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A planned series in DC’s Batman universe centered on Arkham Asylum is not moving forward at Max for now, Deadline has confirmed. The potential Arkham series was being overseen by The Staircase creator Antonio Campos, who was showrunner-executive producer and also a director. We hear that the…

Michael Keaton recalls the initial reaction that comic book fans had when he was chosen to portray Batman in the 1989 Tim Burton-directed film. Until then, Batman had been a character on a campy television series. However, Batman would mark a before and after for the superhero movie genre. “When…

Rachel Brosnahan was cast as Lois Lane in Superman: Legacy and will be sharing the screen with David Corenswet. During an interview at the Golden Globes red carpet, Brosnahan gave a little tease about her role in the new DC Universe James Gunn is constructing alongside Peter Safran. “We’ve been…

Warner Bros. Pictures and DC’s The Flash, which hit theaters in June, now has a date for its streaming debut on Max: the superhero pic starring Ezra Miller will bow Friday, August 25. The film, in which Miller reprised his role as Barry Allen in the superhero’s first stand-alone pic, was highly…

The hype is real. DC’s The Flash might not be the greatest comic book movie ever made, but it comes damn close. Easily the best in the genre since Spider-Man: No Way Home, this fresh, invigorating and hugely entertaining summer treat is as good as it gets when it comes to cinematic takes on…

Zachary Levi, star of Shazam! Fury of the Gods, is opening up about the box office results of the DC film sequel that fell below the already low projections the studio had for the movie. A fan of the actor tweeted about the “disappointment” the superhero film was at the box office, asking not to…

David F. Sandberg’s Shazam! Fury of the Gods was released and the director is opening up about the heavy criticism against the DC film. Sandberg took to Twitter to note that he had just gotten his “lowest critic score” on Rotten Tomatoes which stood at 52% at the time of this post. The filmmaker also…

EXCLUSIVE: Deadline hears that a global Zoom meeting was held for Warner Bros Discovery employees Thursday morning, on which CEO David Zaslav introduced new DC Studios co-chairmen and CEOs James Gunn and Peter Safran. It marked was first appearance together in front of the company since being named to…

Finally, Warner Bros Discovery boss David Zaslav has a new head of DC Studios, and its not one but two: Guardians of the Galaxy and Suicide Squad filmmaker James Gunn and DC films producer Peter Safran. Both have the new titles of Co-Chairmen and Chief Executive Officers of DC Studios, overseeing…

EXCLUSIVE: Peter Safran, the $4.4 billion-grossing producer of several Warner Bros/DC movies as well as The Conjuring, the highest-grossing horror franchise of all time, has re-upped with the Burbank, CA lot for another three years. Related Stories …

After 15 years at Warner Bros and four as the president of DC Films, Walter Hamada has finally left the Burbank, CA lot. Sources tell Deadline the exec is waiting for the senior Warner Bros Discovery brass to finalize his exit payout. Hamada has run DC since 2018, and re-upped in January 2021 with a…

It's been a long wait — nearly a decade, in fact — since Dwayne Johnson first signed on to become an integral part of the DC universe. He's recently turned 50 (not that he looks it). But now, at last, he's launched a big-league entry in the cinematic…