Category: Tarzan
Special Advance Screening of Legend of Tarzan at WB Studios Announced as Part of ECOF 2016
This just in from Bob Zeuschner on behalf of the LA SubERBS, who will be hosting the 2016 Edgar Rice Burroughs Chain of Friendship gathering in Los Angeles June 26-28 […]
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Mari Ness’s Annoying But Ultimately Interesting Thoughts on Heredity, Environment, and Edgar Rice Burroughs’ Tarzan of the Apes
There is an unfortunate smarmy, mocking, superior, “I’m way cooler than these books I’m writing about” quality to the first half of Mari Ness’s annoying but ultimately interesting article Heredity, […]
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Listverse: 10 Surprising Facts About Tarzan
Lovely piece that actually picks through the books and ERB bio and comes up with a number of good observations that those who only know Tarzan through the Disney movie, […]
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The Books That Helped Edgar Rice Burroughs Create “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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First Two Stills From Legend of Tarzan — Skarsgard, Robbie, as Tarzan and Jane
At long, long last Warner Brothers has unveiled the first two stills from the Legend of Tarzan via a USA Today article that just appeared. Both images are credited to Jonathan […]
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Pan is as big a disaster for WB as John Carter was for Disney; $150M film brings in $15M Opening Weekend
One would think that no marketing campaign could be as clumsy and tone deaf as Disney’s John Carter campaign, but then along comes AJoe Wright’s Pan, distributed by Warner Brothers […]
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At last! A Tarzan 2016 Test Screening Viewer Gives David Yates a Solid Thumbs Up and Leaks Intriguing Details [Updates]
At last, it has finally happened — someone who saw a test screening of David Yates’ TARZAN has leaked some fascinating and detailed observations. There is of course no way to 100 […]
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“Very good!” — first comments on an advance viewing of the Tarzan 2016 trailer
This is pretty thin soup, but given the recent run of bad news for WB’s Tarzan, I figured this is worth sharing. On the Internet Movie Data Base message board […]
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The Box Office Tragedy of WB’s last Tarzan Movie, Plus the Pan Box Office Disaster, Define WB’s Challenge for Tarzan 2016
Pan opened with a disastrous $15.5M in Domestic U.S. Box Office. How bad is that? Well, Pan cost $150M to make and did $15.5M; John Carter cost $267M to make […]
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Uh oh, here it comes: The Tarzan Negativity Narrative has begun. What will WB do to Counter It?
Here comes that sinking feeling again. In a flash, it suddenly looks like Warner Brothers’ efforts to have calm and positive rollout of Tarzan have just taken a significant hit with the […]
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Fans Hoping For a Successful Tarzan 2016 Need to Go to These Negative Articles and Comment
Warner Brothers and Tarzan have just taken a significant hit in the first battle to establish a favorable narrative for Tarzan 2016. Establishing a favorable narrative is hugely important; we […]