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Supergirl Box Office Projections Cut Again As DCU Film Tracks Below The Flash
UPDATE: This cut turned out to be the start, not the bottom. Estimates have kept sliding — tracking now puts a potential $40M opening on the table, below the earlier floor, with Supergirl fighting to win its own opening weekend against Toy Story 5. The Supergirl box office projections are heading in the wrong direction…
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Zack Snyder Marks Man of Steel’s 13th Anniversary As Box Office Still Tops Gunn
Thirteen years ago today, Zack Snyder launched the DCEU, and he just marked the anniversary with a Man of Steel post that doubles as a quiet flex. On June 14, 2013, Man of Steel hit theaters and kicked off Snyder’s DC universe with Henry Cavill’s Superman. To mark the date, Snyder posted a stylized Man…
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Disclosure Day Exit Polls Prove Teens Were Right: Spielberg Sold It To Boomers
The Disclosure Day exit polls are in, and they read like a receipt for everything teenage moviegoers told Hollywood weeks ago. Spielberg’s name sold the tickets, the crowd skewed old, and Universal spent old-media money to put it there. It Was Spielberg, And Almost Nothing Else Per Deadline‘s Saturday exit polling via Screen Engine/Rentrak’s PostTrak,…
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X-Men ’97 Season 2 ‘Roll Call’ Trailer Stacks the Roster for the Age of Apocalypse
Marvel Animation dropped a second X-Men ’97 Season 2 trailer, and on its surface it’s a victory lap. It’s literally called “Roll Call.” Wolverine kicks it off with “We’re back, baby,” the camera blitzes through the team, and Magneto closes it out with “Whatever forces await, we shall face them together.” Count the names in…
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Hollywood Keeps Blaming Fans For Star Wars, Marvel, DC Failures
Update: The failure of the Supergirl movie is being blamed on “toxicity among fanboys and critics.” There’s a reflex in modern Hollywood that’s become impossible to miss: a movie underperforms or a show gets canceled, and instead of the studio examining the product, the blame lands on the audience. The fans are too toxic. Too racist.…
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DC Reset Under Paramount? Gunn, Reeves Futures In Doubt
Editor’s note: The following is editorial analysis. UPDATE: Paramount CEO David Ellison has now met with James Gunn and Peter Safran and called himself a “big fan” of the slate — but as we break down here, every project he’s backing was already greenlit under the old regime, and there’s still nothing announced beyond Man of Tomorrow. The…
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The Penguin Season 2 Reportedly Dead As Colin Farrell’s Batman Role Shrinks
DC’s most acclaimed TV show in years may be done, and Colin Farrell’s Penguin might be running out of road right along with it. Scooper Jeff Sneider is reporting that HBO and DC Studios have decided not to move forward with The Penguin Season 2, and that the show will remain a one-off limited series.…
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The Batman Part II: Brian Tyree Henry Rumored As Two-Face
Everything we thought we knew about The Batman: Part II‘s villains may be wrong, and a new rumor just made the body in Matt Reeves’ first shot a lot more interesting. Scooper Jeff Sneider dropped a bombshell report via The InSneider claiming that Sebastian Stan is not playing Harvey Dent/Two-Face in the sequel, as has…
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Stargate’s Joe Mallozzi: Executives Hold Fans In ‘Contempt’
For a week, Joe Mallozzi has been in the trenches defending Martin Gero’s canceled Stargate series and firing back at Amazon. Now he’s stepped back to make a much bigger argument, and it’s one that isn’t really about Stargate at all. In a lengthy post on X, the longtime Stargate producer accused genre executives of…
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DOJ Says Paramount-Warner Bros. Deal Helps Workers — So What Was The Backlash Really About?
Editor’s note: The following is an editorial and contains opinion and analysis. For months, I have been arguing that the campaign against Paramount buying Warner Bros. Discovery was more political theater than a real case about jobs and competition. On Friday, the U.S. Department of Justice basically agreed. The DOJ’s Antitrust Division closed its investigation…
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The Batman: Part II First Shot Reveals More Than Filming Has Started — Is That A Body?
It’s official: principal photography on The Batman: Part II is underway, as director Matt Reeves posted the first shot from behind the camera on Friday, which teases more than just the start of filming. Reeves shared an image of the production slate on X with the hashtags #FirstShot and #TheBatmanPart2, along with a simple “Here…
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Zack Snyder Breaks Silence With ‘The League United’ Justice League Post
UPDATE: While Snyder rallies fans around “The League United,” DC Studios co-CEO Peter Safran dodged a direct Justice League question in Brazil, confirming no Justice League movie is on the announced slate. Zack Snyder went quiet on Instagram for a full week. When he came back, he didn’t post Batman. He didn’t post Superman. He posted the…
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Masters of the Universe Crashing in Second Weekend — Will It Even Hit $100M?
UPDATE (Monday actuals): The collapse is confirmed, and it’s worse than the estimates suggested. Masters of the Universe fell 70.6% in its second weekend, an even steeper drop than the Friday projection. That edges past even The Mandalorian & Grogu‘s 70.1% second-weekend decline, meaning He-Man has now out-bombed both of the flops it’s been compared…
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Disclosure Day Heads For $44M Opening After Expectations Were Lowered
Steven Spielberg’s Disclosure Day is heading for a $42.5 million domestic opening weekend, per Deadline‘s Friday midday update, a number the trade is framing as ahead of expectations. Whether that’s true depends entirely on which expectations you’re measuring against. Saturday Update: Estimates are now saying $44M. The Expectations Game Here’s the timeline. As we covered,…
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Our Zack Snyder DC vs Marvel Movie Rumor Just Went To Another Level
Back in November, we reported that our insiders said discussions had taken place about a Marvel vs. DC project involving Zack Snyder and the Russo Brothers. We called it a long shot at the time, but said the timing lined up. Well, it just lined up a lot more. Update: Hours after this article was…
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‘The Death Of Robin Hood’ Reviews: Critics Agree On Hugh Jackman But Split Hard On The Movie
The Death of Robin Hood reviews are in, and the verdict is more interesting than a simple split: critics can’t agree on the movie, but they almost universally agree on Hugh Jackman. The film currently sits at 64% on Rotten Tomatoes with 22 reviews, meaning it is barely Fresh and far from the across-the-board rave…
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Mad Max 6: Warner Bros. Out, Amazon, Universal & Sony Circling
Warner Bros. has been the home of Mad Max for over four decades, but it looks like the Wasteland is up for grabs. According to Puck‘s Matthew Belloni, George Miller was recently in Hollywood meeting with studios about a new Mad Max movie, with Amazon, Universal, and Sony Pictures all said to be interested. Per…
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Helen Mirren Backs Tom Hardy’s MobLand Return: ‘In A F—ing Heartbeat’
Helen Mirren just made it crystal clear where she stands on Tom Hardy, and at the same time, the trades are now confirming what we’ve been telling you for weeks: MobLand isn’t moving forward without Harry Da Souza. Speaking at the Taormina Film Festival in Sicily, where she’s receiving a Lifetime Achievement Award, Mirren was…
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Spielberg’s Disclosure Day Starts Out Soft After Teens Warned It Was ‘For Boomers’
UPDATE 6/13: The opening has firmed up at $44M — ahead of Deadline‘s lowered $35M number, but at the low end of the original projections (full breakdown of the expectations game here). And the “for Boomers” warning has now been vindicated: the exit polls confirm the teens were right, with Spielberg’s name alone driving 55%…
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Left-Wing Billionaire Money Bankrolls Push To Block Paramount-Warner Bros. (Report)
Editor’s note: The following is an editorial and contains opinion and analysis. Back in April, I said the campaign against Paramount buying Warner Bros. Discovery did not look like some organic Hollywood labor uprising. It looked political. Now, a new New York Post report is putting names, groups, and donor networks behind that exact point.…