DC Entertainment is developing a series based on its iconic Swamp Thing character for the forthcoming DC Universe streaming service. A pilot script is currently being written by Mark Verheiden (of Netflix's "Daredevil") and Gary Dauberman (who wrote the recent "IT" adaptation). If it's accepted, a first season of the show will go into production, and the two will serve as showrunners. Filmmaker James Wan, who's helming the live-action "Aquaman" standalone film for DC, will executive produce the series. The storyline will focus on CDC researcher Abby Arcane and scientist Alec Holland, who unlock the mystical properties of a Louisiana swamp while investigating a virus. The character has previously been adapted into a series of low-budget films, and was featured in a live-action TV series that ran for three seasons in the '90s on the USA Network. Other properties DC plans to turn into shows for the streaming service - which is scheduled to launch later this year - include Harley Quinn and the Teen Titans. A Superman prequel series, "Metropolis," is also being developed. – THR Consent gets sexy with Fck Yes, the two-season series exclusively streaming on Seed&Spark Dan Savage called it “super-hot shorts showing how consent can be very sexy indeed”. Huffington Post said it “highlights how affirmative consent is not only vital — but can be a really awesome turn on.” See what the fuss is about now that Seed&Spark nabbed exclusive streaming rights to both seasons. Hulu has ordered a new limited series adaptation of "Four Weddings and a Funeral" from the creators of "The Mindy Project." Mindy Kaling and Matt Warburton co-wrote the new limited series, which is based on the iconic 1994 British romantic comedy starring Hugh Grant and Andie MacDowell. It follows a group of friends as their relationships shift and change over the course of the titular five events. Hulu also announced a new series, “Ramy," based on the real life experiences of comedian and first-generation American Muslim, Ramy Youssef. Youssef created and wrote the series, and will also appear on-screen and executive produce. Earlier this week, Hulu announced that it had now had in excess of 20 million paid subscribers in the US. – VARIETY On Sunday, HBO will air the first female boxing match in the network's history. The fight will pit welterweight champion Cecilia Braekhus, known as boxing's "First Lady," against former middleweight champion Kali Reis. Braekus will be defending her IBF-WBA-WBC-WBO titles. The undercard will feature Gennady Golovkin fighting Vanes Martirosyan. In a discussion with CNN, 34-year-old Braekhus called the fight "the last barrier," and said she hopes it will "open up [opportunities] for more females to fight on HBO in the future." – CNN Deadline reported that the Netflix sitcom "The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt" will end following its recently-announced fourth season. The report indicates that, after Season 4, the series may wrap up with a movie. Six new Season 4 episodes will debut on May 30, with seven more arriving at an unspecified later date. The series, which had originally been produced by "30 Rock" vets Tina Fey and Robert Carlock for NBC, was the first original half-hour comedy to debut exclusively on Netflix. It stars Ellie Kemper as a woman who moves to New York after spending 15 years in a cult. To date, "Kimmy Schmidt" has been nominated for 16 Emmy Awards, including a Best Comedy nomination for each of its three seasons. – DEADLINE YouTube has ordered new ad-supported original series and specials from Will Smith, Priyanka Chopra and LeBron James. These shows differ from YouTube Red originals, such as the recently released "Karate Kid" follow-up "Cobra Kai." Those shows go behind a paywall and are only available to subscribers. These new shows will go on the main YouTube site, where they'll be accessible to everyone. Will Smith will appear in the special "The Jump Off," a live-stream of the actor bungee-jumping over the Grand Canyon in celebration of his 50th birthday. Chopra will host the series "If I Could Tell You Just One Thing," in which she'll discuss ways to change the world with inspiring interview subjects. James will executive produce the high school basketball documentary series "Big Shot," which will debut on the official NBA YouTube channel. YouTube also announced this week that it plans to stream the Coachella Festival for the next three years. – THR Netflix CEO Reed Hastings concedes "mistakes" in the company's approach to the Cannes Film Festival. Following a rule change at Cannes that required streaming-only titles to screen out of competition, Netflix pulled all of its scheduled films from the 2018 event. On Friday, during a keynote speech at the Series Mania event in Lille, France, Hastings noted that Netflix is a "disruptor" and "sometimes we make mistakes," adding that "we love Cannes." Hastings did not get into specifics about how Cannes and Netflix could reach an agreement for next year's festival. Currently, in France, films have a lengthy 36-month window between their theatrical debut and arrival on video-on-demand services. – DEADLINE Amazon released a trailer for the second season of the Billy Bob Thornton legal drama "Goliath," from creator David E. Kelley. The series stars Thornton as down-and-out trial lawyer Billy McBride. In the new season, he takes on a case involving a friend's 16-year-old son, who has been accused of a double homicide, and ends up running afoul of a drug cartel. Thornton won a Golden Globe last year for his lead performance in the show's first season. "Goliath" returns with new episodes on Amazon Prime this June 15. – EW Netflix officially confirmed that Helena Bonham Carter will portray Princess Margaret in Season 3 of "The Crown." Bonham Carter will take over the role from Vanessa Kirby, who portrayed the Princess in the show's first two seasons. The company also announced that actor Jason Watkins will take on the role of Harold Wilson, the UK Prime Minister from 1964 to 1970, and again from 1974 to 1976. They'll join Olivia Colman, who will take over the role of Queen Elizabeth from Claire Foy, and Tobias Menzies, who will replace Matt Smith as Prince Philip. Season 3 of "The Crown" will debut on Netflix in 2019. – VARIETY In Slate, writer Alan Levinovitz points to the vast numbers of conspiracy-minded documentaries available to stream on Netflix, Hulu and Amazon. A search on Amazon Prime Video for the term "vaccines" returns a number of films making specious claims about their health hazards, including "We Don’t Vaccinate!," "Vaxxed: From Cover-Up to Catastrophe" and "The Greater Good." Once a user watches one of these films, recommendation engines often will begin suggesting similar films, containing even more misinformation. Because the films are typically classified as documentaries, it can be hard to differentiate them from more genuinely informative fare. The piece goes in depth about the psychology of conspiracy theories, and ultimately suggests - rather than censoring them altogether - that streaming services tag these programs, notifying viewers that they contain specious or disputed information. – SLATE THREE NEW ORIGINAL DRAMAS YOU CAN STREAM RIGHT NOW LAST FLAG FLYING (AMAZON) Hal Ashby's 1973 comedy-drama "The Last Detail" is well known and regarded among movie fans, but I'm not quite sure if it's ever completely crossed over into the mainstream. It's a great movie, with one of Jack Nicholson's richest '70s performances, and a terrific f-bomb heavy screenplay by Robert Towne. You can rent it on Amazon now for $4. (Towne also wrote the screenplay for the much better-known Nicholson classic "Chinatown," which was released the following year.) I bring up "The Last Detail" because Richard Linklater's wonderful 2017 comedy-drama "Last Flag Flying" is an "unofficial sequel," following the same central trio of characters, only with a tweaked backstory and different names. It stands on its own, and features three of last year's very best performances, but I can't help but think that viewers would get even more out of it after seeing the original film. "The Last Detail" - set during the Vietnam War - concerns two Navy men who are assigned to bring a young, inexperienced seaman to the brig, and decide to show the poor kid a good time on the way there. "Last Flag Flying" opens 30 years later, in 2005. That young seaman is now a father, played by Steve Carrell, who has just received word that his son - a Marine - has been killed in action in Iraq. With no one else to turn to, he looks up the two guys who escorted him to the brig all those years before (now played by Bryan Cranston and Lawrence Fishburne), and asks them to help him transport the body. This sounds like a largely grim affair, about the cost of war and the pain of grief, and it certainly IS those things. (It's also about how much it sucks to get old!) But it's also a frequently funny, charming, shaggy-dog road trip film. Linklater has a remarkably deft touch at balancing humor with introspection and insight - his "Before" trilogy in particular moves with extraordinarily grace between characters goofing off, and emotionally spilling their guts to one another. Even so, "Last Flag Flying" is a marvel, colliding moments of good humor with some incredibly stark material, not just about death but isolation, aging and what can feel like the emptiness at the core of everyday life and routine. Linklater co-wrote the script with Darryl Ponicsan, on whose novels both "Last Detail" and "Last Flag Flying" are based, and his natural feel for the characters comes through in every scene. The movie so clearly knows these guys, and they are not simple, straight-forward archetypes. The lion's share of the credit, though, has to go to Carrell, Cranston and Fishburne, who are all doing some career highlight work. Carrell gives one of the quietest movie performances in recent memory: he's in nearly every scene, but rarely says a word. His "Doc" soaks up every rare moment of socializing with his old friends, whether they're distracting themselves with banter or ruminating on experiences in combat. Cranston and Fishburne both get the showier roles, but they're essentially the angel and demon on Doc's shoulder. There's little doubt in the end that this is his story. Anyway, I have two more movies to review. I've said enough already. This is a good one. Watch it. Where to Watch: Amazon

Running time: 124 minutes

Genre: Comedy-Drama ORBITER 9 (NETFLIX) A more mild recommendation from me on "Orbiter 9," a sci-fi romance from Spain. Now, up front... This is one of those movies that takes an abrupt, unexpected turn in the middle, and I don't want to ruin it for you. So I'll be brief. As the film opens, we're in deep space, and meet the lonely Helena (Clara Lago). She is a 20-year-old colonist who will spend the first half of her life (until she's about 40) in a small spacecraft alone, en route to a far-off planet that represents hope and salvation for humanity. She was traveling with her parents, but after the craft started running low on oxygen, they committed suicide, so that their daughter could live. Helena has had no human contact since her parents' death, until an engineer named Alex (Álex González) arrives to fix the oxygen system. It's an interesting premise, and Lago makes Helena's plight relatable despite her social awkwardness and desperation. It's also a very polished film for something that was clearly made on a budget, and focuses on a single location. In fact, "Orbiter 9" would probably have been better served by focusing less on upending audience expectations and just telling this story about these characters in this peculiar situation. Following some of its twists, it actually shifts from being a personal, intimate romance to a more generic sci-fi thriller, which is a weird move to make. I better leave it at that. Where to Watch: Netflix

Running time: 94 minutes

Genre: Sci-fi romance PATERNO (HBO) Barry Levinson's film about the last days in the life of legendary, disgraced Penn State football coach Joe Paterno asks viewers to accept some hard truths, constantly dodging homilies, comforting thoughts or easy answers. It refuses to let us see Paterno as an beloved icon or a monster, but juxtaposes these images for us over and over again. He was both things at once, and the film shows us all of the other characters - including members of Paterno's own family, one of Jerry Sandusky's victims and the Penn State community - trying to wrap their minds around it. Al Pacino gives an appropriately enigmatic performance as Paterno, particularly in the early stretches, when he's clearly more concerned about football and preserving his legacy than accusations of child sexual abuse by his retired assistant coach, Sandusky. (Sandusky's played from afar in the film by Jim Johnson, who looks eerily like the real man.) Whether or not this is an accurate depiction of what really happened, I could not say, but the film implies that Paterno's fall from grace was accompanied by a simultaneous mental decline. Pacino shows us a broken old man who's completely undone by the weight of his past actions, and the realization that Jerry Sandusky's crimes will be his legacy. He pulls it off powerfully. Kathy Baker also does great work as his increasingly horrified wife, Sue. The film definitely has that "HBO Original TV Movie" feeling - it's maybe 10% more staid and self-serious than a movie that would come out theatrically, and despite Levinson's years of experience making feature films, it never feels particularly cinematic. But it's a thoughtful look at a recent scandal that dodges the "Law & Order" true crime procedural vibe, focusing on the characters' inner lives instead. (I was reminded at times of Hulu's equally difficult but worthwhile "National Treasure.") Where to Watch: HBO

Running time: 105 minutes

Genre: Biography