• 'John Carter' Producer Jim Morris Talks Budget, Effects, Directors And More

    On a movie like John Carter, where so much has been - or can be - made of the budget, the effects and the first time director, the best source of information is the person who handles all that. The producer. One of the the producers on John Carter is Jim Morris, who produced Andrew Stanton's last…

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  • Trivia: Tom Cruise Could Have Been 'John Carter'

    John Carter's journey to the big screen is, quite possibly, even more interesting than the actual journey the character takes in the story. And that's saying something when you're talking about a Civil War hero transported to Mars to fight with nine-foot-tall aliens. The property has gone though dozens of different versions with various stars,…

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  • Andrew Stanton And Producers Deny 'John Carter' Budget Reports

    No one ever thought Disney's John Carter was going to be a cheap movie. To create a world worthy not only of author Edgar Rice Burroughs but director Andrew Stanton and the studio behind the Pirates of the Caribbean movies, lots and lots of money was going to have to be spent on the effects, the sets…

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  • Q&A: How Does A Pixar Short Film Get Made?

    Over the years, we've learned a lot about how Pixar develops and produces their feature animated films, but we've learned very little about how the beloved short films get created. So I decided it was time we find out. I shot a message over to Enrico Casarosa, the director of Pixar's next short film La…

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  • Interview: Andrew Stanton Talks 'John Carter'

    In June, I visited the editing room of John Carter, the big screen adaptation of Edgar Rice Burroughs' classic sci-fi novel A Princess of Mars (you can watch my video blog here). At the event, director Andrew Stanton and producer Jim Morris gave a presentation explaining how they came to be involved with the project,…

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  • Pixar Confirms John Carter Of Mars Trilogy

    The guys at Pixar have apparently made a trip to Edgar Rice Burroughs archives, doing research for a trilogy of John Carter of Mars films. That's right, they are planning not one, but three films based on Burroughs work. In attendance for the trip: director Andrew Stanton, the director, Mark Andrews, screenwriter and producer of…

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