Jamie Bell has been cast as Tintin in the first of what Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson hope are many movies based on the cartoon detective character. Bell, the 22-year-old British actor who rocketed to international fame playing the young dancer Billy Elliot, has begun filming the movie in Los Angeles under Spielberg’s direction. The …
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Spielberg finds his Tintin
Posted: January 27th, 2009 by: Patrick
Tintin movie gets Frost and Pegged
Posted: January 6th, 2009 by: Patrick
After breaking out as best buddies* in the romantic comedy/horror film Shaun of the Dead, and then pairing up again as a pair of coppers in Hot Fuzz, Simon Pegg and Nick Frost will reunite again on the big screen in the forthcoming Tintin movies. The deal has been confirmed by Variety via Pegg’s agent …
Click to continue readingGuillermo Del Toro solo directing The Hobbit
Posted: October 9th, 2008 by: Movie Set
As mentioned before here at MovieSet, Guillermo del Toro (seen left), director of Pan’s Labyrinth, is currently writing the screenplay for the film adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien’s, The Hobbit, with Lord of the Rings helmer Peter Jackson.
However it appears as though directing duties will be the solo responsibility of directing duties will go to del …
EXCLUSIVE: Guillermo Navarro on The Hobbit
Posted: October 2nd, 2008 by: Movie Set
Left to Right: Mike Browne, Guillermo Navarro and Patrick Sauriol [photo by Quinn Bender]
Last weekend at the Vancouver International Film Festival’s New Filmmaker Day, Quinn, Patrick and myself sat down with well known and award winning director of photography, Guillermo Navarro, for a video interview. We found Navarro, who won an Oscar (and many other …
Don’t worry, Steven Spielberg says he’s still directing the first Tintin movie
Posted: August 27th, 2008 by: Movie Set
This bit of news either shows you one of two things: the weight that Steven Spielberg name carries whenever it’s bandied about with a future film project or how slow the last week of August is for hard movie news. I’m leaning towards the second explanation.
Yesterday The Hollywood Reporter published a short piece about how …
Peter Jackson and Guillermo del Toro writing The Hobbit
Posted: August 20th, 2008 by: Movie Set
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Peter Jackson and Guillermo del Toro are writing The Hobbit themselves.My twisted little brain immediately went here:
Although I know the comparison has been made numerous times it’s far too funny not to repeat. At least Jackson’s no longer, as the great Smeagol says, “The fat one…”.
I can’t help myself I …
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