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Post by deuce on Aug 13, 2016 12:41:45 GMT -5
An action-packed Tarzan cover by Joe Kubert:  |
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Post by deuce on Aug 21, 2016 0:24:33 GMT -5
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Post by almuric on Aug 22, 2016 17:34:43 GMT -5
My bookstore (located next to a theatre) had two paperback copies of Tarzan of the Apes a few months ago. Since then, they've sold.  |
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Post by deuce on Aug 23, 2016 8:35:31 GMT -5
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Post by johnnypt on Aug 23, 2016 9:00:54 GMT -5
Now here's something funny: Legend of Tarzan added 5 theaters last weekend and made a little over $10,000 more this weekend than the one before. And right as the home video pre-orders go up at Amazon and elsewhere. If the darn movie had been $30 million cheaper, it'd almost be profitable by now!
Also watched John Carter on AMC over the weekend, I think for my 16th time. Still my favorite movie from the last 20 years or so.
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Post by deuce on Aug 23, 2016 9:07:14 GMT -5
Now here's something funny: Legend of Tarzan added 5 theaters last weekend and made a little over $10,000 more this weekend than the one before. And right as the home video pre-orders go up at Amazon and elsewhere. If the darn movie had been $30 million cheaper, it'd almost be profitable by now! Also watched John Carter on AMC over the weekend, I think for my 16th time. Still my favorite movie from the last 20 years or so. So is that the global take? We can always hope for a lot of DVDs being given as gifts at Christmas. |
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Post by johnnypt on Aug 23, 2016 11:20:55 GMT -5
Global take as of now is just under $350 million.
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Post by deuce on Aug 24, 2016 10:11:29 GMT -5
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Post by johnnypt on Aug 24, 2016 12:52:46 GMT -5
Cool! It's right in the ballpark of "Could we do a sequel for a little less and still end up OK?" The overseas numbers are decent enough. There's an audience for it for about a $150 million budget :-)
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Post by deuce on Aug 24, 2016 17:09:31 GMT -5
"Edgar Rice Burroughs is one of the great names of early science fiction. (...) Unlike most of his successors, he writes clear and forcible English. And he writes a story, without embellishments or self-indulgent psychologising."Kingsley Amis wrote that and a fair amount more in praise of Ed. He was one of the great literati of Britain during the last 60yrs. He considered ERB to be quite good, and compared him favorably against most other sci-fi writers both early and modern. One could call Amis the "British John Updike", I suppose. Surprising and welcome praise. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingsley_Amis
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Post by deuce on Aug 25, 2016 14:46:07 GMT -5
NSFW!!!A rare watercolor by Frazetta depicting Tarzan and La. 
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Post by deuce on Aug 25, 2016 16:47:51 GMT -5
Skarsgard is 40 today. A $350M movie in theaters and in damn good shape hitting the Four Oh.  |
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Post by deuce on Aug 25, 2016 18:34:57 GMT -5
Ray Bradbury on the lasting influence of ERB...
Burroughs is probably the most influential writer in the entire history of the world…. I’ve talked to more biochemists and more astronomers and technologists in various fields, who, when they were ten years old, fell in love with John Carter and Tarzan and decided to become something romantic. Burroughs put us on the moon. All the technologists read Burroughs. I was once at Caltech with a whole bunch of scientists and they all admitted it. Two leading astronomers—one from Cornell, the other from Caltech—came out and said, Yeah, that’s why we became astronomers. We wanted to see Mars more closely. I find this in most fields. The need for romance is constant, and again, it’s pooh-poohed by intellectuals. As a result they’re going to stunt their kids. You can’t kill a dream. Social obligation has to come from living with some sense of style, high adventure, and romance.
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Post by deuce on Aug 29, 2016 8:23:13 GMT -5
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Post by mrp on Aug 30, 2016 21:49:43 GMT -5
Does anyone have any info on the Burroughs Bulletin fanzine? I lucked nto a copy of an issue this afternoon while getting a bunch of back issues at a local shop. It was #36 and features reprints of the Hogarth and Dan Barry strips of Tarzan in Pellucidar. The grand comic book database has only very skeletal info on these, and only 2 cover scans-what I am curious about is that the cover to the issue I have is blank white with gold lettering (saying Tarzan in Pellucidar by Burne Hogarth and Dan Barry) and then the Bulletin logo and issue number in small typeface at the bottom of the page. The back cover has a reprinted page of the strip and then says continued on page 3.
The third page of the folio has the continuation. What I am curios about though is if the issue is missing its cover...the only other 2 issues I saw cover scans of had actual art on the covers. This one did not. Zines often count the covers in page numbering, so having the strip reprint be on the third folio page doesn't tell me if the first folio page is the cover or a title page though. Having the strip start on the last folio page though leads me to believe it was the back cover as a potential reader would see that as a preview and open up the issue to read...
So if anyone has any more info on this zine series or has links/contacts for someplace/someone wher eI could find more info, it would be appreciated.
-M
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