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.
After the success of last year’s remake 21 Jump Street, Sony Pictures is planning to bring another classic American TV show to the big screen, with a big screen do-over of the 70s sitcom Good Times, according to 
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.
A few weeks ago it was revealed that Emma Watson was in early talks to play the title role in Disney’s live action version of Cinderella. However it appears she’s now passed on the part, at least according to a tweet from 
It’s a game of musical chairs over at Jane Got A Gun, as while Natalie Portman stays attached to the Lynne Ramsey film, the main male roles are busy moving around. For a long time Michael Fassbender was set to co-star, but with shooting now scheduled to start next month, he’s had to step aside as he committed to X-Men: Days Of Future Past.
With Twilight at an end, Summit Entertainment has lost its biggest franchise, but it’s hoping to have a similar amount of success with Divergent, based on the first in Veronica Roth’s planned young adult dystopian trilogy. Shailene Woodley has already signed on for the lead role, with Kate Winslet also up for the movie.
With a renewed interest in films based on fairy tales, you can understand why Disney wants to be at the forefront of the movement. They’ve had success with Alice In Wonderland and (hopefully) Oz The Great And Powerful, and the Sleeping Beauty inspired Maleficent, starring Angelina Jolie, is due in 2014. And now