Disney acknowledged "John Carter"'s dismal results, but in a statement said it was excited about upcoming releases - "The Avengers" and "Brave." (SOUNDBITE OF MOVIE, "BRAVE") (SOUNDBITE OF CHEERING) ...

Disney could have made a better movie and sold it more persuasively to a ... ‘John Carter’ is based primarily on ‘A Princess of Mars,’ the first in Edgar Rice Burroughs’ early 20th ...

John Carter and the Barsoom series by Edgar Rice Burroughs holds a lot of cinematic potential, even if the 2012 Disney movie bombed at the box office.

Indeed, these titles each derive from the next two novel appearances of John Carter. Unfortunately, Disney let the rights to the Barsoom series revert back to the Edgar Rice Burroughs estate in 2014.

Disney hoped John Carter would be its Star Wars. Then it bombed, and six months later the company bought Lucasfilm. John Carter Bombed 10 Years Ago and Changed Hollywood ...

John Carter had a few massive hills to climb to reach success. For one, next to no one in 2012 had even heard of the source material. Two, Taylor Kitsch was an unproven lead, even if he was one of ...

Director Andrew Stanton's Disney extravaganza is a rather charming pastiche, if perhaps not one with sufficient excitement and razzle-dazzle to justify the reported $250 million production budget.

John Carter, the 2012 science fiction movie which bombed at the box office, cost the Walt Disney Company $306.6 million to make according to recently-released documents. They also reveal that ...

The Untold Story of Disney’s $307 Million Bomb ‘John Carter': ‘It’s a Disaster’ “It was going to be that every movie had a different character saying the prologue,” Stanton said ...

Walt Disney Pictures has released the first poster for John Carter, its big-screen adaptation of Edgar Rice Burroughs's A Princess of Mars story.. The promo image shows the first glimpse of star ...

The very things Disney thought would guarantee box-office success may have left “John Carter” star-crossed from the start. The acclaimed director had never made a live-action movie before.