This may be a rare year that will note five nominations in the Best Animated Feature category at the Oscars, but Indie Wire already predict that it will basically be a fight between two films: the critical acclaim Rango from earlier this year, and Steven Spielberg’s The Adventures of Tintin. The only thing that could possibly stand in its way of being a frontrunner, though, is its use of motion capture animation, which led to discussions from the Academy previously.


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New video clip from Steven Spielberg’s The Adventures of Tintin has appeared online thanks to a German TV spot for the film.  If you’re questioning why there’s a TV spot when the film doesn’t open for 3 more months in the U.S., remember that Tintin will probably go over huge in Europe where the Hergé comics that inspired the movie are well-known and well-liked.  Keeping that in mind, the film opens in Europe in the course of October and November with almost every major country obtaining the movie before we do.

While you may not find out what the characters are saying in the TV spot, visually the movie looks fantastic in regards to wide-shots, set pieces, and setting.  The challenge all relies on buying the performance-capture because everyone knows Spielberg is able to pulling off a rip-roaring adventure film when he cares about the material.  The movie offers the voices of Jamie Bell, Andy Serkis, Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, and Daniel Craig.  The Adventures of Tintin opens in 3D in the U.S. on December 23rd.


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  A focus on of day 3 at Empire Presents... Big Screen arrived the adventuresome model of The Adventures Of Tintin: The Secret Of The Unicorn videos. Peter Jackson and Steven Spielberg registered a special message, remembering together about their first ever meeting: on stage at the Oscars.

Spielberg elaborated on the roots of their collaboration: “When I’d finally got a [Tintin] story I was happy with, and the beginnings of a script, I wanted a feasibility study to see if I should do the movie in live action. I need a CG Snowy for this so I went to Peter’s company, Weta Digital.” Jackson took up the story, detailing how he’d questioned Weta's team to rustle up a Captain Haddock costume, before wearing the threads himself and acting out some scenes on the Weta back-lot. “I couldn’t think of anyone better to play Captain Haddock than me," laughed the director.

The CG Snowy has been included and the footage delivered to the set of War Of The Worlds. “I immediately forgot Snowy,” explained Spielberg, “as all I saw was Peter. That’s when I questioned Peter to work with me on this series of Tintin films.”

Spielberg explained how the concept of a live-action Tintin was rapidly kiboshed and Weta hired to digitise the boy wonder's capers. "I’m excited that Tintin is a CG movie,” enthused Jackson. “While you can adapt the heroes and tale for live action, it’s never going to look like Tintin. We’ve made it true to the look of Hergé’s books.”

Backing that claim up, the sizzle reel took Tintin (Jamie Bell) from a noir-y, bullet-riddled encounter in his apartment block to his first meeting with the oft-sozzled Haddock (Andy Serkis) aboard a freighter to a furry experience with a hostile seaplane. It’s an expansion on the vignettes from the trailer and it appears great. The spectre of those mo-cap dead eyes looks to have been totally banished by Weta’s bleeding edge work. These heroes feel real.

All part of the grand plan, pressured Jackson. “We wished Hergé, from some faraway place, to agree to our efforts.” We believe the famous Belgian will be feeling pretty stoked.

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Steven Spielberg hasn't shown up at Comic-Con… until this year. The well known director will be making a splash, visiting San Diego showing  footage of his recent directorial feature, The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn. This is Spielberg’s first feature movie since 2008’s Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull and the first time Spielberg will direct a motion-capture cartoon movie.

Get ready to crowd into Hall H on Friday if you wish to have a look at the footage he will be bringing. The launch of Tintin this December will in reality kick off a thrilling flourish of activity for the director, who's taken it easy the past 5 years as far as sitting in the director’s chair.

Beyond filling out the 6,000-seat Hall H, Spielberg will also get an Inkpot Award, given to remarkable people that have a direct effect on the Con itself and people who work in genre and comics. Spielberg will be busy for the following few years, with the WWI adventure movie War Horse set for introduction December 28th, in addition to Lincoln, set to star Daniel Day-Lewis and seeking a late 2012 release, and Robopocalypse, depending on the recent Daniel H. Wilson novel that has shot up the charts. Maybe the best news appearing out of the Robopocalypse production is that Oscar-nominated production designer Guy Hendrix Dyas (Inception) will be completing the same role.



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A new international trailer for The Adventures of Tintin is uploaded online. The peek shows lots more footage than the teaser trailer did, providing more information about the film’s plot and heroes. From Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson, Tintin starts having his journeys this Christmas.

Combining elements of novels graphic "The Crab with the Golden Claws", "The Secret of the Unicorn" and "Red Rackham's Treasure," the author of comic Belgian Georges Remi, known under the pseudonym Hergé, animated "The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn " follows the adventures of young journalist Tintin,  having professional flair that helps to find stories with the potential to turn into success stories, but also put him in trouble and often life threatening.

After Tintin's dog Snowy  take possession of a clue that leads them to a sunken ship on the bow which is a unicorn and was ordered in the past by Francis Haddock, they start together  a treasure hunt. But to reach the lost treasure in waves, Tintin must defeat evil  pirate Red Rackham, being helped by an heir of Captain Haddock and the detectives Francis Thompson twins and Thomson, who was convicted after an escaped from prison.


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