Disney has released two new TV spots for their $200+ million movie adaptation of John Carter via Yahoo! While the movie is still over 3 months away Disney are happy to give us a glimpse at new footage, most notable new battle/actions scenes which look quite impressive.

You can watch both TV spots below:

From Academy Award(R)-winning filmmaker Andrew Stanton comes “John Carter”–a sweeping action-adventure set on the mysterious and exotic planet of Barsoom (Mars). “John Carter” is based on a classic novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs, whose highly imaginative adventures served as inspiration for many filmmakers, both past and present. The film tells the story of war-weary, former military captain John Carter (Taylor Kitsch), who is inexplicably transported to Mars where he becomes reluctantly embroiled in a conflict of epic proportions amongst the inhabitants of the planet, including Tars Tarkas (Willem Dafoe) and the captivating Princess Dejah Thoris (Lynn Collins). In a world on the brink of collapse, Carter rediscovers his humanity when he realizes that the survival of Barsoom and its people rests in his hands.

John Carter will be released March 9, 2012.

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Universal Pictures today released the second official trailer for Battleship, the movie based on Hasbro’s naval combat board game starring Taylor Kitsch, Brooklyn Decker, Alexander Skarsgård, Rihanna and Liam Neeson.

From the trailer it’s clear director Peter Berg, Universal, and the marketing team have been very much influenced by Michael Bay’s Transformers franchise. It sounds, feels, and looks just like the first Transformers movie, which was probably Universal’s aim as that ended up spawning a billion dollar franchise.

You can watch the trailer below:

Peter Berg (Hancock) produces and directs Battleship, an epic action-adventure that unfolds across the seas, in the skies and over land as our planet fights for survival against a superior force. Based on Hasbro’s classic naval combat game, Battleship stars Taylor Kitsch as Lt. Alex Hopper, a Naval officer assigned to the USS John Paul Jones; Brooklyn Decker as Sam Shane, a physical therapist and Hopper’s fiancée; Alexander SkarsgÃ¥rd as Hopper’s older brother, Stone, Commanding Officer of the USS Sampson; Rihanna as Petty Officer Raikes, Hopper’s crewmate and a weapons specialist on the USS John Paul Jones; and international superstar Liam Neeson as Hopper and Stone’s superior (and Sam’s father), Admiral Shane.

Battleship opens fire on May 18th, 2012. Will you be buying a ticket?

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Back in May Disney decided to change the title of John Carter of Mars to simply John Carter, removing the cool and interesting part of the title in the process. Soon after Mark Strong, who plays Matai Shang in the film, said the change was because “in the beginning he’s John Carter, but by the end of the first film, he’s John Carter of Mars; so he’s earned that title.”

Strong’s reasoning made some sense, and as Disney is hoping for sequels they can add ‘of Mars’ should they happen. However, director Andrew Stanton has now revealed the real reason for the change was mainly down to marketing.

From Bleeding Cool:

“Here’s the real truth of it. I’d already changed it from ‘A Princess Of Mars’ to ‘John Carter Of Mars’. I don’t like to get fixated on it, but I changed ‘Princess Of Mars’… because not a single boy would go. And then the other truth is, no girl would go to see ‘John Carter Of Mars’. So I said, “I don’t won’t to do anything out of fear, I hate doing things out of fear, but I can’t ignore that truth.

“All the time we were making this big character story which just so happens to be in this big, spectacular new environment. But it’s not about the spectacle, it’s about the investment. I thought, I’ve really worked hard to make all of this an origin story. It’s about a guy becoming John Carter. So I’m not misrepresenting what this movie is, it’s ‘John Carter’. ’Mars’ is going to stick on any other film in the series. But by then, it won’t have a stigma to it.”

Studios often change titles after doing some marketing research, and it just so happens the males in the focus group didn’t like princesses and the females weren’t fond of planets. Disney’s Tangled was originally called Rapunzel but they thought it would discouraged young boys from seeing the film, so they changed the title and used the male character more in the marketing. Tangled ended up making nearly $600m worldwide, so it obviously worked. We’ll have to see if John Carter has similar success when it hits in March.

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The teaser trailer for Disney’s John Carter was released back in July and introduced us to the set-up, but offered little action or anything to get too excited about.

Now the studio has released the second full length trailer, and we finally get to see where some of the $200+ million budget went. It also looks pretty good.

Watch below:

From Academy Award(R)-winning filmmaker Andrew Stanton comes “John Carter”–a sweeping action-adventure set on the mysterious and exotic planet of Barsoom (Mars). “John Carter” is based on a classic novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs, whose highly imaginative adventures served as inspiration for many filmmakers, both past and present. The film tells the story of war-weary, former military captain John Carter (Taylor Kitsch), who is inexplicably transported to Mars where he becomes reluctantly embroiled in a conflict of epic proportions amongst the inhabitants of the planet, including Tars Tarkas (Willem Dafoe) and the captivating Princess Dejah Thoris (Lynn Collins). In a world on the brink of collapse, Carter rediscovers his humanity when he realizes that the survival of Barsoom and its people rests in his hands.

John Carter will be released March 2012.

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Universal Pictures has today released the first official trailer for Battleship, the movie based on Hasbro’s naval combat board game.

People seem to have been against this movie from the beginning, mainly because it’s based on a board game. The casting of models and singers in lead roles suggested they weren’t taking the movie seriously, and from the looks of this trailer neither should we.

Watch below:

Peter Berg (Hancock) produces and directs Battleship, an epic action-adventure that unfolds across the seas, in the skies and over land as our planet fights for survival against a superior force. Based on Hasbro’s classic naval combat game, Battleship stars Taylor Kitsch as Lt. Alex Hopper, a Naval officer assigned to the USS John Paul Jones; Brooklyn Decker as Sam Shane, a physical therapist and Hopper’s fiancée; Alexander SkarsgÃ¥rd as Hopper’s older brother, Stone, Commanding Officer of the USS Sampson; Rihanna as Petty Officer Raikes, Hopper’s crewmate and a weapons specialist on the USS John Paul Jones; and international superstar Liam Neeson as Hopper and Stone’s superior (and Sam’s father), Admiral Shane.

Battleship opens fire on May 18th, 2012.

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Disney have today released our first look at John Carter (formally John Carter of Mars) in the form of a teaser trailer. The movie is the live-action directorial debut of Andrew Stanton (Finding Nemo, Wall-E) so expectations are pretty high, but from the trailer it looks like Stanton has crafted an interesting and unique sci-fi movie.

Watch below:

The song in the trailer is a? Peter Gabriel cover of “My Body Is A Cage” by Arcade Fire.

John Carter is a sweeping action-adventure set on the mysterious and exotic planet of Barsoom (Mars). John Carter is based on a classic novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs, whose highly imaginative adventures served as inspiration for many filmmakers, both past and present. The film tells the story of war-weary, former military captain John Carter (Taylor Kitsch), who is inexplicably transported to Mars where he becomes reluctantly embroiled in a conflict of epic proportions amongst the inhabitants of the planet, including Tars Tarkas (Willem Dafoe) and the captivating Princess Dejah Thoris (Lynn Collins). In a world on the brink of collapse, Carter rediscovers his humanity when he realizes that the survival of Barsoom and its people rests in his hands.

John Carter will be released March 2012.

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Today sees the release of the first official teaser poster for John Carter, courtesy of Apple. I’d rather Disney have stuck with the original title John Carter of Mars, but in preparation for the impending marketing campaign the studio cut the title down to simply John Carter.

You can view the full tribal-looking poster below:

John Carter is directed by Andrew Stanton (Finding Nemo, Wall-E) and follows Civil War veteran John Carter (Taylor Kitsch) who is transported to Mars where the inhabitants have turned to fighting one another to survive as the oceans evaporated, and the atmosphere thinned. Lynn Collins (X-Men Origins: Wolverine), Thomas Haden Church (Spider-Man 3), Mark Strong, Dominic West, James Purefoy and Samantha Morton also star, along with Willem Dafoe who plays a 10-foot alien with four arms called Tars Tarkas.

The first trailer will likely be released soon, possibly with Cars 2 on June 24th.

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According to Dark Horizons Disney have decided to change the title of John Carter of Mars to simply John Carter, removing the cool and interesting part of the title in the process. The movie won’t be released until March 2012, but the title change suggests Disney plan to start marketing sometime soon.

John Carter is directed by Andrew Stanton (Finding Nemo, Wall-E) and follows Civil War veteran John Carter (Kitsch) who is transported to Mars where the inhabitants have turned to fighting one another to survive as the oceans evaporated, and the atmosphere thinned. Lynn Collins (X-Men Origins: Wolverine), Thomas Haden Church (Spider-Man 3), Mark Strong, Dominic West, James Purefoy and Samantha Morton also star, along with Willem Dafoe who plays a 10-foot alien with four arms called Tars Tarkas.

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Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps director Oliver Stone has got together an impressive cast for his next movie, Savages, which is based on the Don Winslow novel and follows a pair of marijuana growers who come up against a Mexican drug cartel when their girlfriend becomes kidnapped and held for ransom.

Aaron Johnson (Kick-Ass) and Taylor Kitsch (X-Men Origins: Wolverine) will play the growers, with Blake Lively (The Town) set to play their kidnapped lady friend. Deadline also has word that Stone is arranging a Pulp Fiction reunion with John Travolta and Uma Thurman joining the film. Thurman will play Lively’s mother, Paqu, and Travolta will play a burned out Drug Enforcement agent.

Also among the cast are Salma Hayek, who’ll play the role of Mexican cartel queen-pin Elena; and Benicio Del Toro, who plays the vicious cartel enforcer Lado. Emile Hirsch (Into The Wild) has also joined the film according to Variety, although his role has not been revealed. Other parts are yet to be cast, so we can probably expect more names to join the project before it’s planned July shoot.

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Following the release of X-Men Origins: Wolverine there was talk of a potential Gambit spin-off, much like what 20th Century Fox and Ryan Reynolds are planning to do with Deadpool (which now has a director).

We haven’t heard anything on a Gambit solo movie since, and in a recent interview Taylor Kitsch confirmed he hadn’t heard anything either, but would still be interested in making it.

From SHH:

“There were strong rumors a while ago, but I haven’t heard or seen anything tangible anyways,” he told them in response. “I know if we do it, it’ll probably be down the road and we’ll do it hopefully a lot darker. I’d love to play him again, but it’s a matter of doing it right, too. There’s no point in just doing it for the sake of doing it. You gotta kill if you’re going to do it, so we’ll see.”

Personally I didn’t think Gambit had a large enough role in Wolverine to warrant his own spin-off, but Taylor Kitsch will be seen in John Carter of Mars and Battleship next year, which could potentially make him the next Sam Worthington (i.e. Not that well known, but then within the space of a new months he’s leading two franchises). Fox may decide to get the ball rolling on a Gambit solo movie if Kitsch’s popularity rises next year.

Would you be interested in seeing a Gambit spin-off?

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