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'I'm not worried about it,' actor tells MTV News of movie, whose November trailer received lukewarm reception.
By Eric Ditzian, with reporting by Josh Horowitz

Ryan Reynolds in "Green Lantern"
Photo: Warner Bros.

Those behind "Green Lantern" haven't shied away from admitting that the flick's first trailer, which underwhelmed many viewers upon its release in November, wasn't the best introduction to their adaptation of the DC Comics hero.

As Warner Bros. worldwide marketing chief Sue Kroll put it in an interview with the Los Angeles Times, "Part of the reason the response to the first trailer was lukewarm was that the big-scale sequences weren't ready to show, and we suffered for it. We can't afford to do that again."

So the pressure was on as the studio brought "Green Lantern" to Las Vegas for CinemaCon, where they planned to screen about 10 minutes of footage to show fans they have a winner on their hands. But as star Ryan Reynolds put it to MTV News while walking the press line before the screening, although he was frustrated by the marketing plan, he is not at all fearful that the film itself will be a letdown.

"For me, I just want it out there faster than Warner Bros. can unfortunately produce it. If anyone's rushing it, it's me," he told us.

"This movie is a huge project for the studio, it's a huge project for me, it's a huge project for everyone involved. There are so many visual-effects shots and so much to do, and it's just really hard to get ahead of that in terms of a marketing standpoint. That's no secret. But all that stuff is coming.

"I'm not worried about it," he added. "We've never been worried about it because we saw the early concepts and we saw how well they worked. Unfortunately that was stuff you just can't release and show to people because it needs to be perfected. I'm not worried at all."

Then Reynolds and the Con-goers headed inside for the screening. Afterwards, the audience was buzzing: This, finally, was a "Green Lantern" to get excited about, as we told Reynolds later in the day.

"I agree," he responded. "I feel better. I feel better that you feel better."

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'Arthur' star believes, 'There's bound to be some extraterrestrials.'
By Jocelyn Vena, with reporting by Josh Horowitz

Russell Brand
Photo: Steve Granitz/ Getty Images

In her latest visual creation, Katy Perry takes fans to outer space as an alien looking for her lover in "E.T." The pop princess dons crazy makeup and several artfully designed costumes as she cascades to another planet to meet her fallen love. Her real-life love, Russell Brand, revealed his favorite look to MTV News.

"I like it when she's that weird one in the beginning all made out of plastic," he said at CinemaCon in Las Vegas about Perry's flashy, spacey Floria Sigismondi-directed video, which dropped Thursday.

Stylist Carol Beadle explained to MTV News what she had in mind when she was thinking up looks for the trippy clip. "I was looking at jelly fishes and amoebas; those words were constantly used, and we wanted it to look like a flash of an amoeba and then it coming to life," she said.

Brand's alien love certainly doesn't begin and end with Perry's video. The "Arthur" star is an avid believer in all things extraterrestrial. "I happen to believe there is such a thing as extraterrestrials, and that needn't necessarily make me a crackpot," he confessed. "There probably are [aliens]. The universe is infinite: There's bound to be some extraterrestrials. Let's not worry about it."

In fact, Brand and his lady love aliens so much, they have a romantic trip planned to visit outer space. "I'm so into extraterrestrial stuff," Perry explained.

"It's very difficult for me to look up into the sky in the middle of the night and not think that our planet is one of ... a bajillion. It's really, really small. And Russell and I are interested in anything extraterrestrial. I mean, we're going to space!"

What is your favorite look in the "E.T." video? Tell us below!