![]() ![]() Others predicted a $100 million-plus write-off for Disney and deemed the film a " debacle. ![]() ![]() " Ishtar Lands on Mars," is how a New York Times headline puts it, a reference to the expensive, Dustin Hoffman- and Warren Beatty-starring 1987 comedy that didn't even make back half of its production budget. It's now being grouped with infamous disasters such as Heaven's Gate, the 1980 western that helped put United Artists out of business, and Eddie Murphy's putrid sci-fi comedy The Adventures of Pluto Nash. John Carter is a 2012 American science fiction action film directed by Andrew Stanton, written by Stanton, Mark Andrews, and Michael Chabon, and based on A. The movie opened with a domestic take of $30.6 million, far below the $70 million or so it needed to earn in its debut weekend for a shot at profitability, meaning the Edgar Rice Burroughs adaptation seems to have lived up to its bad hype. The big-budget Disney movie was a box-office disappointment, but it's no Ishtar.ĭisney's epic John Carter arrived in theaters billed as a flop in the making, a gargantuan $350 million endeavor (including extensive marketing costs) with some of the softest box office tracking experts had seen in years. Mr John Smith and Mr Wayne Garvie Q614 Bishop of Manchester And presumably Q618 Lord Gordon of Strathblane : One. Kashmir (From John Carter Trailer), from the album Movie Music of 2012, was released in the year 2012.
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