As promised on Monday, the first trailer for Oliver Stone's Savages has arrived online, following up the nicely executed poster that debuted at the beginning of this week.  Narrated by Blake Lively, the trailer lays out the basic story, which starts with a pair of Orange County entrepreneurs whose with a thriving marijuana concern that ends up bringing them to the attention of the Mexican Baja Cartel.

After a reportedly wondrous test-screening earlier this year, Universal Pictures rescheduled Savages from September to smack dab in the middle of summer.  Accordingly, marketing for the action-thriller directed by Oliver Stone should be getting underway in earnest shortly.  A trailer is set to arrive this Thursday, April 5th.  The first one-sheet for Savages has arrived online today, and it gives a feel for the story, but mostly highlights the ensemble cast with a nifty vertical design.

Just last week the first image from Savages arrived online, showing Benicio Del Toro rather menacingly blowing smoke into Blake Lively's face.  It was probably an appropriate introduction to the new film from Oliver Stone, one which follows a battle of wills and probably over the top violence between a trio of California pot-dealers and a vicious drug cartel.  Now there's a visual representation of the movie, and it looks like Universal is pretty confident in Savages, as the studio has moved the release date into prime summer territory.

Most any avid user of one of America's favorite illicit substances knows that it is a good and charitable thing to be euphemistically smoked out, but the first image from Savages makes the term look altogether threatening.  The film is co-written and directed by Oliver Stone, a filmmaker comfortable with violence, but even if you didn't know that, you'd know something unsavory is going on between Blake Lively and Benicio Del Toro, with the latter blowing smoke into the former's face in an entirely uncharitable manner.

Right now, zombies are doing a pretty good of shambling through popular culture, with AMC's The Walking Dead cementing its place as the network's biggest show.  More than that, zombies have become part of the cultural shorthand to an extent that would've been pretty unthinkable a decade ago, before Shaun of the Dead or Zombieland.  Despite the current popularity of the undead, Lionsgate just can't seem to catch a break on Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, an adaptation of the novelty mashup novel by Seth Grahame-Smith.  After having already had two directors attached, the third, Craig Gillespie has now departed the beleaguered project.

The first clip from Hick has debuted online, and while the title no doubt makes you picture a pot-bellied, toothless fellow plucking at a banjo like something out of Deliverance, said clip contains no such figure.  Instead, it features Chloe Grace-Moretz as a Luli, a 13 year-old who runs away from home and gains the assistance of Glenda, played by Blake Lively.  Seeing a potentially very unsavory drifter (Eddie Redmayne) she once encountered, Luli naturally assumes she's being followed, but all is not as it seems to the youngster.  The clip also includes an abundance of Southern drawling, with Lively taking her first crack at an accent since going Bostonian in The Town.

Green Lantern was an important movie for Warner Bros.  That should go without saying, given the reported $200 million price tag attached to the intergalactic cop's first cinematic outing, but it was even more important for the studio than the cost suggests.  With Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 closing out the studio's biggest franchise that has been a reliable cash cow for a decade now, Warner Bros needs new properties to fill the void left by the Boy Wizard.  The studio intends to cultivate their vast reserves of DC Comics heroes for those new properties, and Green Lantern was to be the first in a wave of DC blockbuster series.  While the film undoubtedly failed on every consequential level, Warner Bros will attempt to deliver more fully with the in-development sequel.

“In brightest day … in blackest night, no evil shall escape my sight, let those who worship evil’s might, beware my power … Green Lantern’s light!"

While hardcore comic book fans already recognize that passage as the famous Green Lantern oath, the rest of the world may not be as familiar with the intergalactic police force as fan-boys are. That will all change on June 17^th, as the ring-wielding comic book superhero finally makes his debut on the silver screen.

Green Lantern is based on the immensely popular DC Comics character that first appeared in All-American Comics issue #16 in 1940 and has remained popular for almost sixty years. While the character has gone through many changes over the years and several different people have worn the powerful ring, the film will tell the tale of Hal Jordan, the most prominent and popular of all the Lanterns. In the comics, Jordan was a test pilot before the death of Abin Sur, the Lantern assigned to protect Earth’s sector of the universe. Eventually, Sur’s ring chose Jordan as Earth’s new protector. Upon taking the Lantern’s oath, Jordan was propelled into a world of extra-terrestrial creatures, emerald power rings and outer-space adventures.

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With a dry cool wit, charisma to spare, and an appearance that is straight from the idealized pages of a comic book, it's no wonder that Ryan Reynolds is so associated with superheroic films.  In the upcoming Green Lantern, Ryan Reynolds will play the lead in a full-on superhero adventure for the first time, but he previously played supporting roles in Blade Trinity and X-Men Origins: Wolverine.  In that X-Men prequel, he appeared as the irreverent mercenary Wade Wilson, aka Deadpool, and a feature for the character has long been a passion project for Reynolds.  At a press conference for Green Lantern, the actor provided an update on Deadpool's development and talked about his history with comic books.