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Absolute Batman Animated Series Confirmed, Joker Anime Series In The Works
It’s official. The Absolute Batman adaptation that has been rumored is real, and it landed at Annecy rather than at San Diego Comic-Con. DC Studios and Warner Bros. Animation used their first joint presentation at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival on Thursday to confirm that Scott Snyder’s Absolute Batman is becoming an adult animated…
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Batman Writer Andrew Farago Arrested Over Hidden Bathroom Camera Involving Children
Andrew Farago, longtime curator of San Francisco’s Cartoon Art Museum and a well-known pop culture author who also wrote for Batman and The Comics Journal, was arrested earlier this month on 20 counts of invasion of privacy after allegedly hiding a phone to record guests in his bathroom during a birthday party, according to Berkeley…
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BBC Doubles Down On Woke Doctor Who: ‘Circuit Breaker’ Launches With Jo Martin’s Fugitive Doctor
Even as the show’s television future hangs in the balance and the series was recently canceled on Disney+ due to poor ratings, the BBC is launching a sprawling new multi-platform Doctor Who story event with Circuit Breaker. Doctor Who: Circuit Breaker launches today, June 25, and runs through September across comics, audio, books, gaming, and…
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Supergirl Villain Revives James Gunn’s Old Marvel Problem
If there’s one criticism in the Supergirl reactions and reviews that should worry DC, it isn’t “messy” or “uneven.” It’s the one that keeps coming up about the villain: bland. Because in the superhero business, a forgettable villain isn’t a small problem, it’s often the problem. Robert Downey Jr. just made that point himself. As…
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Warner Bros. Quietly Lowers The Bar For A Supergirl ‘Win’
UPDATE: Those lowered expectations look well-founded, with soft opening estimates now circulating pegging Supergirl’s previews at around $8.25 million and its opening weekend near $40 million. Warner Bros. is already lowering expectations for Supergirl, with insiders now framing anything above $300 million worldwide as a “win.” But that number is less than half of Superman’s $618 million total…
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GTA 6 Price Confirmed: $80 Standard, $100 Ultimate — and No Disc in the Box
The question that’s hung over Grand Theft Auto VI for years finally has an answer. Rockstar Games has confirmed that GTA 6 will cost $79.99 for the Standard Edition and $99.99 for the Ultimate Edition, settling the price just hours before pre-orders open June 25 at midnight local time on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series…
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Ghostbusters: Night Shift First Look & 2027 Netflix Details
Netflix and Sony Pictures Animation pulled the sheet off Ghostbusters: Night Shift at the Annecy animation festival on Wednesday, dropping the first key art for the 2027 series and a slightly clearer picture of what the next official Ghostbusters project actually is. Here’s the part the press release won’t underline for you: it’s a cartoon.…
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New James Bond: August Auditions Locked as Elordi, Turner, Dickinson Fit Villeneuve’s ‘Prototype’
The hunt for the next James Bond finally has something resembling a date on the calendar, sort of. Per Deadline, director Denis Villeneuve has started personally phoning actors to tell them they’ve made it through to the next round of screen tests, which Amazon MGM is now lining up for August. What the studio still…
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Variety Rips Supergirl’s Script — Just Like Our Insiders Warned
UPDATE: Now that we’ve seen it, our full review echoes the script criticism, landing on James Gunn as the biggest reason the movie misfires. The major trades have weighed in on Supergirl, and the reviews are rough, with Variety delivering an outright evisceration that lands right on something our insiders told us back in December. Variety, The…
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Zack Snyder Courts India As Gunn’s ’12-Year-Old’ Comment Lingers
Zack Snyder and James Gunn have taken very different approaches to one of the biggest moviegoing audiences on the planet, and Snyder’s fans think the contrast says everything. Gunn faced backlash over a comment about a “12-year-old in India” while promoting Superman. Snyder, meanwhile, has been actively courting and celebrating Indian audiences, and has just…
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Disney Turns Avengers: Endgame Encore Into Its IMAX Workaround
Disney’s Avengers: Endgame re-release finally has an official title, and the announcement doubles as the clearest sign yet of how Disney plans to fight a premium-screen war it’s partly losing. Speaking at CineEurope in Barcelona, Disney revealed the September re-release will be titled Avengers: Endgame Encore, hitting theaters Sept. 25. It won’t be a simple…
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Supergirl Reviews Rotten At 56% As Critics Say Milly Alcock Deserves Better
UPDATE: The film is now in theaters, and we weigh in with our own 6/10 verdict pinning the blame on James Gunn’s script while agreeing Milly Alcock deserved better. Supergirl reviews are in, and the verdict echoes what the first reactions hinted at: critics can’t agree on the movie, but they almost universally agree on Milly Alcock. The…
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Tom Holland Says Spider-Man: Brand New Day’s Villain Is ‘Unlike Anything’
Tom Holland is once again building up Spider-Man: Brand New Day‘s biggest mystery — its hidden villain — and this time he’s promising something genuinely new. Speaking on the red carpet in a recent interview with Germany’s ProSieben, Holland teased the film’s secret antagonist as a first for the franchise. “The villain that we have…
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House of the Dragon Season 3 Premiere Review: HBO’s Dragon Drama Returns A Messy, Woke Dud
House of the Dragon finally returned Sunday night after a two-year wait, and Season 3 Episode 1 did not exactly come roaring back like a dragon. Instead, the premiere feels like a messy continuation of the Season 2 finale HBO never really gave us. The story is scattered, the pacing is rushed, the character work…
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‘Save Stargate’ Takes Times Square: Fans Plan June 27 Rally As Amazon Stays Silent
Update: The Save Stargate billboard is up in NYC. The #SaveStargate campaign isn’t slowing down, it’s expanding. After putting a banner plane in the sky over Amazon MGM’s Culver City lot earlier this month, the fan effort is taking its message coast-to-coast: organizers say they’ll rally in Times Square on June 27 in front of…
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Film Threat’s Chris Gore Trashes Supergirl: ‘This Is Terrible’
UPDATE: We’ve now seen Supergirl ourselves, and while we’re less harsh than Gore, our take that the DCU had something epic before Gunn got hold of it still lands on the script as the core failure. Gore is also not alone as the Supergirl reviews are in and the Rotten Tomatoes Score is “Rotten.” Variety also rips the…
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Batman: Knightfall Trailer Debuts R-Rated Animated Trilogy
DC and Warner Bros. Animation pulled the wraps off the first trailer for Batman: Knightfall – Part 1: Knightfall today, the opening chapter of a three-part, R-rated animated event that finally brings the “breaking of the Bat” to the screen. The first installment premiered at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival, with a wider release…
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Toy Story 5 Posts Best Monday Of 2026 At The Box Office
Toy Story 5 isn’t slowing down. After delivering the biggest opening of 2026, the Pixar sequel just posted the year’s best Monday at the domestic box office, too. Toy Story 5 Scores The Best Monday Of 2026 Per Deadline, Toy Story 5 grossed $17.3 million on Monday, the best single Monday of 2026 so far.…
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Deadline Confirms Supergirl Loses Its Opening Weekend To Toy Story 5
UPDATE: The slide continued into release. Official preview numbers came in at $7.8 million per Deadline, with Supergirl now opening at the low end, around $40 million, and losing the weekend to Toy Story 5 exactly as we called. Full breakdown. Last week, when we wrote that Supergirl might not win its own opening weekend,…
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Save Stargate Petition Hits 100k As Robert Patrick Says ‘Some Things Are Worth Getting Loud About’
The #SaveStargate campaign just cleared a number Amazon can’t pretend not to see. The “Save Stargate with Martin Gero” petition has passed 100,000 verified signatures, a milestone fans have been driving toward for three straight weeks, with thousands more names still coming in every day. This is not a movement running out of gas. A…