Category: ERBDOM
ERB Inc. Releases Edgar Rice Burroughs The Bibliography by Robert B. Zeuschner
Tarzana, CA | August 18, 2016: Edgar Rice Burroughs Incorporated today announced the release of the long-awaited definitive bibliography of the Master of Adventure by longtime Burroughs scholar Dr. Robert […]
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Legend of Tarzan: Swinging Through Colonial History
by Cindy Beringer via SocialistWorker.org THE LEGEND of Tarzan is not your grandparents’ jungle movie, and not just because of the computer-generated animals and the IMAX film format. I checked […]
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Legend of Tarzan Global Box Office Reaches $347.2M; how much more is there?
Legend of Tarzan now stands at $347.2M global box office gross. How much more is there? Following is a realistic assessment and explanation of where the film is, and where […]
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Check Out These Edgar Rice Burroughs Facebook Groups and Pages
A pal who’s not a regular on Facebook asked me about the Edgar Rice Burroughs groups and pages on Facebook, and I was answering him in an email when I […]
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Review: Edgar Rice Burroughs: The Bibliography by Dr. Robert B. Zeuschner
Christmas has come early for fans and scholars of Edgar Rice Burroughs, with the publication of Dr. Robert B. Zeuschner’s Edgar Rice Burroughs: The Bibliography, a spectacular and passionately assembled […]
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Catholic Deacon Op-Ed Takes on Legend of Tarzan and Hollywood
The following is by Deacon Steven D. Greydnus and appeared in Crux, an independent Catholic news site operated in partnership with the Knights of Columbus. Let’s Face It, Hollywood’s Got a […]
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What is the Lesson From Legend of Tarzan and Other Films that Critics Hate and Audiences Love?
Legend of Tarzan opened on July 1st to a Rotten Tomatoes Critics rating of 35%, while audiences gave it an A- Cinemascore and an initial audience rating after the first […]
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Mystery: Legend of Tarzan Posts $20M New Foreign Income but Is Left Out of Domestic Weekend Charts
So, the good news — Box Office Mojo has posted another $21M in foreign revenue for Legend of Tarzan, bringing its foreign total to 211M and its global to $334M. But […]
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Day 3 — Third Round of Pix The 2016 Dum Dum in Morris, Illinois
by Cathy Wilbanks Okay, here is the final installment of pics from the last wonderful day of Dum Dum 2016. Thanks to everyone for making it a fantastic experience. Wish […]
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Day 2 Pix from 2016 Dum Dum
by Cathy Wilbanks DAY 2 PIX Jim Thompson with headgear (with an all-seeing eye in the middle) by Bob Hibbard Dignity! Bill Wagner Jim Thompson and Mike Conran […]
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Cathy Wilbanks Reports: ERB Fans Converge on the the Annual ERB Dum Dum Gathering in Morris, Illinois
by Cathy Wilbanks Hi Everybody — Dum Dum 2016 is off and running at the Quality Inn in Morris, Illinois. Here is the schedule, followed by Huckster Room Pics. […]
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Giving Equal Time to the Other Side: The Case Against Tarzan in the 21st Century
As the dust settles from the release of Legend of Tarzan, the “long game” will start, and that includes taking stock of the status of Tarzan as a cultural icon […]
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Walter Chaw: A Pulp Nerd’s Review of Legend of Tarzan (Worth Reading)
Walter Chaw writing at FilmFreak Central has an interesting review of Legend of Tarzan that makes a far greater attempt than most to consider the core appeal of the Tarzan […]
