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March 8, 2014
It’s amazing we’re now halfway through 2012, a year that has offered plenty in the way of both blockbuster films and the smaller, more intimate indie fare. Taking that into account, it seems only fitting to offer up something a long the lines of a best of/worst of post for the first half of 2012.
Today marks the blu-ray release of Disney’s criminally under-appreciated John Carter, just a few short months after its lackluster performance at the box-office led to a $200 million loss for the Mouse House. Yet our goal here isn’t to talk the economics, but rather the quality of the film and its home video release.
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Honestly I wanted John Carter to do well, but alas its red flags in the previews held true throughout the entire film.
As all prognosticators have predicted, Disney’s John Carter struggled at this weekend’s domestic box-office, earning a respectable $30 million, but struggling considering its bloated $250 million budget. The international box-office fared much better for the film, which lost the domestic box-office crown to repeat winner The Lorax.
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This past Wednesday Oscar-winning filmmaker Andrew Stanton was at the Apple Store in San Francisco to discuss his latest movie ‘John Carter’.
There are certain filmmakers that simply understand creation, world-building and authenticity; Andrew Stanton is one of those filmmakers. The visual extraordinaire behind the Pixar classics Finding Nemo and Wall-E brings these talents into his first live-action feature, the blockbuster John Carter. Based on the classic stories from Edgar Rice Burroughs, the film thrives in its world-building and stunning, creative visuals which Stanton infuses with the same old-school sensibilities which made his Pixar features so wondrous.