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 […]
John Carter Review: “One crazy, mixed-up, fun sci-fi romp.”
TweetFrom the Visalia Times Delta: John Carter” is one wacky movie. It features an unwieldy plot that throws in elements of “Flash Gordon,” “Star Wars,” “Indiana Jones,” “Avatar” and “Conan […]
John Carter: Will Director Andrew Stanton get his planned trilogy
TweetA $250 million budget. An untested star. And a director making his first live-action feature film. There won’t be a bigger big screen gamble than Disney’s sci-fi adventure John Carter, which opens […]
Houston Chronicle Review: “Thrilling John Carter well worth the wait.”
TweetAfter 100 hundred years, John Carter finally has his own major movie. The science-fiction fantasy adventure “John Carter” opens Friday, a century – plus one month – after Carter’s first swashbuckling Mars adventure, […]
Why the Box Office Tracking numbers have been wrong so often this year, and why John Carter is really tracking at 40m, not 25m
TweetFor weeks now, Boxoffice.com has had John Carter opening at $25m, and yesterday the Los Angeles Times reported that a major tracking service had downgraded the projected opening from $30m […]
John Carter News March 7, 2012
Tweet Pixar animator gets real on Mars – Philadelphia Inquirer (blog) – philly.com 03/07/2012 Philadelphia Inquirer (blog)Pixar animator gets real on MarsPhiladelphia Inquirer (blog)For John Carter, the huge and fantastical […]
John Carter? Edgar Rice Burroughs Done Right
Tweet[This is a REALLY good article. Read it all.} Being a hard-core Edgar Rice Burroughs fan has always had a little element of torture to it. Which Burroughs would have […]
MSN John Carter Review: “the first movie of its kind in a very long time that I’d willingly sit through a second or even third time.”
TweetIf you are among the millions of filmgoers who was bitterly disappointed by “The Phantom Menace,” you owe it to yourself, to your wounded psyche, and to your pleasure centers […]
Fox News: Review of John Carter
Tweet If Cecil B. DeMille were alive today and given the chance to direct a special effects-laden fantasy adventure on Mars, he might have made something similar to Andrew Stanton’s […]
Networked Blogs: Review
Tweet PLOT: A Civil-War vet, John Carter (Taylor Kitsch) is magically plucked from our world, and transported to Barsoom- aka Mars, which is being ravaged by an evil warlord named […]
Video: Andrew Stanton on TED
TweetNote: Includes very funny use of an R-Rated Word.
John Carter: Mars Appeal
Tweet From The Hindu: What is John Carter all about? Mini Anthikad Chhibber gets into Edgar Rice Burroughs works Say Edgar Rice Burroughs and the first thing that comes to […]
Hollywood Reporter: John Carter Review – “Will likely delight sci-fi geeks….generate solid box office worldwide”
TweetDirector Andrew Stanton’s Disney extravaganza is a rather charming pastiche, if perhaps not one with sufficient excitement and razzle-dazzle to justify the reported $250 million production budget. Given that it’s […]
John Carter News March 6, 2012
Tweet ‘John Carter’ star Taylor Kitsch on possible mega-stardom: ‘If I want to be in … – Entertainment Weekly – insidemovies.ew.com 03/06/2012 Los Angeles Times’John Carter’ star Taylor Kitsch on […]
JoBlo.com John Carter Review: “A lavish, beautifully made fantasy adventure”
TweetPLOT: A Civil-War vet, John Carter (Taylor Kitsch) is magically plucked from our world, and transported to Barsoom- aka Mars, which is being ravaged by an evil warlord named Sab Than […]
John Carter Review: Khanada Taylor
TweetDisney lifted the embargo on us! HOORAY! So, here is my review… Film fans have easily become jaded by more and more and more of the same old, same old […]
A Beginner’s Guide to John Carter’s Mars
TweetFrom Superhero Hype: This Friday, Finding Nemo and WALL•E director Andrew Stanton will go where no other filmmaker has managed to go before, as he tackles the works of Edgar Rice Burroughs in Disney’s John […]
John Carter Review from Bleeding Cool
Tweet John Carter: The Bleeding Cool Review You’ve already been told a zillion times how Edgar Rice Burroughs’s Barsoom cycle was the progenitor of Star Wars, Avatar and Dune. […]
John Carter Movie Review from EatSleepLiveFilm.com
Tweet Review: John Carter (Ian’s Take) Ian Loring March 5, 2012 0 It’s the first blockbuster of 2012 and it’s got a lot riding on it for Disney as sci-fi epic […]
Starburst John Carter Review
Tweet Review: John Carter (PG) / Director: Andrew Stanton / Screenplay: Andrew Stanton, Mark Andrews / Starring: Taylor Kitsch, Lynn Collins, Samantha Morton, Willem Dafoe, Thomas Haden Church, Mark Strong […]
Director Andrew Stanton Talks JOHN CARTER, Reshoots, Editing, the Long Post-Production Schedule, Deleted Scenes, and More
Tweet Ninety-five years ago, Edgar Rice Burroughs wrote A Princess of Mars, and since its publication, the series has influenced generations of readers. As you might imagine, numerous filmmakers were […]
Variety: John Carter, Hunger Games are fresh franchises that are taking on the “tentpole torpor”
TweetNow that the awards season is history, mainstream Hollywood can refocus on what really matters: the care and feeding of tentpoles. Fawning over “The Artist” can get tiresome when there […]
John Carter Director: Edgar Rice Burroughs Influence was akin to the Beatles influence in music
Tweet‘John Carter’ director Andrew Stanton says the Edgar Rice Burroughs books that his movie is based on, had as much influence on the genre at The Beatles had on the […]
John Carter News March 5, 2012
Tweet John Carter Director Makes ‘The Beatles’ Comparison – contactmusic.com 03/05/2012 Contactmusic.comJohn Carter Director Makes ‘The Beatles’ ComparisonContactmusic.com’John Carter’ director Andrew Stanton says the Edgar Rice Burroughs books that his […]
Burroughs’ John Carter inspired generations of authors, filmmakers, scientists
TweetIf not for John Carter, pop culture would not have Superman, “Star Wars” or “Avatar.” The release Friday of Disney’s “John Carter” is a movie event 100 years in the […]
Youtube Comments show that releasing the first 10 minutes of John Carter is the best argument Disney has put forward yet for the movie
TweetAs of this writing, only 319 people have viewed the first 10 minutes of John Carter on Youtube (it’s only been out for a couple of hours) but there are […]
Video clip: First 10 minutes of John Carter
TweetDisney has released a video clip of the first 10 minutes of John Carter (minus the prologue)…..This answers the question that’s been missing in most of the trailers and clips […]
John Carter Reviews: Movieline posts article saying consensus is emerging that John Carter is a “flawed but worthwhile epic”
TweetNegative speculation and prognostication has been brewing for months for Disney’s sci-fi actionerJohn Carter thanks to dismal tracking and rumors of bloated budgets, but Disney’s finally released their review embargo for the […]