John Carter : A Princess of Mars - Part 4

[Rowsdower!]

This movie was such a disaster on so many levels.

 

[MadVillainy]

Just really stupid to spend that much money on a franchise opener.

 

[Rowsdower!]

Yeah. Especially considering the character. I know he's been around a long time and influenced a bunch of other characters, but he's not really that well-known by today's audiences.

 

[Teelie]

This movie was such a disaster on so many levels.

Now it is slightly more disasterous than realized.

 

[I SEE SPIDEY]

Even if your franchise opener is based on really popular material it's foolish to spend 264million dollars.

Anyway, the fact that Disney didn't keep the rights prove that these so called great DVD sales didn't "save" the film.

 

[Goshdarn Batman]

John Carter is one of the awesomest (modern) movies I've ever seen. I miss adventure movies like that...beats the crap out of those Pirates of the Crappybean movies (I don't exactly hate them, but they're overrated as hell. The first is good, the second okay...but the last two? I'd rather walk the plank). I have yet to meet a person (in real life) that didn't like it.

 

[Lord]

It was a financial failure, but i wouldn't exactly say that the film that was presented was that big of a failure when it comes to the execution of the story, had many problems, but still not all that bad.

How the hell did they spend so much money on Pirates of the Caribbean 4? That one actualy looked cheaper than the other films in the film series.

 

[Goshdarn Batman]

How the hell did they spend so much money on Pirates of the Caribbean 4? That one actualy looked cheaper than the other films in the film series.

Someone had to buy drugs for Johnny Depp. And the director.

 

[Lord]

John Carter is one of the awesomest (modern) movies I've ever seen. I miss adventure movies like that...beats the crap out of those Pirates of the Crappybean movies (I don't exactly hate them, but they're overrated as hell. The first is good, the second okay...but the last two? I'd rather walk the plank). I have yet to meet a person (in real life) that didn't like it.

The 3rd film was so crazy i kind of liked it, the plot and script were a convuluted mess, but i apreciate the originality they delivered. The 4th one was incredibly bland, from the action scenes, to the main villain, though Barbossa was entertaining in there.

 

[Marvolo]

"John Carter" Cost More Than You Think

By Garth Franklin Monday October 27th 2014 04:21AM
Creative accounting is nothing new in Hollywood, studios obfuscate the real budgets of productions with much of the public never let in on the real cost of a major movie. When shooting outside the United States though, especially in countries with more stringent tax laws, hiding those actual figures becomes a bit harder.
Take Disney's "John Carter". The costly sci-fi flop was previously said to have cost around $250 million to produce. Now, Forbes reports that the project cost Disney approximately $306.6 million to produce according to recently-released documents. That's more than the $284 million worldwide gross of the film.
The publication also reveals that Britain's tax authority paid Disney $42.9 million towards the cost of making the movie, more than any of Disney's other movies shot in the UK have received except for the upcoming "Avengers" sequel which has already scored $53.6 million in tax rebates. The magazine estimates Disney has spent around $2.7 billion in production costs on all the movies it as made in the UK since 2007.
It's because of the British government's film tax credit scheme that these figures are coming to light as publicly available financial statements need to be filed. Minus the $42.9 million in tax credits the production received, "John Carter" ended up with a net budget of $263.7 million.
Either way it's not a shadow on "Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides" which reportedly came in with a total budget of $410.6 million and remains the most costly production in history to be shot in the UK. This past week it was revealed that Disney's rights to make further "John Carter" films based on Edgar Rice Burroughs' novels had reverted back to the author's estate

On Stranger Tides cost $410 million! Where the **** did that money go? It surely wasnt into that ho hum boring film.

 

[Kane52630]

http://kane52630.tumblr.com/post/115642149479/john-carter-2012-dir-andrew-stanton

 

[Goshdarn Batman]

Now I want to see it again...

 

[Kane52630]

Yeah when I was making them I forgot how much I love this movie.

 

[MadVillainy]

Need to pick this up on Blu Ray sometime soon

 

[biglite351]

Lynn Collins... mmmmm...

http://kane52630.tumblr.com/post/115642149479/john-carter-2012-dir-andrew-stanton

 

[Prison Mike]

I feel like she disappeared from Hollywood. Haven't seen her in anything recently.

 

[Doc Ock]

Yeah when I was making them I forgot how much I love this movie.

 

[AVEITWITHJAMON]

I feel like she disappeared from Hollywood. Haven't seen her in anything recently.

Shame as she was really good in JC, I really hope Stanton returns to live action at some point as JC is far from the disaster many made out.

 

[biglite351]

Doing stage stuff? She might like that better. (less $ but more pure?) IMDB shows that she did some TV since John Carter and seems to have a few films in the can... But it could be that video is not her preferred medium.

 

[Rowsdower!]

I'm still glad this movie bombed.

I would have loved a GOOD John Carter movie to be a hit. But this convoluted, campy turd with a wooden plank for a lead? Yeah, this deserves to be among the greatest financial failures in Hollywood history.

 

[I SEE SPIDEY]

I'm not happy or sad about it's failure.

It wasn't like it was a terrific and or thought provoking original epic that failed. Disney bought Marvel and Star Wars because they can't make boy movies for ****, Pirates was a fluke.

Anyway, I think Lynn Collins is talented but the one two punch of X-Men Origins (a hit but most disliked it) and John Carter effectively killed her movie career for the most part.

 

[Kane52630]

I feel like she disappeared from Hollywood. Haven't seen her in anything recently.

Shame as she was really good in JC, I really hope Stanton returns to live action at some point as JC is far from the disaster many made out.

Doing stage stuff? She might like that better. (less $ but more pure?) IMDB shows that she did some TV since John Carter and seems to have a few films in the can... But it could be that video is not her preferred medium.

Yeah she's got a couple movies coming up with Patrick Wilson but nothing big from what I see. I hope she gets another chance, she was my #1 pick for Wonder Woman but I guess that ship has sailed.

 

[Rowsdower!]

Shame about Lynn Collins. I do really like her and she was one of the things about this movie that I didn't hate. Hope she finds some work soon, on TV if not in movies.

 

[Doc Ock]

Lynn Collins would of been a wonderful WW!

I'm still glad this movie bombed.

I would have loved a GOOD John Carter movie to be a hit. But this convoluted, campy turd with a wooden plank for a lead? Yeah, this deserves to be among the greatest financial failures in Hollywood history.

Ok.

 

[Octoberist]

I do feel bad for Lynn Collins'. It felt like it really hurt her career, or at least the momentum.