Information Madness

Reliance Entertainment is going to mouth Captain Haddock’s famous expression, “Billions of Blue Blistering Barnacles” in connection with TinTin’s profits as Steven Spielberg has made it clear that Reliance and Mr. Anil Ambani cannot have any claims on the profits of the “Secrets of the Unicorn” despite co-owning DreamWorks Studios with Spielberg. Reliance Entertainment will not be able to dig out of the box office fortunes of the Unicorn’s secrets.

Spielberg entered into a deal with Columbia and Paramount Pictures in 2007 to produce the first installment of the planned three part series in the TinTin trilogy. That leaves DreamWorks with no lien at all on the film. In addition, the film has been co-directed and managed by Peter Jackson.

Reliance entered into a deal with DreamWorks Studio in 2009 with a 50% stake in the three hundred and twenty five million dollar funding contract. Reliance Entertainment undoubtedly owns the rights to distribute in India with a 50% stake in the profits on any movie the DreamWorks Studio makes but they cannot touch “The Secret of the Unicorn”. It has been made clear to them that the work on the film started years before Reliance came on to the scene.

Since this film opened on 26^th October, it has already earned over id="mce_marker"25 million in forty five countries. It has easily grabbed the top spot for the second successive weekend. TinTin has stepped over every other film in every country.