Tintin news

Sylvia's girl · Post by **Sylvia's girl** » Fri Nov 04, 2011 5:22 pm

U.S. Site for The Adventures of Tintin Updated

Read more: U.S. Site for The Adventures of Tintin Updated - ComingSoon.net http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienew ... z1cl4oQOop

Sylvia's girl · Post by **Sylvia's girl** » Sat Nov 05, 2011 2:21 pm

THE ADVENTURES OF TINTIN, RIO, RANGO Submitted for Best Animated Feature: 2012 Oscar

http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/the-adv ... 012-oscar/

sasha · Post by **sasha** » Sat Nov 05, 2011 6:09 pm

Good news, thank you!

sasha · Post by **sasha** » Sun Nov 06, 2011 3:16 am

TinTin premiered in Russia and is getting GREAT reviews, people love it. I find it to be a very good indication for US, since TinTin, for the obvious reasons, was never? published in Russia and public love the movie for what it is.

tampa · Post by **tampa** » Sun Nov 06, 2011 4:36 am

sasha wrote:TinTin premiered in Russia and is getting GREAT reviews, people love it. I find it to be a very good indication for US, since TinTin, for the obvious reasons, was never? published in Russia and public love the movie for what it is.

I think you are right Sasha. It looks like as big hit all over the world, and it will be the perfect holiday film in the US. I think it will do very well in the states.

caramel · Post by **caramel** » Sun Nov 06, 2011 4:40 am

tampa wrote:
sasha wrote:TinTin premiered in Russia and is getting GREAT reviews, people love it. I find it to be a very good indication for US, since TinTin, for the obvious reasons, was never? published in Russia and public love the movie for what it is.
I think you are right Sasha. It looks like as big hit all over the world, and it will be the perfect holiday film in the US. I think it will do very well in the states.

That brings it right back to my worry that it will take away some audience meant for Tattoo. Granted they are completely diff genre but it is like the Smurfs all over again

Hope not.

Elvenstar · Post by **Elvenstar** » Sun Nov 06, 2011 3:46 pm

TinTin premiered in Russia and is getting GREAT reviews

I wouldnt say the reviews are all that great like lots of ppl are dissatisfied with the pacing & storyline, that the main character is super boring etc etc
but the BO shoud be decent bc of the holidays & 3D tickets...

Sylvia's girl · Post by **Sylvia's girl** » Sun Nov 06, 2011 3:58 pm

Elvenstar wrote:
TinTin premiered in Russia and is getting GREAT reviews
I wouldnt say the reviews are all that great like lots of ppl are dissatisfied with the pacing & storyline, that the main character is super boring etc etc
but the BO shoud be decent bc of the holidays & 3D tickets...

On Rotten Tomatoes its at 85% - 39 reviews so far with 6 of them bad.
Average audience rating of 3.9/5

sasha · Post by **sasha** » Sun Nov 06, 2011 4:39 pm

Sylvia's girl wrote:
Elvenstar wrote:
TinTin premiered in Russia and is getting GREAT reviews
I wouldnt say the reviews are all that great like lots of ppl are dissatisfied with the pacing & storyline, that the main character is super boring etc etc
but the BO shoud be decent bc of the holidays & 3D tickets...
On Rotten Tomatoes its at 85% - 39 reviews so far with 6 of them bad.
Average audience rating of 3.9/5

Hi, Elvenstar.

I was looking on 'kinopoisk' and individual reviews. It gets 8 out of 10 based on almost 2000 audience reviews and 85% from critics. Is there more reliable Russian cinema site? I'm not really updated, thanks.

Is it your impression too?

Elvenstar · Post by **Elvenstar** » Mon Nov 07, 2011 7:59 am

On Rotten Tomatoes its at 85%

i meant not RT but local

but they def more positive than negative so its OK.

Hi, Elvenstar.Very Happy I was looking on 'kinopoisk' and individual reviews. It gets 8 out of 10 based on almost 2000 audience reviews and 85% from critics. Is there more reliable Russian cinema site? I'm not really updated, thanks.

by not that great i just meant that there are constant complaints abt banal sl etc mostly on newpaper reviews & other media but overall combined w/viewer response yeah its def more positive than negative so its OK. total success. the visuals are esp praised

Havent seen the film yet (really ashamed of myself

(couldnt stop reading the 3rd book of the Millenum trilogy

)

BO news
http://www.boxofficemojo.com/news/?id=3303&p=.htm

Sylvia's girl · Post by **Sylvia's girl** » Mon Nov 07, 2011 8:35 am

$125.3 million in BO takings after just 2 weeks is pretty impressive. It will be interesting to see how it fares when it hits the U.S. market.

Post by **Dunda** » Mon Nov 07, 2011 8:57 am

Sylvia's girl wrote:$125.3 million in BO takings after just 2 weeks is pretty impressive. It will be interesting to see how it fares when it hits the U.S. market.

was there any European country where Tintin wasn't #1 at the BO last week?

Sylvia's girl · Post by **Sylvia's girl** » Fri Nov 11, 2011 11:04 am

Tintin closes AFI...

Steven Spielberg's 'The Adventures of Tintin' is handily one of the year's best films

http://www.hitfix.com/blogs/in-contenti ... best-films

Also it's just opened in India where it has been trending on twitter.
Apparently the Tintin books are really popular over there, so it should do
well.

Elvenstar · Post by **Elvenstar** » Fri Nov 11, 2011 3:27 pm

was there any European country where Tintin wasn't #1 at the BO last week?

it wasnt #1 here. Puss in Boots premiered with 17 mil last week; Tin tin with 5 mil this week & yet Puss was able to be #1.
Shrek popularity def shows...

'Tintin' Closes AFI Fest With a Little Charm, a Lot of Action
A public audience in the United States finally got to see Steven Spielberg's "The Adventures of Tintin" on Thursday night in Hollywood, a couple of weeks after its European release. And just as it did across the pond, the animated action flick strongly divided viewers.

"I've never done animated before, and I've never debuted any of my films … at AFI before, so I just hope for the best," said Spielberg from the screen of the Grauman's Chinese Theater on Thursday night, where "Tintin" served as the closing-night attraction of the AFI Fest 2011.

Spielberg addressed the crowd on film because he couldn't make it to Hollywood for the gala – the reason being, said AFI president Bob Gazzale before the screening began, "most of the ['Tintin'] team behind the camera is in Virgina tonight, shooting 'Lincoln.'"

He paused. "That's an awful way to say it, isn't it? They're filming the movie 'Lincoln.'"

Also read: Can Steven Spielberg's 'Tintin' Save Motion-Capture Animation?

With the director on the other side of the country, it fell to "Tintin" star Jamie Bell to do in-person introductions at the Chinese, where the capacity crowd greeted him warmly and responded well to Spielberg's adaptation of the comics by the Belgian author and artist Herge.

But just as European reviews ranged from rapturous raves to acidic pans, so were L.A. viewers split on the film's merits.

The barrage of tweets that followed Thursday's screening, for instance, ran the gamut from "handily one of the year's best films" (@kristapley) and "very much fun" (@jamesrocchi) to "popcorn punishment" (@wellshwood) and "Weird. Cold. Not my cup of tea" (@AwardsDaily).

My own verdict: "Tintin" has its charms and it's visually inventive, but ultimately the breakneck pace is wearying, bulldozing the film's likeable qualities under a barrage of high-octane action sequences that too often reminded me of the ludicrous Shia-Labeouf-swinging-through-the-trees sequence in Spielberg's "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull."

In a way, the tone was set at the very beginning of the film, when the title character poses for a portrait by a street artist. While the artist is working, we never see Tintin's face; instead, we follow his scene-stealing dog Snowy, and then see the portrait.

That portrait is the Tintin we know from the comics' simple line drawings (right), and the moment is wonderful and charming. But then we pan from that Tintin to the mo-cap Tintin we'll be seeing onscreen for the rest of the movie, and suddenly the character and the movie aren't quite so charming.

Obviously, Spielberg is freed in some ways by the motion-capture process, which he and producer Peter Jackson's WETA Workshop team use in the service of massive chases and fights and extravagant fancies. The most exciting of these sequences is a lavish chase through a terraced town, which would be even more arresting if it wasn't surrounded by similarly frantic but less stylish scenes.It's Young Indiana Jones on steroids, which isn't exactly true to the comics, and which in the end I found to be more exhausting than exhilarating.

The use of 3D, meanwhile, is fine, but not as playfully virtuosic as Martin Scorsese's "Hugo" or as essential as Wim Wenders' dance documentary "Pina," the two most remarkable recent uses of the technique.

An Academy spokesperson told TheWrap that "Tintin" has been approved by the Academy's Short Films and Feature Animation branch, which is in the process of ruling on the three motion capture films and two live-action/animation hybrids that were submitted in the Best Animated Feature category.

(Even though last week's press release listed 18 films, a high-placed member of the branch said that not all 18 had been officially qualified when the release was issued.)

For a sense of what the film is like, here's a new spot that includes some previously unseen footage:
"Tintin" is off to a good start at the overseas box office, grossing more than $125 million internationally so far. It opens across the country on December 21, just before Spielberg's other 2011 film, "War Horse."

http://www.thewrap.com/awards/column-po ... tion-32706

Sylvia's girl · Post by **Sylvia's girl** » Mon Nov 14, 2011 8:18 am

Adventures Of Tintin Review: Pure Spielberg Excitement At AFI Fest

Performance capture would be nothing without the performance, however, and The Adventures of Tintin shines with them. But while Jamie Bell is great as the lead, it’s the supporting characters that actually end up stealing the show. Serkis is wonderful and hilarious as the drunk, blusterous Haddock and is a terrific foil for the more straight-laced protagonist. Also providing a great deal of the film’s comedy are Simon Pegg and Nick Frost, who play a pair of nearly identical police officers known only as Thomson and Thomson. Just as they have in their previous films, Pegg and Frost have a brilliant repartee that works perfectly with the bumbling characters. Lastly there’s Craig, who we are now used to seeing as the ultimate hero – James Bond. As Sakharine, Craig is wonderfully villainous and while not overtly evil (we have to remember that this is a kid’s movie) he plays the character with the perfect levels of sliminess and swagger.

http://www.cinemablend.com/new/Adventur ... 27874.html