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Let the Fans Choose Their Green Lantern. Today in Film Bloggery 07/10/09

By Christopher Campbell posted 4 months ago

Warner Bros. has narrowed down the choices for the star of its Green Lantern movie, and considering the three candidates have been publicly named, courtesy of The Hollywood Reporter, I’m thinking the studio should let the fans decide. Put the screen tests up online, allow us to ask a few questions of each of the eligible bachelors actors and then permit us to pick our favorite as though it were some kind of movie-casting version of The Dating Game.

In a way, we, the moviegoers, will end up entering a long relationship with the person put in the role of Hal Jordan, aka Green Lantern, and we don’t want this to be the old-fashioned arranged-courtship sort of ritual we typically get from Hollywood. It didn’t work for the last Superman movie, and many of us aren’t even that happy with the current Batman. Warner Bros. needs to learn from its mistakes and embrace democracy.

So, who should it be? The runners-up are: Bradley Cooper; Ryan Reynolds; and Justin Timberlake.

If you need help making up your mind, check out what the film bloggers have to say after the jump. I’m sitting this one out due to my unfamiliarity with the superhero, but I’d be curious to see how Timberlake would do in such a role.

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Don’t Ring The Speciality Death Knell Just Yet: Trade Roughage 10/29/07

By Karina Longworth posted 2 years ago

indieWIRE broke big acquisition news over the weekend: Having seen just a script and a two-minute show reel, up-and-coming distribution force Summit Entertainment has purchased Rian Johnson’s unfinished The Brothers Bloom. The film was expected to open and be offered for sale at Sundance, but fears over an unpredictable buying season convinced the filmmakers to allow Summit to take Bloom off the market. Exact numbers weren’t disclosed, but the resulting deal is surely much bigger than anything that’s been seen in the recent festival market; Eugene Hernandez says it “may ultimately be valued at more than $20 million.”
A gimme headline, no slanguage required: Saw IV butchers competition. At Variety, the sequel’s $32 million bow is a shot in the face to the “conventional wisdom that hardcore horror no longer works.” The Hollywood Reporter notes that, above and beyond a victory for torture porn, this is a victory for indie studio Lionsgate, who have now had three number one hits in the past two months.
Meanwhile, for all the grumbling over the sluggish specialty division market, Sidney Lumet’s Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead opened huge in limited release this weekend, netting $36,750 on each of its two New York screens. We’ll see how word of mouth carries through its expansion; the people I sat next to at brunch on Saturday said they preferred Before Sunset, whatever that means.
Warner Brothers has hired WB TV network survivor Greg Berlanti to direct Green Lantern. Berlanti was a writer and executive producer on Everwood and Dawson’s Creek, which I guess makes him uniquely qualified to tell the story of “an ordinary man who has been charged with defending a sector of the universe” … ? Anyway, do not confuse Green Lantern with Green Hornet, which, as far as we know, Seth Rogen is still on board to write and star in.
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