TweetThere has been oh so much discussion here about Andrew Stanton and Edgar Rice Burroughs — what does Pulitzer Prize winning writer Michael Chabon, who co-wrote the John Carter screenplay, […]

TweetHere’s a lengthy and interesting article by Nathan Rabin that just came out, taking a thorough look at John Carter. Thrilling Adventure Tales Case File #18: John Carter By Nathan Rabin  […]

TweetI’m getting to the home stretch of the first draft of John Carter and the Gods of Hollywood, which means I’ve been drilling down into the day by day events […]

TweetTaylor Kitsch has once again shown a touch of class to John Carter Sequel fans by sending them a signed poster inscribed “To the Best Damn Fans on Earth (and […]

TweetAs John Carter Sequel fans continue their efforts to get consideration for a sequel, I just noticed that our John Carter Files’ original John Carter Fan Trailer is about to […]

TweetThe following is a review by J.B. Alderman, columnist for the San Jose Mercury News, who as he says in the review, elected to view John Carter at 30,000 feet […]

TweetIndiewire has an interesting article about John Carter Screenwriter (and Brave co-director)  Mark Andrews.  The section of the article dealing with John Carter is quoted below: The whole experience is […]

TweetA Japanese scientist has published a study which contains a mathematical formula that can predict the box office performance of a movie based on the level of related activity on social […]

TweetEmma Coates, a Pixar Storyboard artist, has been compiling a list of “Pixar Rules” of storytelling that she has picked up during her time at Pixar, and has been publishing […]

TweetBy The Numbers has released DVD sales figures for the week ending June 10, 2012.  These are DVD only — they have not yet released figures for Blu-ray.  The DVD […]

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TweetOver at Badass Digest, their film critic who goes by the moniker “Hulk” and writes in “Hulk-speak”, wrote this review which takes on the John Carter screenplay. Ol’ Hulk is […]

TweetThis is the “100 Years in the Making” special feature from the John Carter DVD. Is that really ERB’s voice? Or an actor? I think it’s an actor. He’s quoting […]

TweetRealize this is OT but I can’t contain myself. In an hour I’ll be leaving for the airport to fly to Florida by my daughter Kaitlyn’s wedding. It’s a huge […]

TweetMyFilmViews.com has offered a pretty hilarious compilation of movie posters, with the title altered in the vein of “John Carter”, to give us a feel of how other movies might […]

TweetBy Erik Nelson via Salon.com Since when did “passion project” become such a dirty phrase? When Andrew Stanton’s magnum opus “John Carter” was released just two short months ago, you’d […]

Tweetby Matt Singer via Indiewire When it arrived in theaters in March, Disney’s “John Carter” faced an audience as inhospitable as the arid landscape of Mars. Preceded by months of […]

TweetLong-suffering John Carter fans are being treated to their first actual “win” in the media by a grand total of two articles (so far) acknowledging that John Carter was the […]

TweetFrom the Hollywood Reporter The post-Memorial Day onslaught of high-powered theatricals officially got underway last week, with the top five spots on the national home video sales charts for the […]

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 — […]