Tag: DCU
The Flash’s Unusual Marketing and Potential Future
It’s almost becoming a cliché to say that the behind-the-scenes or other real-world events surrounding a movie make a better story than the film itself, but the way Warner Bros. is marketing The Flash, as detailed in a Variety piece, is interesting. A lot of this is born of necessity because of t...
Read MoreRUMOR: Andy Muschietti Directing The Brave and the Bold?
DC Studios has an awful lot of faith in a movie that’s tracking to underperform. The newest DC rumor is that Andy Muschietti, the director of The Flash, will also helm the next Batman film (outside of the sequel to The Batman and Joker: Folie à Deux), The Brave and the Bold. Muschietti directing ...
Read MoreSuperman: Legacy Casting Rumors Take Flight
Casting rumors for James Gunn’s Superman: Legacy, the first entry (kind of, theatrically, unless you count The Flash or… whatever, nobody knows what’s going on right now) in his and Peter Safran’s DCU. After taking considerable heat for dispensing with Henry Cavill after his promised return ...
Read MoreNew Flash Trailer is All About Batman
Warner Bros. Discovery is hoping the Dark Knight will reverse DC’s cinematic downward spiral. Today, the beleaguered studio (although that could be almost any studio lately) released a new – and, presumably, final – trailer for Batman… I mean, The Flash, their next big superhero blockbuster ...
Read MoreNew Images of Lady Gaga as Harely Quinn Surface
Harley Quinn is headed to court. A series of photographs making the rounds today depict Lady Gaga as the Joker’s moll in the upcoming film Joker: Folie à Deux, a sequel to Joker, the surprise smash hit from 2019. This isn’t the first image of Gaga in character – that came courtesy of director...
Read MoreWhy Did Shazam!: Fury of the Gods Bomb?
There’s no spinning or gerrymandering this one; Shazam!: Fury of the Gods is a bomb. In terms of quality, I don’t think it should have been; I liked it very much (as did Tuggs, whose review you can read here), and unlike, say, Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania (or pretty much anything Marvel has...
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