Although The Adventures Of Tintin wasn’t a big hit in the US, its $373 million worldwide gross certainly mean that it’s worth making a second movie, which even from its earliest days was going to have Peter Jackson taking over from Steven Spielberg at the helm.
However, with Jackson busy on The Hobbit movies, it’s not been clear when we might see the film, but now Spielberg told the TimesOfIndia, Spielberg revealed that they’re hoping to get The Adventures of Tintin: Prisoners of the Sun ready for a Christmas 2015 release.
Here’s what the producer had to say, teasing that they are combining two of Hergé’s books into one story, “Peter Jackson is directing the next one, I’m producing. We have a script and we’re going to start performance capture probably at the end of this year. Don’t hold me to it, but we’re hoping the film will come out around Christmas-time in 2015. We know which books we’re making, we can’t share that now but we’re combining two books which were always intended to be combined by Hergé.”
Around the release of the first Hobbit movie, Jackson said he was hoping to shoot the motion-capture part in 2013, so it certainly seems they’re currently hoping to stick to that plan. It’s presumed the book that will be brought together are Prisoners of the Sun and Seven Crystal Balls. Steven Spielberg also hinted that The Blue Lotus will likely be the third Tintin film.
When Dreamworks separated from Paramount, most of its new funding came from the India based Reliance Entertainment. Now it seems Steven Spielberg is hoping to strengthen the connection to the subcontinent, with a movie set in the disputed Kashmir border region between India and Pakistan.
You can set your watch by the sun, atomic clocks, Big Ben or the regularity with which rumours surface of a reboot/sequel for Gremlins. Now they’ve popped up again, with 
Ever since the release of Jurassic Park III in 2001, there’s been talk of a Part IV. Over the years the likelihood of more rampaging dinos has risen and sunk, with much of the problem stemming from finding a worthwhile story. However it seems there’s been a breakthrough, as Universal Pictures has set a June 13th, 2014 release date and confirmed that it will be shot in 3D.
Yesterday it was revealed the Christopher Nolan’s next project is likely to be Interstellar, based on a script by his brother, Jonathan. Now a few more details have emerged, although as this is a Nolan movie, don’t expect full disclosure.
With Lincoln now in US cinemas, Steven Spielberg can go full steam ahead with Robopocalypse. In the last few months he signed Chris Hemsworth for the lead and it was revealed Anne Hathaway was in talks to join him. Now the actress has confirmed that she’ll be part of the film.