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The Tintin movie is back from the dead. After a financing hiccup and rumors of the project being canned, the Steven Spielberg/Peter Jackson stop-motion extravaganza is assembling a cast and preparing to begin shooting. Based around the French-language graphic novel series Les Aventures de Tintin by Belgian author Hergé, the film promises to be a fairly faithful adaptation of the titular character's globe-spanning adventures. Much like the film's rebirth, details about the movie are emerging out of nowhere, including scuttlebutt that Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz alums Simon Pegg and Nick Frost may have landed some choice parts.

For quite a while now, DreamWorks has been due for some change. Its relationship with distributor Paramount had gone from shaky, to rocky, to in dire need of a life raft. Due to this tension, it was no surprise that as its contract with Paramount ended the company looked elsewhere to produce its films. Reliance, a company based mostly out of India, is helping to fund a stand-alone production company for DreamWorks.