http://filmonic.com/universal-pulls-tintin Molesting Your Film Shaft! Thu, 08 Jan 2009 19:36:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 http://filmonic.com/universal-pulls-tintin/comment-page-1#comment-3830 Spielbergs ‘Tintin’ Gets Financing, Loses Actual Tintin | Filmonic Sat, 01 Nov 2008 01:03:41 +0000 http://filmonic.com/?p=2690#comment-3830 [...] Universal backed out a few months ago, which sent Spielberg and Peter Jackson on an epic quest to get financing from another studio. Paramount eventually offered them $135 million, however the idea was to film Tintin in 3D with photorealistic performance-capture technology, so the pair held out for a better deal. After what I expect was a long uncomfortable silence, one of the parties suggested getting another studio in on the action, so along came Sony. In the deal currently being negotiated, Paramount is planning to distribute in North America and some other English-speaking territories, while Sony would handle the foreign release. [...] [...] Universal backed out a few months ago, which sent Spielberg and Peter Jackson on an epic quest to get financing from another studio. Paramount eventually offered them $135 million, however the idea was to film Tintin in 3D with photorealistic performance-capture technology, so the pair held out for a better deal. After what I expect was a long uncomfortable silence, one of the parties suggested getting another studio in on the action, so along came Sony. In the deal currently being negotiated, Paramount is planning to distribute in North America and some other English-speaking territories, while Sony would handle the foreign release. [...]

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