Month: June 2012
“Book News Monthly” — 1918 Profile of “The Creator of Tarzan, Edgar Rice Burroughs”
TweetSharing a bit of the fruits of research on John Carter and the Gods of Hollywood — this is a lovely 1918 magazine piece on Edgar Rice Burroughs which contains […]
The Facebook John Carter Sequel group in action; (and commenters criticizing them as “rabid, fetishistic”. Which is it?)
TweetOne of the activities of the John Carter Facebook Sequel Group is “comment patrol”….. where the word is put out that there’s an article somewhere in need of “comment love”……just […]
Emily Weber’s “Father’s Day” Fan Art — Tars Tarkas and Sola
TweetEmily Weber, who goes by “Zimeta” on Deviantart.com where she founded the #Disney club, has created a Tars Tarkas and Sola “Father’s Day” portrait that is getting rave reviews from fans […]
What if Disney hadn’t changed John Carter’s release date from June 8 to March 9?
TweetRidley Scott’s Prometheus opened on Friday — the date the John Carter was originally scheduled to open until Disney decided to move the Andrew Stanton film up to March 9, […]
Title talk: “John Carter and the Gods of Hollywood: How studio politics and super-sized egos wrecked a 100 year classic”
TweetI want to thank everyone for all the inputs and especially Khanada Taylor who came up with the main title that I’ve tentatively settled on: John Carter and the Gods […]
Boxing serves up a “John Carter” style injustice…..
TweetOkay, I know it’s a stretch — but for those of you who don’t know, my other blogging zone is the Philippines, boxing, and in particular Manny Pacquiao, who last […]
How the Lone Ranger created problems for John Carter
TweetIn working on “Hollywood vs Mars” (working title), one of the things that was extremely important to pin down was — when and how did the “bloated budget” negative storyline […]
BBC: Ray Bradbury talks about Edgar Rice Burroughs and John Carter in his final interview
TweetThis is a lovely article from the BBC’s Matt Novak, who interviewed Ray Bradbury in his Los Angeles home close to the end. He asks Bradbury if he was thinking […]
LA Times: Disney Feuds with Redbox, Netflix over John Carter
TweetThe LA Times has picked up on the story of Disney’s embargo of Red Box. Red Box continues to list John Carter as Coming Soon (here is the link). From […]
Pete Peterson: How John Carter Made Me Young Again
TweetI’m very sorry I missed this when it first came out on March 19. I spotted it today when someone posted a link to it on Facebook, saying that this […]
Disney has “embargoed” John Carter; Red Box release delayed until June 12; Express delayed until July 3
TweetDisney has apparently decided to pursue a new approach to the Blu-ray/DVD release of John Carter — a controversial approach that has not yet been tried. Typically, when a film […]
Flickfilosopher: Are classic pulp novels too dated to make faithful transfers to the big screen?
TweetMaryann Johanson, writing at Flickfilospher.com, poses the question today: Are classic pulp novels too dated to make faithful transfers to the big screen. Johanson is a balanced, respected reviewer […]
John Carter Role Playing Games? Video Games? Board Games?
TweetThere is a discussion thread over at the John Carter Facebook Group that I wanted to post here because it’s something that I’ve thought about from time to time — […]
Willem Dafoe “Baffled” by John Carter theatrical woes
TweetFrom Indiewire’s The Playlist Today “John Carter” will be released on DVD and Blu-ray and, presumably, will be seen by a much larger audience than what turned up it when it was released theatrically […]
Movies.com Review: John Carter Blu-ray; here’s why you need to give this film a chance
Tweet(I’m not going to post a flood of positive reviews — just one for now. There are both types out there — positive and negative, just like for the theatrical. […]
John Carter Blu-ray/DVD is out today; fans are waiting, will be watching the numbers and hoping
TweetJohn Carter hits the streets today on Blu-ray/DVD and fans who have pre-ordered are ready. As the day began, it was listed on Amazon’s “Movies and TV” Best Sellers […]
When did the negative press for John Carter start, and why?
TweetI’ve spent a frustrating couple of days trying to research exactly when, and how, and why, the negative press for John Carter began and I want to share some of […]
Comparing The Disney Publicity output for “John Carter” vs “The Avengers”
TweetFollowing is a side by side comparison of the publicity output for John Carter vs The Avengers on the theory that it would be revealing to see how these two […]
Comcast Chief Admits Battleship was a bomb; stops far short of declaring a $200m writedown
TweetFrom The Wrap Comcast Chairman Brian Roberts publicly acknowledged Friday what has been largely ignored by the Hollywood media: “Battleship” is a big, bad, “John Carter”-sized flop. [Comcast owns a […]
Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc. President Jim Sullos and Cathy Willbanks interviewed
TweetFrom TheReelBits.com June 1, 2012 This morning, we were delighted to be invited to be a part of a virtual roundtable to celebrate the DVD and Blu-ray release of Disney’s John […]
Disney brings Alan Horn out of retirement to replace Rich Ross as Studio Chief
TweetIn a choice that is being widely hailed as sensible and a repudiation of Robert Iger’s decision last time around to put an inexperienced “TV guy” in charge of the […]