Blu-ray 3D™, Blu-ray™ and DVD March 13, 2012 Hollywood, Calif. – The incomparable team of Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson brings the world-renowned stories of Hergé to life in the rollicking and wildly imaginative The Adventures Of Tintin, bursting onto Blu-ray 3D, Blu-ray and DVD (all with UltraViolet™), On Demand and for Digital Download on March 13, 2012 from Paramount Home Media Distribution. Winner of the 2012 Golden Globe for Best Animated Feature Film, The Adventures Of Tintin has been called “a grand thrill ride of a treasure hunt” (New York Post) and the “most delightful dose of pure entertainment since Raiders of the Lost Ark” (Minneapolis Star Tribune). Featuring groundbreaking and visually-stunning motion capture animation, an outstanding...

From Oscar® winning director Steven Spielberg (1998, Saving Private Ryan; 1993, Schindler’s List) and Oscar® winning producer Peter Jackson (2003, The Lord of the Rings), comes the 3D animated epic The Adventures Of Tintin: The Secret Of The Unicorn, available on Blu-ray 3D, Blu-ray Triple Play (Blu-ray, DVD and Digital Copy) and DVD 19 March, 2012 from Paramount Home Entertainment.

We have 3 copies of the DVD to give away.

Visionary filmmakers Spielberg and Jackson combine their remarkable talents to bring Hergé’s classic comic book characters to stunning new life in this globe-hopping quest that spans hidden mysteries, menacing criminals and an ancient treasure. Featuring the vocal talents of Jamie Bell (Billy Elliot), Andy Serkis (Rise of the Planet of the Apes), Daniel Craig (The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo), Simon Pegg (Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol) and Nick Frost (Attack the Block), The Adventures Of Tintin: The Secret Of The Unicorn has...

The Adventures of TinTin was amazing, with a nice mix of story and action. Steven Spielberg directed the first animated/performance capture adaptation of Hergé’s comic book series. Peter Jackson served as producer, on what is planned as a trilogy. TotalFilm spoke with Spielberg recently, and we have an update on the sequel.

Here is what Spielberg had to say about the sequel:

Peter [Jackson]’s doing it. I wanted to do it, but Peter has to because we made a deal. I said, ‘I’ll direct the first one, you direct the second one.

And Peter, of course, is going to do it right after he finishes photography on The Hobbit. He’ll go right into the 31, 21 days of performance capture. 'We’re not telling the world what books we’re basing the second movie on yet.'

Earlier reports by Kathleen Kennedy stated that the sequel would be based on The Calculus Affair.

Steven Spielberg told Total Film that Peter Jackson and he made a deal that the "War Horse" director would helm the first "Tintin" and Jackson would take care of the sequel.

Jackson is currently busy with his two "Hobbit" movies but Spielberg says "Peter, of course, is going to do it right after he finishes photography on The Hobbit. He.ll go right into the.performance capture." EW has reported that Jackson's rep has confirmed that he will direct the next "Tintin" movie which Spielberg will now be producing. Spielberg directed the last one, Jackson produced, now, it's role-swapping time.

It's still unclear which book by Hergé will be the basis of "Tintin 2" although producer Kathleen Kennedy once hinted that it's going to be "The Calculus Affair." Spielberg neither confirm nor deny that theory saying .We haven.t decided that yet. She.s throwing a monkey wrench into your story!

Director Steven Spielberg has revealed that the sequel to last year’s 3D animated The Adventures of Tintin, will be helmed by none other than Peter Jackson.

Speaking to Total Film, the War Horse director stated that his co-producer from the first film would direct the second chapter in the planned trilogy.

“Peter [Jackson]’s doing it. I wanted to do it, but Peter has to because we made a deal. I said, ‘I’ll direct the first one, you direct the second one’”, he stated.

Spielberg did however refuse to disclose what books from Hergé’s comic book series the sequel may draw its plot from, despite previous suggestions indicating towards the 1956 cold war-themed story The Calculus Affair.

"We're not telling the world what books we're basing the second movie on yet. We have completed a story outline now. We have a writer on it. I'm just not declaring what it is,...

Peter Jackson is currently hard at work filming two Hobbit movies in New Zealand, but recently he found the time to produce Amy Berg's documentary West of Memphis, which chronicles the story of Damien Echols and the West Memphis 3. The doc got a ton of buzz at Sundance 2012 (read Ethan's review), and according to The Adventures of Tintin director Steven Spielberg, it looks like Jackson is going to stay busy by transitioning straight from one big budget playground to another. Spielberg spoke with Total Film and revealed that Jackson is going to go straight from Middle Earth back to the world of Hergé. Read on! Spielberg says Jackson will begin directing the as-yet-untitled Adventures of Tintin sequel "right after he finishes photography on The Hobbit. He'll go right into the 31, 21 days of performance capture." But as we know, that still means there may be a year ...

Look alive, Tintin lovers! You won’t have too long(ish) of a wait for the The Adventures of Tintin 2. Peter Jackson’s Tintin co-producer Steven Spielberg tells Total Film that Jackson will not take a break between the two Hobbit films — which are being produced simultaneously — and the as-yet-untitled sequel. ”We made a deal,” said Spielberg. “I said, ‘I’ll direct the first one, you direct the second one.’ Peter, of course, is going to do it right after he finishes photography on The Hobbit. He’ll go right into the…performance capture.”

Jackson’s spokesperson confirmed to EW...

Thundering typhoons! The adventures of Tintin continue as Steven Spielberg confirms Peter Jackson will direct second film in planned trilogy as pair 'made a deal'

Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson are to move ahead with plans for a second film in their planned Tintin trilogy following the success of the first film in the series, Total Film reports.

Jackson will direct the followup to last year's The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn, the title of which has not yet been decided. Spielberg said the New Zealand film-maker would go into production on the sequel immediately after he finishes work on The Hobbit, his current two-part adaptation of the Jrr Tolkien fantasy novel. The film-makers always planned to make a Tintin trilogy together, but were forced to make the films one step at a time after studio Paramount baulked at the prospect of financing three films upfront.

Total Film recently caught up with Steven Spielberg, and we got him to spill the beans on the upcoming Tintin sequel. Spielberg directed the first instalment of the performance-capture/animated take on Hergé’s spirited comic book series, with Peter Jacskon serving as producer. The pair had planned on a trilogy, and the ending of The Secret Of The Unicorn certainly left things open for a sequel. So what can Spielberg tell us about Tintin 2? “Peter [Jackson]’s doing it. I wanted to do it, but Peter has to because we...

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[1] Technically, I guess the PG-13 Grown Ups doesn't really qualify as a kids' film, so its sequel probably won't either. But since that movie centered around five grown men acting like children, I'll say that that this Sequel Bits is all about the young'uns. After the jump: Jessica Chastain and Bryan Cranston somehow cram Madagascar 3 into their very, very busy schedules Steven Spielberg talks The Adventures of Tintin 2 and 3 To the surprise of no one, Antonio Banderas would like to do a Puss in Boots 2 Adam Sandler's Grown Ups 2 gets a summer 2013 release date DreamWorks' Madagascar franchise has never had trouble pulling in well-known stars, with Ben Stiller, David Schwimmer, Chris Rock, and Jada Pinkett Smith voicing the core characters and actors like Sacha Baron Cohen, Frances McDormand, and Cedric the Entertainer lending their vocal talents to the various films as well. Now it's landed three more names for its upcoming third installment,...

Peter Jackson, who acted as a producer on the first film, will be at the helm of the upcoming animated follow up while Steven Spielberg will take up an executive producer role. Combining three of Belgian artist Georges "Hergé" Remi's comic stories --The Crab with the Golden Claws, The Secret of the Unicorn and Red Rackham's Treasure -- the film depicts Tintin's first encounter with Captain Haddock and the discovery of a clue to the treasure of his ancestor Sir Francis Haddock. They set out to find it with protection from a prison escapee, the nefarious Red Rackham, as well as Detectives Thompson and Thomson. Directed by Steven Spielberg, produced by Peter Jackson with a screenplay by Stephen Moffat, Edgar Wright and Joe Cornish, The Adventures of Tintin features the voice talent of Jamie...

During the Us press circuit promoting the release of the hit, animated film Steven Spielberg, Kathleen Kennedy, Jaime Bell & Nick Frost offered their thoughts on why they chose to join the project. Combining three of Belgian artist Georges "Hergé" Remi's comic stories --The Crab with the Golden Claws, The Secret of the Unicorn and Red Rackham's Treasure -- the film depicts Tintin's first encounter with Captain Haddock and the discovery of a clue to the treasure of his ancestor Sir Francis Haddock. They set out to find it with protection from a prison escapee, the nefarious Red Rackham, as well as Detectives Thompson and Thomson. For director Steven Spielberg and producer Kathleen Kennedy, The Adventures of Tintin was a labor of love twenty-plus years in the making. Although they met...

"It's no fun wearing my Tintin shirt now that the masses know who he is." The drawing over that caption is superfluous. Still, the cartoon in this week's New Yorker nicely sums up the shift in Tintin's status in the Us since the release of Steven Spielberg's The Adventures of Tintin — his face has migrated from imported T-shirts to dog food ads.

As with another 3D spectacle currently in theaters, Pina, we've already had two roundups on Spielberg's Tintin, the first in October, an entry that kicked off with initial reactions to the film's premiere and eventually segued into more considered reviews in the British and European press, and the second in November, an entry gathering takes from the Tintinologists and reviews from AFI Fest. So I'll try to keep it brief in this third go-round, focusing more on Hergé than Spielberg, beginning with Charles McGrath's introduction in the video embedded above.

The first few moments of a film can be precious. Landing an ending is vital, but a great initial hook can set that perfect tone to invite us into the story. We’ve had some excellent openings this year and have rounded them up below, with some providing a pleasant montage to ease us in, while others can haunt or foreshadow what is to come. Check out our top ten and let us know your favorites. You can also see our Top 10 Endings of 2011 for the other side of things.

10. Midnight in Paris (Woody Allen)

Much like how the film’s protagonist dabbles in life in the past, so does Woody Allen, harkening back to his visual love letter to New York in Manhattan and bringing it to Paris. From the shots of the urban landscape in inclement weather (New York in snow, Paris in rain) to trains slowly gliding by major works of architecture,...

As a rule, it isn’t bad to kick off a game by playing a dog, but it all depends on what the dog’s doing. The Adventures Of Tintin, a game based on the Steven Spielberg/Peter Jackson movie version of Hergé’s classic comic series, opens with players in the role of Tintin’s fox terrier Snowy rather than the eponymous cowlick-rocking Belgian reporter. Snowy has had some adventures over the last 82 years of Tintin; controlling him could be cool. Not here. As the jaunty soundtrack Django Reinhardts away, your time with Snowy captures some of Tintin ...

The mission wasn’t impossible. Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol was Number One at the box office this weekend with $26. 5 Million. Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows was Second with $17.8 Million. Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked was Third with $13.3 Million. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo premiered in Fourth Place with $13 Million. The Adventures of Tintin premiered in Fifth Place with $9.1 Million. We Bought a Zoo (which premiered this weekend), New Year’s Eve, Arthur Christmas, The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1, Hugo, and The Muppets rounded out the top ten respectively.

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is a 2011 English-language drama/thriller film directed by David Fincher, adapted from Stieg Larsson’s Swedish-language novel of the same name by Steven Zaillian.The film stars Daniel Craig as Mikael Blomkvist and Rooney Mara as Lisbeth Salander and tells the story of a man’s mission to find out what has happened...

Christmas is usually when Hollywood puts out its prestige films and Oscar-bait, but this year it's all about blockbusting action

Christmas weekend is upon us, but at the American multiplex it seems more like the 4th of July. In a season usually – or at least largely – dedicated to tony prestige pictures – the annual casting of Oscar bait – there are no less than three mass-market Hollywood franchises hogging all the attention and, inevitably, ticket sales: Steven Spielberg's The Adventures of Tintin, David Fincher's The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, and Brad Bird's Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol.

Though major investments are on the line and the box office won't share the wealth evenly, these aren't exactly risky bets. The first two are lavishly mounted adaptations of beloved best-selling books, directed by auteurs as bankable as they are revered; and the last film is the fourth instalment in a longstanding series,...

Based on the internationally beloved characters created by Hergé comes The Adventures of Tintin, directed by Steven Spielberg and produced by Peter Jackson. In a collective and creative partnership Spielberg and Jackson set out to tell the story of a curious young reporter Tintin (Jamie Bell) and his loyal dog Snowy as they discover a model ship carrying an explosive secret.  With the help of Captain Haddock (Andy Serkis) and the bumbling detectives Thompson & Thomson (Simon Pegg and Nick Frost), Tintin travels half the world from the high seas to the sands of North African deserts in an attempt to outrun his enemies. In an exclusive interview with Movies.com actor Jamie Bell talks about his first encounter with Steven Spielberg, confesses to being more of an...

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In 2011, New Zealand-based visual effects company Weta Digital was at it again with another banner year in the CG filmmaking landscape, perhaps the company's biggest year to date. With Rupert Wyatt's "Rise of the Planet of the Apes," performance capture technology was taken to new progressive heights as a franchise was not only rebooted but redefined, primarily due to the hardworking effects engineers behind the enterprise. With Steven Spielberg's "The Adventures of Tintin," a legendary director saddled up to the technology and commissioned added effects elements to the mixture that brought the work of Belgian artist Hergé to life on...