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The Flash director reveals tragic reason why Michael Keaton’s Batman hung up the cowl

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Diehard DC fans only got a glimmer of what a proper Michael Keaton/Batman return could’ve been in The Flash, and now we’re seeing just what we could’ve had. During a newly released behind-the-scenes featurette, director Andy Muschietti revealed the depressing backstory of what led Keaton’s Batman to fully retire and live his life as a […]

As studios refuse negotiations, WB eyes new dates for Dune and Aquaman sequels

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We are heading into months of the WGA Strike and weeks of the SAG-AFTRA strike, and Hollywood is beginning to shake in their boots, so much so that one major studio is debating sitting out the rest of 2023. In a new report from Variety, Warner Bros. Film Group is looking to move some of […]

Early Blue Beetle box office tracking suggests $12-$17 million opening weekend

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Despite James Gunn reiterating that Blue Beetle was to be a part of his new DC Universe, it appears that audiences just aren’t willing to show up for the final few movies before the great DC reset, with reports suggesting that early tracking on the film has it down for an opening weekend in the […]

Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom has had three rounds of reshoots and cut two Batmans

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The journey to get the Aquaman sequel has been long and tedious; now we have a real look at how gruelling it’s been to get the final DCEU film released. In a new story from The Hollywood Reporter, details about Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom have emerged, most notably the three rounds of reshoots and […]

Final Blue Beetle trailer shows Jaime Reyes fighting for his family

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With Shazam: Fury of the Gods and The Flash bombing at the box-office, Blue Beetle, the penultimate film left in the vault following James Gunn and Peter Safran’s appointment as co-heads of DC Studios, is still hoping to make a dent when it crawls into cinemas next month, and now Warner Bros. has dropped the film’s final […]

Hot Toys unveils its Supergirl sixth scale figure from The Flash

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Sideshow has released promotional images of Hot Toys’ sixth scale Supergirl figure which is inspired by the likeness of Sasha Calle as Kara Zor-El in the DC blockbuster The Flash. The collectible is available to pre-order now, priced at $265; check it out here… Barry Allen a.k.a. The Flash, who is in an attempt to […]

Kiersey Clemons says working with DC “made me cry more than it made me smile”

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Kiersey Clemons’ Iris West barely has a supporting role in this year’s The Flash, but the actress was once supposed to be a much more significant player in the film and the wider DC Extended Universe. That seems to be the story of Clemons’ whole time working for DC, and now she’s finally getting frank […]

Re-evaluating Zack Snyder’s DCEU Trilogy: The Misunderstood Superman Saga

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EJ Moreno looks back at Zack Snyder’s time in the DC Universe… Andy Muschietti’s The Flash attempts to shut the door on the SnyderVerse in many ways. The time-traveling, universe-hopping adventure shakes the state of the DC Universe ahead of the upcoming James Gunn “reboot.” As the studio attempts to complete the most massive chapter […]

James Gunn on modern superhero movies: “They’ve gotten too generic”

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When it comes to superhero films, it seems like James Gunn isn’t a fan of his contemporaries. With Guardians of the Galaxy Vol.3 proving to be a success at the box office and The Flash fizzling out (along with quite a few DC and MCU entries of late), Gunn seems to have figured out what’s […]

Box Office: Spider-Verse pips Elemental to swing back to the top, while The Flash crashes hard

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There was plenty of narrative atop the U.S. box office this weekend, with experts eager to see how relative flops The Flash and Elemental would hold up in the face of an R-rated Jennifer Lawrence and the all conquering Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse.  Let’s start with the big news, which would ordinarily be the film […]