John Carter (movie)

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2012-08-06 14:12:26

Sunday, Aug. 5 Antique car show The Chesapeake Region of the Antique Automobile Club of America holds its annual event in conjunction with the opening weekend of the Howard County Fair. The show runs from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the county fairgrounds in...

Movie Guide for TownMall in Carroll County, March 25

2012-03-24 19:59:00

Now Playing "21 Jump Street" (R). Two cops join a secret unit and use their youthful appearances to go under cover as high-school students. TownMall Cinemas (1:30, 4:30, 7:40, 10:15 p.m.) "A Thousand Words" (PG-13). In this comedy, Eddie Murphy plays a...

John Carter movie reviews

2012-03-09 08:40:00

This week's leading literary adaptation is "John Carter," a movie crafted from a sci-fi tale by Edgar Rice Burroughs, the author who also brought us Tarzan. Chicago-born Burroughs (1875-1950) scraped by in various careers until 1910, when he began...

Nate Silver: In Hollywood, 'Nobody knows anything'

2013-05-15 13:43:00

Predictability and the arts-and-entertainment world have an uneasy relationship. Predictability is a given — like the mouthfeel of a Big Mac — when it comes to, say, the punch lines on "Two and a Half Men" or the beats of your average...

Hollywood reacts to death of visual effects guru Ray Harryhausen

2013-05-07 12:04:00

Directors, actors and animation fans of all stripes saluted Ray Harryhausen on Tuesday as news of the visual effects pioneer's death reached Hollywood. Harryhausen, the stop-motion animator of such classics as 1955's "It Came From Outer Space," 1958's...

Disney Fiscal Q2 Earnings: Revenue and Profits Increase on Cable, Theme Parks Growth

2013-05-07 14:10:04

May 07 (TheWrap.com) - The Walt Disney Co. reported a 10 percent jump in revenues and a 36 percent hike in profits on Tuesday for the first three months of the year, thanks to growth in its cable, theme parks and film businesses. The media conglomerate...

Disney's profit and revenue soar on "Oz," parks, ESPN

2013-05-07 14:17:00

Walt Disney Co. reported a massive jump in net income for its fiscal second quarter, lifted by the performance of its media networks, movie studio and theme parks. The Burbank company posted net income of $1.51 billion for the quarter that ended March...

Hollywood bets big on blockbusters, starting with 'Iron Man 3'

2013-05-03 07:49:00

Summer is the season for blockbusters at the box office, and this year Hollywood is going all in. Midway through a year of declining attendance and ticket sales, the major studios are betting heavily on big-budget spectacles that can fatten the bottom...

Disney welcomes its 'Oz' as biggest 2013 debut

2013-03-10 20:45:00

What a difference a year makes. On March 9, 2012, Walt Disney Pictures released "John Carter," the sci-fi adventure film that promptly bombed, taking in about $40 million en route to a $73-million domestic gross that precipitated the resignation of Walt...

'Oz' poised to find box-office gold. Horn has cool hand at Disney.

2013-03-08 08:26:00

After the coffee. Before deciding if I'll see 'Oz' this weekend. The Skinny: After seeing "Being Flynn" on HBO last night, I've decided that "Silver Linings Playbook" was over-hyped. Friday's headlines include a preview of the weekend box office, a look...

'Jack the Giant Slayer': Five lessons from a box-office bomb

2013-03-04 07:00:00

If it's March, it must be an effects-driven dud. Nearly a year after Disney's "John Carter" crashed to earth, bringing an executive down with it, a different fantasy-heavy film fell mightily at the box office this weekend. Nominally based on the myth of...

'Jack the Giant Slayer' director faced some towering challenges

2013-02-27 05:00:00

When screenwriter Darren Lemke first proposed the idea of contemporizing the Jack and the Beanstalk fairy tale with CG technology, it was 2005. Tim Burton had not yet jumped into the rabbit hole with "Alice in Wonderland." Amanda Seyfried had yet to don...

Well, it worked on the printed page: An ex-Confederate officer is transported to Mars, where he finds himself possessed of great power. What's not box-office boffo about this?

2012-12-27 10:57:04

"John Carter" is one of the movies currently promoted on Disney Movies Online, a service that will end Dec. 31.

2012-11-20 07:58:00

No Rating; 2:37 running time From Turkey, with love, death, grace and the sort of cinematic beauty that tests the powers of description, "Once Upon a Time in Anatolia" arrives at Chicago's Music Box Theatre the same week we're being handed a grim Eddie Murphy comedy, Disney's curious Mars-set

2012-03-09 12:43:12