Author: Michael Sellers
MovieFone: Here’s Why Legend of Tarzan Beat Expectations at the Box Office
No wonder box office analysts expected “The Legend of Tarzan” to be a costly flop, along the lines of “The Lone Ranger” a few years ago. It’s based on an […]
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Indiewire Analysis of Legend of Taran Box Office
Indiewire has some good analysis although I’m not loving their headline, which is “The Legend of Tarzan and The BFG May Not Recoup.” But it’s not an untrue statement. Friday […]
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David Yates Knew Legend of Tarzan Would Get Fan Love; Can the Fan/Critic Divide Be an Asset?
I didn’t write about this at the time, but given what happened with Critics (34% Rotten) and Fans (74% Fresh, A-Cinemascore), I think it’s worth making a note of it. […]
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Legend of Tarzan Sunday Int’l Box Office Report — $18.8M as Staggered Rollout Begins
Deadline is the first with a reasonably comprehensive international box office report for Legend of Tarzan. THE LEGEND OF TARZAN Swinging into 19 international markets, the David Yates-directed spin on […]
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Hindustan Times Review of Legend of Tarzan: “Wonderfully old fashioned Hollywood Epic”
“He’s Tarzan, you are Jane. He will come for you.” There couldn’t have been 10 more perfect words to sum this movie up. And Christoph Waltz, bless his one-trick act, […]
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Legend of Tarzan Fans Start Sequel Push — Form Facebook Group, Get Organized
With first weekend box office results showing that Legend of Tarzan is exceeding expectations en route to $100M domestic and, hopefully, $300M or more foreign, fans are getting organized for […]
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Sunday Box Office Update: Legend of Tarzan Exceeds Expectations; Will Reach at least $38.1M Fri-Sun and $44M Fri-Mon — This is a WIN!
THIRD UPDATE: 2PM. Some more coverage. Entertainment Weekly puts it this way: Defying expectations by a mile at No. 2, The Legend of Tarzan pulled in a solid estimated $38.1 million ($10,709 […]
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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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A Magical Evening in Tarzana With Danton Burroughs
This originally appeared in Erbzine, and I’ve published it on The John Carter Files too — but not yet here. The LA Weekly article on the Origins of Tarzana that […]
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LA Weekly: The Origin Story of Tarzana, A Neighborhood Named After an Apeman
From LA Weekly Once, shortly after we had moved to the Ranch, Dad and I were out riding together. We paused at a high point from where we could look […]
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Hollywood Reporter: The Trouble With the Tarzan Characters
Graeme McMillian has in interesting article in The Hollywood Reporter in which he puts forward the thesis that “troubling” aspects of the Tarzan story are difficult to escape or successfully […]
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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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Ron Marz : Ranking The Best Tarzan Movies Ever Made (before seeing Legend of Tarzan)
Writing at Comic Book Resources, Ron Marz takes a look at all the movie Tarzans and ranks them. I love Tarzan. I grew up on tales of the Lord of […]
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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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Want to Help Boost Legend of Tarzan? Here are 10 Things You Can Do
Edgar Rice Burroughs was never the darling of the critics — and Legend of Tarzan is following in that “grand” tradition. And like ERB’s original works (it took him two […]
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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 […]
