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We have many great posts planned for this summer — including the series HERC YOUR ENTHUSIASM (25 posts, by 25 contributors, about old-school hip hop); the series SAVE THE ADVENTURE (about favorite adventure fiction from Treasure Island...

Bad news for anyone still holding out hope that Disney would consider making a sequel to the disappointingly received John Carter. The rights to Edgar Rice Burroughs’s pulp hero have reverted from Disney back to the corporation the late writer established...

Walt Disney Pictures As an anonymous high school student once sort of wrote (no, really), “If you want something very, very badly, let it go free. If it comes back to you, it’s yours forever. If it doesn’t, it was never yours to begin with.” Walt Disney...

John Carter wasn’t the franchise-launching film that Disney hoped for, and now we know for certain that it will be Disney’s only effort to exploit the Mars-set stories of Edgar Rice Burroughs. The studio no longer has the rights to the John Carter character...

Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc. announces that the movie, television and merchandise rights for John Carter have reverted back to the company. Walt Disney Pictures held the rights and produced the movie John Carter in 2012. Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc. will...