‘Tintin’ Movie: A Victim of the Credit Crunch?

Forget about concerns over who’ll be directing: Before anyone can get behind the camera, the “Tintin” movie needs someone to foot the bill.

The Los Angeles Times is reporting that Universal Pictures turned down a Steven Spielberg-Peter Jackson pitch for a 3-D animated feature about the traveling boy detective. Writes the Times’ Claudia Eller: “Universal’s refusal to finance ‘Tintin’ underscores how in today’s tough economic climate, bottom-line concerns trump once-inviolable relationships between studios and talent.”

Of course, Tintin’s relative obscurity in the United States probably isn’t helping, either.

The Times notes that Spielberg and Jackson have already turned to Paramount for financing, instead, so the show may yet go on.

[Via Heckler Spray and Get The Big Picture]

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