Paramount and Sony Support "Tintin"...

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Sony Pictures Entertainment and Paramount Pictures will initially co-finance the Steven Spielberg/Peter Jackson film series based on creator Herge's Belgian "Tintin" comics.

The first film, reportedly "The Secret Of The Unicorn", is expected to be completed in time for a 2010 release. Jackson will direct the sequel "Red Rackham's Treasure".

Paramount will distribute in North America and other English-speaking territories, with Sony handling the foreign release.

The screenplays were adapted from the comics by writer Steven "Jekyll" Moffat.

Herge's "Tintin" comic adventures have been translated into more than 50 languages with over two hundred million books sold.

Stories feature the young reporter involved in international crime intrigues, travelling the world and to the moon, accompanied by his loyal dog 'Snowy', drunken friend 'Captain Haddock', deaf 'Professor Cuthbert Calculus' and bumbling twin detectives 'Thomson' and 'Thompson'.

Originally published as a series in "Le Soir" (June 1942 - January 1943), "The Secret of the Unicorn", focuses on the investigation and discovery of treasure ship 'The Unicorn' and its pirate connection to Captain Haddock.

Sneak Peek "Coraline"...

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"Spider-Man 4": Morning Becomes 'Electro'...

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Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright David "Rabbit Hole" Lindsay-Abaire, is in final negotiations to write "Spider-Man 4" for Columbia.

Sam "Evil Dead" Raimi will be back again to direct actor Tobey Maguire as 'Peter Parker', aka 'Spider-Man', a goofy teenager bitten by a radioactive spider, that gives him super-powers AND super-problems.

Marvel comic book character villains expected to appear in the film, include 'The Lizard' and 'Electro'.

'The Lizard', aka 'Curt Connors' was a surgeon who went to war to help wounded GIs, but his arm was injured in a blast and had to be amputated. He became obsessed with uncovering the secrets of 'reptilian regeneration', from his home in the Everglades and extracted a serum taken from the DNA of a lizard. He had successfully regrown the missing limb of a rabbit, and, despite the warnings of his wife, chose to test it on himself. After Connors ingested the serum, his arm did grow back, but he was also transformed into a reptilian monster.

'Electro', aka 'Maxwell Dillon' had ambitions of being an electrical engineer, taking a job as a lineman for an electric company. While repairing a power line still connected to its spool, Max was struck by lightning. Instead of being killed, the freak accident caused a 'mutagenic change' in his nervous system, allowing him to generate and control vast amounts of electricity. After creating a colorful costume, Max turned to a life of crime as Electro.

Producer Laura Ziskin is aiming for a May 2011 release for the film, nine years after the first movie's spectacular debut.

Writer Alvin "Paper Moon" Sargent previously scripted the second and third films, with Michael Chabon, another Pulitzer winner, also working on "Spider-Man 2."

"Rabbit Hole," currently being adapted for 20th Century Fox, starred Cynthia "Desperate Housewives" Nixon and Tyne "Cagney and Lacey" Daly, debuting on Broadway in 2006, winning four Tony Awards including best play of the year...