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 MoreDC 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 MoreBen Affleck is done with superheroes. In an excellent interview with The Hollywood Reporter (in which he talks about the movie business, dishonest media, his new film Air, and the Grammys), Affleck declares that he will not be making any movies in James Gunn and Peter Safran’s DCU. “I would not ...
Read MoreDisney isn’t the only movie studio pumping out sequels like a rabbit after mating season. Deadline exclusively reports that Warner Bros. Discovery has made a deal with Weed Road Pictures, the production company founded by producer, screenwriter, and occasional director Akiva Goldsman that would se...
Read MoreTodd Phillips loves his fans. Yesterday, the filmmaker posted a picture on his Instagram account with the message “Happy Valentine’s Day.” The image is, of course, from Joker: Folie à Deux, the sequel to his surprise mega-hit from 2019, Joker. The picture shows Joaquin Phoenix as Arthur Fleck...
Read MoreThe players on the field aren’t the fastest things at the Super Bowl this year, as the new trailer for The Flash debuted. The long-gestating DC superhero movie – one of the last gasps of the DCEU, or the Snyderverse, or whatever you want to call it – The Flash finds Barry Allen caught in &hell...
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