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Image: Warner Bros.Superhero fatigue seems to be hitting both Marvel and DC hard. Alongside a kind of mid-level audience response to Quantumania (it did good, like it made money, but it wasn’t great), Shazam! Fury of the Gods is likewise underperforming at the box office. While Variety reports that Shazam 2  opened at number 1 this weekend, early reports say that it’s netted about 30 million domestically against the estimated 35-40 million, against an estimated 210 million production/marketing budget. Compare this to…

Can a post-credit scene be more important than the movie itself? It’s an intriguing question to ponder, particularly if you’ve seen the two post-credit scenes waiting at the end of Shazam: Fury of the Gods. One’s a shocking, confusing bombshell that—actually, let’s get the spoiler warning up before I discuss them in even vague terms.We’ll discuss the second scene first, which finds the original Shazam movie villain—Dr. Sivana, played by Mark Strong—who’s clearly still being imprisoned since the events of the first movie,…

The latest DC film, Shazam: Fury of the Gods, is now in theaters, and like its most recent predecessor, Black Adam, it does its best to firmly establish itself in the larger mythology of the overarching franchise.But surprises and cameos aren’t all that make Shazam: Fury of the Gods stand out. The film’s director David F. Sandberg talks with io9 about the film’s emotional ending (and why that was the ending)—and yes, that massive cameo, as well as if he thinks Black Adam is hovering around somewhere off-screen.After…

The odds are stacked against Shazam in Fury of the Gods.Image: Warner Bros.The balance of power in the DC Universe is about to change. We’re, of course, talking about new heads of the DC Films division, James Gunn and Peter Safran, the latter of whom produced the long-awaited Shazam sequel, Shazam: Fury of the Gods, which has a new trailer out today. What, did you think we were talking about something else?Shazam 2 has been waiting to come out for what seems like years and, finally, on March 17, it’ll be here. It’ll be…

Image: Warner Bros.Black Adam will be the only new DC movie you see in theaters this year. Warner Bros. just moved Shazam: Fury of the Gods from its original December 2022 release date to March 17, 2023, a date originally intended for Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom. However, that has now been pushed back as well, to December 25, 2023, so that director James Wan has more time to finish its visual effects.In addition, instead of canceling two movies originally planned for HBO Max, the company has dated a remake of House Party…