Is Hollywoods next big adventure “Tintin in Culver City”?
After months of deal-making turmoil, the elaborate, two-film “Tintin” series planned by the directors Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson may find its financiers in a partnership being forged by Sony Pictures Entertainment and Paramount Pictures. Sony, the Culver City, Calif.-based parent of Columbia Pictures, is in advanced negotiations toward a deal to co-finance the films with Paramount, its Hollywood-based rival. The talks were described by people who were briefed on them, and who spoke on condition of anonymity to avoid conflict among the parties. Kathleen Kennedy, a producer of Mr. Spielberg’s project, did not respond to a query. Peter Nelson, a lawyer for Mr. Jackson, declined to comment, as did a Sony Pictures spokesman, Steve Elzer. A spokeswoman for Paramount also declined to comment. The negotiations began after Universal Pictures backed away last month from an arrangement under which it would have shared the project, based on the long-running Belgian comic strip about a glob
