
Sophomore outing struggles a bit domestically in the box office
by MICHAEL HINMAN
May-19-2013 - No Comments
Richard Lee Byers contemplates the poor box-office performances of Conan the Barbarian and John Carter
When I was a kid, I thought pulp writers Robert E. Howard, creator of Conan, and Edgar Rice Burroughs, creator of John Carter (and Tarzan), were two of the greatest writers who ever lived. Decades later, I’d still say they were two of the supreme masters of fantasy and SF, even though I now see th ...
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I’m posting this column from Dublin, Ireland. I wrote it before going on holiday, but it’s coming to you from the Emerald Isle where they obviously like science-fiction. The Forbidden Planet shop is in the middle of downtown, and the other day, there were Storm Troopers and Jedi in front of ...
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