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Warner Bros. Discovery CEO Finding A Lot Of Skeletons In The Financial Closet
Photo by Frederick M. Brown/Getty Images. Getty Images Warner Bros. Discovery just announced a much larger than previously reported write-down on its library content, putting some investors on edge. I...
What Henry Cavill’s Comeback Brings To DC Films
Henry Cavill in Man of Steel Warner Bros. In news possibly intended to distract from Warner Bros. Discovery taking a $2 billion write-down on content and development, Henry Cavill publically announced...
‘Don’t Worry Darling’ Nabs Stylish $9.4 Million As ‘Avatar’ Earns $3.3 Million
Harry Styles and Florence Pugh in Olivia Wilde’s ‘Don’t Worry Darling’ Warner Bros. and New Line Warner Bros. and New Line’s Don’t Worry Darling (review) topped the domestic bo...
‘Elvis’ Sweeps VOD Charts, Reaffirms Box Office Strength Of Musical Melodramas
Austin Butler in ‘Elvis’ Warner Bros. Warner Bros. Discovery’s Elvis swept the VOD ratings charts over the weekend, topping Vudu, Google Play, iTunes, YouTube and Amazon. The acclaimed and...
Who Killed ‘Batgirl?’ Probably The Accountants
Leslie Grace as Batgirl in the now-canceled Warner Bros feature film. Warner Bros Discovery Earlier this week, we got the disappointing and frankly astonishing news that Warner Discovery had pulled th...
DC League Of Super-Pets Is A Charming Ode To Our Best Non-Human Friends
A good pet is priceless, a loving companion that would save an individual’s life in a pinch. If it’s humanity that needs saving, is there any better set of heroes than a group of super pets? DC League...
‘Full Frontal With Samantha Bee’ Cancelled After Seven Seasons On TBS
WASHINGTON, DC – APRIL 26: Samantha Bee speaks onstage during “Full Frontal With Samantha Bee” Not … [+] The White House Correspondents Dinner on April 26, 2019 in Washington, ...
Fury Of The Gods’ Can Thrive Alongside ‘Avatar 2’
In a sane world, opening days after Avatar: The Way of Water wouldn’t be a death sentence for Shazam: Fury of the Gods. Yes, it’s obvious why Warner Bros. Discovery moved David F. Sandberg’s DC Films ...
First Poster For Chris Nolan’s ‘Oppenheimer’ Arrives Right On Time
Poster for Chris Nolan’s ‘Oppenheimer’ Universal I have no idea (and wouldn’t tell you if I did) as to whether audiences showing up to Nope this evening will get an announcement teas...
‘Minions 2’ Drops 70% As ‘Top Gun 2’ And ‘Elvis’ Fall 38%
(from left) Minion Stuart, Gru (Steve Carell) and Minions © 2022 Universal Studios. All Rights Reserved. In domestic Friday box office news not about Thor: Love and Thunder, Universal and Illumination...
‘Elvis’ Bests ‘Top Gun 2’ With $31 Million Weekend
Austin Butler in Baz Luhrmann’s ‘Elvis’ Warner Bros. In a kind of skewed “nature is healing” moment, two big movies scored strong Fri-Sun grosses and essentially tied for first...
3 Ways Warner Bros. Can Handle Its Ezra Miller Problem
Ezra Miller in ‘The Flash’ Warner Bros. Ezra Miller’s alleged behavior presents an unprecedented challenge for Warner Bros.’ The Flash. We’ve had big movie stars, even quite recently, who ...
‘Elvis’ Earns $3.5 Million Thursday, ‘Black Phone’ Nabs $3 Million
Austin Butler and Tom Hanks in ‘Elvis’ Warner Bros. In what could be a weekend that affirms that theatrical moviegoing need not be entirely dominated by tentpoles (even as a month-old bloc...
Maverick’ Could Boost Tom Hanks’ ‘Elvis’
‘Elvis Courtesy of Warner Bros. Picture As somewhat expected, Paramount undershot the second weekend gross for Top Gun: Maverick, with the legacy sequel earning $90 million instead of $86 millio...
Raised By Wolves Cancelled, But This Sci-Fi Masterpiece Deserves A New Home
Raised By Wolves Credit: HBO “Death can be very unpleasant when you’re intelligent.” ~ Father, from Raised By Wolves on HBO Max. Sometimes, a TV show lives beyond its expiration date. A show like Fear...
Warner Bros.’ Recommitment To Theatres Hints At Return To Normalcy
Robert Pattinson in ‘The Batman’ Warner Bros. David Zaslav made a bunch of news yesterday during the press rounds for Warner Bros. Discovery’s annual television upfront presentation. He go...
2022 Advertising Upfronts: Four Fast Takeaways
Jackie Cox attends the Paramount 2022 Upfront party at 666 Madison Avenue on Wednesday, May 18, … [+] 2022, in New York. (Photo by Christopher Smith/Invision/AP) Christopher Smith/Invision/AP Af...
DC Goes To The Dogs In ‘Super-Pets’ Trailer
And now for a trailer for a superhero movie that will probably have at least 75% fewer impalings, neck snappings and homages to Evil Dead than Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, Warner Bros....
‘Don’t Worry Darling’ Trailer Teases Olivia Wilde’s Erotic Fantasy
Well, this is a nice surprise. Exactly a week after its buzzy debut at CinemaCon, Warner Bros. has released the first teaser trailer for Don’t Worry Darling. Yes, Olivia Wilde’s presentation made news...
‘Fantastic Beasts 3’ Nabs Poor $43 Million Debut
Jude Law and Eddie Redmayne in ‘Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore’ Jaap Buitendijk Well, the good news is that Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore was the top-grossing mo...
DC Films Doesn’t Need An Overhaul
Henry Cavill, Gal Gadot, Ben Affleck, Zachary Levi, Jason Momoa, Ray Fisher, Ezra Miller, Joaquin Phoenix and Margot Robbie Warner Bros. In better box office news for Warner Bros., The Batman now sits...
‘Fantastic Beasts 3’ Nabs Soft $6 Million Thursday
Mads Mikkelsen in ‘Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore’ Courtesy of Warner Bros. Picture The circumstances of Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore (staring Eddie Redmayne, M...
These Are Sandra Bullock’s 12 Biggest Box Office Hits
Sandra Bullock and Channing Tatum star in Paramount Pictures’ “THE LOST CITY.” Kimberley French With Paramount’s The Lost City earning decent reviews and solid buzz, there is genuine...
‘The Batman’ Passes $600 Million Worldwide
Zoe Kravitz and Robert Pattinson in ‘The Batman’ Warner Bros. The Batman is going to end up as one of the most successful “part one” superhero movies ever in domestic earnings. Warner Bros...
‘The Batman’ Tops ‘Amazing Spider-Man’ With $273 Million Cume
‘The Batman’ Warner Bros. With no Hollywood competition of note, since STX delayed Guy Ritchie’s Operation Fortune, Warner Bros. The Batman topped the domestic box office for the third Fri...
‘The Batman’ Opens Soft In China But Tops $515 Million Worldwide
The Batman Warner Bros. First, the bad news: The Batman earned $3.6 million on its first Friday in China, leading what will likely be a $14 million opening weekend and possibly over/under $35 million ...
‘The Batman’ Nears $500 Million To Become 2022’s Biggest Hit
Robert Pattinson in ‘The Batman’ Warner Bros. Warner Bros.’ The Batman earned another $6.37 million on its second Monday, dropping 68% from Sunday and 41% from its first Monday gross. That...
‘The Batman’ Passes ‘Shang-Chi’ With $463 Million Worldwide Cume
Robert Pattinson in ‘The Batman’ Warner Bros. The Batman soared to the top for the second weekend (of what will be at least a three-weekend reign) in a row. The Matt Reeves-directed and Pe...
‘The Batman’ Tops ‘Eternals’ And ‘No Time To Die’ With $173 Million Cume
Robert Pattinson and Zoe Kravitz in Matt Reeves’ ‘The Batman’ Warner Bros. Matt Reeves and Peter Craig’s The Batman earned another $8.45 million, essentially tied with its $8.47 mill...
In An Era Of Legacy Sequels, ‘The Batman’ Is A Blockbuster Reboot
Zoe Kravitz and Robert Pattinson in ‘The Batman’ Warner Bros. The Batman has earned another $8.465 million domestically on Wednesday, bringing its six-day cume to $164.071 million and its ...
‘The Batman’ Nabs Record $129 Million Debut
Zoe Kravitz and Robert Pattinson in ‘The Batman’ Warner Bros. Now that’s more like it, Mr. Wayne. After a Thursday-skewed opening day gross (with 38% of its $57 million Friday gross made u...