TweetJohn Carter fans have been holding out hope that Battleship starring Taylor Kitsch will do well enough in the US to provide a boost to John Carter as the DVD/Blu-ray […]

TweetUPDATE: I knew it was too good to be true to believe that Disney had released this clip showing heart, romance, and action all together. Word has arrived that even […]

TweetOne of the members of the John Carter Facebook group found this article and posted it today.  I’m sharing it here as this is obviously a topic of interest to […]

TweetEditor’s note:  JCF is pleased to welcome a new contributor, Eric Holland.  Eric has created in depth online databases at www.barsoom.wikia.com and johncarter.wikia.com, and has also contributed to recovering the old John Carter […]

TweetAs a lot of people are aware of Kerry Conran’s pitch video and test footage for his Paramount John Carter — one of the many that never got made. Because […]

TweetThose who have been following the seemingly endless journey of John Carter to the screen will recall that back in 2004 Kerry Conran (director of Sky Pilot and the World […]

TweetThis is a review which caught my attention because of it’s reference to Steve Jobs comment about dividing the world into those that “get it” and those that are “bozos” […]

TweetAs I’m working on “Hollywood vs Mars”, I’ve been building a file of all the more substantial Andrew Stanton interviews as part of preparation for what I hope will be […]

TweetSince March 9, somewhere between 30 and 50 million people have seen the movie John Carter, and as a result, during the month of March, A Princess of Mars was […]

TweetHere’s a cool rock fan trailer by Danny Quesnel who says: Before watching *WARNING* please if you do not like hard rock, and just want to watch the cuts, just […]

TweetI wanted to make sure that everyone who comes here to John Carter Files knows that the John Carter Facebook Group is now operating an off-Facebook Forum at www.johncartertwo.com. Check […]

TweetClaude Brodesser-Akner is the author of the often cited and  infamous Vulture.com piece pinning the blame for John Carter marketing woes on Andrew Stanton, and I have gone on record […]

TweetThanks to Phil Burger for sending me the link to this review of John Carter by multi-awarded sci-fi master Michael Moorcock, who is one of the great and most respected […]

TweetJennifer Reingold has a comprehensive article in Fortune that includes unusually good access to Rich Ross, before he was fired from Disney, and Robert Iger, Disney’s CEO.  Reingold recounts visiting […]

TweetWe missed this when it came out on April 22.  Thank you to the blogger “Scifiguy” for the nice writeup of the fan effort.  We need more like this — […]

TweetDisney announced its first quarter earnings today, beating expectations with earnings of 63 cents per share (58 centers per share non-GAAP)  against analyst expectations in the 55-56 cents per share […]

TweetHollywood Reporter has solved the anomaly of how it was that John Carter was able to leap from $112,000 box office a week ago, to $1.49M this past weekend, and […]

TweetAvenger wasn’t the only film to do something extraordinary this past weekend.  John Carter, on it’s “move-over” weekend where it picked up 165 second run theaters, bringing it’s total screens […]

TweetBrad Bird tweeted this article this morning and I think it’s worth posting there. John Carter is mentioned as a casualty as a non-franchise movie at the time of its […]

TweetFollowing is the Foreword to the work-in-progress book John Carter and the Gods of Hollywood.  It’s a work in progress with publication date of August 1, 2012, if I can […]

TweetWarning: The following John Carter review is a little, shall we say, edgy, so read no further if the occasional four letter word offends you. From OutlawVern.com: JOHN CARTER is […]

TweetUPDATE:  This is moving very quickly, and today we decided to move the release date up to May 30, 2012 — and change the title to HOLLYWOOD vs MARS.  See […]

TweetFrom MTV: Taylor Kitsch will be battling aliens this summer when “Battleship” hits theaters next month, and that’s not his first time fighting enemies from space this year. Of course, […]

TweetThe single biggest hot button issue in Andrew Stanton’s adaptation of Edgar Rice Burroughs’ “A Princess of Mars” is the handling of the character of title character John Carter.  In […]

TweetNo, he’s not ERB’s John Carter, but this John Carter just happens to have been born in 1912, exactly 100 years ago, like the other John Carter, and he happens […]

TweetFor the last two weeks Amazon has been telling those who pre-ordered John Carter that it would be available on June 5th, and Walmart has been advertising the same, but […]

TweetFrom the LA Times. Wanted: Experienced executive who can turn around an unstable film studio and manage the egos of some of Hollywood’s biggest power players including Pixar animation guru John […]

TweetThis is an interesting article because it comes from outside the “movie universe” and is an observation on marketing i which the author articulates the idea that there was a […]

TweetThe John Carter Facebook Group “Take me back to Barsoom! I want John Carter to have a sequel!” has launched an online forum outside Facebook, open to anyone on the […]