News Archive: 2001
Tintin CG animated movie
According to Dark Horizons' Film News, Rumors and Scoops Belgian newspapers are reporting that Spieberg has had contact with the Hergé estate about turning the internationally successful illustated books into a CG animated movie. Source: Dark Horizons http://www.darkhorizons.com/news10/010828.htm
Naming of Tintin album causes furor
The first Chinese edition of Tintin in Tibet had been renamed by the Chinese publishers to Tintin in Chinese Tibet, to reflect the Chinese government's claim that Tintin is part of China. Casterman, the Belgian publisher of Tintin, has demanded the Chinese to restore the album's original name and to withdraw all wrongly titled albums from sale. Full story from the BBC News site: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/arts/1349028.stm
Chinese edition Tintin comics launched in Beijing
Belgian and Chinese officials launched the first official edition of Tintin books in Beijing today. Tintin in the Land of the Soviets will not be released in China due to its anti-communist theme. Full story from the BBC News site: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/arts/1346606.stm
Tintin forgers strike back
Salon.com reports that earlier this month a Belgian undercover police officers posed as potential buyers and arrested bootleg publishers of the X-rated 'Tintin in Thailand' comic book in Tournai. Now authorities are pursuing another group of forgers who has taken the bootlegged 'Tintin in Thailand' and produced thousands more copies. Apparently the reprints are of better quality than the copies seized in Belgium.
X-rated 'Tintin in Thailand' seized by Belgian police
Belgian police have seized about 650 copies of a pirated Tintin book depicting the cartoon hero and his dog Snowy on a "sex holiday" in Bangkok. The forgeries, which were printed in Thailand for distribution in Belgium, are believed to have been in circulation since December 1999. Full story from the BBC News site: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/1170301.stm