Finding Dory should not be a good movie. It’s a film the filmmakers didn’t want to make, starring a character who was considered a sidekick, and made more than a decade after the original—an original which was incredibly successful and award-winning, and needed no sequel. But somehow, not only is Finding Dory good,…
After it’s been released, a Pixar movie is so simple and enjoyable that it seems like it must have been almost effortless to create. The truth is Pixar’s films can and do change, almost right up to their release—and Finding Dory, which hits theaters June 17, is no exception. In fact, writer/director Andrew Stanton …
The trailers for Disney Pixar’s Finding Dory have been really good so far; they evoke the feelings of the 2003 original while providing some nice steps forward. This new trailer, though, uses some iconic music and new footage to really tug on those heartstrings, a lot more than the others.
For almost 10 years, Finding Nemo was Pixar’s most successful film. And yet, other movies kept getting sequels while our favorite fish story didn’t. At last, in 2010, writer/director Andrew Stanton got inspired. Five years later, on June 17, Finding Dory is coming to theaters.
You’d think making a sequel to a popular superhero movie that won an Oscar would be the simplest thing ever. However, once you start thinking about The Incredibles 2, it becomes obvious very quickly that doing a sequel worthy of the original will be difficult.
People have been trying to make Edgar Rice Burroughs’ Barsoom novels and his iconic hero John Carter of Mars into films since the 1930s, and it wasn’t until 2012 that Andrew Stanton released his adaptation. Now, a Presentation Reel of another adaptation has surfaced, and showed us what we might have gotten.
Perhaps it was all the recent "John Carter 2 could have been awesome" reports, but for reasons unknown, Andrew Stanton has tweeted the title cards to the John Carter movies we'll never see.
Sometimes a movie sparks everybody's imagination months before it comes out. When a film gets talked about, that's usually a good thing — and it's an even better thing when it becomes the subject of memes and ideas. Unless those memes totally misrepresent what the movie's about, and wind up killing all interest in…
John Carter of Mars was sadly complicated and did not take any breaks to let the audience catch up with the complicated backstory of Barsoom. But in its defense, this movie had a hefty load of source material to adapt. Would it all have been easier to follow if Andrew Stanton had used this original introduction? Is…
John Carter did about as well as anybody expected this past weekend, pulling in $30.6 million domestically, versus a production budget estimated at around $250 million. (The gloating news reports have tended to mention that once you include marketing, the movie's cost is probably closer to $350 million — even though…
There is a moment in the movie John Carter where our eponymous hero is fighting an absurdly pitched battle against dozens of the green, tusked, four-armed Tharks. Because he's an Earthman on Mars, Carter has super-strength, and he slays Thark after Thark. The bodies pile up around him in a tableau whose absurdity…
We had a lot of important questions for Disney's John Carter. For example: Why are all the Martians British? What's with the tattoos? And why do people keep calling these tan people "Red Martians?" We asked the cast, crew and director Andrew Stanton our most pressing questions about John Carter, and here are their…
John Carter might have Martians, flying ships and sexy young lads with long hair — but the real star of the show is his giant hound, Woola.
Before he was winning Oscars for Wall-E and Finding Nemo, John Carter director Andrew Stanton was a teen scribbling Tharks in his personal notepads. In fact, a penchant for fan art is something that all three of the head honchoes working on John Carter share. Take a look at the childhood Barsoomian doodles from…
John Carter wasn't Michael Chabon's first attempt at writing about nineteenth century heroes having swashbuckling adventures on Mars. Long before he joined up with Andrew Stanton to adapt Edgar Rice Burroughs' classic novels to the screen, Chabon wrote another Martian epic. Discover the saga of The Martian Agent, and…
We've been baffled by Disney's marketing of the John Carter from the get-go. But it looks like with the very last trailer, they finally got it right. Now this is the Martian war epic we signed up for! With this trailer, John Carter regains the "of Mars" sobriquet he deserves.
Disney has posted an extended scene from John Carter that puts us right in the alien-fighting action. John and Tars Tarkas have been thrown into a Martian colosseum, where they take on the infamous White Apes of Barsoom. And, even in chains, John Carter has more than a few monster battling tricks up his non-existant…
Think Disney's John Carter will be devoid of sexy Frank Frazetta inspired leather thongs and nakedness? Well, think again. We've got oodles of new John Carter pics that prove that these Martians are just as sexy as 1970s aliens. Who's excited for some Taylor Kitch nipple and fleshy Barsoom flesh?
John Carter is a swashbuckling story of adventure, based on some of the most classic pulp novels of all time. And four new clips and a featurette showcase just how hard Wall-E director Andrew Stanton will push that sense of wonder and adventure.
The John Carter movie has a tough act to follow — we're used to seeing tons of amazingly thrilling art by masters like Frank Frazetta, showing weird creatures and heroic vistas. Now at last, there's some concept art from the movie that lives up to our dreams of Barsoom.
