Author: Michael Sellers
Legend of Tarzan: Alexander Skarsgaard’s Stunt Double Talks About His Experience as Tarzan
WalesOnline | Swinging from vines, clinging to branches, leaping between treetops – it’s all in a day’s work for Augusts Dakteris, stunt double in The Legend of Tarzan. The 30-year-old […]
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Review of Legend of Tarzan by “Sir Drew”
This review is by our own Sir Drew, from our forum, who blogs at Songs of Sir Drew. Creating a contemporary Tarzan film is a bold idea. The critical reaction […]
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Edgar Rice Burroughs, Author of Tarzan, Offers a Hilarious Bullet Point List of his Failures
Edgar Rice Burroughs was famously “selling pencil sharpeners” at the time he wrote his first novel. He equally famously was later quoted: “I write to escape. To escape poverty.” In […]
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Art of VFX Magazine — Interview With Legend of Tarzan VFX Team
The Art of VFX has an excellent, detailed interview of Alex Pejic and Kevin Spruce, VFXers who are responsible for the work in Legend of Tarzan. In 2013, Alex […]
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Legend of Tarzan Rolls to $6.4M Weekend; $115.8M Domestic Cume, $261.5M Global Total
The weekend stats are out, and on its fourth weekend Legend of Tarzan has done a thoroughly respectable $6.43M, bringing its domestic total to $115.8M and Global Total to $261.5M. […]
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Zimbabwe Review of Legend of Tarzan
I’ve been trying to find reviews of Legend of Tarzan from Africa, this delightfully casual Zimbabwe Herald review is a bit of a hoot in the very relaxed way it addresses […]
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Africa of the Mind 1912: The Books That Shaped Edgar Rice Burroughs’ Tarzan of the Apes
I’ve been a little quiet lately, in part because I’ve been doing some research on the “Africa of the mind” that Edgar Rice Burroughs had access to as he was […]
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Source: Legend of Tarzan at 102M Yuan ($15.3M) after Tue-Th China Opening (Updates)
UPDATE Thursday 7:23AM: It’s Thursday night in Beijing and there is a new report showing that Legend of Tarzan is now at Y102M ($15.3) after Tue-Th opening. It now […]
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Ladies of Lust: The “Female Gaze” in Legend of Tarzan and Ghostbusters
This is a very interesting article which probes the sexuality in both the movie itself, and the marketing. I think this could be an important thing to keep in mind […]
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Adam Hochschild, Author of “King Leopold’s Ghost”, Reviews Legend of Tarzan, finds it “Strangely Satisfying”
Adam Hochschild, author of the much admired historical non-fiction King Leopold’s Ghost, which chronicles the history that Legend of Tarzan loosely adopts, has written a semi-review of Legend of Tarzan that includes interesting […]
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Johns Hopkins Press: The Legend and Literature of Tarzan by Jerry Griswold
Johns Hopkins University Press: Directed by David Yates and starring Alexander Skarsgård as the ape-man, The Legend of Tarzan (Warner Brothers) is a movie meant for the Summer of 2016 […]
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Why Legend of Tarzan with $194M in Gross and a $180M Budget is NOT Yet Profitable (sorry, be patient!)
Legend of Tarzan continues to confound naysayers and do better than the “experts” expect — so there is a great deal for fans of the project and fans of Edgar […]
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Legend of Tarzan Logs $11.1M Weekend; US Total Now $103.5M; Global Total $194M
Legend of Tarzan is in with an 11.1M third weekend, bringing its domestic total to$103.5M. Meanwhile, new foreign numbers are in with foreign at $90.6M through July 17. Next big […]
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Legend of Tarzan 3rd Weekend Off to a Good Start With $3.2M Friday, Will Pass $100M Cum. Tonight
SATURDAY MORNING 7AM: Legend of Tarzan is off to a solid start for its third weekend; in fact, by Friday night there had already been one upgrade. Deadline in its […]
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Nepali Times: Legend of Tarzan “a visually gorgeous creation” — “Must See”
Nepali Times by Sophia Pande: Having grown up enthralled by Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book, I’ve always had more of an affection for Mowgli over the other feral child who […]
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“Mormon Iconoclast” Offers Coherent Critique of Legend of Tarzan That’s Worth Reading
Legend of Tarzan has received an avalanche of criticism that comes at the movie from a number of different angles. One of the most popular angles is that it simply […]
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Legend of Tarzan Posts a solid $3.2M Tuesday, China looms as the critical foreign release
Legend of Tarzan logged $3.2M in the US on Tuesday, bringing its domestic total to $87,554,528. At this rate it will cross $100M on Saturday en route to an eventual […]
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With a $2.5M Monday, Legend of Tarzan Reaches $84.3M, should cross $100M on 3rd Weekend
Legend of Tarzan logged $2.6M on Monday, keeping pace with the overall box office Sunday/Monday trend and lining up to reach the $100M level this weekend. Just for fun — […]
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Legend of Tarzan: Skarsgard Wasn’t the Only One With Diet Issues
All Hip Hop by Kylie Krab As a story that has been told approximately 200 times over the last 100 years, the Warner Bros. Pictures drama, “The Legend of Tarzan,” […]
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Mendelson: Legend of Tarzan Box Office Muscle Proves Superhero Fatigue is Still a Myth
Forbes | by Scott Mendelson I will admit it. Heading into the July 4th weekend, I thought The Legend of Tarzan was dead meat. But while the film may have […]
