Are there outstanding questions about the nature of James Gunn’s DC Studios and what characters are moving forward and which ones aren’t? It depends on who you ask.
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Superman: Legacy is set to launch a new era in DC‘s film universe, and it will do so with several stars from the Marvel Cinematic Universe as part of its cast.
The movie will be the first James Gunn directs after becoming head of the universe. It’s set to star David Corenswet as DC’s iconic hero.
In recent weeks, we’ve learned a lot about the stars who will appear in the movie alongside him. That includes the revelation that James, who directed the Guardians of the Galaxy movies for Marvel, has brought several stars over with him to the new franchise. One of them is even going to bring another hero to life!
Check out a complete rundown of the cast to find out who was cast.
Head inside to see the three Marvel stars who are crossing over to join the DC film universe…
Are there outstanding questions about the nature of James Gunn’s DC Studios and what characters are moving forward and which ones aren’t? It depends on who you ask.
Phoebe Dynevor made a brief comment about auditioning for the role of Lois Lane in James Gunn‘s upcoming movie Superman: Legacy.
While “Deadpool 3” might challenge this notion somewhat—especially depending on its-cameos—when franchises change owners or deals end (see Disney buying Fox), often the past is thrown out, and new creators are tasked with starting over. We’re seeing that now with James Gunn’s DC Studios (that will forgo the previous DCEU), we’re seeing it mostly with all the 20th Century Fox Marvel properties that Marvel Studios/Disney will take in a totally new direction (“The Fantastic Four,” “The X-Men”).
Brent Lang Executive Editor Timothée Chalamet retained his holiday season crown as “Wonka” topped the box office on Thursday. The family film, which looks at chocolatier Willy Wonka and his quest to open the world’s most fantastical candy company, earned $8 million, pushing its domestic gross to $110.6 million. “Wonka” carries an $125 million budget and has been a success overseas, where it has earned more than $180 million.
Brent Lang Executive Editor “Wonka,” a family-friendly look at how Willy Wonka broke into the confection game, topped the box office on Wednesday, adding $8 million to push the film past the $100 million mark domestically. The movie’s stateside gross stands at a delicious $102.5 million. “Wonka” is also performing well overseas — its global haul of more than $270 million is a strong result for Warner Bros.
Todd Phillips is giving DC fans a Christmas present, dropping brand new photos of Joker: Folie à Deux featuring Joaquin Phoenix and Lady Gaga.
Rebecca Rubin Film and Media Reporter “Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom” opened to $80 million at the international box office, which isn’t all that super considering those ticket sales are on par with eventual big-budget superhero disappointments like “The Flash,” “The Marvels” and “Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania.” The comic book sequel, starring Jason Momoa as the king of Atlantis and directed by James Wan, has generated $120 million globally to start, including a weak $40 million in North America. The Warner Bros.
Jordan Moreau SPOILER WARNING: This article contains spoilers for “Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom,” now playing in theaters. After 10 years, 16 movies and some disappointing reviews and box office performances of late, the DC Extended Universe has officially come to an end with “Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom.” Jason Momoa stars as Aquaman for the seventh time in his career, after two solo movies, a “Justice League” team-up and a handful of cameos. His first standalone movie, 2018’s “Aquaman,” defied expectations and ended up making $1.15 billion at the worldwide box office, the highest-grossing DC movie ever.
Jason Momoa might have suited up as Aquaman for the final time in his new movie Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom. However, it doesn’t sound like his fate is set in stone.
Zack Sharf Digital News Director Jason Momoa cast doubt on his future as Aquaman in a recent interview with Entertainment Tonight, and now DC Studios boss Peter Safran has weighed in by telling The Independent: “If it’s the end of the journey, fine. If it goes on, that’s also fine.” Both Momoa and Safran are waiting to see how big of an audience “Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom” pulls in before definitively calling it the actor’s swan song as the superhero. The original “Aquaman” movie grossed $1 billion to become the highest grossing DCEU film.
No red carpet, no premiere, minimal press, the press tour for “Aquaman And The Lost Kingdom” is a rather sad ending to the DC Extended Universe [DCEU] first started by Zack Snyder with “Man Of Steel” in 2013.
the popular 2018 original.DC heads Peter Safran and James Gunn are hard at work on revamping the entire stumbling franchise, starting with a shiny new “Superman,” but first they had to waste precious time finessing the problem-plagued and oh-so-five-years-ago “Aquaman 2.”Adding to their headaches, the studio was forced to deal with Amber Heard, who played A-man’s girlfriend, Mera, in the first film, but is now best known for her pass-the-popcorn Johnny Depp defamation trial. What did director James Wan do? He kept Heard, but gave her character a sidelining injury within the first 40 minutes.The lazy “Lost Kingdom” is built on such compromises and dodges.
Matt Reeves seems to have successfully rebooted the Caped Crusader in his 2022 film, “The Batman.” The popularity of that film, both commercially and critically, has led to the filmmaker working on several spinoffs. But according to James Gunn, the co-CEO of DC Studios, not everything Reeves is working on, in terms of superheroes, exists only within “The Batman” universe.
With the release of “Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom” this week, Warner Bros. long, disappointing year of superhero films comes to a merciful end.
James Gunn has shared an update on the upcoming DC movie, Superman Legacy.Directed by Gunn, the film will launch DC’s new film universe, spearheaded by the Guardians Of The Galaxy man and his co-CEO of DC Studios, Peter Safran.He recently took to Threads to share a new storyboard shot, which you can view below.He wrote: “Spoiler??!! Well, probably not. I’m constantly drawing Superman Legacy shots and storyboards all over everything.
Sara Sampaio and boyfriend Ray Nicholson embarked on a shopping spree ahead of the holidays.
James Gunn is entirely open on social media on the progress of Superman Legacy and sharing details of the upcoming DC Studios film.
Zack Sharf Digital News Director Jason Momoa is no longer feeling too optimistic about playing Aquaman in the future. The actor is reprising his superhero role in Warner Bros.’ upcoming “Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom,” which might be Momoa’s swan song as the character on the big screen. Momoa was cast as Aquaman in the DC Universe, playing the character in “Justice League” and “Aquaman,” but the property is now being rebooted by new DC Studios bosses James Gunn and Peter Safran.
“Superman: Legacy” kicks off the new DCU on July 11, 2025. Will superhero movies still be a craze by then? We’ll see, but THR reports that DC Studios co-head James Gunn took to Threads to discuss his upcoming film.
James Gunn has described meaningless “cameo porn” as “one of the worst elements of recent superhero movies”.In a recent discussion on Threads, the Superman: Legacy director responded to a commenter who said they were getting tired of superhero movies where a “character appear on screen for 10 seconds to mark a checkbox”.Agreeing, Gunn replied: “I call that ‘Cameo Porn’ and it has been one of the worst elements of recent superhero films. “If a character is in film, they have to have a reason to be there story-wise.”When another fan asked if he was totally opposed to a fun cameo here and there, he responded: “That’s fine if it doesn’t disrupt the story.