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The top notch acting in the Weisz/Craig/Spall 'Betrayal' is emotionally true, often v funny and its beautifully staged with filmic qualities..
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James Bond star cast in Tintin movie
February 10th, 2009 by xoanon
As secret agent James Bond, British actor Daniel Craig is used to exotic locations but this year he may find himself in Wellington. Craig has been cast as the evil pirate Red Rackham in the first Tintin movie from Peter Jackson and Steven Spielberg. Variety magazine reported that The Adventures of Tintin: Secret of the Unicorn has begun shooting in Los Angeles. Spielberg is directing the first movie, and Jackson, who is also producing, will direct the second of three. Shooting for the first film will take place in Wellington later this year, which means that Craig, seen recently in the Bond adventure Quantum of Solace, may be in the capital, along with other cast members and Spielberg. James Bond star cast in Tintin movie
http://www.theonering.net/torwp/2009/02 ... tin-movie/
Where is Wellington? (Too lazy to look it up)
February 10th, 2009 by xoanon
As secret agent James Bond, British actor Daniel Craig is used to exotic locations but this year he may find himself in Wellington. Craig has been cast as the evil pirate Red Rackham in the first Tintin movie from Peter Jackson and Steven Spielberg. Variety magazine reported that The Adventures of Tintin: Secret of the Unicorn has begun shooting in Los Angeles. Spielberg is directing the first movie, and Jackson, who is also producing, will direct the second of three. Shooting for the first film will take place in Wellington later this year, which means that Craig, seen recently in the Bond adventure Quantum of Solace, may be in the capital, along with other cast members and Spielberg. James Bond star cast in Tintin movie
http://www.theonering.net/torwp/2009/02 ... tin-movie/
Where is Wellington? (Too lazy to look it up)
The top notch acting in the Weisz/Craig/Spall 'Betrayal' is emotionally true, often v funny and its beautifully staged with filmic qualities..
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New Zealand - where ever007Mania wrote:Can I join him?Germangirl wrote:007Mania wrote: Capital of New Zealand?He will get around
I want to go to New Zealand, too....
even it it means searching a dustbin, I would be there 
The top notch acting in the Weisz/Craig/Spall 'Betrayal' is emotionally true, often v funny and its beautifully staged with filmic qualities..
John Williams: The Adventures of Tintin
Veteran composer John Williams is doing the score for The Adventures of Tintin: Secret of the Unicorn, Steven Spielberg's and Peter Jackson's first film based on the classic Hergé comic books. The assignment has been confirmed by Williams' agent, the Gorfaine-Schwartz Agency, and will have fans expecting another classic film theme from the composer of such orchestral hits as the Indiana Jones theme, Star Wars, Superman, Jurassic Park and Harry Potter. Jamie Bell is doing the part as Tintin, and other cast members will include Daniel Craig and Andy Serkis. According to news reports, Peter Jackson is going to direct the sequel. A trilogy of films are planned, with the first one coming out in 2011. 77-year old Williams' latest score was last year's Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull - his 24th (!) feature with Steven Spielberg.
http://upcomingfilmscores.blogspot.com/ ... intin.html
Veteran composer John Williams is doing the score for The Adventures of Tintin: Secret of the Unicorn, Steven Spielberg's and Peter Jackson's first film based on the classic Hergé comic books. The assignment has been confirmed by Williams' agent, the Gorfaine-Schwartz Agency, and will have fans expecting another classic film theme from the composer of such orchestral hits as the Indiana Jones theme, Star Wars, Superman, Jurassic Park and Harry Potter. Jamie Bell is doing the part as Tintin, and other cast members will include Daniel Craig and Andy Serkis. According to news reports, Peter Jackson is going to direct the sequel. A trilogy of films are planned, with the first one coming out in 2011. 77-year old Williams' latest score was last year's Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull - his 24th (!) feature with Steven Spielberg.
http://upcomingfilmscores.blogspot.com/ ... intin.html
Some old blog posts about the history of the financing and casting of this 1st Tin Tin movie
Steven Spielberg/Peter Jackson 'Tintin' Movie Now Looking For More Cash Cash
I just heard that Universal has declined to exercise an option to co-finance DreamWorks' Tintin with Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson set to begin filming in October. The decision was quietly made a few weeks ago. So now DreamWorks will look only to owner Paramount for the rest of the moolah in the same way the two shared financing on Dreamgirls and Transformers. Unfortunately, Paramount is presently without an overall financing deal to mitigate risk, but is arranging it on a film-by-film basis. I say Tintin -- to be played by Love Actually's Thomas Sangster -- sounds like an expensive but safe bet, considering that the beloved Belgian boy is a worldwide phenomenon, and that the two great filmmakers are directing and producing even though also participating as huge first-dollar-gross players. This latest wrinkle would be more interesting if, say, Uni's decision hurt its about-to-become-closer relationship with DreamWorks. But it didn't. As I already reported, GE's Jeff Immelt and Uni's Ron Meyer dined with Spielberg and Stacey Snider Thursday night while NBC Uni's Jeff Zucker spent the better part of that afternoon with Steven planning out the rebuild of the fire-ravaged backlot.
http://www.deadlinehollywooddaily.com/tin-tin/
Paramount Coldly Denies Blank Check to Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson
Will the economic apocalypse hurt Hollywood? It's happening already! Steven Spielberg, the popular director behind such blockbusters as Jaws, Schindler's List, and the upcoming Mutt Williams and the Search for Elvis or Something, has been denied funding by Paramount for his planned two-movie adaptation of The Adventures of Tintin (Peter Jackson was to direct the second one). The original hope, according to Radar, was that Paramount would partner with Universal to share the cost of the first Tintin film (purportedly budgeted at $130 million), but Universal passed on it last month and now Paramount chief Brad Grey is saying he won't go it alone. In addition to the too-large budget, the other sticking point is Spielberg's standard demands for giant profit percentages: "Paramount won't pay Indiana Jones prices for a new franchise," says an insider. With millions already spent on a screenplay and motion capture, Spielberg and Jackson are left with little choice but to cast Shia LaBeouf in the lead role, a time-tested strategy that seems to get any old piece of crap green-lit these days.
Simon Pegg and Nick Frost Make Us Slightly Excited for Non-Exciting Spielberg Movie
You know the stock of a comic-book film franchise is low when not even the involvement of both Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson can convince a single studio to finance the $135 million budget on its own. Even so, the just-announced casting of hilarious Brits Simon Pegg and Nick Frost, as detectives Thompson Thomson and Thompson, has made us slightly more excited for Sony and Paramount's upcoming 3-D motion-capture film The Adventures of Tintin. Who cares if the movie's based on a Belgian comic strip from the forties, or if Pegg and Frost probably won't get to kill any zombies or elderly in it! The fact that they're back together again is almost good enough to make us forget How to Lose Friends and Alienate People.
http://nymag.com/tags/the%20adventures%20of%20tin%20tin
Steven Spielberg/Peter Jackson 'Tintin' Movie Now Looking For More Cash Cash
I just heard that Universal has declined to exercise an option to co-finance DreamWorks' Tintin with Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson set to begin filming in October. The decision was quietly made a few weeks ago. So now DreamWorks will look only to owner Paramount for the rest of the moolah in the same way the two shared financing on Dreamgirls and Transformers. Unfortunately, Paramount is presently without an overall financing deal to mitigate risk, but is arranging it on a film-by-film basis. I say Tintin -- to be played by Love Actually's Thomas Sangster -- sounds like an expensive but safe bet, considering that the beloved Belgian boy is a worldwide phenomenon, and that the two great filmmakers are directing and producing even though also participating as huge first-dollar-gross players. This latest wrinkle would be more interesting if, say, Uni's decision hurt its about-to-become-closer relationship with DreamWorks. But it didn't. As I already reported, GE's Jeff Immelt and Uni's Ron Meyer dined with Spielberg and Stacey Snider Thursday night while NBC Uni's Jeff Zucker spent the better part of that afternoon with Steven planning out the rebuild of the fire-ravaged backlot.
http://www.deadlinehollywooddaily.com/tin-tin/
Paramount Coldly Denies Blank Check to Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson
Will the economic apocalypse hurt Hollywood? It's happening already! Steven Spielberg, the popular director behind such blockbusters as Jaws, Schindler's List, and the upcoming Mutt Williams and the Search for Elvis or Something, has been denied funding by Paramount for his planned two-movie adaptation of The Adventures of Tintin (Peter Jackson was to direct the second one). The original hope, according to Radar, was that Paramount would partner with Universal to share the cost of the first Tintin film (purportedly budgeted at $130 million), but Universal passed on it last month and now Paramount chief Brad Grey is saying he won't go it alone. In addition to the too-large budget, the other sticking point is Spielberg's standard demands for giant profit percentages: "Paramount won't pay Indiana Jones prices for a new franchise," says an insider. With millions already spent on a screenplay and motion capture, Spielberg and Jackson are left with little choice but to cast Shia LaBeouf in the lead role, a time-tested strategy that seems to get any old piece of crap green-lit these days.
Simon Pegg and Nick Frost Make Us Slightly Excited for Non-Exciting Spielberg Movie
You know the stock of a comic-book film franchise is low when not even the involvement of both Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson can convince a single studio to finance the $135 million budget on its own. Even so, the just-announced casting of hilarious Brits Simon Pegg and Nick Frost, as detectives Thompson Thomson and Thompson, has made us slightly more excited for Sony and Paramount's upcoming 3-D motion-capture film The Adventures of Tintin. Who cares if the movie's based on a Belgian comic strip from the forties, or if Pegg and Frost probably won't get to kill any zombies or elderly in it! The fact that they're back together again is almost good enough to make us forget How to Lose Friends and Alienate People.
http://nymag.com/tags/the%20adventures%20of%20tin%20tin
The oldest Tin tin site
http://www.tintinologist.org/
From Characters guide Dan's characters
Red Rackham
Début: The Secret of the Unicorn - page 21, frame 8 - Pirate.
Red Rackham (2)
Début: Red Rackham's Treasure - page 2, frame 12 (name appears on page 3, frame
- One of the many claimants to Red Rackham's fortunes.
Trivia: In French, Rackam-Lerouge: Rackam is the name of the men, Lerouge is the name of his wife.
http://www.tintinologist.org/guides/characters/r.html
http://www.tintinologist.org/
From Characters guide Dan's characters
Red Rackham
Début: The Secret of the Unicorn - page 21, frame 8 - Pirate.
Red Rackham (2)
Début: Red Rackham's Treasure - page 2, frame 12 (name appears on page 3, frame
- One of the many claimants to Red Rackham's fortunes. Trivia: In French, Rackam-Lerouge: Rackam is the name of the men, Lerouge is the name of his wife.
http://www.tintinologist.org/guides/characters/r.html
I despise La Beouf so I was of course happy to hear not only about Dan starring but also about Jaimie again.Zibzabzut wrote:I'm so excited that Jamie Bell's playing the lead instead of Shia Lebeouf; and that hopefully everything with Tintin will be smooth sailings from here!
Maybe Spielberg wanted Shia but Dan of course had someone else in mind
Some info from CBn
Le tournage démarre début février. Aujourd'hui à Angoulême, Peter Jackson et Steven Spielberg ont expliqué les tenants et les aboutissants du méga projet TINTIN qui tiendra en éveil le monde de la BD pendant encore 2 ans au moins. Ils n'étaient pas là physiquement mais s'étaient amusés devant la caméra pour adresser un salut amical à tous les festivaliers et journalistes. L'histoire s'inspirera largement de "Le secret de la licorne" !
Au niveau du casting, on savait que c'était l'acteur Jamie Bell qui incarnera Tintin, on a appris récemment qu'il y aura un certain Gad Elmaleh qui sera très présent, (Chouchou dans la Castafiore ?). Il y aura James Bond, ou plutôt Daniel Craig (en prof Tournesol le James Bond ?). Nick Frost et Andy Serkis sont également au menu des festivités...
Le tournage se fera en motion capture, capteurs positionnés sur les acteurs pour un suivi parfait et une restitution en 3D. Ce principe était le seul aux yeux des producteurs et réalisateurs à pouvoir respecter l'oeuvre graphique du maitre ! Ce sera donc un film expérimental, loin des clichés à l'américaine. Il semble aussi qu'aucune histoire d'amour n'est prévue... et ... "Tintin n'aura ni Blackberry, ni Ipod"...
Speilberg and jackson spoke at one of the largest comics events in france:
The first movie is going to be based on the Crab with the Golden Claws, The Secret of the Unicorn and Red Rackham's Treasure. It will stay close to the period and the graphic style of the master himself, so Tintin won't have an iPod or Blackberry.
Red Rackam’s Sidekicks
The occasionally reliable Daily Mail has some on-set Tintin gossip from Daniel Mays and Mackenzie Crook, who are playing Alan and Ernie - sidekicks to Red Rackham (Daniel Craig). Both are comic actors with Mays having starred in the TV sitcom “Plus One” and Crook is most famous for his part in The Office. The pair of them are the comic relief in Red Rackham’s crew, a role very familiar to Crook after his work in the Pirates of the Caribbean trilogy.
‘You’ve got the actors wearing funny tight bodysuits fitted with hundreds of motion-capturing devices and as you act, you can see yourself on a big screen with costumes superimposed on this character that looks like you. . . but isn’t.
‘In front of you there’s a camera that picks up every aspect of your face.
Five people with hand-held cameras are filming you. And Steven Spielberg is sitting there with a camera device manipulating all the images.
‘With all the people on the set and backstage, it’s like a Shuttle launch - just fantastic!’ Mays enthused when we met for drinks at the Chateau Marmont on Sunset Boulevard.
Early on during the production Spielberg, sick with a cold, had to go to see a doctor. ‘We came in and there was Peter Jackson directing us via satellite from New Zealand,’ Mays laughed.
http://tintinmovie.org/2009/03/06/red-r ... sidekicks/
The occasionally reliable Daily Mail has some on-set Tintin gossip from Daniel Mays and Mackenzie Crook, who are playing Alan and Ernie - sidekicks to Red Rackham (Daniel Craig). Both are comic actors with Mays having starred in the TV sitcom “Plus One” and Crook is most famous for his part in The Office. The pair of them are the comic relief in Red Rackham’s crew, a role very familiar to Crook after his work in the Pirates of the Caribbean trilogy.
‘You’ve got the actors wearing funny tight bodysuits fitted with hundreds of motion-capturing devices and as you act, you can see yourself on a big screen with costumes superimposed on this character that looks like you. . . but isn’t.
‘In front of you there’s a camera that picks up every aspect of your face.
Five people with hand-held cameras are filming you. And Steven Spielberg is sitting there with a camera device manipulating all the images.
‘With all the people on the set and backstage, it’s like a Shuttle launch - just fantastic!’ Mays enthused when we met for drinks at the Chateau Marmont on Sunset Boulevard.
Early on during the production Spielberg, sick with a cold, had to go to see a doctor. ‘We came in and there was Peter Jackson directing us via satellite from New Zealand,’ Mays laughed.
http://tintinmovie.org/2009/03/06/red-r ... sidekicks/
Spielberg, Jackson dig into 'Tintin'
Steven Spielberg this week will quietly wrap 32 days of performance-capture lensing on "Tintin," then hand the project to producer Peter Jackson, who will focus on the film's special effects for the next 18 months.
Although the baton-pass is stealthy, "Tintin" is anything but a low-profile project. And that's just the first of many contradictions inherent with the film, which brings together two of cinema's visionaries.
The Tintin comicbook series about a globetrotting teenaged boy reporter, which originated 80 years ago in Belgium, is wildly popular in many countries around the world. In the U.S., however, the character is little-known, especially among children.
Spielberg and Jackson's respective camps have tried to keep a lid on the details of what is expected to become a three-film franchise while hyping the one-of-a-kind aspects of "Tintin's" motion-capture technology, which is being created by Jackson's New Zealand-based effects house Weta.
Just don't ask too many questions.
Spielberg's longtime spokesman Marvin Levy, who welcomed a story on "The Adventures of Tintin: Secret of the Unicorn," said, "You have to see it to understand (the technology). It really can't be described."
But he quickly nixed the idea of a visit to the set. "That wouldn't be feasible," he says.
The film's other producer, Kathleen Kennedy, is happy to talk about "Tintin," but admitted the world Spielberg and Jackson are creating is hard to describe.
"It's extremely difficult to explain to someone unless they are standing here next to me," Kennedy says from the Los Angeles set. "And usually then their reaction is, 'Oh my god.' "
Kennedy and Spielberg acquired the project in 1983 after Spielberg's interest in the project was piqued by critics' insistence that his "Raiders of the Lost Ark" harkened back to Tintin's escapades in exotic locations.
But the pair couldn't realistically begin developing the pic until about two years ago, when motion-capture technology finally caught up with the demands of the story. Spielberg received his introduction into the fledgling technology via his producing role on "Monster House." But Jackson, who joined Kennedy and Spielberg on the project in early 2007, is clearly a master of the form. Both the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy and "King Kong" elevated performance-capture to never-before-seen realism.
Jackson's role as mo-cap mentor to Spielberg, however, prompts the question: Who exactly is steering the "Tintin" ship?
Spielberg will receive sole directing credit on the first film, though even that distinction seems murky given that Jackson is doing the more time-consuming work, spending a year and a half creating the Tintin's world vs. Spielberg's one month on set. Jackson also traveled to Los Angeles for rehearsals and for the first week of shooting.
"It's hard to delineate between directing and producing on films like this," explains one project insider.
Kennedy insists that the transitions between the two creative talents are relatively seamless. "They are amazingly collaborative, even more so than Steven and George (Lucas were on the 'Raiders' films)."
And then, there are the two filmmakers' differing styles and thematic vibes: Spielberg is more character-oriented and relatively lean while Jackson revels in lavish visuals ... and running times.
The conventional wisdom has always been that Spielberg would direct his "Tintin" film, and Jackson would have his own. (It has long been reported that Jackson will helm the second chapter of three "Tintin" films.) There was even speculation that the two films would be shot back to back, much like Jackson's "Lord of the Rings." However, there is no second film in the immediate future or even a script for one at this point.
Paramount and Sony, the first film's co-financiers, have yet to greenlight a followup to the $120 million project and are waiting for a script before making a decision.
The first film, which was No. 11 in Georges "Herge" Remi's 24-book Tintin series, was written by Steven Moffat, Edgar Wright and Joe Cornish.
Jackson is currently taking a stab at the second film and sketching out ideas, though he wouldn't necessarily take screenplay credit for that film and could possibly hand script duties back to Moffat, Wright and Cornish.
Even the casting of the first film suggests a strong Jackson influence: Beside the inclusion of "LOTR's" Andy Serkis, the helmer made a personal call to enlist star Jamie Bell, who played a supporting role in Jackson's "King Kong."
But Spielberg's camp insists he will have a firm handle on all aspects of the film, including its special effects. Jackson and Spielberg have rigged a video conferencing system by which Spielberg is able to see everything Jackson sees at the Weta facility in New Zealand.
Spielberg and Kennedy also are making their presence felt with the project's early marketing decisions.
Paramount, which will distribute the film in all English-speaking territories and Asia, has the bigger challenge, with much lower awareness of the property in these territories, particularly the United States.
But one Par top exec downplayed any perceived challenges.
"It's not like there was any awareness on 'Kung Fu Panda' either," the exec says. "We had to go out and introduce this property to the world."
Still, "Kung Fu Panda" enjoyed a high-profile voice cast, with stars Angelina Jolie and Jack Black tubthumping in the film's behalf. By contrast, the only household name in "Tintin's" cast is current James Bond incarnation Daniel Craig, who is notorious for eschewing press junkets.
Sony, which is handling all overseas regions outside Asia, will likely have an easier time selling the film ahead of its planned 2011 release because the comicbook, which has been translated into 50 languages, remains hugely popular in the territories Sony will handle, including non-English-speaking Europe and India.
If anyone can overcome the film's challenges and silence the questions, it's the combined superpower of Spielberg and Jackson. Still, this highly anticipated collaboration continues to beg more questions than it answers.
http://www.variety.com/article/VR111800 ... id=13&cs=1
Steven Spielberg this week will quietly wrap 32 days of performance-capture lensing on "Tintin," then hand the project to producer Peter Jackson, who will focus on the film's special effects for the next 18 months.
Although the baton-pass is stealthy, "Tintin" is anything but a low-profile project. And that's just the first of many contradictions inherent with the film, which brings together two of cinema's visionaries.
The Tintin comicbook series about a globetrotting teenaged boy reporter, which originated 80 years ago in Belgium, is wildly popular in many countries around the world. In the U.S., however, the character is little-known, especially among children.
Spielberg and Jackson's respective camps have tried to keep a lid on the details of what is expected to become a three-film franchise while hyping the one-of-a-kind aspects of "Tintin's" motion-capture technology, which is being created by Jackson's New Zealand-based effects house Weta.
Just don't ask too many questions.
Spielberg's longtime spokesman Marvin Levy, who welcomed a story on "The Adventures of Tintin: Secret of the Unicorn," said, "You have to see it to understand (the technology). It really can't be described."
But he quickly nixed the idea of a visit to the set. "That wouldn't be feasible," he says.
The film's other producer, Kathleen Kennedy, is happy to talk about "Tintin," but admitted the world Spielberg and Jackson are creating is hard to describe.
"It's extremely difficult to explain to someone unless they are standing here next to me," Kennedy says from the Los Angeles set. "And usually then their reaction is, 'Oh my god.' "
Kennedy and Spielberg acquired the project in 1983 after Spielberg's interest in the project was piqued by critics' insistence that his "Raiders of the Lost Ark" harkened back to Tintin's escapades in exotic locations.
But the pair couldn't realistically begin developing the pic until about two years ago, when motion-capture technology finally caught up with the demands of the story. Spielberg received his introduction into the fledgling technology via his producing role on "Monster House." But Jackson, who joined Kennedy and Spielberg on the project in early 2007, is clearly a master of the form. Both the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy and "King Kong" elevated performance-capture to never-before-seen realism.
Jackson's role as mo-cap mentor to Spielberg, however, prompts the question: Who exactly is steering the "Tintin" ship?
Spielberg will receive sole directing credit on the first film, though even that distinction seems murky given that Jackson is doing the more time-consuming work, spending a year and a half creating the Tintin's world vs. Spielberg's one month on set. Jackson also traveled to Los Angeles for rehearsals and for the first week of shooting.
"It's hard to delineate between directing and producing on films like this," explains one project insider.
Kennedy insists that the transitions between the two creative talents are relatively seamless. "They are amazingly collaborative, even more so than Steven and George (Lucas were on the 'Raiders' films)."
And then, there are the two filmmakers' differing styles and thematic vibes: Spielberg is more character-oriented and relatively lean while Jackson revels in lavish visuals ... and running times.
The conventional wisdom has always been that Spielberg would direct his "Tintin" film, and Jackson would have his own. (It has long been reported that Jackson will helm the second chapter of three "Tintin" films.) There was even speculation that the two films would be shot back to back, much like Jackson's "Lord of the Rings." However, there is no second film in the immediate future or even a script for one at this point.
Paramount and Sony, the first film's co-financiers, have yet to greenlight a followup to the $120 million project and are waiting for a script before making a decision.
The first film, which was No. 11 in Georges "Herge" Remi's 24-book Tintin series, was written by Steven Moffat, Edgar Wright and Joe Cornish.
Jackson is currently taking a stab at the second film and sketching out ideas, though he wouldn't necessarily take screenplay credit for that film and could possibly hand script duties back to Moffat, Wright and Cornish.
Even the casting of the first film suggests a strong Jackson influence: Beside the inclusion of "LOTR's" Andy Serkis, the helmer made a personal call to enlist star Jamie Bell, who played a supporting role in Jackson's "King Kong."
But Spielberg's camp insists he will have a firm handle on all aspects of the film, including its special effects. Jackson and Spielberg have rigged a video conferencing system by which Spielberg is able to see everything Jackson sees at the Weta facility in New Zealand.
Spielberg and Kennedy also are making their presence felt with the project's early marketing decisions.
Paramount, which will distribute the film in all English-speaking territories and Asia, has the bigger challenge, with much lower awareness of the property in these territories, particularly the United States.
But one Par top exec downplayed any perceived challenges.
"It's not like there was any awareness on 'Kung Fu Panda' either," the exec says. "We had to go out and introduce this property to the world."
Still, "Kung Fu Panda" enjoyed a high-profile voice cast, with stars Angelina Jolie and Jack Black tubthumping in the film's behalf. By contrast, the only household name in "Tintin's" cast is current James Bond incarnation Daniel Craig, who is notorious for eschewing press junkets.
Sony, which is handling all overseas regions outside Asia, will likely have an easier time selling the film ahead of its planned 2011 release because the comicbook, which has been translated into 50 languages, remains hugely popular in the territories Sony will handle, including non-English-speaking Europe and India.
If anyone can overcome the film's challenges and silence the questions, it's the combined superpower of Spielberg and Jackson. Still, this highly anticipated collaboration continues to beg more questions than it answers.
http://www.variety.com/article/VR111800 ... id=13&cs=1
" By contrast, the only household name in "Tintin's" cast is current James Bond incarnation Daniel Craig, who is notorious for eschewing press junkets."
I don't understand this statement. When he's promoting a movie, it seems he's doing interviews every other day. I thought he really put himself out there for QOS and Defiance.
I don't understand this statement. When he's promoting a movie, it seems he's doing interviews every other day. I thought he really put himself out there for QOS and Defiance.