The Batman 2 writer/director Matt Reeves gave reporters an update while at the Emmy Awards Sunday night. He was there supporting The Penguin, the HBO Max limited series set in his DC Elseworlds, which earned 24 nominations and won nine. But it was the sequel to his 2022 The Batman that was on everyone’s mind.
The dust hadn’t even started to settle after Skydance’s merger with Paramount Studios when news broke that Skydance CEO David Ellison had set his sights on buying a second legacy studio, this time, Warner Brothers (WB).
But the sale of WB might be something that Warner Brothers Discovery CEO David Zaslav has been orchestrating for some time. Ellison’s interest, however, is probably an unexpected twist.
Could the next Superman movie feature Brainiac? Gary Buechler, host of Nerdrotic on YouTube, thinks so. In a conversation with Chris Gore of Film Threat, Buechler said he’d heard from a source that an earlier cut of Superman featured two post-credits scenes, one of which wasn’t used. “And one was Brainiac,” Buechler said. “So maybe… they moved that to Supergirl.”
Perhaps someday we’ll see the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) crossover with the DC Universe (DCU). But over on X, Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings star Simu Liu is already giving Superman the stare-down. While a sequel to this year’s Superman has the green light just months after the film’s debut, a follow-up to 2021’s Shang-Chi has yet to be confirmed.
Horror movies keep most people awake at night, but since the latest film in The Conjuring Universe just took over the box office, President and CEO of Warner Bros. Discovery David Zaslav is probably sleeping just fine.
The Gremlins movie in development has been confirmed as a reboot.
There’s no rule in Hollywood saying they can’t dip into the old intellectual property well as often as they want. In fact, right now nostalgia, especially 80s nostalgia, is as popular as a Cabbage Patch Kid at Christmas. Some rules were made to be broken, and others must be followed. Rules like: keep it away from sunlight, don’t get it wet, and don’t feed it after midnight.
The operative “it” being a gremlin.
In a recent sit-down with Movieweb, original Gremlins screenwriter Chris Columbus confirmed that he’s working on a reboot. “[I’m] working on a script for Gremlins, a new Gremlins reboot that I feel, if there’s a reason to do it. Let’s do it,” he told the outlet.
Since the release of The Batman in 2022 and its spin-off, The Penguin on HBO Max, fans have speculated on the future of franchise and the character. Not Batman. He’s a given, though James Gunn’s parallel DC Universe seems in conflict with writer/director Matt Reeves’ darker world. But how will Colin Farrell’s Oz Cobb, aka: The Penguin, feature in The Batman 2?
Now we may have an idea, and it’s not as prominently as we might have thought given the success of his solo show.
As every movie fan knows, the Pirates’ Code is more like guidelines. Now, we’ve learned that the Way of the Gunn (at least where it concerns the DC Universe) is more like “bullet points.”
According to sources at Deadline, Dave Bautista may soon face off against Henry Cavill in Amazon MGM Studios’ Highlander reboot. Bautista, a former WWE wrestler who’s made a name for himself as an actor, most recently in Dune: Part 2 and The Killer’s Game, will likely be playing The Kurgan in Highlander, a character first played by Clancy Brown in 1986.
Sometimes, products and their placement in entertainment go together like peanut butter and jelly, a cool drink on a warm summer day, or E.T. and Reese’s Pieces. Symbiosis is good — unless it feels alien, like Venom. When Insomniac Games gave Miles Morales a Spider-Man costume inspired by an Adidas tracksuit in Marvel’s Spider-Man 2, gamers reacted as if someone had put sardines on their s’mores and an Ovaltine ad in their decoder ring.
Usually, if the words “Star Wars” and “heresy” are being used together, it’s related to something in-universe. Like saying Rogue One proves the Force isn’t important to the narrative. But this time, we have Rogue One co-writer Tony Gilroy telling IndieWire, “What do we need? We need Star Wars Jesus.”
Quentin Tarantino finally revealed his next project. And surprise! It’s not his long-awaited 10th, and potentially final film. Since scrapping his screenplay for The Film Critic, because, as a source told Deadline, he simply changed his mind, the 61-year-old auteur has apparently written a stage play.