With an estimated opening weekend of somewhere around $5 million, it’d be tough to deny that the Jonah Hex movie is a flop – but coming only a couple of months after the similarly soft The Losers, should Warner Bros. and DC Comics be worried about their cinematic future together?
Both The Losers and Jonah Hex were adapted from …
Smallville may be ending next year, but Clark Kent’s replacement may already be waiting in the wings. Spicing up a slow Sunday, DC Entertainment’s Chief Creative Officer revealed yesterday on Twitter that DCE is preparing a live action television series based on the recent Blue Beetle series. He tweeted,
We have a live-action test of
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During today’s Time Warner investor’s day, Warner Bros. head honcho Barry Meyer mentioned how big a role the DC Comics stable of superheroes will play once the Harry Potter franchise comes to an end in 2011. We’re aware of Nolan’s third Batman flick and the upcoming Superman reboot in 2012, but Meyer says the studio is close to …
The Last Son of Krypton may have finally found his own Superman. An article over at The Los Angeles Times confirms the rumors that have swirled for the last month or so that Christopher Nolan would be sitting in the director’s producer’s chair for Warner Bros.’ reboot of the Superman movie franchise. While we’re sure the DC …
Thursday, February 18, 2010
Today in Techland: Fiasco! If you were looking for us earlier, you may have noticed that we were nowhere to be found. Let’s set the record straight: We were just trying on our invisibility cloak. It worked, swimmingly.
Anywho, today we saw three new execs named to head DC Entertainment: Jim Lee, Dan …
This morning, it was announced that DC Entertainment’s new president Diane Nelson had named Dan DiDio and Jim Lee as DC Comics’ co-publishers, and Geoff Johns as Chief Creative Officer. TECHLAND spoke to the three new appointees about what comes next for DC.
So Jim and Geoff: are you going to be moving to New York?
JIM LEE: I …
This morning, DC Entertainment named Jim Lee and Dan DiDio as the new co-publishers of DC Comics, and Geoff Johns as Chief Creative Officer (a new position)–all three of them longtime company insiders. Here’s a few thoughts about what their new roles might mean.
(More on Techland: DC Entertainment Announces Its Superhero Execs)
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Back in September of ’09, Warner Bros. announced the “creation” of DC Entertainment, a company that would oversee the implementation of all DC Comics properties under the Warner Bros. Entertainment umbrella. In other words, WB created DCE to go after Marvel Studios and seed the DC characters across other mediums. At the time of the …