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David Goyer Interested In Green Lantern As Warner Bros. Head Promises DC Film Announcement Will we see Green Lantern in a Justice League movie? That’s not an April Fools' speculation, but rather one obvious idea to kick around based on two recent quotes. The president of WB recently said that we can expect a new DC film series announcement soon — that’s not just one film, but a series — whileDavid Goyer, one of the architects of the recent Batman and Superman films, says he’s interested in Green Lantern....

Exclusive: ‘Altered Carbon’ Vinyl Soundtrack Collector’s Edition Arriving Next Month Lakeshore Records will be dropping a a collector’s edition vinyl soundtrack to the Netflix sci-fi seriesAltered Carbonnext month, and we have your first look at it. Featuring original music byJeff Russo, a cover of a White Zombie song, and some eye-catching pink artwork, this is going to be one unique, unusual release. See theAltered Carbonvinyl soundtrack art premiere below. Behold, in all its pink glory!...

Exclusive: Head To The Final Frontier With A Track From The ‘Star Trek: Picard’ Score The soundtrack for the CBS All Access seriesStar Trek: Picardwon’t officially beam into stores and digital libraries until later this week, but we’re here to premiere an exclusive track from composerJeff Russo’s score, which you can listen to a couple of days early. “Engage” with the new track below. Star Trek: Picard Score Russo’s track does a great job of matching the picturesque visuals, providing a sense of wistfulness while its speedy piano melody seeds in a subtle hint that the former captain is about to be thrust into a new propulsive story....

For One Star, The Treasure Of The Sierra Madre Was (Literally) Like Pulling Teeth John Huston’s 1948 classic “The Treasure of the Sierra Madre” boasts one of the all-time great Humphrey Bogart roles. The Hollywood icon stars as Fred C. Dobbs, a drifter who struggles to make ends meet in 1920s Mexico. With the aid of a fellow American named Bob Curtin (Tim Holt) and a crusty prospector who goes by Howard (Walter Huston), Fred strikes it rich looking for gold in the Sierra Madre mountains....

How ‘The Mandalorian’ Humanizes The Overlooked Communities Of The ‘Star Wars’ Universe The Mandalorian, the first live-actionStar Warsshow and part of the initial launch line-up of original content on Disney+, was a sensation. But while everyone loved Baby Yoda, and memes about this little 50-year-old child flooded the internet every week, some viewers were not into the episodic nature of the show – which resembled the animatedStar Warsshows more than the movies – and the lack of Pedro Pascal’s face....

I Am Legend Director Developing Chuck Palahniuk’s Survivor Movie Adaptation Two days ago I postedthe first production photofromChoke, which premieres January at Sundance. But my posting was more of a rant about one of author Chuck Palahniuk’s other novels. Everyone knows aboutFight Club(despite the first rule…), and everyone has seen David Fincher’s film adaptation, but what you probably don’t know is that Palahniuk wrote a book calledSurvivorthat is arguably better thanFight Club....

Jamie Chung Joins ‘The Hangover Part II’ Jamie Chungjust officially pulled past The Miz to become the most successfulReal Worldcast member ever. The actress, who has already starred in the AMC Family showSamurai Girl, Grown UpsandSorority Rowin addition to playing one of the main ladies inSucker Punch(above), has just been cast inThe Hangover Part II(which, it seems, is the official new title). She’ll play Stu’s (Ed Helms) wife in theTodd Phillipsfilm that also starsBradley Cooper, Zack GalifianakisandJustin Barthawith appearances byMike Tyson, Ken JeongandLiam Neeson....

JJ Abrams Producing Victorian-Era Robot Movie We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. IsJ.J. Abramsabout to bring steampunk to the masses? Not quite, but Paramount has bought the rights toBoilerplate: History’s Mechanical Marvel, a graphic novel that tells of the world’s first robot, supposedly invented in the late 19th century. J.J. Abrams and Bad Robot will handle development of the film. THRsays that the graphic novel / picture book hybrid byPaul GuinanandAnina Bennettwas published last year, but doesn’t offer much more detail beyond the basic fact of Abrams' and Bad Robot’s involvement....

Joe Carnahan To Helm Anne Rice CBS Pilot ‘Angel Times’ We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Joe Carnahanis straight killing it right now. He’s completed filming on his latest movie,Stretch, turned in a screenplay he co-wrote for Mark Millar’sNemesis, and directed not one, but two recent TV pilots including NBC’sThe Blacklist, one of the season’s biggest early hits. If that’s not enough, he’s now attached to direct the first episode of a potential CBS drama calledAngel Timesbased on a series of novels by popular authorAnne Rice....

Linklater’s Liars (A-E) Is Dead Richard Linklatercan barely catch a break this year. His filmMe & Orson Wellesfinally found marginal distribution, and hasn’t been nabbing particularly good reviews.That’s What I’m Talking About, his ‘spiritual sequel’ toDazed & Confused, couldn’t get off the ground earlier this year. And nowLiars (A-E), the film he recently set up at Miramax, is dead, too. Linklater even says thatSchool of Rock 2isn’t going anywhere. Man, someone give this guy a break!...

Lionsgate Gunning For A PG-13 Punisher: War Zone? Slowly but surely,Punisher: War Zoneis being lowered into a grave of WTF byLionsgate. First,Lexi Alexander, director of the goreyMarvelactioner, wasseemingly kicked offthe project. We still don’t know what happened exactly. Her candid, rah-rahwebsitewas suddenly wiped clean of all prior updates on the film, save for a cryptic “see, hear, speak no evil” monkey post, which was later replaced by a detached entry about afriend’s Bugatti....

Maggie Gyllenhaal Shines In Victorian-Era Vibrator Romcom ‘Hysteria’ [Tribeca Review] Tanya Wexler’sHysteriaboasts the kind of premise that’s bound to make viewers sit up and take note: In Victorian-era England, the handsome young Dr. Mortimer Granville (Hugh Dancy) invents the vibrator to help him treat his “hysterical” female patients by inducing paroxysms. (Or as we call it today, masturbating them to orgasm.) That it’s based on a true story, or a true-ish one anyway, makes it even more intriguing....

Movie Review: Roman Polanski’s The Ghost Writer Is Terrible (This Review Includes An Exclusive Note From Alfred Hitchcock’s Ghost) There will be critics who callThe Ghost Writer"a refreshing throwback to the taut political-conspiracy thrillers of the ’70s" and “an enjoyable treat that offers smart flashes ofRoman Polanskiin his prime,” and this praise, genuinely expressed or not, is unfortunate. Watching the film, I was convinced that had a “blind” screening been arranged—wherein a cinema-savvy audience was not aware of the director’s identity—hardly anyone would claim this a work by a masterful filmmaker....