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Spielberg to Shoot Lincoln after TinTin
Published 5/12/2008 by orfilms@gmail.com (slashfilm.com) at /Film
Someone took a look at Steven Spielberg’s day planner and spilled the details about the legendary director’s upcoming film schedule. Apparently Spielberg is eyeing a September star on Tintin, the big screen performance-capture adaptation of the popular Belgian comic-strip hero Tintin and his faithful dog Snowy. After which he will immediately begin work on the long-gestating Abraham Lincoln biopic Lincoln in early 2009. Spielberg is rushing the project into production so that “it can also open in the same year as Lincoln’s 200th anniversary which comes round then.” Spielberg also ...

Spielberg to Walk Tintin, Then Shoot Lincoln [Movie News]
Published 5/12/2008 by Nathan Deen at Film School Rejects
Posted by Nathan Deen ( nathan@filmschoolrejects.com ) on May 12, 2008 Steven Spielberg takes on Tintin and Lincoln The highly anticipated Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull won’t be released for another 10 days, and we’re already thinking about what’s next for directing legend Steven Spielberg. Many of us have heard the hearsay about his involvement in projects such as Tintin and an Abe Lincoln biopic. Well, according to screendaily, that’s exactly what’s on the way in the next couple of years. Tintin is expected to go into production this September, and the Lincoln project will get underway in early 2009. Speilberg wants it to be released it ...

The Dailies: May 12, 2008
Published 5/12/2008 by Shawn Adler at MTV Movies Blog
- Captain America won’t have his own movie for a few more years, but the true American patriot is already popping up in “Iron Man” and “The Incredible Hulk.” Or parts of him are, at any rate. (/film) - Trailer for “The X-Files: I Want to Believe” hits the net. (IGN) - Strangers in the Night? Will Martin Scorsese direct a Frank Sinatra biopic? (Sun Media) - Spielberg to finally lense Lincoln in 2009? If I were Liam Neeson I would be PISSED. (Screen Daily) Share This

Two Films For Speilberg In 2009
Published 5/13/2008 at Movie Blog
Two Films For Speilberg In 2009 Lincoln and Tintin for Spielberg in 2009 FilmSchoolRejects.com reports that Spielberg’s Tintin is expected to go into production this September and the motion-captured film will be the first animated film he’s been at the helm of. After that it’s on to his long-in-development Lincoln which will most likely star Qui Gon as Honest Abe. Variety claims that Spielberg has told the German weekly magazine FOCUS that he will return his attention to the epic project about the 16th president for a DreamWorks film that could begin filming possibly by early next year. Screen Daily reports that Spielberg will begin ...