On a recent radio show appearance, Entertainment Weekly managing editor let it slip that the cover of the next issue of EW would feature Ryan Reynolds as the Green Lantern. Well, this is it.

Warner Brothers has unveiled the official Green Lantern logo and promotional tagline in a press release about their partnership with Mattel. I.E., the part of the business that does its damnedest to milk as much money out of fan nostalgia as it can, in this case probably through the use of copious amounts of translucent green plastic.

The images have been released three days in advance of the Licensing International Expo, a conference in Las Vegas. Here’s a licensing tip, guys: the acronym of your expo shouldn’t spell out LIE.

No, not the difference in the angular position of two stationary points relative to each other from different viewing positions. The primal embodiment of fear, famous for possessing the Green Lantern of Earth Hal Jordan and with his power nearly destroying the Lantern Corp.

Warner Bros. has released an official synopsis for its upcoming Green Lantern movie, and with it has revealed the major villain that they will feature. We’ve already seen pictures of Peter Sarsgaard as Hector Hammond, and Mark Strong has already been confirmed to play Sinestro; but it’s understandable that a primal force of fear, imprisoned for millennia inside the Central Power Battery on Oa, might not show up to walk around set. It’s that whole… doesn’t really have a physical form thing.

DC’s The Source blog has lately been showcasing some variant covers for upcoming comics, all in celebration of the company’s 75th anniversary.  So, when a redone and recolored cover of the famous first issue cover for Green Lantern/Green Arrow, with the titular characters now Red Lantern and Red Arrow was offered completely without comment, most people assumed it was just another variant. Last night, The Source revealed that the cover was actually one of a series, created for the season finale of the sci-fi show Fringe.

The covers each represent a direction that the DC editorial staff might have taken in an alternate universe; a sort of opposite day revamp of a famous story.  Above, case in point: Superman: The Man of Steel Returns.  Doesn’t quite have the same ring to it as Dark Knight Returns, does it?

We’ve got all the covers below, to the left of their alternate counterparts.

Ever since the first Batman serial was produced in the 40s, Hollywood has struggled with how to adapt images in comics that make sense on the page but might look a little odd in live action. In recent comic adaptations, directors have handled this problem by trying to make the fantastic elements of our favorite super hero universes as down to earth as possible. Thus, Two-Face had a suitable gruesome face and Wolverine skipped his bright yellow mask. So how, people wondered, were the producers of the upcoming Green Lantern film going to portray Hector Hammond, the supervillain whose head has mutated to enormous size? If pictures posted on movie blog Gordon and the Whale are to be believed, the film’s Hammond is going to look exactly like the comic book one: absolutely terrifying.

It’s official. Columbia Pictures has secured actor Will Smith, director Barry Sonnenfeld, and is in “advanced negotiations” with Tommy Lee Jones: Men in Black 3 is scheduled for a summer 2012 release. In a possible major plot-related give away, Columbia has also announced that they are in talks with Josh Brolin (of No Country for Old Men and Milk) to play a young Agent Kay.

ScreenRant suggests that this means that the movie will heavily feature the training of a new Kay. We have another idea.

It’s official: Matthew Vaughn, director of Kick-Ass and Stardust, is at the helm of X-Men: First Class, the reboot of the X-Men movie franchise. This new prequel film (a long the same world-exploring lines as Wolverine: Origins) will “chart the epic beginning of the X-Men saga,” which probably means Professor X and Magneto as young rebellious allegory-for-civil-rights-leaders.

This dashes our dreams of watching a movie where the X-Men sit at the front of an airplane for two and a half hours, enjoying complementary drinks.

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Warner Bros has made an odd announcement regarding a certain production feature of the new Green Lantern movie. They have warned fans not to expect to see any leaked photos of Ryan Reynold’s costume, even though filming began a month ago. Why?

Because there is no costume.

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Now that the Harry Potter franchise is finally kicking the bucket (in 2011 with Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part II), Warner Brothers is looking for another cash cow of beloved characters to drive its infernal engine, and it didn’t have to look far.

Yesterday, at Showest, WB head Alan Horn said this:

As we ease out of Harry Potter, we hope to bring you the excitement of the DC [Comics] Library!

This would imply that DC character based movies will be released yearly, like the Harry Potter films, and, according to another Showest announcement, will be in 3-D.