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1 day ago · Hanna-Barbera Cartoons, Inc. (/ ˈ h æ n ə ˈ b ɑːr b ər ə / BAR-bər-ə) [1] was an American animation studio and production company, which was active from 1957 until its absorption into Warner Bros. Animation in 2001.
5 hours ago · Pixar Animation Studios is an American CGI film production company based in Emeryville, California, United States.Pixar has produced 28 feature films, which were all released by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures through the Walt Disney Pictures banner, with its first being Toy Story (which was also the first CGI-animated feature ever theatrically released) on November 22, 1995, and its ...
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Billions of years ago, the Guardians of the Universe used the green essence of willpower to create an intergalactic police force called the Green Lantern Corps. They divide the universe into 3,600 sectors, with one Green Lantern per sector. One such Green Lantern, Abin Sur of Sector 2814, defeats the malevolent being Parallaxand imprisons him in th...
Ryan Reynolds as Hal Jordan / Green Lantern: A test pilot for the Ferris Aircraft Company whose will to act qualifies him to become the first earthman ever inducted into an intergalactic peacekeepi...Blake Lively as Carol Ferris: The vice president of Ferris Aircraft and a long-time love interest of Hal Jordan. One pseudonymous writer citing unnamed sources said Lively was among five leading co...Peter Sarsgaard as Hector Hammond: A scientist who is exposed to the yellow energy of fear from Parallax, which causes his brain to grow to an enormous size and grants him psionic powers. Regarding...Mark Strong as Thaal Sinestro: A Green Lantern and Hal Jordan's mentor. Strong affirmed that the film follows the origin story and that "the film closely follows the early comics. Sinestro starts o...Development
In early 1997, Warner Bros. approached cult filmmaker and comic book writer Kevin Smith, who had then just finished writing Superman Lives, to script a Green Lantern film. Smith turned down the offer, believing there were more suitable candidates to make a Green Lantern film. At one point, Quentin Tarantino was offered the chance to write and direct. Warner also considered the property as an action comedy; by 2004, Robert Smigel had completed a script which was set to star Jack Black in the l...
Pre-production
By December 2008, the writers had written three drafts of the screenplay and Warner was preparing for pre-production. By February 2009 Berlanti was no longer attached to the project and Martin Campbell entered negotiations to direct. The release date was set as December 2010, before being moved to June 17, 2011.Speaking about the experience in 2016, Berlanti confirmed that he was fired as both director and writer, stating that he had nothing to do with the finished product. Bradley Cooper, Ry...
Filming
With a production budget of $200 million, Green Lantern was initially scheduled to begin filming in November 2009 at Fox Studios Australia. The start date was pushed back to January 2010, but the production moved to Louisiana, where, on March 3, test footage was filmed in Madisonville involving stunt cars. Principal photography began on March 15 in New Orleans, which doubled for Coast City, California, a fictional city in DC Comics. Nine days after filming began, Angela Bassett joined the cas...
The soundtrack was released in stores on June 14, 2011. The soundtrack was composed by James Newton Howard, who also worked on the other Warner Bros./DC Comics-based films Batman Begins and The Dark Knight with Hans Zimmer. The soundtrack was published by WaterTower Music.
Theatrical
The world premiere of Green Lantern took place on June 15, 2011, at Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood, California,and was released in North America and the UK two days later on June 17.
Home media
Green Lantern was released on DVD and Blu-rayon October 14, 2011. The Blu-ray release includes an extended cut, which adds an extra nine minutes of footage to the running time, totaling 123 minutes.
Marketing
Marketing and promotion of the film cost $100 million. The first footage of the film was shown at the 2010 San Diego Comic-Con and was widely released online in November with thirty seconds of footage airing the following day on Entertainment Tonight. The first full theatrical trailer for the film was shown before screenings of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1 and became available online in November. This initial trailer was met with a poor reception from fans and, as a result, t...
Box office
Green Lantern opened on Friday, June 17, 2011, in North America, earning $3.4 million in 1,180 midnight runs. The film went on to gross $21.4 million on its opening day but fell 22% on Saturday for a weekend total of $53.2 million, earning it the No. 1 spot. In its second weekend, Green Lantern dropped into third place behind Cars 2 and Bad Teacher, experiencing a 66.1% decline, which was the largest second-weekend decline for a superhero film in 2011. Green Lanterngrossed $116.7 million in t...
Critical response
On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 26% based on 249 reviews and an average rating of 4.6/10. The site's critical consensus reads: "Noisy, overproduced, and thinly written, Green Lantern squanders an impressive budget and decades of comics mythology". On Metacritic, the film has a score of 39 out of 100 based on 39 critics, indicating "generally unfavorable reviews". Audiences polled by CinemaScoregave the film an average grade of "B" on an A+ to F scale. Justin Chang of Va...
Cancelled sequel
In 2010, director Martin Campbell confirmed the possibility of a Green Lantern trilogy. Warner Bros. originally planned on Green Lantern being the first entry of a new DC film series, and commissioned a script for a sequelfrom Greg Berlanti, Michael Green, and Marc Guggenheim while filming for the first film was underway. In August 2010, Michael Goldenberg was still attached to write the screenplay, based on the sequel treatment. The scene in the film's end credits showing a resurgence of the...
Cancelled DC Extended Universe reboot
In June 2013, David S. Goyer confirmed that Man of Steel would be the first film in the DC Extended Universe, implying that should the Green Lantern property be featured in an upcoming DC film, it would be a rebooted version. Later that year Goyer stated that he had interest in making a new feature film based on the titular character. By July 2015, Warner Bros. announced plans to release a solo Green Lantern film titled Green Lantern Corps, with an original release date scheduled for June 19,...
Cancelled Greg Berlanti television series
A 10 one-hour episodic Green Lantern television series separate from the film was in development for HBO Max from Marc Guggenheim and Seth Grahame-Smith with Berlanti Productions producing the series. The series was to focus on the Guy Gardner, Jessica Cruz, Simon Baz, and Alan Scott versions of Green Lantern alongside Sinestro and Kilowog. The version with Berlanti was confirmed to have been cancelled, with this new series focusing on Hal Jordan and John Stewart as part of DC Studios' new sh...
The Arrowverse crossover event "Crisis on Infinite Earths" establishes that the 2011 film version of Green Lanterntakes place on the world of Earth-12.
The disappointing performance of the film is occasionally a target of mockery from superhero-related comedies, including by Ryan Reynolds, Warner Bros., and DC themselves. The 2016 film Deadpool, which stars Reynolds as the titular character, refers to the film in two scenes: the opening scene, which features a drawing of Green Lantern, and a later...
Green Lantern at IMDbGreen Lantern at Box Office MojoGreen Lantern at Rotten Tomatoes1 day ago · Casualty and Holby City are both set in Holby City Hospital, [11] in the fictional county of Wyvern, in the south-west of England. [12]From the show's inception to series 26, episode 16, the city exterior was represented by Bristol, [13] including well-known landmarks such as the floating harbour and Clifton Suspension Bridge often visible in outdoor scenes. [14]
1 day ago · Spider-Man 3 is a 2007 American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics character Spider-Man.Produced by Columbia Pictures, Marvel Entertainment, and Laura Ziskin Productions, and distributed by Sony Pictures Releasing, it was directed by Sam Raimi from a screenplay he co-wrote with his brother Ivan and Alvin Sargent.
1 day ago · Fox Broadcasting Company, LLC, [1] commonly known simply as Fox and stylized in all caps, [2] is an American commercial broadcast television network owned by the Fox Entertainment division of Fox Corporation and The Walt Disney Company, headquartered at 1211 Avenue of the Americas in Midtown Manhattan.
5 hours ago · TV5 simulcasted Kapamilya Channel programming, including shows like It's Showtime (2022–2023, later moved to All TV, [37] GMA Network [38] and GTV), ASAP Natin 'To, FPJ: Da King (2021–2023) and Sunday Blockbusters (2024–present) movie blocks, Kapamilya Gold (Pira-Pirasong Paraiso and Nag-aapoy na Damdamin only), Primetime Bida and Yes Weekend! lineup (excluding Goin' Bulilit and TV ...
