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The blockbusters bloom early in 2012

Springboard to summer
By PETER KEOUGH  |  February 27, 2012

In keeping with the winter that never was, summer comes early this year — on movie screens, at least, if not meteorologically — with the big blockbusters that usually wait until Memorial Day now appearing in March. Like Andrew Stanton's JOHN CARTER (March 9), an adaptation of Edgar Rice Burroughs's sci-fi novel about a Civil War soldier (Taylor Kitsch) who finds himself on Mars battling 12-foot-tall barbarians.

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