Avatar’s Dark Knight Victory: A Good Or Bad Sign For John Carter Of Mars?

Avatar sets newfangled records this week , rack up by The Dark Knight like an AMP cause running past a Batpod . But will the success of the Na’vi spell doom for Disney / Pixar’sJohn Carter of Mars ?

Varietyis report that Avatar has in conclusion beat out the Dark Knight ’s $ 533.3 million record , by gross $ 552.8 million domestically , thanks to another win weekend . While the motion-picture show still drag behind Titanic in the U.S , . the disruption is closing , and it ’s already beat Titanic ’s 1.24 billion international sales with an astounding $ 1.28 billion . Making Avatar the most successful cinema internationally … for now .

Let ’s all hope this does what we ’re predicting and opens new doors for big - budget science fabrication undertakings cinematically . But what about the next mammoth scifi picture from Disney , John Carter From Mars ? A film that already has the the investment company , the natural endowment and is inproduction right now . Many skeptic are wondering if the similarities between the two , mate with the timing , will inevitably doom John Carter to being viewed as “ just another alien feature ” by audience members .

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The Toronto Sunseems to see John Carter ’s close at hand entombment , asking “ Will the mega - budget picture show – despite having a account gestate a C ago – seem fresh to hearing enchant by Avatar ? Or has directorJames Cameron – who has acknowledged his blockbuster was influenced by Burroughs ’ work – stolen Disney ’s thunder ? ” So permit ’s look at the similarities between the two via the Sun .

First , they are both asterisk relatively small - name doer — Avatar had Zoe Saldana and Sam Worthington , who were both seesaw into Hollywood stardom thanks to work in Star Trek and Terminator Salvation , but were still relatively unknown to the mickle . John Carter asterisk Taylor Kitsch , known best for his TV office in Friday Night Lights and Lynn Collins , Silverfox from X - valet de chambre Origins : Wolverine , both yet to hit their openhanded principal current break . So that ’s one law of similarity .

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Both pic follow an Earth warrior who ends up in a alien demesne , has to distribute with the wild and mammoth alien wildlife , and resident , and eventually ends up in falling in dearest with the local princess . Alright , that another large thing the two films have in common .

And to top it all off John Carter will be coming out the same yr as Avatar 2 is rumored to be on the way — in 2012 . Not good .

But before we write John Carter off as being ruined by Avatar there ’s one thing John Carter has that Avatar doesn’t : Andrew Stanton , the man behind some of Pixar ’s cool foundation . James Cameron may know how to make a lot of money with some very pretty images but you may be damn sure there wo n’t be any “ you ’re not in Kansas anymore ” or “ actual leg ” cliched dialogue in John Carter . Plus the storey will be there — we ’ve got a flavour no one will be say “ it ’s gorgeous but … ” about anything Stanton attach his name to .

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