Shazam

Shazam! brought a lighthearted tone to DC’s theatrical run when it debuted in 2019, and the sequel looks to do much the same later this year — at least if the debut trailer is anything to go by. It’s called Shazam! Fury of the Gods, and at this year’s San Diego Comic-Con, DC revealed a first look at the superhero adventure. It starts off with the titular star (Zachary Levi) having some confidence issues (seriously, who can compete with Aquaman?) and espousing his love for the Fast and the Furious, before revealing a…

x https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwFOa3qV5Sk While the rest of DC’s upcoming movie slate has been shifted back into next year, Shazam! Fury of the Gods is coming our way earlier than expected, with its original summer 2023 release shifted forward to this Christmas. While the 2018 origins movie for Zachary Levi’s aged-up hero wasn’t exactly the biggest superhero smash ever made, it pleased a lot of fans by being the perfect counterpart to the darker side of the DCEU. Now, this first trailer for its follow-up…

Screenshot: Warner Bros.Billy Batson is back and this time, he’s got his whole family with him. Shazam: Fury of the Gods is the sequel to 2019's Shazam and once again it’s directed by David F. Sandberg and starring Zachary Levi and Asher Angel. Angel is Billy, a young boy who gets the powers of a superhero (Levi) when he says the word “Shazam.” By the end of the film, that power extended to his family as well and now with a whole family of God-like heroes, well, the Gods are bound to take notice.SHAZAM! FURY OF THE GODS -…

via DC Films Ever since Black Adam finally escaped from almost 15 years lodged firmly in development hell to make it into production, we’ve been hearing constant rumors claiming that either Henry Cavill’s Superman or Zachary Levi’s Shazam were being lined up for cameo appearances in the DCEU blockbuster. For a number of reasons, both of them make an equal amount of sense. The Big Blue Boy Scout has a power level comparable to Dwayne Johnson’s antihero, Cavill’s manager Dany Garcia also happens to be The Rock’s…

Apple’s Music Recognition feature in the iPhone Control Center is now able to sync with the latest version (15.14) of the Shazam app and across Apple devices using the same Apple ID (via MacRumors). According to MacRumors, many users thought that the feature required the iOS 16 developer beta, but now it is available for iPhones that have iOS 15 installed. After announcing it would acquire Shazam in 2017, Apple debuted Music Recognition as a built-in iOS feature in 2020 with iOS 14.2. The feature allowed iPhone users…

Warner Bros. has dropped a brand-new Shazam! Fury of the Gods teaser to warm up fans of the DCEU for San Diego Comic-Con. The short clip features edgy closeups of Shazam in costume interspersed with a shot of his caped silhouette and a brief snippet of the grinning superhero shooting bolts of lightning from his hands in front of a very impressed teen. Shazam! Fury of the Gods is the highly anticipated sequel to 2019’s Shazam! It’s a continuation of the story of Billy Batson, a regular kid who acquires…

The summer of Black Adam may be in full-swing, but his superheroic counterpart deserves some attention as well. DC Comics has released a new unlettered preview for Shazam! Thundercrack, a new middle grade graphic novel due out in November. The Big Red Cheese’s newest adventure, set in the continuity of the 2019 movie, comes from cartoonist Yehudi Mercado. Here’s how DC Comics describes Shazam! Thundercrack: Super-heroics are dangerous, but joining the football team is an even bigger problem! Billy Batson’s never been a…

Finally, the Rock has come back as Black Adam.Image: Warner Bros.By now, you’ve probably seen the first trailer for the long-awaited, highly anticipated DC movie Black Adam, starring Dwayne Johnson. Johnson has been dreaming of playing the character for years—but now that the first trailer is here, fans might be wondering where the movie and the character stand in the larger DC universe. io9 was among a group of journalists who spoke to Johnson and Black Adam director Jaume Collet-Serra, as well as producers Beau Flynn…