Category: Legend of Tarzan (Movie)
The Story Behind the UK Steam Engine that Played the Role of the Train in Legend of Tarzan
East Anglian Daily Times | A small village on the Suffolk/Norfolk border has played its part in a big-budget blockbuster movie. Bressingham Steam and Gardens’ Norwegian locomotive King Haakon is back […]
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Cinelinx: Is Making a Tarzan Movie Only For Tarzan Fans a Bad Idea?
From Cinelinx, by Rob Young (a longtime ERB fan) David Yates’ The Legend of Tarzan does an effective job bringing the iconic King of the Jungle back to the big […]
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As Legend of Tarzan Opens, Greystoke Director Hugh Hudson Looks Back on his 1984 take on Tarzan
Hollywood Reporter | The Secrets Behind That Other Tarzan Movie — The One That Earned a Dog a Screenwriting Oscar Nomination Writer Robert Towne so hated the finished ‘Greystoke: The […]
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Bleeding Cool News: Mike Richardson on the Origins of Legend of Tarzan in 1999
Dan Wickline at Bleeding Cool News has published excerpts of an interview with Dark Horse Comics’ founder Mike Richardson in which Richardson, who is an executive producer (and maybe should be […]
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Legend of Tarzan First Foreign Box Office Numbers Are In — So Far So Good
The Hollywood Reporter’s Saturday morning box office update includes the following from Warner Bros. regarding the initial foreign numbers for Legend of Tarzan: Tarzan launches in 19 markets this weekend, […]
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Legend of Tarzan — Full Media Coverage Opening Day
This is auto-generated and not curated (meaning it is what it is, positive or negative, I didn’t pick and choose) — top 200 or so articles from the last 24 […]
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Scott Mendelson Breaks Down Tarzan’s Surprising Friday Box Office
I was going to break down the box office news on Legend of Tarzan but Scott Mendelson at Forbes has been up early and already done a good job of […]
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Tarzan Surprises at the Box Office — Now Projected to Reach $42.6M for 4 Day Weekend
This is YUGE. The experts got it wrong. Forget the $8.5M for opening day Friday they were projecting after the matinees — LOT did $13.2M on Friday. That’s 50% over […]
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Legend of Tarzan — Analysis by Demos Sachlas
The Legend of Tarzan: Analysis by Demos Sachlas In the original novels by Edgar Rice Burroughs, it was Tarzan’s father who was commissioned by the British Colonial Office to travel […]
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Legend of Tarzan: Major Divide Opens Between Critics and Audience
Opening day isn’t quite over yet, but it’s already abundantly clear that while for most films there is a strong correlation between critics response and audience response — not so […]
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Legend of Tarzan Review by Blaine Burgin
MY review of Legend of Tarzan: I saw this movie last night by myself, and will be going again tonight. Tonight, I am taking family members with me, so they […]
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Legend of Tarzan Box Office Results: $8.5M Friday, Projects to $23M thru Sunday
UPDATE 2:30 PM FRIDAY. This from Deadline Hollywood — first projections based on matinees back east. Think of this as exit poll numbers. Disney/Pixar’s Finding Dory is ruling No. 1 with an […]
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Review of Legend of Tarzan by Leia Barret Durham Powell
Review by Leia Barret Durham Powell Last night, my husband Martin and I boarded a bus-full of die-hard Edgar Rice Burroughs fans (ECOF 2016) to attend an advanced screening of […]
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Time Magazine: Legend of Tarzan “Revisionist, Anachronistic, Weird and Beautiful”
Sections of this film are so imaginative, and so lovely, that they deserve our open-heartedness, not our scorn. Excerpt So what are we supposed to do with Tarzan, now that […]
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Parade Review of Legend of Tarzan: A Rollicking Tale of Adventure, Romance, and Eye Candy
Director David Yates, who made his bones with all four movies of the Harry Potter franchise, works with all the tools in his impressive kit—and what must have been every […]
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Illinois Times: Yates’ Tarzan A Rousing, Moving Success (a reviewer who gets it)
by Chuck Koplinski Legendary film producer Darryl Zanuck once said, “The secret to success in Hollywood is giving the public what it wants before it knows it wants it.” In […]
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Chicago Daily Herald: New Tarzan Swings as Relationship Drama, Adventure (3.5/5 Stars)
It’s a romance, a bromance, a show-mance and a go-go-go-mance. Just when you thought we didn’t need another adventure based on Edgar Rice Burroughs’ king of the jungle, David Yates’ […]
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Houston Press Review of Legend of Tarzan — “At last, a Hollywood reimagining witha point!”
At last, a Hollywood reimagining with a point. David Yates’ two-fisted pulp-studies spree The Legend of Tarzan doesn’t just update Edgar Rice Burroughs’ white-boy jungle-bro for our age of heightened […]
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NY Times Gives Legend of Tarzan a Favorable Review
“The Legend of Tarzan” has a whole lot of fun, big-screen things going for it — adventure, romance, natural landscapes, digital animals and oceans of rippling handsome man-muscle. Its sweep […]
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Legend of Tarzan and the Critics: Welcome to Life in the Arena
Fans of Edgar Rice Burroughs had a grand moment Tuesday night when they screened David Yates’ Legend of Tarzan at Warner Bros. Studios and discovered that after the longest of waits, […]
