TweetTo no one’s surprise, Lions Gate’s Hunger Games looks on pace for a record setting weekend.  It booked $19.75m in midnight shows, and as of 4pm Deadline Hollywood and others […]

TweetI can’t think of a similar announcement for a single movie in recent history. In fact, most studios try to bury losses for individual pictures in their financial statements. And […]

TweetFrom Under an Outlaw Moon: There’s an excellent column here exploring the many insipid and wrongheaded ways that Disney dropped the ball, or flat-out abandoned the ball, with John Carter and ultimately fucked over […]

Tweet[There are a few more of these coming out, it seems. I have mixed feelings about posting them all, but on balance, it seems like this is a part of […]

TweetOkay, we did it — took the plunge, created a forum. The only question now: Will anyone come? (Puhlease save us from the embarrassment of throwing a party and no […]

Tweet“John Carter” misadventure Tuesday after the company warned that it expects to take a $200 million loss on the film. Animation director Andrew Stanton took on the $250 million live-action […]

TweetFrom the Mennonite Weekly Review. Last weekend, my husband and I took our kids to see John Carter, Disney’s ambitious adaptation of Edgar Rice Burroughs’ science fiction novels. Critics are mixed on their […]

TweetDisney has released the following statement which we are just going to post for now, without comment, until we have had an opportunity to reflect on its timing and content. […]

TweetJohn Carter grossed  $13.5 million in its second weekend for a 10-day domestic cume of $53.2 million while overseas, the Disney pic grossed $40.7 million.  The overseas figure includes a solid […]

TweetFrom iO9 John Carter wasn’t Michael Chabon’s first attempt at writing about nineteenth century heroes having swashbuckling adventures on Mars. Long before he joined up with Andrew Stanton to adapt Edgar […]

Tweet From Variety. Despite a muted $30.2 million domestic bow, “John Carter” gave Disney reason for some optimism internationally, scoring $67.1 million from 55 day-and-date overseas territories over the March […]

TweetThe following is from Michael Medved at The Daily Beast and we’re putting it up here not for the political content (JCF is only interested in the politics of Barsoom […]

TweetJessica Kholinne in Jakarta, Indonesia saw John Carter last night and “just couldn’t get it out of my head”.  She found her way to “Take me back to Barsoom!” on […]

TweetAnyone who does box office analysis knows that patterns, once set, rarely change and analysis of patterns is what box office analysis is all about.  A minor but generally consistent […]

TweetDear Andrew Stanton, It amazes me how much pre-release hoopla has been made over your new movie JOHN CARTER, and not in a good way. For all the negative articles […]

TweetRichard Brody, writing from France, has weighed in on John Carter in the New Yorker and his comments, which cover some of the spectrum of French critical reaction to the […]

TweetNow that Schadenfreude fever is beginning to subside, there is a tiny bit of revisionist box office history is starting to emerge  as more sober-minded film journalists begin to pull […]

TweetDisney’s John Carter made up for a relatively weak $30.6 million debut at home by bringing in $70.6 million abroad from 55 territories representing 80% of the market. Other international grosses: This […]

TweetJohn Carter of Mars (yes, I have chosen to flat-out call the film by that name going forward, as per its end title card) drew in approximately $30.6 million in domestic […]

TweetDisney’s John Carter premiered worldwide on the weekend, and dominated the foreign portion of its theatrical run by grossing $70.6 million in its debut at about 8,300 screens in 51 overseas territories. […]

TweetIn what appears to be the first sensible Box Office report to come out today, Forbes is reporting the outcome of John Carter’s opening weekend in a manner that shows […]

TweetJohn Carter is estimated at 30.6m for US Domestic Gross for the weekend, and 70M foreign.  We are adding updates as new information becomes available.  We’re putting the new updates […]

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TweetFrom Entertainment Weekly: There’s some good news and some bad news for Disney this morning. Good news: The studio’s John Carter led the box office on Friday with an estimated […]

TweetDotar, Kantos Kan, and Ras Thavas all went down to the El Capitan on Hollywood Boulevard tonight and caught reactions from the people exiting the 7pm show. Unlike preview audiences […]

Tweetby Khanada Taylor:   Last night was my second viewing of John Carter. The first time I saw it was at a pre-screening in Disney Real 3D. Last night it was […]

TweetDisney’s John Carter is a sword-and-planet space romance. If that’s what you’re after, you’re in luck. It’s fun and trendy to trash science fiction and fantasy films that aren’t Very […]

Tweetby Luke Y. Thompson for E! Online: Review in a Hurry: Part western, part swashbuckler, and a huge part science fiction, Edgar Rice Burroughs‘ century-old story of a Confederate veteran turned warlord […]

TweetAmidst dire predictions for domestic Box Office, this morning Disney has at least one bit of heartening news.  The studio is reporting that John Carter had the largest opening day […]