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Stephen King recently spoke to The Times UK and criticized Hollywood’s superhero movies for often depicting baseless violence. In various Marvel and DC movies, entire cities are destroyed without the viewer seeing any actual harm to human life. King, whose dystopian horror novel “The Long Walk” gets the film adaptation treatment this month, does not agree with this approach to …

James Gunn has clarified some DCU timeline business following the premiere of Peacemaker Season 2. The first episode of Peacemaker Season 2 is now available to stream on HBO Max. While the first season served as an extension of the DCEU, which ended with 2023’s Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom, the new season exists within Gunn and Peter Safran’s DCU, …

Superman has become the first superhero pic to soar past the $600 million mark at the 2025 global box office in a morale boost for James Gunn and Peter Safran’s Warner Bros.-owned DC Studios. Gunn also directed the film. The big-budget tentpole achieved the feat early Friday morning after finishing Thursday with $599.6 million in global ticket sales, including $343.6 …

It might be for the best that we have nearly a year to wait before Supergirl and Spider-Man: Brand New Day arrive in theaters, because superhero fatigue is getting harder to shrug off as wishful thinking from the genre’s detractors.  This weekend, The Fantastic Four: First Steps reached $434.2 million at the worldwide box office, with that broken down to …

If your backlog wasn’t already looking intimidating enough with the August Humble Choice Bundle, Humble’s latest bundle might just tip it over the edge in the best way possible. Until August 27, Humble (which is also owned by our parent company, IGN Entertainment) is selling a duo of impressive ‘WB Play the Legends’ bundles that are packing stellar lineups of …

The upcoming X-Men MCU movie has received a big casting update. Thunderbolts* director Jake Schreier has been tapped to direct an X-Men movie for Marvel Studios; however, this film isn’t expected to arrive until after Avengers: Doomsday and Avengers: Secret Wars. Official details for the film have not been released at this time. What is the X-Men casting update? According …

All eyes are still on the box office results for James Gunn’s Superman reboot, with the financial earnings of the first big-screen DCU outing expected to decide the future of the fledgling franchise. While debate rages on regarding whether Superman has been the success the studio hoped for, it’s slowly becoming harder and harder for the naysayers (largely Snyder fans) …

James Gunn is opening up about the big twist featured in Superman. DC Studios and Warner Bros. Pictures’ Superman is now playing in United States theaters and IMAX. Written and directed by Gunn, the movie stars David Corenswet as the titular superhero, Rachel Brosnahan as Lois Lane, and Nicholas Hoult as Lex Luthor. Bradley Cooper and Angela Sarafyan, meanwhile, play …