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Thanks to Free (Rock Star)!!, I'm figuring out the new TPF. Thank you Santress for all the pics. I have to agree with those that have commented on the videos of his interviews. He's doing really well. He's more relaxed. This is from John Carter Files a week and plus ago about the movie. Don't think this was posted earlier.
Shhh….Collider’s Matt Goldberg Has Kind Words for Legend of Tarzan
June 3, 2016Michael SellersERBDOM
Shhhh…… I don’t want him to hear me mentioning this for fear it may scare him away. But Collider’s Matt Goldberg, who famously said of the second trailer for Legend of Tarzan: “this new trailer screams “Pan of 2016? actually had some nice things to say today about the David Yates collaboration with Alexander Skarsgard and Margot Robbie:
I’m hoping that Legend of Tarzan is a bit of old-fashioned, rollicking fun. The character can be put to good use, and this is an interesting spin that takes matters away from an origin story and into a new mold where Tarzan is wrestling with his old ways versus his new, gentrified lifestyle as John Clayton III. Also, we’re not getting a Planet of the Apes movie this year, so I’ll settle for killer apes where I can find them.
Maybe that’s not a 100% turnaround from prior negativity, but just like he’ll take killer apes where he can find them, I’ll take a kind word for LOT from a former famous naysayer whenever I can get it.
Make no mistake . . . .The Legend of Tarzan marketing campaign has a tremendous amount of heavy lifting to do if it is to even make it to “sleeper hit” level. The deck is stacked against it in almost every way — old, nearly forgotten property, crowded summer slate, worst weekend possible in terms of competition. And WB’s strategy thus far has seemed to be very laid back, so much so that I’m pretty sure that when we get the first tracking numbers, none of us are going to be dancing in the street. But the good news is that — just as we’re seeing with Goldberg — some of the initial hostility that greeted the rollout has melted away.
The most impactful single thing that has helped LOT along is a first trailer that caugh people by surprise and clearly has found some love on YouTube, where both the first and second LOT trailers are outdistancing Independence Day Resurgence — 23M to 21.5M for the first trailer, and second trailer, 7.2M to 6.6M? And mind you — IDR popped for a Superbowl Ad that cost more than all the LOT ad placements to date combined. Yet still, underdog LOT is ahead in terms of trailer views on the studios’ respective home channels. That’s something. And LOT is WAY ahead of The BFG’s trailers — 7.6M for the first and 3.9 for the second. And that’s with a Cannes premiere in the rearview mirror for that one.
Anyway — trailer views tell us something, but not everything. LOT is trailing IDR in Twitter mentions but leading The BFG, and overall social media has IDR slightly in front. But IDR, coming out a week before LOT, is being touted as a 100m opener, which means a $50m++ second weekend (the weekend it goes up against LOT and the BFG). And no one is seriously predicting that just because LOT is whuppin’ up on IDR in the trailer views department, that it’s going to perform on the same level. That would be an incautious leap.
But those ‘better -then-IDR’ trailer figures do say something. They say that LOT is most assuredly NOT looking like Pan, or Heart of the Sea, or Lone Ranger, or John Carter, or any of the tank jobs that people six months back were invoking. Check their trailer views and you’ll see what I’m talking about. LOT smokes them all by a factor of 3x to 4x.
So …. a little respect, please.
And that’s what Mr. Goldberg has given it.
Thank you, sir.
Now if WB will just throttle the promotion up a little . . . .
http://thejohncarterfiles.com/2016/...goldberg-has-kind-words-for-legend-of-tarzan/
Shhh….Collider’s Matt Goldberg Has Kind Words for Legend of Tarzan
June 3, 2016Michael SellersERBDOM
Shhhh…… I don’t want him to hear me mentioning this for fear it may scare him away. But Collider’s Matt Goldberg, who famously said of the second trailer for Legend of Tarzan: “this new trailer screams “Pan of 2016? actually had some nice things to say today about the David Yates collaboration with Alexander Skarsgard and Margot Robbie:
I’m hoping that Legend of Tarzan is a bit of old-fashioned, rollicking fun. The character can be put to good use, and this is an interesting spin that takes matters away from an origin story and into a new mold where Tarzan is wrestling with his old ways versus his new, gentrified lifestyle as John Clayton III. Also, we’re not getting a Planet of the Apes movie this year, so I’ll settle for killer apes where I can find them.
Maybe that’s not a 100% turnaround from prior negativity, but just like he’ll take killer apes where he can find them, I’ll take a kind word for LOT from a former famous naysayer whenever I can get it.
Make no mistake . . . .The Legend of Tarzan marketing campaign has a tremendous amount of heavy lifting to do if it is to even make it to “sleeper hit” level. The deck is stacked against it in almost every way — old, nearly forgotten property, crowded summer slate, worst weekend possible in terms of competition. And WB’s strategy thus far has seemed to be very laid back, so much so that I’m pretty sure that when we get the first tracking numbers, none of us are going to be dancing in the street. But the good news is that — just as we’re seeing with Goldberg — some of the initial hostility that greeted the rollout has melted away.
The most impactful single thing that has helped LOT along is a first trailer that caugh people by surprise and clearly has found some love on YouTube, where both the first and second LOT trailers are outdistancing Independence Day Resurgence — 23M to 21.5M for the first trailer, and second trailer, 7.2M to 6.6M? And mind you — IDR popped for a Superbowl Ad that cost more than all the LOT ad placements to date combined. Yet still, underdog LOT is ahead in terms of trailer views on the studios’ respective home channels. That’s something. And LOT is WAY ahead of The BFG’s trailers — 7.6M for the first and 3.9 for the second. And that’s with a Cannes premiere in the rearview mirror for that one.
Anyway — trailer views tell us something, but not everything. LOT is trailing IDR in Twitter mentions but leading The BFG, and overall social media has IDR slightly in front. But IDR, coming out a week before LOT, is being touted as a 100m opener, which means a $50m++ second weekend (the weekend it goes up against LOT and the BFG). And no one is seriously predicting that just because LOT is whuppin’ up on IDR in the trailer views department, that it’s going to perform on the same level. That would be an incautious leap.
But those ‘better -then-IDR’ trailer figures do say something. They say that LOT is most assuredly NOT looking like Pan, or Heart of the Sea, or Lone Ranger, or John Carter, or any of the tank jobs that people six months back were invoking. Check their trailer views and you’ll see what I’m talking about. LOT smokes them all by a factor of 3x to 4x.
So …. a little respect, please.
And that’s what Mr. Goldberg has given it.
Thank you, sir.
Now if WB will just throttle the promotion up a little . . . .
http://thejohncarterfiles.com/2016/...goldberg-has-kind-words-for-legend-of-tarzan/
Link to the NBC site and the video of Alex on Late Night with Seth Meyers
http://www.nbc.com/late-night-with-...with-cgi-lions-and-gorillas-in-tarzan/3055459
http://www.nbc.com/late-night-with-...with-cgi-lions-and-gorillas-in-tarzan/3055459
Yes, he does seem to lose the accent a bit.
Easy to upload pics and videos.
I do find it harder to edit in preview before I post, so I'm posting and then editing. Still figuring it out.
According to the Variety article last week, neither BFG nor LOT are tracking that well. But I'm not sure either are going to show support in the way they're tracking things right now, especially BFG.
Here's another bit from TF, about a theater owner in Kentucky who's seen the movies and what he thinks of it and upcoming movies. He likes LOT.
http://thetarzanfiles.com/2016/06/22/legend-of-tarzan-theater-guru-tweets-a-thumbs-up-mini-review/
Thanks, Vamp, Free & Buckeye.
Nice to see the old smilies back - much better than new ones (imo).
Fresh off Facebook this morning (June 23, 2016):
“Alex Skarsgard trying to cheer himself up after Sweden's limp performance at Euro16 #get associated.”
-Allan.kennedy.102 Facebook
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?....447971551462.242560.632986462&type=3&theater
Nice to see the old smilies back - much better than new ones (imo).
Fresh off Facebook this morning (June 23, 2016):
“Alex Skarsgard trying to cheer himself up after Sweden's limp performance at Euro16 #get associated.”
-Allan.kennedy.102 Facebook
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?....447971551462.242560.632986462&type=3&theater
Thanks, Vamp, Free & Buckeye.
Nice to see the old smilies back - much better than new ones (imo).
Fresh off Facebook this morning (June 23, 2016):
“Alex Skarsgard trying to cheer himself up after Sweden's limp performance at Euro16 #get associated.”
-Allan.kennedy.102 Facebook
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?....447971551462.242560.632986462&type=3&theater
He looks so sad! Sweden's national team doesn't seem that good right now.
How ‘The Legend of Tarzan’ Got Modernized
The filmmakers introduce a conflicted hero and a feisty Jane
The Legend of Tarzan,” a high-stakes, big-studio movie coming July 1 starring Alexander Skarsgard of “True Blood,” sets out to introduce the iconic, if dusty, character to a new generation.
“I wouldn’t say I was a massive fan,” said director David Yates, talking about the films he watched as a child starring Weissmuller, an Olympic gold-medal swimmer. “They always felt like they were B movies. Even as a kid I recognized they were cutting in the footage from some wildlife film they had from Africa.”
his Jane doesn’t wilt in Tarzan’s arms. She is feisty and independent. When she is in jeopardy, she fights back. The animals are hyperrealistic—all are computer-generated except a few village goats. The African natives are mostly valued allies, not just servile or menacing figures in the background. Tarzan is more psychologically complex.
“It’s a very 21st-century approach to that singular story and that person,” Mr. Yates said. “Those notions of ‘Me, Tarzan,’ You, Jane’...aren’t interesting at all.”
“Here we have a character who has a kinship and an empathy and a deep understanding of the natural world. That to me is a very contemporary, interesting character to explore.”
This Tarzan also has deeper motives for his tree-swinging heroics—in this case, uncovering slavery in the Congo in the late 19th century. He is aided by George Washington Williams, an American soldier played by Samuel L. Jackson. Williams is based on a real African-American soldier who traveled to the Congo and criticized the colonists’ treatment of the natives; some of Mr. Jackson’s lines come from an old letter, Mr. Yates said.
“The real hero is George Washington Williams in some ways,” he added.
“The Legend of Tarzan” introduces its protagonist years after he left Africa, where he was raised by apes. He is living a life of nobility as John Clayton in London with his wife Jane, an American whom he met in Africa.
When he hears from Williams that the Belgians have instituted slavery, he agrees to return, reluctantly allowing Jane to come along.
There is a hostile tribe awaiting him, but the true bad guys aren’t the natives but the colonists who come to exploit them.
The real villain is Christoph Waltz as Leon Rom, envoy to King Leopold of Belgium, who kidnaps Jane. Played by Margot Robbie, she engages in intellectual sparring with her captor and works with her Kuba friend Wasimbu to try to escape.
Making Africa seem authentic was especially important to the filmmakers because they shot the movie in England, except for six weeks in Gabon filming background, without the cast.
http://www.wsj.com/articles/how-the-legend-of-tarzan-got-modernized-1466712079
I'm trying to catch up on all the promo and got to listen to Sway's interview. It was a good interview and it was nice to hear that DB liked it and that Sway now wants to see it, even though he'd been unsure about it.
A little article in the New York Times:
When Alexander Skarsgard was a boy in Sweden, his father, the actor Stellan, introduced him to a favorite character. And when Alexander grew up, he decided to play him.
“My dad is the biggest Tarzan fan ever, and we watched the old Johnny Weissmuller movies when I was a kid,” Mr. Skarsgard, 39, said. “So I was super excited about the idea of playing Tarzan. And I was curious: This is a story that’s been told 100 times over the past 100 years. What’s their take on it?”
“The Legend of Tarzan,” opening Friday, July 1, transports Edgar Rice Burroughs’s jungle boy, now living as Lord Greystoke in Britain, to the Congo Free State on a public relations tour sponsored by King Leopold II of Belgium. Accompanied by his wife, Jane (Margot Robbie), and George Washington Williams (Samuel L. Jackson), an American politician on a fact-finding mission, Tarzan stumbles into a trap masterminded by Captain Léon Rom (Christoph Waltz).
Whether critics consider this a timely critique of colonialism or another white-savior movie, Mr. Skarsgard is primarily focused on the opinion of one specific person. “My old man,” he said over lunch at Café Mogador in the East Village, his hard-won physique camouflaged by a crisp white shirt. “He has loved Tarzan since he was 6.” These are edited excerpts from the conversation.
How did you get that incredible scenery?
We shot north of London in this old Rolls-Royce airplane factory, with real trees and African bushes, a river and waterfall, a colonial town, an African village, a quarry and a lake with a steamboat. I remember Sam and I running across a patch of grass in an industrial neighborhood, [but in the movie], we’re running across miles and miles of savanna with a thousand wildebeest.
The animals were computer generated, but what about your abs?
They’re all mine. But I didn’t want any muscle mass that didn’t serve a purpose, because animals don’t have that. So the first phase was three months of bulking up, which was 7,000 calories a day of meat and potatoes and weight lifting. I put on about 24 pounds of muscle and fat. Then we switched to a much stricter diet, six small meals a day, and I started working with the choreographer Wayne McGregor.
You don’t wear a loincloth. Are you comfortable with nudity?
I’m totally comfortable if it makes sense. And for those scenes, I felt, why would he be wearing a loincloth? That kind of prudish behavior is very human. So it wouldn’t make sense for him, being raised by apes, to say, “Excuse me, guys, I actually want to cover up here.”
Was the addition of Williams an attempt to update the racial issues in Burroughs’s stories?
He was a real person, an African-American who went to the Congo and exposed what King Leopold was doing. At the time, Leopold was hailed as a philanthropist. He basically tricked the United States government and Europe into giving him the Congo because he said that he would civilize these indigenous people and build out the infrastructure. But what he actually did was genocide. And Sam’s character can sense that something is amiss.
Is Jane modernized?
Tarzan needs her as much as she needs him. A big part of his heart is still in the jungle, and she’s the only one who understands that desire to return to your roots. And it was important to find a Jane that, even though the movie takes place in the 1880s, was a modern heroine. Margot is warm and strong and tough.
What did you do after you wrapped?
My dad was shooting a Netflix mini-series in London. So I went straight to his house and spent four days on the couch being fed. He loves to cook, so we had rich pastas, bone marrow, mozzarella, red wine. I was in heaven.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/26/movies/alexander-skarsgard-of-sound-mind-and-body-to-play-tarzan.html?rref=collection/sectioncollection/movies&action=click&contentCollection=movies®ion=rank&module=package&version=highlights&contentPlacement=2&pgtype=sectionfront&_r=0
A little article in the New York Times:
When Alexander Skarsgard was a boy in Sweden, his father, the actor Stellan, introduced him to a favorite character. And when Alexander grew up, he decided to play him.
“My dad is the biggest Tarzan fan ever, and we watched the old Johnny Weissmuller movies when I was a kid,” Mr. Skarsgard, 39, said. “So I was super excited about the idea of playing Tarzan. And I was curious: This is a story that’s been told 100 times over the past 100 years. What’s their take on it?”
“The Legend of Tarzan,” opening Friday, July 1, transports Edgar Rice Burroughs’s jungle boy, now living as Lord Greystoke in Britain, to the Congo Free State on a public relations tour sponsored by King Leopold II of Belgium. Accompanied by his wife, Jane (Margot Robbie), and George Washington Williams (Samuel L. Jackson), an American politician on a fact-finding mission, Tarzan stumbles into a trap masterminded by Captain Léon Rom (Christoph Waltz).
Whether critics consider this a timely critique of colonialism or another white-savior movie, Mr. Skarsgard is primarily focused on the opinion of one specific person. “My old man,” he said over lunch at Café Mogador in the East Village, his hard-won physique camouflaged by a crisp white shirt. “He has loved Tarzan since he was 6.” These are edited excerpts from the conversation.
How did you get that incredible scenery?
We shot north of London in this old Rolls-Royce airplane factory, with real trees and African bushes, a river and waterfall, a colonial town, an African village, a quarry and a lake with a steamboat. I remember Sam and I running across a patch of grass in an industrial neighborhood, [but in the movie], we’re running across miles and miles of savanna with a thousand wildebeest.
The animals were computer generated, but what about your abs?
They’re all mine. But I didn’t want any muscle mass that didn’t serve a purpose, because animals don’t have that. So the first phase was three months of bulking up, which was 7,000 calories a day of meat and potatoes and weight lifting. I put on about 24 pounds of muscle and fat. Then we switched to a much stricter diet, six small meals a day, and I started working with the choreographer Wayne McGregor.
You don’t wear a loincloth. Are you comfortable with nudity?
I’m totally comfortable if it makes sense. And for those scenes, I felt, why would he be wearing a loincloth? That kind of prudish behavior is very human. So it wouldn’t make sense for him, being raised by apes, to say, “Excuse me, guys, I actually want to cover up here.”
Was the addition of Williams an attempt to update the racial issues in Burroughs’s stories?
He was a real person, an African-American who went to the Congo and exposed what King Leopold was doing. At the time, Leopold was hailed as a philanthropist. He basically tricked the United States government and Europe into giving him the Congo because he said that he would civilize these indigenous people and build out the infrastructure. But what he actually did was genocide. And Sam’s character can sense that something is amiss.
Is Jane modernized?
Tarzan needs her as much as she needs him. A big part of his heart is still in the jungle, and she’s the only one who understands that desire to return to your roots. And it was important to find a Jane that, even though the movie takes place in the 1880s, was a modern heroine. Margot is warm and strong and tough.
What did you do after you wrapped?
My dad was shooting a Netflix mini-series in London. So I went straight to his house and spent four days on the couch being fed. He loves to cook, so we had rich pastas, bone marrow, mozzarella, red wine. I was in heaven.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/26/movies/alexander-skarsgard-of-sound-mind-and-body-to-play-tarzan.html?rref=collection/sectioncollection/movies&action=click&contentCollection=movies®ion=rank&module=package&version=highlights&contentPlacement=2&pgtype=sectionfront&_r=0
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Thanks, Buckeye & Free.
Crazy, crazy day - playing catch up too!
More from Monday (June 20, 2016):
"I have no words."
http://siriusxm.tumblr.com/post/146369454068/i-have-no-words
"Me and Alex with our hater blockers on lol, but seriously, what a great guy."
"Interrupting vacation pics for this guy! Been 3 years since me and @cococoffee87 saw Alex. Always the nicest guy thanks for stopping!"
-mypaperheart352 instagram
Crazy, crazy day - playing catch up too!
More from Monday (June 20, 2016):
"I have no words."
http://siriusxm.tumblr.com/post/146369454068/i-have-no-words
"Me and Alex with our hater blockers on lol, but seriously, what a great guy."
"Interrupting vacation pics for this guy! Been 3 years since me and @cococoffee87 saw Alex. Always the nicest guy thanks for stopping!"
-mypaperheart352 instagram
^Thanks, Free!
From The Library:
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Alex is featured in Sweden’s Café’s Magazine’s July/August issue.
Here are some excerpts from the Café issue which hit newsstands on June 21, 2016:
On traveling for work and filming Big Little Lies:
Alex: "This has been an intense last few weeks. I was here, then I went to New York, then to the Berlin Film Festival, then back to New York, then to Istanbul for another film festival - and then I came here two days ago and have started filming here now. I’m a little sore, but feeling good. Right now I am filming a miniseries for HBO called Big Little Lies. We’re shooting here in town and in Monterey, just south of San Francisco.“
On prepping for The Legend of Tarzan and consuming a 7,000 calorie/day diet:
Alex: "I just ate a lot of food, and lifted weights. I put on quite a bit of weight - but also fat. It bulked me up. Two months before we started filming, I went on a very strict diet with a chef who cooked six meals a day for me. He weighed proteins and came every three hours with a lunch box: ‘Eat this! Drink this! Do it here!’ I’ve never been involved with diets or had a personal trainer before, so this was quite new to me.”
The sacrifices were ultimately also social. All energy, physically and mentally, went into the film’s preparations and later recording in England.
“I was a wreck on the weekends. My dad was filming the TV series River in London at the same time and I met him twice in the three months he was there for it … I could not do much. I was not at a restaurant in eight months did not drink in eight months and did not really meet my friends. But at the same time it was such an incredible project. I saw it as a super exciting opportunity.”
Sources: Café article excerpt + cover: Emil Persson for Café.com
http://www.cafe.se/alexander-skarsgard-jag-var-ett-vrak-pa-helgerna/
+ rest of article: The Library's digital scans
From The Library:
i
Alex is featured in Sweden’s Café’s Magazine’s July/August issue.
Here are some excerpts from the Café issue which hit newsstands on June 21, 2016:
On traveling for work and filming Big Little Lies:
Alex: "This has been an intense last few weeks. I was here, then I went to New York, then to the Berlin Film Festival, then back to New York, then to Istanbul for another film festival - and then I came here two days ago and have started filming here now. I’m a little sore, but feeling good. Right now I am filming a miniseries for HBO called Big Little Lies. We’re shooting here in town and in Monterey, just south of San Francisco.“
On prepping for The Legend of Tarzan and consuming a 7,000 calorie/day diet:
Alex: "I just ate a lot of food, and lifted weights. I put on quite a bit of weight - but also fat. It bulked me up. Two months before we started filming, I went on a very strict diet with a chef who cooked six meals a day for me. He weighed proteins and came every three hours with a lunch box: ‘Eat this! Drink this! Do it here!’ I’ve never been involved with diets or had a personal trainer before, so this was quite new to me.”
The sacrifices were ultimately also social. All energy, physically and mentally, went into the film’s preparations and later recording in England.
“I was a wreck on the weekends. My dad was filming the TV series River in London at the same time and I met him twice in the three months he was there for it … I could not do much. I was not at a restaurant in eight months did not drink in eight months and did not really meet my friends. But at the same time it was such an incredible project. I saw it as a super exciting opportunity.”
Sources: Café article excerpt + cover: Emil Persson for Café.com
http://www.cafe.se/alexander-skarsgard-jag-var-ett-vrak-pa-helgerna/
+ rest of article: The Library's digital scans
Love this. They really do have good chemistry. Explains their warm and fuzzy hugs at Sundance this year.
Speaking of good chemistry, Gen Kill reunion last night.
"We had a little #generationkill reunion in #NYC last night. Can't believe it's been almost 8 years since we shot the #hbo series in South Africa. #generationkillofficial #alexskarsgard #michaelkelly #emmyawards winning #tv #series. #marcmenchaca #danielfox #Tarzan."
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Alex with an adorable fan:
“So lucky to have met #AlexSkarsgard aka #Tarzan on set. Excited to watch #Tarzan2016 And I want to do more #films.”
-alinetherese_official instagram
via ASN
"We had a little #generationkill reunion in #NYC last night. Can't believe it's been almost 8 years since we shot the #hbo series in South Africa. #generationkillofficial #alexskarsgard #michaelkelly #emmyawards winning #tv #series. #marcmenchaca #danielfox #Tarzan."
-realrudyreyes instagram
via a-quick-drink tumblr
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Alex with an adorable fan:
“So lucky to have met #AlexSkarsgard aka #Tarzan on set. Excited to watch #Tarzan2016 And I want to do more #films.”
-alinetherese_official instagram
via ASN
I almost didn't recognise Rudy Reyes, he's gone feral hipster on us.
And yay for a GenKill reunion
And yay for a GenKill reunion
Speaking of good chemistry, Gen Kill reunion last night.
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"We had a little #generationkill reunion in #NYC last night. Can't believe it's been almost 8 years since we shot the #hbo series in South Africa. #generationkillofficial #alexskarsgard #michaelkelly #emmyawards winning #tv #series. #marcmenchaca #danielfox #Tarzan."
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via ASN