Tintin To Begin Shooting in Two Weeks

According to Andy Serkis, (who will be playing the role of Captain Haddock,) the 3D Peter Jackson produced and Steven Speilberg directed movie will begin shooting in two weeks. Here’s what Serkis told Coming Soon about the books about the famous Belgian boy reporter: “I remember reading them as a child. I wasn’t this massive …

Tintin Casting News Released

In what is one of my more anticipated movies of 2009/2010, (probably ’10 given the production delays,) there is some word on casting in Steven Spielberg’s Tintin movie.  (Don’t forget Peter Jackson will be doing the second film with a director yet to be announced to do number three.) First off, Simon Pegg and Nick …

Spielberg Accused of Plagarism

The Sheldon Abend Revocable Trust has hauled Steven Spielberg’s ass into court over that little movie, ‘Disturbia.’ See, the trust owns the rights to the short story ‘Murder From a Fixed Point.’  Hitchcock ripped it off to make ‘Rear Window,’ and Sheldon didn’t get anything for that infraction.  Well, now the shoe is on the …

Indy 5? Really?

A new interview with George Lucas explains the tension behind-the-scenes of the recent ‘Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.’  Lucas said that the tension came from the fact that on the new movies, he needed to agree with Steven Speilberg and Harrison Ford while on earlier films, everyone looked to him. He …

More ‘Tintin’ Updates

As a huge fan, I’m following the Spielberg produced Tintin trilogy quite closely. Today it was announce that Steven Moffat, screenwriter of such shows as “Coupling,” and “Jekyll” has turned town a contract to write the first two films in the Tintin trilogy that has both Spielberg and Peter Jackson in the directors chairs respectively. …

Showtime Greenlights ‘United States’

Showtime has greelit a new Steven Spielberg backed series written by Juno scribe Diablo Cody. ‘The United States of Tara,’ is a half-hour comedy about a wife and mother who suffers from dissociative identity disorder. The show will focus on how the family (a husband and two children) deal with her various personalities. Toni Collette …