Green Lantern Greenlit for $150M and Will Shoot in Sydney

It’s officially time to scrape the bottom of the comic-book barrel. WB has announced that The Green Lantern will shoot in Australia with Casino Royale director Martin Campbell on to direct and a $150 million budget. Besides a favorable exchange rate, the government also provides a 15% location rebate.
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American Apparel Disses Woody Allen's Sex Life

[American Apparel] says that it can’t have damaged Allen’s reputation by using his image because the film director has already ruined it himself. The company plans to make Allen’s relationships to actress Mia Farrow and her adopted daughter Soon-Yi Previn the focus of a May 18 trial , according to the company’s lawyer, Stuart Slotnick.
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Cheer Coach Fired for Posing for Playboy

Carlie Christine was the cheerleader coach at Orangevale (CA) Casa Robles High School, but was then fired after school officials were informed that Christine had posed for Playboy and appeared on their site as Cyber Girl of the Week
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$50K of Marijuana Found Hidden in TV Set

Authorities in South Carolina seized approximately 21 pounds of marijuana — a street value estimated at $50,000 — that had been hidden inside a television set, part of part of what appears to be a two-pronged assault on keeping people from enjoying Adult Swim on Cartoon Network.
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A Michael Crichton Pirate Book?!?

When Michael Crichton died last year, he left behind a book about pirates that was discovered in his files by an assistant. HarperCollins is looking to print a million copies.
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New Level of Creepy: Japanese Banana Man [w/Video]

Imagine a man with bananas on his head, bananas coming out of his ears, a tiny banana mustache, and bananas for hands. He shoots bananas out of his nose, and his ear-bananas give him the power of flight. In America, that’s what we call a “f-cked up dream,” and we use it as a reason for not taking peyote before bed.
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LucasFilm Claims No Profit and Doesn’t Pay First Darth Vader

David Prowse, the English actor who played (but didn’t voice) Darth Vader in the first three Star Wars , recently told Equity Magazine that he has yet to receive any of the residuals he’s owed for Return of the Jedi … because LucasFilm claims the film hasn’t made a profit .
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Marvel Starts A Screenwriting Sweatshop

Marvel has reportedly started a writer’s program, putting “more than a half dozen” writers on full-time staff and giving them their own offices with a plan to “work them like horses.”
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Real and Fierce Combat by Cute and Fluffy Animals

Cat Shit One is a manga comic — released in the U.S. as Apocalypse Meow — about three adorable little fluffy bunnies who comprise an elite military unit. And in case you weren’t aware that Japan is the world’s leading exporter of Awesome, it’s going to be made into a totally-serious CG animated series. (trailer included)
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Minor League Hockey Players can Fight

The Corpus Christi Ice Rays threw down with the fearsomely named Bossier-Shreveport Mud Bugs in late December, and the YouTube has just now made the Internet. It’s got everything: a brutal check for an opening salvo, a goalie fight, a body slam, players coming off the bench to fight, and an announcer with infectious enthusiasm.
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