The $130,000,000 budget for the upcoming Tintin movie, based upon Hergé’s world-wide hit comics series, has been rejected by Universal. The movie, produced and directed by Steven Spielberg (with the second installment to be directed by The Lord of the Rings‘ Peter Jackson) and written by Doctor Who’s Stephen Moffat, is the first in a proposed…
According to the media, lawyers are gearing up for a “frenzied fight” over the screen rights to the biggest graphic novel of all time, plus: Barack sells out at Image It’s now a world without Don LaFontaine Robert Englund tells us about the rebirth of V And on Saturday, catch ComicMix Radio as we are…
Despite rumors coming from Hergé Studios, The Hollywood Reporter says Steven Spielberg remains set to direct the first of a project trilogy of films featuring Brussels’ Tintin. Hergé had said on Tuesday that Peter Jackson was moving ahead of Spielberg prompting both Jackson and Spielberg camps to deny the fact. The first film, written by Doctor…
Now we know. That Indiana Jones still swings a mean whip. I liked the new Indy flick better than the critics I read, all of whom said something like, well, okay, it was all right but not up to the earlier entries in the series. Which makes me wonder: what would they have thought if…
The role of the titular character in the upcoming Tintin films has been filled. The adventure-seeking reporter will be played by 17-year-old Thomas Sangster, a London born actor who appeared in Love Actually and Nanny McPhee.Sangster joins Andy Serkis on the film, who has already been cast as Captain Haddock. Directors Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson…
I don’t always believe many of the "rumors" circulating around the Internets. The web is a big place and people sometimes exaggerate, or perhaps even fabricate, in order to get some kind of "scoop" or exclusive "insight" for their websites. That said, I am inclined to believe the following rumor which has recently surfaced, courtesy…
Through a spokesman, filmmakers Steven Spielberg and George Lucas have announced their intention to join with Hugh Hefner, Jack Nicolson, Leonardo DiCaprio, Nicholas Cage, Matt Groening, Jon Voight, and Bill Clinton to form a comics publishing firm known as Studio Comics. Intended to be a Research and Development part of the successful SKG, the new…
TNT has a few new series in development that could be of interest to us all: The Talisman – a six-hour limited series scheduled for summer 2008; a new project from DreamWorks Television and executive producer Steven Spielberg, based on the Stephen King and Peter Straub novel of the same title. The Saint – a…
Tintin, one of the most popular comic book creations on the international scene, is headed to the movie theaters coutesy of Dreamworks and producer Steven Spielberg. The movie has a projected budget near $100 million, according to The Hollywood Reporter. George Hermi, better known as Herge, created 23 Tintin graphic novels before he died in…
