THE ADVENTURES OF TINTIN

Now we can take a gander at the first official trailer for Steven Spielberg's The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn, which will debut in the U.S. on December 23rd in 3-D. It appears from the trailer that this will be a reverential, almost shot-for-comic-panel adaptation of Herge's hugely popular (everywhere in the world except the U.S.) graphic novel. If Spielberg's film, which cost $135 million to produce, is successful, it could establish a niche for motion-capture animation. If not, it  --  along with the massive failure of Disney's Mars Need Moms  --  could sound the death knell for the format.