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What are you smiling at, Superman?Image: DC ComicsIt’s been an exciting week for fans of superhero movies, especially if you love DC Comics. This week, James Gunn and Peter Safran, who together run DC Studios at Warner Bros., revealed the start of their 8-10 year plan to bring DC heroes like Batman, Superman, and Wonder Woman back to their rightful place on the mountaintop of comic book culture.But that plan—10 projects, five on HBO Max and five in theaters, making up the first part of chapter one in a larger, connected…

Swamp Thing is a big part of the DC Universe.Image: DC ComicsBarely a single day has passed since James Gunn and Peter Safran revealed their slate of upcoming DC Universe films, but already one of the highest-profile titles may have an equally high-profile director. James Mangold, currently putting the finishing touches on Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, is reportedly in talks to helm Swamp Thing.The Hollywood Reporter broke the news though Mangold himself left the breadcrumbs on Twitter Tuesday evening.Talks are…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeDC’s Peter Safran has defended the decision to shelve Batgirl despite the fact filming had been completed.The Warner Bros film, which cost $90m (£73.7m) to shoot, had its release cancelled in August 2022.Lead star Leslie Grace, who played Barbara Gordon, and the film’s directors, Bad Boys for Life’s Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah, expressed their shock at the news in respective…

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…

Photo: DC FilmsDuring the press event where DC Studios rolled out its planned projects for the future of the DC Universe, new co-heads James Gunn and Peter Safran outlined what to expect—and also what not to expect. The latter includes any chance of seeing Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah’s cancelled Batgirl movie.“Batgirl’s a character that inevitably we will include in our story,” Variety quoted Peter Safran as saying at the presentation. “On the Batgirl front, it’s not about late in the process of the film getting…

Photo by Michael Tullberg/Sylvain Lefevre/Getty Images It’s been nearly six months since it was announced that DC and Warner Bros canceled the release of Batgirl. And while the film’s directors, Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah, and their team tried to do whatever they can to obtain copies or release it in one way or another, it seems like DC has officially made up its mind. Deadline reported that DC co-chief Peter Safran has expressed interest in working with the two directors in a future DC project. However,…

via Warner Bros. In a day full of bombshells and surprises from DC Studios, one of the biggest was that in what’s growing to be an uncharacteristic move for the studio, they are retaining at least one of the actors involved in Justice League, the movie that should have been the flagship film of a shared DC universe — and to make matters more complicated, it’s the actor long considered to be the most problematic: Ezra Miller of The Flash. Miller is reportedly now in treatment following a string of bizarre and…

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./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…