Steven Spielberg has proven once and for all that he can get his way, no matter how many studios tell him now. He and Peter Jackson have finally secured financing for their three-part movie Tintin, with Sony and Paramount partnering to fund the movies. The two previously turned down a deal with just Paramount that would have reduced their combined backend deal to just-- horrors!-- $135 million.
Variety says the first Tintin movie is still expected to be finished in 2010, which is an even tighter schedule than the one Jon Favreau was working with for Iron Man 2. I love both Jackson and Spielberg's moves, and I hate feeling sour on them based on this one incident, but this really is just making them look really greedy. While I'm excited that we'll finally get to see this passion project of Spielberg's, I can't help resent the two of them as they go off to sleep soundly on their beds made of money.
