Was The Adventures of Tintina roaring hit or an embarrassing flop? It's a hard one to call. Steven Spielberg's film did decent business outside the US, but failed to set its own "domestic" box office alight. Mainstream American films generally take a little less than 50 per cent of their revenue in the US. Tintintook just 20 per cent of its $380 million at home.

It seems that Spielberg is, however, sufficiently confident to announce details of a follow-up. The great man has confirmed that Peter Jackson will direct the second film of the series when he has finished work on

The Hobbit

.

“I wanted to do it,” said Spieberg, “but Peter has to because we made a deal. I said, ‘I’ll direct the first one, you direct the second one’.” Interesting.