Popeye, Tintin and more will enter the public domain in the new year
Popeye, Tintin and more will enter the public domain in the new year
Popeye, Tintin and more will enter the public domain in the new year
Jenkins says there are already three Popeye slasher flicks in the works.
Filmmakers Try To Use Public Domain Characters for Anything Other Than Cheap Horror Movies Challenge (IMPOSSIBLE)
As always, the headline should be qualified with ‘… in the USA.’
Tintin the brave cub reporter — and his dog, Snowy — will enter the public domain in the U.S. well before they will in the European Union, where they are copyrighted until 2054. That's because EU copyright terms extend 70 years past creators' deaths, and Belgian cartoonist Hergé died in 1983.
I can't wait for all the shitty horror movies that will be made 🙄
Popeye vs Tintin vs Pooh
Actually that's such a ridiculous concept I might watch it.
These movies may as well be made on a conveyor belt.