DC Extended Universe

Image: Warner Bros | HBO MaxBen Affleck is currently promoting both his new equity-first production company and the biopic Air, but of course the Hollywood Reporter is going to ask him some questions about Batman. He’s briefly appearing as the DC hero in The Flash, but that doesn’t mean he’s keen to return to the character in a greater capacity... especially not after Justice League. That ensemble DC film was, in Affleck’s own words, the “highest-rated movie” of his career. But ratings don’t do much about the “monstrous…

Image: Warner Bros./DC ComicsIt may not fully seem like it, but Shazam: Fury of the Gods comes out next Friday. Originally scheduled to come out towards the end of 2022 before being punted to 2023, Fury of the Gods has had a somewhat muted marketing cycle compared to more recent DC movie fare, or even its own 2019 predecessor. But in the same way that WB decided at a certain point to give up the game about Henry Cavill’s Superman cameo in Black Adam, the studio is now doing it again with the Shazam Family’s second…

Screenshot: DC StudiosWe end on Barry getting a look at the cinematic O.G.—Anton Furst’s Batmobile, and it looks as gorgeous as ever.The Flash’s first title lifts a little bit more off of the lid of just how and why we’re getting this Barry Allen/Bruce Wayne/Kara Zor-El smashup. Bringing us all the way back to the events of Man of Steel is a fascinating way for The Flash to put an end cap on this particular cinematic iteration of the DC universe, but time will tell if that’s enough to make this feel like more than a…

Image: DC Comics/DC StudiosSet for release July 11, 2025 (the only locked-in release date so far), Superman: Legacy is being written by James Gunn with the hope he might direct. And while Commandos and Waller will be out first, it was made clear that this is the big, official start of the DCU. So what’s it about? “It’s not an origin story,” Safran said. “It focuses on Superman balancing his Kryptonian heritage with his human upbringing. Superman represents truth, justice, and the American way. He is kindness in a world…

James Gunn and Peter Safran, the heads of DC Studios.Image: DC StudiosThere’s a new DC Universe in town and it’s being run by James Gunn and Peter Safran. Tuesday, Warner Bros. announced the initial slate of projects coming from DC Studios, which will attempt to relaunch and recalibrate not just DC movies, but TV shows, games and more. It includes a new Superman movie, a new Batman movie, and much, much more. The announcement opens up so many questions—and we have some of the answers.io9 was among a group of journalists…

Image: Warner Bros./DC ComicsJason Momoa’s heart still belongs to the seas of DC. Despite everything going on in the DC movie landscape, the actor recently (and boldly) declared that he’ll “always be Aquaman. Ain’t anyone coming in there and taking shit.”Earlier in the week, Momoa used Instagram to reveal that he had a meeting with new DC Films heads Peter Safran and James Gunn. Naturally, the meeting got everyone talking, and he was understandably asked about by Variety at Sundance. While doing promo for his documentary…

Image: NetflixEarlier in the week, Netflix revealed its slate of tentpole films for 2023, and Zack Snyder’s Rebel Moon was featured among that prestigious lineup. Snyder’s movies tend to catch folks’ attention, and that’ll likely be the case for this film, especially as it’s being split into two movies that are being filmed back-to-back.Speaking to Variety earlier in the week, Netflix co-head of original films Ori Marmur confirmed this would be the case. The reason for this, according to him, is owed to Snyder, since the…

Image: Warner Bros.There’s nothing quite so wild as Hollywood drama, and Dwayne Johnson’s crash and burn with Black Adam isn’t so much a superhero smash as a superhero flop. From middling box office numbers to defensive claims about said box office numbers, to assurances from new DC maestro James Gunn that Black Adam’s not dead, just on ice... there’s really nothing more that could surprise us.At least until Variety decided to pull out all the receipts and figure out what exactly went wrong here. Black Adam had the…

Image: Warner Bros.He’s in, he’s out, he’s in, he’s out: Ben Affleck’s spent as much time being rumored to be out of the Batcowl as he actually was in it. After he was seemingly gone for good with the announcement of Robert Pattinson starring in The Batman, there was the shocking news that Affleck would be one of two Batmen to appear in the upcoming Flash movie, alongside the return of Michael Keaton’s classic take on Bruce Wayne. As far as we know, that’s still on the cards for The Flash next year—but beyond that, all we…

Image: Warner BrosIn yet another bit of mess to add to the Black Adam damage control—which so far has included the actual box office tally, Henry Cavill’s bait-and-switch Superman exit, and Black Adam being kind of a mess—Dwayne Johnson has just tweeted his response about the superhero’s future at Warner Bros.Johnson wrote that he and James Gunn “connected” and the result is that Black Adam will not be in DC’s “first chapter” of storytelling. (The DCEU has already been around for a decade, but sure: first chapter in its…