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Which Tintin adventures will feature in the 2nd movie ?

Sat, 26 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -1100

In January, Peter Jackson will choose which Tintin adventure he is going to adapt to the big screen. It will be the second full-length movie in the trilogy that he is planning to create with Steven Spielberg.

Until now, the word was that The Seven Crystal Balls and Prisoners of the Sun were being lined up.

"I'm going to reread all the Tintin books over Christmas," Peter Jackson confided to PIXmania.com website, "and then I'll make my decision."

In the special edition of Le Monde newspaper, dedicated to Tintin (Tintin, le retour), the New Zealand director confirmed that The Black Island was one of the first Tintin books he read.

All bets are on!

Posters, Posters, Posters ! Every French Bookcover poster now available !

Sun, 01 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -1100

We are very excited to announce that we now have available the French Posters for every one of Tintin's 24 original adventures !

These are fantastic posters that come a large 50x70cm size.

Great collector items and gifts for friends.

Check them out by clicking on the image to the right !

Every Tintin album now available in French !

Tue, 22 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -1100

We are very excited to announce that we now have every one of Tintin's 24 original adventures available in French !

These are fantastic books that come in Hardback and in A4 size.

Great collector items, gifts for friends, and also a great way to keep your French skills current or teach your children.

Check them out by clicking on the image to the right !

John Williams discusses Tintin movie soundtrack

Sat, 05 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -1100

Over on the John Williams Fan Network site, the composer "speaks" about the music he is composing for the upcoming Tintin film.

I'm currently orchestrating a large piece with a number of ideas. The main theme is highly energetic, filled with great tonal twists and turns, reflecting, I suspect, Tintin's heroic energy. It will become a classic, I think. To give more information would be to reveal things that I don't ... want to say.

We are at the beginning of the process. The main scoring sessions are off in February.

Also, let me say with regard to Tintin, I believe, as with "Potter" and Catch Me if you Can, people will be both surprised and not surprised by how the music is both "expected" and "UN-expected"- before you hear it.

Records broken at Tintin merchandise auction !

Sat, 16 May 2009 00:00:00 -1100

From the Sydney Morning Herald, 11 May 2009:

Tintin mania swept a Belgian auction house on Sunday with almost 600 lots associated with Herge, creator of the famous cartoon reporter, breaking national and world sales records, an expert said.

The sale in Namur, southern Belgium, dominated by five large hand-drawn pages of original cartoon strips, raised 1,172,000 euros (1.57 million US dollars), including charges, -- a world record for Herge-associated items and a cartoon strip book record in Belgium, said Thibaut Van Houtte, an expert on hand for the Rops auction house sale.

"It went well over even our upper pre-auction estimate of 650,000 euros," he said.

The buyers came from all over Europe, as well as the United States, Lebanon and China.

However, Van Houtte was happy to say, the two highest-selling pages were bought by an anonymous Belgian collector.

The lot which the collector paid the most for was a hand-drawn page featuring Tintin, his faithful terrier Snowy and his crusty old sea-dog companion Captain Haddock made for the 1963 book "The Castafiore Emerald" which went for a total of 312,5000 euros, over three times its catalogue estimate, Van Houtte said.

The same collector also picked up a page of original drawings, including a spectacular car crash, as seen in the 1956 "The Calculus Affair".

The boy reporter -- the most loved figure in cartoon-mad Belgium's history -- first appeared on January 10, 1929 bound for the Soviet Union, in a supplement to the Roman Catholic Brussels weekly, Le Vingtieme Siecle.

It has been a long career that the death in 1983 of his creator, Georges Remi -- alias Herge -- has not compromised, with his descendants refusing to hand over the rights to Tintin.

Tintin movie: Daniel Craig to play Red Rackham !

Sun, 08 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -1100

Daniel Craig - From James Bond to Red Rackham !

From good guy to bad guy! Daniel Craig, born on 2 March 1968 in Chester, England, is to play villainous pirate Red Rackham in The Adventures of Tintin: Secret of the Unicorn.

The Daniel Craig? Yes that's right, the very same Daniel Craig, better known as James Bond (Casino Royale 2006, Quantum of Solace 2008 - and in the 23rd Bond film due to hit the big screen in 2010). From his acting debut in 1992, Daniel Craig took on an impressive series of secondary roles, before becoming an international star in cinemas and on television.

He has already worked with Steven Spielberg in Munich (2005) and is no stranger to the world of comic books, as he was a cast member in Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001).

Since 14 October 2005, he has been working undercover as 007, licensed to kill. He is the 6th actor to play James Bond, following in the footsteps of Sean Connery, George Lazenby, Roger Moore, Timothy Dalton and Pierce Brosnan.

He is also a successful theatre actor.

Tintin movie: "The Adventures of Tintin: Secret of the Unicorn"

Tue, 27 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -1100

HOLLYWOOD, Calif., Jan. 26 /PRNewswire/ -- Paramount Pictures and Sony Pictures Entertainment have announced the start of principal production in Los Angeles on the 3D Motion Capture Film "The Adventures of Tintin: Secret of the Unicorn," directed by Steven Spielberg and starring Jamie Bell ("Billy Elliot," "Defiance") as Tintin, the intrepid young reporter whose relentless pursuit of a good story thrusts him into a world of high adventure, and Daniel Craig ("Quantum of Solace," "Defiance") as the nefarious Red Rackham.

Bell and Craig are joined by an international cast that includes Andy Serkis, Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Gad Elmaleh, Toby Jones and Mackenzie Crook.

"The Adventures of Tintin: Secret of the Unicorn," from a screenplay by Steven Moffat, Edgar Wright and Joe Cornish, is produced by Spielberg, Peter Jackson and Kathleen Kennedy, is the first in the series of 3D motion capture films based on the iconic character created by Georges Remi, better known to the world by his pen name "Herge" and is due for release in 2011. Executive producers are Nick Rodwell, Stephane Sperry and Ken Kamins. Paramount Pictures will release domestically and in all English speaking territories and Asia, excluding India. Sony Pictures Releasing International will distribute the film in Continental Europe, Eastern Europe, Latin America, India and the remainder of the world.

The second feature in the series is scheduled to be directed by Jackson, with a potential for a third film as well.

Eighty years ago, Herge introduced the world to a unique cast of characters who have been embraced by readers of all ages. The Adventures of Tintin - a series of 24 books, the final unfinished adventure was published after Herge's - death became Herge's life's work. The first adventure was published in 1929. Over 200 million copies have been sold worldwide. The popular series has been translated into 70 languages and still attracts thousands of new fans each year.

Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson will bring Herge's stories to life employing state-of-the-art performance capture technology developed by Jackson's Weta Digital.

Tintin movie to start shooting in one week !!!

Fri, 23 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -1100

Here is some exciting news about the upcoming Tintin movies from Andy Serkis, the actor who will play Captain Haddock. The movie FINALLY begins production in a week !!!

"We are starting Tintin the week after next," according to actor Andy Serkis ComingSoon.net at a recent press event. "Peter Jackson is producing and Steven Spielberg is directing. I remember reading them as a child. I wasn't this massive fan. I loved the almost storyboard nature of the beautiful, beautiful drawings. And the way its going to be done... It's obviously performance capture so it's is going to be perfect. There isn't a more perfect way of doing it."

This is great news for all Tintin fans and the movie is certain to get more profile during 2009 !

Tintin movie: Simon Pegg & Nick Frost to play Thompson and Thomson !

Tue, 13 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -1100

Here is the latest exciting news about the long awaited Tintin movie !

According to Variety, Simon Pegg and Nick Frost have been confirmed as Thompson and Thomson in the upcoming Steven Speilberg and Peter Jackson Tintin movies. Here is the scoop straight from the source:

Brit thesps Simon Pegg and Nick Frost will play bumbling detectives Thompson and Thomson in Peter Jackson and Steven Spielberg's two-pic "Tintin" project.

The 3-D performance-capture films, based on Georges Remi's comicbooks and co-financed by Sony Pictures Entertainment and Paramount Pictures, will center on Tintin's adventures as a fearless reporter.

In the books, the detectives look like twins even though they're not related. They can only be told apart by the shape of their moustaches - Thompson, with a "p," has a flat moustache, while Thomson, without the "p," has a flared one.

Pic reteams Pegg and Frost who came to the fore in cult Brit TV laffer "Spaced" before appearing in the pics "Shaun of the Dead" and "Hot Fuzz." Pegg also toplined "Run Fat Boy Run" and "How to Lose Friends and Alienate People."

It's unclear if the detectives would appear in both pics.

As previously reported, Andy Serkis will play Tintin's sidekick Captain Haddock. Tintin has yet to be cast. Thomas Sangster had been set for the role, but exited when the project was delayed due to funding difficulties caused by theDreamWorks/Paramount split.

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PinkBear welcomes Asterix, Babar, Barbapapa and Calimero !!!

Fri, 28 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -1100

PinkBear is delighted to welcome a new collection of figurines from France !! We have a number of fantastic figurine collections of Asterix, Babar, Barbapapa and Calimero. Go to our "Other Friends" section of the website and click the figurine collection range you are interested in. Soon we will be adding more figurine collections so stay tuned !!