It has been forever since star Jason Momoa and director James Wan were initially linked to DC’s Aquaman franchise, and now its second movie is set for release on December 20th.
Following The Flash and Blue Beetle, Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom is now set to close out DC and Warner’s old comic book universe before the new James Gunn-led one starts with Superman: Legacy in 2025.
Netflix’s One Piece succeeds where other live-action anime adaptations have failed by understanding its limits and knowing how to work within them.
Filmmaker James Gunn shared the news on Instagram last night (via Deadline). Sorkin had a long acting career in Television, most notably as Harley Quinn in Batman: The Animated Series.
In fact, the character existed because of her. No, really — Paul Dini, who brought us the series, based the character on a scene from Days of Our Lives featuring Sorkin in a clown suit.
Director Ángel Manuel Soto’s new Blue Beetle movie checks all the flashy, formulaic boxes Warner Bros. should have been focusing on when it first started trying to build a modern cinematic universe.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem is a classic retelling of its pizza-obsessed heroes’ origin story that’s elevated by phenomenal art direction.
Whereas most comics adaptations tend to fiddle around with the tone and visual language that defined the source material they’re based on, Apple’s forthcoming Strange Planet looks and sounds almost like a carbon copy of creator Nathan W. Pyle’s webcomics that took the internet by storm a few years back.
Honestly? It’s sort of hard to tell whether this is a good thing, or not.
AMC debuted a trailer for The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon during the San Diego Comic-Con yesterday (via Deadline).
In it, we see Dixon find out he’s to transport a young child across the dead-ridden wastes of France to save the world, which sounds awfully familiar. But whatever, I’m always down for more Norman Reedus.
When the X-Men animated series theme song started playing in Disney Plus’ Ms. Marvel series, it was obvious that Something Big™ was going on with the only Inhuman still bopping around the MCU. When Ms. Marvel recently died quite suddenly and unceremoniously in Marvel’s comics, it seemed as if that Something Big™ was finally coming to a head, and now that brings us here.
Noted comics nerd and Ms. Marvel actress Iman Vellani’s penning a new Ms. Marvel comic, and — shocker — she’s becoming a mutant.
Adult Swim’s My Adventures with Superman reimagines the Man of Steel as the charming, bumbling heart of a classic but modern shonen trio.
Samuel L. Jackson and Olivia Colman shine in Marvel’s new Disney Plus show, which feels more like a souped-up Agents of SHIELD TV event than a proper spy thriller.
Romita Sr was known for his major contributions to Marvel Comics, co-creating notable Marvel characters like Wolverine and the Punisher, and introducing characters like Mary Jane Watson, Kingpin, and the Vulture to The Amazing Spider-Man series.
His passing was confirmed by his son (and fellow comics artist) John Romita Jr in a Twitter post on Tuesday.
While the core conceit of Warner Bros. Discovery’s The Flash is solid, the movie’s too-meta nostalgia plays highlight everything that has gone awry with the studio’s superhero movie experiment.
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse deepens the mythos of Miles Morales by turning one of the ugliest parts of Spider-Man’s fandom into a canonical conundrum.
Sony’s Across the Spider-Verse isn’t just a breathtaking work of art — it’s a seminal piece of Spider-Man storytelling that rightfully establishes Miles Morales as this generation’s definitive webhead. Across the Spider-Verse’s trailers alone have been tremendous, but check out our review to read more about what makes the movie work so, so well.
At Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse’s LA premiere this week, producer Amy Pascal teased that Miles Morales is definitely making his live-action debut in the near future, and Sony’s already working on another Spider-Man starring Tom Holland:
“We’re in the process, but the writers strike, nobody is working during the strike. We’re all being supporters and whenever they get themselves together, we’ll get started.”
Sony’s Into the Spider-Verse sequel is a bigger, bolder, more ambitious film than its predecessor — and a powerful deconstruction of Marvel’s Spider-Man mythos.
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (Part One) is very quickly getting into “the whole movie’s been spoiled by trailers” territory.
But Sony’s latest ad spot is a: a great introduction to Karan Soni’s Pavitr Prabhakar, and b: a useful note about one of the more important things all Spider-People have in common aside from the whole tragically losing loved ones thing.
With The Marvels’ new trailer comes a reminder that Ms. Marvel’s family heirloom — the mysterious bangle that unlocked her energy-manipulation powers — might just be the snazziest piece of wearable comics-inspired tech the MCU’s seen yet.
First impressions? While it’s certainly different from Harley Quinn’s jester-like appearance in the old comics and ditches the more playful look of the one played by Margot Robbie, it seems to match Joker’s more mature vibes.
DC Studios co-CEO James Gunn has to be a busy man between overseeing all of Warner Bros. Discovery’s big screen superhero projects, and writing some of them like the studio’s upcoming Henry Cavill-free Superman movie.
But apparently, he’s making the time to direct Superman Legacy, a “story of Superman’s journey to reconcile his Kryptonian heritage with his human upbringing.”
How inspired.
The supernatural show, which is based on a DC comic by Neil Gaiman and Matt Wagner, was supposed to make its debut on HBO Max — but it apparently didn’t mesh with the company’s vision for the DC Universe, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
That’s how Netflix wound up with the rights to the Greg Berlanti-produced series, where it might fit better among other shows from the producer, like The Sandman and You.
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Jonathan Majors’ Kang the Conqueror may be Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania’s villain, but in a new interview with The Washington Post, he makes it abundantly clear that his time-traveling character isn’t just a bad guy popping up in Quantumania and Loki. He’s the MCU’s new long-term Big Bad™ who’s going to make the Avengers sweat, and Majors wouldn’t have signed on if that weren’t the case.
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Last year, Batgirl, originally intended for HBO Max and then later intended for theatrical release, was shelved. Some people claimed it just sucked that bad, others claimed it was for tax reasons. While taxes likely contributed to the calculus here, new DC Studios head Peter Safran told Variety:
[T]he film just was not releasable. It would not have been able to compete in the theatrical marketplace; it was built for the small screen.
Basically, Warner Bros. Discovery wants all its movies on the big screen first, and this one would have always looked better at home.
If you’d asked just a few weeks ago what the future held for Warner Bros. Discovery’s live-action DC superhero movies, a reasonable person might have told you to expect to see more of Henry Cavill’s Superman and Dwayne Johnson’s Black Adam beating the stuffing out of one another.
But that’s all changed under James Gunn and Peter Safran’s DC Studios which — after sidelining Cavill’s Man of Steel in favor of a younger take on the character — is now planning to mostly retire the Rock’s magical man in black.
In a surprisingly optimistic post to his Twitter account this evening, the Rock announced that after a recent meeting with Gunn, it’s been decided that his Black Adam “will not be in [DC Studios’] first chapter of storytelling,” as the studio focuses on pursuing Gunn’s new vision for the studio’s future.
Johnson elaborated saying that while his take on the character will be taking a step back for the time being, his Seven Bucks production company is still committed to exploring Black Adam projects involving him “in future DC multiverse chapters,” which feels like it could mean anything from a DC League of Super-Pets follow-up to a small cameo in future films.
