Second Tintin trailer!

Check out the new trailer for Spielberg's Tintin animation 'The Secret of the Unicorn' which has just been released! It's much longer than the teaser and gives a better look at what must have taken hundreds of manhour in 3D animation!

The movie looks great and shows excellent craftsmanship, but will it be true to the art of Hergé? You decide for yourself ! It opens here in Europe on October 26th, the US have to wait for Christmas! Check out more on 'The Secret of the Unicorn' right here.

Django Unchained: Tarantino's Spaghetti Western.

I've had the chance to read Quentin Tarantino's script for his new movie this week, it's a western called 'Django Unchained' which he finished writing in April (see his cover above) and I'm sure it will break all kinds of records when it will hit the cinema at Christmas 2012.

I gotta say, he really hit the jackpot with this one. Can't say much about the storyline, as I've seen other people talking about it online getting served by a pack of hungry lawyers from Weinstein threatening to tear them apart if they didn't remove the plot. What I can say about it, is what's officially stated on IMDB: it's about 'A slave-turned-bounty hunter who sets out to rescue his wife from the brutal Calvin Candie, a Mississippi plantation owner.' Hahaha, well, that doesn't say much, but then again, Tarantino doing a western, that doesn't need much description, right?

I've been reading his stuff ever since he penned 'Pulp Fiction' while staying overhere in Amsterdam in March 1992. I really enjoyed his last screenplay, which was for 'Inglorious Basterds'.

It had a lot of scenes in it that never made it to the final cut. I'm guessing that will be the case with this one too, as it's 168 pages long, I'm sure there are a few scenes that are just too rude to keep if they've planned a release at Christmas Day.

Compared to Tarantino's other work, I feel this one has extremely well written dialogues, better even than usual. the characters seemed completely fleshed out.

Jamie Foxx will star as Django, with Samuel L. Jackson and Leonardo DiCaprio also starring (DiCaprio plays the bad guy this time). Christopher Waltz, who played the SS Colonel Hans Landa in 'Inglorious Basterds' will have the lead. He plays a semi-civilised German bounty hunter who releases Django and teaches him the tricks of the trade.

It's rumoured both Idris Elba and Michael K. Williams (from HBO's 'The Wire') may join the cast. (Check out Williams' interview with Kevin Smith in his smodcast).When it premieres, it will have to compete though, with Peter Jackson's 'The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey', the prequel to the 'Lord of the Rings' trilogy, which will consist of two movies, based on Tolkien's novel from 1937. Beneath are some early custom made posters by Italian graphic designer Frederico Mancosu (left) and Carlos Ramos (right).

digital drawing

Whitney R.
inspired by this photograph by [skedonk] (original image posted with permission)

Suske & Wiske 315.

Following up on my last post here in which I showed you the cover and some artwork of the new 'Suske & Wiske' comic book, to be released on September 21 this year (volume 314: 'Het Lijdende Leiden') the team at Vandersteen Studio has released the cover artwork for the next volume 315, which will be published on November 9th and is called 'De Bananenzangers' (which more or less translates as 'The Bananasingers'....okay that's just weird!)

The plot involves an expedition through the African jungle and a search for a special tree that grows blue Bananas, needed to sing a magical chant that will cure the African king from a neverending hiccup! The story hasn't been published in the Belgium newspapers yet, as they're still running the previous story about the city of Leiden.

Check the cover for 315 beneath, along with a small report by Stefan Tetelepta of  'Het Leidsch Dagblad' (The Leidsch Newspaper) featuring Thijs Hemmes of the 'October 3rd organisation' on their cooperation with the Vandersteen studio and the origination of volume 314: 'Het Leidende Lijden' (video is in Dutch only, sorry!)