Looking for help from Tintin
According to Bloomberg.com, Paramount is putting a lot of its financial eggs in the Tintin basket. The online news service reported on October 7, that:
Paramount Pictures chief Brad Grey is counting on Steven Spielberg’s animated “Tintin” ... to strengthen the Viacom Inc. studio’s film slate and increase profitability.
Apparently, Paramount and Grey are betting that a Tintin movie franchise will go a long way in ensuring financial stability and profitability for a struggling sector. With growing competitive pressure on the studios, franchises like the Bourne series, Transformers, and the like create a critical financial foundation for these large studios. But Tintin? Seriously?
There is wide speculation that even with names such as Spielberg and Jackson at the helm, the movie remains a risk. The American audience is unfamiliar with Tintin, and Tintin is a uniquely European figure, both of which makes it a harder sell in the US market; and the diehard fans around the world are going to reject the movie if it messes too much with the characters generations of people have come to love.
Good luck to Brad Grey and his attempts to revitalize a Hollywood studio. I just hope he has other baskets to put his eggs in.
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Comments
This could be a possibility. Why not? After all, it's Spielberg and Peter Jackson.
But the appeal of Tintin is universal(I am writing from Brazil) and, based on Jackson approach of Lord of Rings, we can expect, at least, something very respectful to the Herge legacy.
I just don’t get the “Tintin is unknown in the U.S., therefore the movie is a risk…” theory. Even if Tintin *is* less well known in the U.S., so what? That at least means that *some* people know the character, which is in fact a head-start and a luxury that most films don’t have.
Precisely *nobody* knew Indiana Jones, Luke Skywalker, Charles Foster Kane, Ace Venture, Beetlejuice, Jack Skellington, Donnie Darko, The Incredibles, Buzz Lightyear (the list goes on), and they weren’t subjected to this.
Tintin has got a solid worldwide following, and could be a substantial financial success even if it were never released in the US. Plenty of movies which perform weakly in the States make money thanks to international markets, which this film has.
Also compare such characters such as Ghost Rider, The Punisher, The Shadow, The Spirit, The Crow, Doc Savage - they all got movies (some more than one), and tell me that they are well known around the globe, or even in America...
look what happe
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