TweetLegend of Tarzan opened on July 1st to a Rotten Tomatoes Critics rating of 35%, while audiences gave it an A- Cinemascore and an initial audience rating after the first […]

TweetSo, the good news — Box Office Mojo has posted another $21M in foreign revenue for Legend of Tarzan, bringing its foreign total to 211M and its global to $334M.  But […]

Tweetby Cathy Wilbanks   DAY 2 PIX Jim Thompson with headgear (with an all-seeing eye in the middle) by Bob Hibbard Dignity!   Bill Wagner Jim Thompson and Mike Conran […]

Tweetby Cathy Wilbanks Hi Everybody — Dum Dum 2016 is off and running at the Quality Inn in Morris, Illinois.    Here is the schedule, followed by Huckster Room Pics. […]

TweetAs the dust settles from the release of Legend of Tarzan, the “long game” will start, and that includes taking stock of the status of Tarzan as a cultural icon […]

TweetWalesOnline |  Swinging from vines, clinging to branches, leaping between treetops – it’s all in a day’s work for Augusts Dakteris, stunt double in The Legend of Tarzan. The 30-year-old […]

TweetEdgar Rice Burroughs  was famously “selling pencil sharpeners” at the time he wrote  his first novel. He equally famously was later quoted: “I write to escape. To escape poverty.”  In […]

TweetI’ve been a little quiet lately, in part because I’ve been doing some research on the “Africa of the mind” that Edgar Rice Burroughs had access to as he was […]

TweetJohns Hopkins University Press:  Directed by David Yates and starring Alexander Skarsgård as the ape-man, The Legend of Tarzan (Warner Brothers) is a movie meant for the Summer of 2016 […]

TweetLegend of Tarzan is in with an 11.1M third weekend, bringing its domestic total to$103.5M.  Meanwhile, new foreign numbers are in with foreign at $90.6M through July 17.  Next big […]

TweetNepali Times by Sophia Pande: Having grown up enthralled by Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book, I’ve always had more of an affection for Mowgli over the other feral child who […]

TweetLegend of Tarzan logged $2.6M on Monday, keeping pace with the overall box office  Sunday/Monday trend and lining up to reach the $100M level this weekend. Just for fun — […]

TweetWalter Chaw writing at FilmFreak Central has an interesting review of Legend of Tarzan that makes a far greater attempt than most to consider the core appeal of the Tarzan […]

TweetWord of mouth continues to propel Legend of Tarzan to “better than estimates” outcomes — this time with the film’s weekend total upgraded from 20.6 to 21.0 after the actuals […]

TweetDaily Mail | A musclebound king of the jungle, a feisty Jane, truly terrifying gorillas (parents be warned) and – yes – a splendid rendition of that war-cry. Bring on […]

TweetToldja.  The predictions of $15M for Legend of Tarzan’s second weekend lie smoldering in ruins, while the Tarzan Files’ fearless prediction of $20M looks pretty much right on target, as Legend […]

TweetAn unfortunate byproduct of much of  the racially focused commentary triggered by the release of  David Yates’  Legend of Tarzan is the wholesale trashing of the reputation of one of the […]

TweetUPDATE SAT MIDNIGHT:  Tracking Deadline’s upgrades of Legend of Tarzan, they started by saying this on Saturday morning: “Warner Bros./Village Roadshow’s The Legend Of Tarzan is poised to take in a second weekend […]

TweetTelegraph | For The Legend of Tarzan, out in UK cinemas from 6 July, director David Yates wanted his leading man Alexander Skarsgård to be the most authentic and instinctive […]

TweetEmily of Emily Writes NZ has posted the DEFINITIVE Legend of Tarzan review.  Well, maybe not defnitive, but let’s call it, at a minimum, the most ENTERTAINING Legend of Tarzan […]

TweetBut the most striking features of the work – the encapsulated tensions in Tarzan between civilisation and the natural world, the freewheeling Martian imagination that gave birth to so many […]