Warner Bros will relight the Green Lantern's fire, it was reported today, despite the first film's dim box office performance.

Sources say the studio retains faith in the franchise, despite disappointing figures which saw the Ryan Reynolds lycra vehicle top the box office on both sides of the Atlantic with the least impressive superhero results of the summer.

Over the weekend, the film's second on release, the numbers worsened: the film fell 66% at the US box office, making just $18.4m. That's compared to falloffs of 47% for Thor and 56% for X-Men: First Class, although Hulk suffered a similar fate, dropping 70% on its second week of release.

Green Lantern has currently made about $90m in the US, but cost around $200m plus an unidentified figure for marketing spend (which rival studios claim was one of the priciest on record).

This week sees the release of Paramount's Transformers: Dark of the Moon, which could blanket Green Lantern's glow yet further.