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 […]

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. […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

TweetEW.com has the original opening scene of John Carter — the scene that was criticized but he Pixar “Braintrust” and eventually re-done into the brief narrated scene that ended up […]

TweetOne of our readers forwarded me this review of John Carter, which is negative, and which I had missed before, and which was written by Warren Lee who is an […]

TweetHaving found more to like about John Carter on subsequent viewings myself, I’ve been wondering if any reviewers might offer an addendum or revision to their original reviews after viewing […]

TweetDevin Faraci at Badass Digest reacts to the LA Times Article which we posted here yesterday regarding how Battelship seems to have escaped the media feeding frenzy that engulfed John […]

TweetFrom the LA Times If there is a truism in Hollywood when it comes to the media, it’s that people in the industry never think you’re nasty, mean or vicious […]

TweetThis is a pretty interesting “CGI Progression” Gallery showing the elements involved in putting together one CGI shot of John Carter and Woola just prior to the Warhoon attack sequence. […]

TweetI finally was watching the right channel when one of the DVD ads came on, so I did a quick cell phone video of it so we can discuss it […]

TweetThis article was notable for one thing only — it cites the budget (meaning production investment)  for John Carter as being confirmed at $275m — and sure enough, if you […]

TweetUPDATE Monday 5:42 PDT:  The ads seem to have started today.  Reports now coming in of ads on Syfy Channel and NBC “America’s Got Talent”.  Will update as we hear […]

TweetIn rummaging through the net looking for more background on the Lynn Collins/Andrew Stanton “Warrior Princess” take on Dejah Thoris, I came across this interview which I hadn’t seen before […]

TweetOver at the Facebook Sequel Group (https://facebook.com/groups/backtobarsoom) there have been a number of reports lately that are similar to this one — so many that I decided to share this […]

TweetIn analyzing the John Carter performance at the domestic box office, one thing that I’ve learned is that among the pros in the branding business, Disney is considered to have […]

TweetDunno how I missed this. Makes some good points. It comes from The Patron Saint of Super Heroes Dear Disney, Yes, I know you said you wanted to gross $700 […]

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TweetThis article from David Kownow at TG Daily brings up some interesting info regarding the $100m take in the first six days of the DVD release of Peter Jackson’s King […]

TweetA very, very clever piece of work from Youtuber Krishashenoi93 (Krishna Bala Shenoi) who has a site, Artisticscrapyard.wordpress.com and (of course!) is a member of the John Carter Sequel Facebook […]

TweetThese images come from the website of James McKeown from the costume department of John Carter.  James describes it as follows:  For John Carter, I was in the costume jewelry […]

TweetIf you haven’t visited The Art of Barsoom, give it a look. The artists whose work is collected on the site include a very long list which I’ve attached at […]

TweetOvernight, our hit counter ticked over the 1 Million mark on the John Carter Files so it seems like this is a good moment to stop and thank everyone who’s […]

TweetSo it turns out that an outfit called “Torrent Freak” keeps track of illegal downloads and provides a week report, not unlike the reports the Box Office Mojo provides on […]

TweetOne of the things that’s of interest under the general framework of what I’m looking at with “Hollywood vs Mars” is to compare  the advance media narrative for John Carter […]

TweetSo help me figure this out.  The John Carter Facebook Group “Take me back to Barsoom! I want John Carter to have a sequel!” has experienced a strange surge of new […]

TweetI thought I’d provide an update on my progress on the book “Hollywood vs Mars”. I’ve been working on it 3-4 hours every morning and making good progress. The word […]