Category: GoBarsoom Media Campaign
Guest Blogger Daria Brooks: Enjoying John Carter’s Second Run
TweetDaria Brooks is one of the key members of the Back To Barsoom John Carter II Facebook Group, and was the originator of Last Trip to Barsoom that succeeded in getting a […]
John Carter “I Want a Sequel” Facebook Group hits 3000 members in 30 hours…
TweetStarted yesterday, the John Carter fan Facebook Group “Take me back to Barsoom! I want John Carter to have a sequel” group has reached 3000 members in a little over […]
10 Things John Carter Fans Can Do Right Now to Help The Movie
TweetPeople ask us — what can we do, aside from joining “Take me back to Barsoom!” on Facebook? We have given various answers at various times. Here is our top […]
MTV: John Carter Fans Petition Disney – want a sequel (includes a poll!)
TweetFrom MTV: All that talk about “John Carter‘s” weak box office draw and the slew of critics now deeming the film a failure from the get-go isn’t stopping fans from […]
The Morning After: What can fans do?
TweetThe last 4-5 days, starting with March 7 when the reviews started to come out, and ending with the posting of weekend estimates for domestic and international box office on […]
Realm of Ryan: “It’s up to us [fans] to make John Carter [of Mars] a success.”
TweetFriends, Heliumites, Martians. . . . I am here before you now with possibly distressing news. This Friday, John Carter [of Mars] premieres in theaters nationwide. (Read about the novel!) This is […]
Village Voice John Carter Review: “A lively, visually crafty pleasure.”
TweetFrom the Village Voice: With expectations to match its obscenely huge budget (an estimated quarter of a billion dollars), this long-delayed adaptation of pulp meisterEdgar Rice Burroughs‘s 1917 sci-fi swashbucklerA […]
Video: Fans react after viewing John Carter in Burbank
TweetJCF went paparazzi last night and got fan reactions as people were leaving the LA Times Hero Complex screening of John Carter at the AMC 16 in Burbank. Check it […]
The Influence of Edgar Rice Burroughs, creator of John Carter, on science and popular culture
TweetWhat those who have helped shaped the world, science, and pop culture have said. (And thanks to Patrick Dearen for tracking these down.) CARL SAGAN: “The Mars novels of […]
Video: “John Carter Primer” by Larry Ketchersid
TweetSFSignal has put up a nice page with a “John Carter Primer” by Larry Ketchersid . Larry had previously done a wonderful text and images version of the John Carter […]
John Carter Filmmakers’ Sizzle Reel reveals new images and spirit of Stanton’s film
TweetYesterday Disney released an extended clip of the John Carter great white ape coliseum scene followed by an excellent montage which director Andrew Stanton has identified as a “sizzle reel” […]
The John Carter Fan Trailer has just climbed over 100,000 views in three days (but that’s a tiny fraction of what’s needed, so help us!)
TweetOur John Carter Fan trailer just went over the 100,000 view mark on Youtube — all in the last three days. That is AWESOME and we thank you from the […]
Opinion: How the miss-steps in the John Carter promotion have lowered the bar for getting a sequel
TweetThe furor over the perceived clumsiness of the Disney promotional campaign for John Carter may have a silver lining in that it has to have lowered the threshold of global […]
New John Carter Review: “Unlike Avatar, there is some real meat to this story. 9/10”
TweetNOTE: This John Carter review was just posted on a movie message board and the author, in subsequent postings, revealed details of the film that make it clear he did […]
Here’s the #GoBarsoom Podcast if you missed hearing it live
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Tweet http://thejohncarterfiles.com/Podcasts/gobarsoom1.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadTonight JCF did a live internet radio broadcast and chat of the #GoBarsoom collective where we talked about ways that people can make […]
#GoBarsoom Update and Thank You: Our John Carter Fan Trailer had 36,000 views today and is now embedded on more than 100 sites
TweetHere’s a #GoBarsoom grassroots media campaign update: In the two days since Andrew Stanton tweeted about our John Carter fan trailer, word has spread very nicely and now more than […]