[With apologies to Dr. Seuss]
And up in the gold cave some people say,
if you look close enough you can still see, today,
where John Carter once stood
just as long as he could
before the Threns whisked John Carter away.
Who was John Carter?
And why was he there?
And why was he whisked away, taken somewhere
from that cave in Virginia to Barsoom's hatchling hole?
This box office battle won't break John Carter's way.
The old Pix-lar still lives here.
Ask Stanton. He knows.
You won't see the Pix-lar
The filming's long done.
He retreats to that compound with the cereal bar.
He lives in that office in Emeryville, son!
where they make their own films
out of zeros and ones.
But on special dry midnights in Arizona heat,
out from the compound
at junkets he speaks
to tell of John Carter to Mars whisked away
He'll tell you, perhaps...
if you're willing to pay.
Baker's Dozen (Estimates)
01 THE LORAX $39.1 (cum. $121.9)
02 JOHN CARTER $30.6 new [Review and Taylor Kitsch Beefcake]
03 PROJECT X $11.5 (cum. $40.1)
04 SILENT HOUSE $7 new
05 ACT OF VALOR $7 (cum. $56.1)
06 A THOUSAND WORDS $6.3 new
07 SAFE HOUSE $5 (cum. $115.8)
08 THE VOW $4 ($117.6)
09 THIS MEANS WAR $3.7 (cum. $46.8)
10 JOURNEY 2 THE MYSTERIOUS ISLAND $3.6 (cum. $90.7)
11 TYLER PERRY'S GOOD DEEDS $3 ($30.5)
12 THE ARTIST $2.3 (cum. $40.4)
13 FRIENDS WITH KIDS $2.1 new
What did you see this weekend?