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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…

Photo: Frazer Harrison (Getty Images)Warner Bros. has announced that James Gunn will officially direct DC’s latest cinematic reboot of the Superman franchise, Superman: Legacy, for a 2025 release.When the studio unveiled the new slate of movies and TV shows in the works as part of incoming executive producers James Gunn and Peter Safran’s reboot of the DC universe, it was already confirmed that the director would pen a new reboot of Superman, replacing Henry Cavill’s man of steel with a younger iteration of the character.…

Image via Warner Bros. DCU Batman movie The Brave and the Bold could tap former Batman actor Ben Affleck as director, and fans are excited about the possibilities. DC Studios co-head James Gunn confirmed he’s been speaking with Affleck about an undisclosed role in the DCU, and his involvement in The Brave and the Bold would make the most sense. The actor was set to star in and direct in his own Batman movie, which would see the Dark Knight face off against Joe Manganiello’s Deathstroke, so he’s likely to have…

Image via Paramount Pictures M. Night Shyamalan has entered into a multi-picture first look exclusivity deal with Warner Bros., as his most recent release continues to stack up the numbers at the box office. The brilliant but often frustrating director has seen several rises and falls in his career since its illustrious beginnings. Starting out with The Sixth Sense and Unbreakable, nearly every subsequent release failed to meet those same high standards. Infamously dubbed the next Steven Spielberg, he’s kicked…

Things are moving along! A momentous announcement  – the dawn of the Gunn-i-verse at the DCU – is just a lot of chatter without execution. So today the first “in talks” notice of the “Chapter One” era: James Mangold is in talks to direct a Swamp Thing movie. THR broke the story, however, in modern Hollywood fashion Mangold himself loosed the trial balloon with a social media post:  pic.twitter.com/WCDuFtucT6 — Mangold (@mang0ld) February 1, 2023 Thie time out, Mangold tweeted a lovely Bernie Wrightson drawing of Swamp…

Nanoantenna phosphors comprising of a periodic array of nanoparticles on the phosphor plate can tailor the spatial radiation pattern of the photoluminescence for smaller, lighter, and brighter solid-state lighting devices. Credit: KyotoU/Shunsuke MuraiTitanium oxides were found to significantly enhance efficiency and photoluminescence in a recent study.White LEDs’ reign as the top light source may soon come to an end with the advent of a new alternative that offers superior directionality.A photonic crystal or…

Kristen Stewart has been teasing her ambition to get behind the camera and make her first feature film for a few years now. The Oscar-nominated actress known for the Twilight saga and a host of critically-acclaimed roles has her sights set on adapting one of her favorite books, Lidia Yuknavitch’s The Chronology of Water. In the meantime, Stewart has nabbed another directing job… er a series of them. She’ll be helming three upcoming music videos!It was revealed by Rolling Stone that Kristen Stewart is set to direct the…

John Carpenter performs on August 26, 2016 in Turin, Italy. Photo: Awakening/Getty Images for City of Turin (Getty Images)Much-beloved genre director John Carpenter (Halloween, The Thing, Escape From New York) turns 75 this month, and in a new interview he casually mentions that sure, he’d be up for making another feature film someday—if certain conditions were met, that is.“I’m open to it, given that it’s honestly budgeted and there’s plenty of time to do it—and that people allow for the basketball season and the…

While still passionate about his career in front of the camera, Hollywood star Idris Elba believes it would be a "natural progression" to move into directing. The `Luther` actor is looking ahead to the possibility of juggling more than one role on set at a time, citing Denzel Washington and Jon Favreau as inspirations, reports aceshowbiz.com. "I love acting but I feel like there`s much more to offer as a director, as a writer and a producer perhapsaI feel there are characters and roles that I haven`t done yet and I…

In the late 1990s, when the idea of a film about the lynching of Emmett Till was first floated, the woman who would eventually direct it was in high school. Chinonye Chukwu was a depressed, daylight-deprived Alaskan teenager obsessed with Julia Roberts romcoms. “Obsessed. She had the back-to-back trifecta: Runaway Bride, Notting Hill, My Best Friend’s Wedding,” says the 37-year-old, as she pours herself a cup of herbal tea in her London hotel room. “I would rewrite the film’s story in my journal, and either make myself…