New ‘Green Lantern’ Promo Art

Green Lantern comes out this summer with massive expectations. Can Ryan Reynolds pull off the role of interplanetary hero Hal Jordan? Will audiences embrace the alien worlds, power rings, and other space opera elements of the story?

Whether you think Green Lantern is going to be a huge hit or a disappointment, we can all agree that debating the movie has been a lot of fun – as has looking at all of the interesting promotional and concept art that has hit the web in the past year. To that end, we have a new round of promo art from Green Lantern, via the Daily Blam.

The images, which show Ryan Reynolds flying through space as Green Lantern don’t bring anything new to the table, but they offer yet another look at GL’s much-debated costume. Check out all four images below.

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This week, we named Green Lantern number five on our list of 20 most anticipated movies of 2011. Why such a high spot on the list? Because Green Lantern is not only one of the biggest comic book movies coming out this year, but also one of the riskiest.

So far, fans have had mixed reactions to most everything that Warner Bros. has put out, from the first official trailer to Green Lantern’s new power battery. While that’s not a definitive sign that the movie will be bad (comic book fans are notoriously fickle), it does put the pressure on director Martin Campbell and company to put out a truly impressive finished product.

With the notable exception of Christopher Nolan’s Batman films, Marvel has pretty much dominated comic book movies in Hollywood over the last decade. If Green Lantern doesn’t show us the goods, then DC may have a rough time enticing new fans to watch movies about the company’s lesser-known characters.

Source: The Daily Blam

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New ‘Castle’ Promo Offers Quite A Tease

Onscreen duos with romantic chemistry like Sam and Diane from Cheers, Ross and Rachel from Friends, Mulder and Scully from The X-Files, and perhaps most infamously, David and Maddie from Moonlighting, have all teased fans with one ecstatic moment built from years of delayed gratification. As television viewers have long known, the time inevitably comes when several seasons worth of romantic tension will finally have to be snapped.

A new teaser for ABC’s Castle hints that the show is ready to join that pantheon of television romances. After nearly three seasons of flirting, innuendo and suggestion, will Rick Castle (Nathan Fillion) and Detective Beckett (Stana Katic) finally seal the deal?

The following clip could be the real deal or just an out of context smooch designed to tease. A quick analysis suggests the kiss could go either way. Does Det. Beckett have more on her mind than how “close” she can get to Castle? Is Castle confounded, or anxiously awaiting this overdue embrace? As the episode’s airdate on Jan. 24th rapidly approaches, we won’t have to wait long in order to find out.

Beyond murders, Castle has always been about the romantic attraction felt by its two leads. So, if Castle and Beckett stop playing and get serious, what will the repercussions be? Well, they certainly don’t have to be all gloom and doom, and Moonlighting curses.

While the show isn’t stale by any means, Castle having a better reason to see Beckett than a dead body might be a nice change to what is perhaps becoming a slew of very similar storylines. Furthermore, creating a deeper relationship between Beckett and the rest of Castle’s family—his daughter Alexis (Molly C. Quinn) and his thespian mother Martha (Susan Sulivan) may just generate some new and exciting situations. Those who fear a Castle/Beckett lip-lock might herald the proverbial jumping of the shark, and suck all the passion and flavor from the show need not worry. Katic’s past comments show she is clearly not taken in by all the superstition.

ABC doesn’t believe in curses either, apparently. Castle has already been picked up for the full 2011-2012 season.

Source: TV Line, Entertainment Weekly

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‘The Cape’ On-Air Promo Trailer; Premiere Date Announced

Almost a year after the announcement that NBC would be picking up the superhero drama The Cape, the freshman series has finally received it’s official premiere date.

On Sunday, January 9, 2011, the American public will bear witness to NBC’s newest foray into the fantastical world of superheroes with a two-hour series premiere. After that, The Cape will move to its normal timeslot on Monday nights, for the completion of its 13 episode run.

Check out an official synopsis for the show below:

The Cape is a one-hour drama series starring David Lyons (ER) as Vince Faraday, an honest cop on a corrupt police force, who finds himself framed for a series of murders and presumed dead. He is forced into hiding, leaving behind his wife Dana (Jennifer Ferrin, Life on Mars) and son, Trip (Ryan Wynott, Flash Forward). Fueled by a desire to reunite with his family and to battle the criminal forces that have overtaken Palm City, Vince Faraday becomes “The Cape” – his son’s favorite comic book superhero – and takes the law into his own hands.

What NBC’s PR department left out is the fact that after being left for dead, Faraday is rescued by a circus gang of bank robbers and after recovering from his injuries, the ring leader, Max Malini (Keith David), teaches him the ways of mysticism, which allows him to successfully take on “The Cape” moniker. Helping “The Cape” wage his war against crime is investigative blogger, Orwell (Summer Glau).

Of course, no superhero series is complete without an arch nemesis. In that regard, The Cape’s focus will be on taking down the evil “Chess,” alter-ego of billionaire Peter Fleming (James Frain), who is the man responsible for framing Faraday.

Accompanying the scheduling news is the new trailer for The Cape. While the previous trailer released earlier this year provided a more in-depth look at what viewers can expect from the series, this latest on-air promo is meant to generate curiosity and intrigue. While it’s hard to say if that goal was accomplished, I will admit that the series looks interesting… and yet, something feels a bit off.

Following the rollercoaster success that NBC received with Heroes‘ first season, I can understand the notion of implementing a new superhero series. Unfortunately, The Cape feels more like a mixture of many current series that have already saturated the television landscape. In some moments, the series feels refreshing and exciting… and then at other moments, it feels like a terrible drama on The CW.

Hopefully I’ll be able to take a look at the first episode soon and see how everything is coming together. Perhaps I’m wrong. Although, I have pretty good instincts about this type of thing.

You can take a look at the promo trailer and previous trailer below:

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The Cape premieres Sunday, January 9, on NBC

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