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Justice League was not the money maker or critical success Warner Bros. needed it to be, and the response to it may even affect how the studio approaches their superhero movies in the future. There are plenty more movies the studio wants to crank out, and one that’s had a particularly hard time getting going is Justice League Dark. The movie has had a hard time getting a live-action film... Read More...

Mike Cecchini Dec 18, 2017

Get a look at what Guillermo del Toro's Justice League Dark movie might have looked like.

The Justice League Dark movie has had a long and tortured road, and there's no end in sight. This is a project which would focus on the magical and monstrous corners of the Dceu, featuring characters like Swamp Thing, John Constantine, and others, and it has been in development at Warner Bros for something on the order of five years. For much of that time, Guillermo del Toro was in charge of development, with an eye on directing.

But as with many of Warner Bros' DC superhero movies, nothing has been easy when it comes to Justice League Dark. For one thing, it was once known as Dark Universe, but Universal came along and snatched that name up for their (now apparently dead) shared cinematic universe of action/horror flicks...

Over the weekend during Comic Con Experience 2017 in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Warner Bros. revealed its upcoming slate of DC Films that they'll be releasing.

We weren't really sure what exactly the future held for the DC Films after Justice League was released, but now we know. Most of the original plan is still in place, but there are a few films that weren't mentioned this time around.

The upcoming film slate includes Aquaman, Wonder Woman 2, Flashpoint, Justice League Dark, Suicide Squad 2, Batgirl, Shazam!, Green Lantern Corps, and The Batman. These films were apparently all presented with title cards. 

The films that weren't included are the previously announced Cyborg movie, the Justice League sequel, Gotham City Sirens, the Harley Quinn and Joker movie, the Joker origin film, Black Adam and the Deathstroke film, which was teased at the end of Justice League. The fact these films weren't mentioned doesn't mean that they aren't still in development.

It feels unreal to even think that Justice League is the lowest-grossing Dceu movie. It was meant to be the culmination of years of hard work and the granddaddy that reached the billion-dollar club. Instead, Warner Bros. is sweating and worried if it’ll break even and not suffer any further humiliation.

Regardless of your feelings towards the film, it’s evident that the studio will need some time to introspect and rethink its future plans. That being said, they still do intend on pushing full steam ahead with most of their previously announced projects, and they made that known earlier today at Comic-Con Experience 2017 in Sao Paulo, Brazil by revealing their full DC Extended Universe slate.

According to those who were in attendance at the studio’s presentation, the Wonder Woman sequel was announced first, followed by Aquaman, two films that we already knew were on the way. After that,...

Ever since he first crossed over into the Arrowverse back in an episode of Arrow season 4, fans have been crying out for Matt Ryan to make a return appearance as John Constantine. At last, it was recently confirmed that the demon hunter would be turning up for a multi-episode arc in Legends of Tomorrow season 3. And now, thanks to exec producer Marc Guggenheim, we have our first look at Constantine on the show.

Guggenheim shared a photo of a screen playing LoT in the editing room, revealing a shot of Constantine paired up with Brandon Routh’s Ray Palmer/the Atom. It’s not much, but we’ll take what we can get and given that this is now out in the open, we imagine there will be more to come in no time at all.

As we previously reported, Constantine will appear in episode 10, titled “Daddy Darhkest.” Yes, this...

Another unexpected development in the world of DC Comics live-action movie adaptations has just arrived. According to a new report, director Gareth Evans, best known for his work on the acclaimed action movie The Raid, is in talks to helm a Deathstroke spin-off movie for Warner Bros. At the present time, not much else has been revealed, but Joe Manganiello, who was originally supposed to play the role in The Batman, is attached to play the fan-favorite mercenary in the movie.

Last year, Ben Affleck made a lot of DC fans excited when he released some shaky test footage of Deathstroke while filming Justice League. It was later revealed that the man donning the classic black and orange armor was none other than True Blood and Magic Mike star Joe Manganiello. It was also revealed that, at the time, the character was set to be the main villain in The Batman,...

NBC's live-action Constantine series may be no more, but the actor who played the beloved demon hunter, Matt Ryan, returns to voice the iconic character in a new digital animated series that was teased at New York Comic Con in the show's first footage ahead of its premiere on the CW Seed streaming service, and you can now watch it online in case you weren't at the Javits Center over the weekend:

"First Look! New York Comic Con attendees received a first look of Constantine, an all-new animated digital series from Warner Bros. Animation and Blue Ribbon Content following DC’s popular comic book character John Constantine (voiced by the live-action series star Matt Ryan), a seasoned demon hunter and master of the occult. Armed with an arcane knowledge of the dark arts and a wicked wit, he fights the good fight. With his soul already damned to hell, he...

DC Entertainment has released a clip from their upcoming new animated series Constantine, giving us our first look at the animated version of the character in action. The series actually looks a lot better than what I was expecting! The animation is pretty solid and it's great to see Matt Ryan bringing the demon hunting character to life again. I always like Matt Rayn in this role. He brought the perfect kind of attitude and charm to the character that you can't help but like.

In the clip, we see John Constantine bring a bunch of demons together in a church where they proceed to battle each other to a bloody pulp.

John Constantine, a seasoned demon hunter and master of the occult. Armed with an arcane knowledge of the dark arts and a wicked wit, he fights the good fight. With his soul already damned to hell, he’ll...

It may have been cancelled a couple of years ago, but Constantine, along with it’s star Matt Ryan, refuse to go down without a fight! The latest news, from this years New York Comic Con, is that Ryan to reprise his role in a guest appearance as John Constantine in the forthcoming season of DC’s Legends of Tomorrow, as well as voicing the character in a new animated series from CW Seed.

This all-new animated series from Warner Bros. Animation and Blue Ribbon Content follows DC’s popular comic book character John Constantine (voiced by the live action series star Matt Ryan), a seasoned demon hunter and master of the occult. Armed with an arcane knowledge of the dark arts and a wicked wit, he fights the good fight. With his soul already damned to hell, he’ll do whatever it takes to protect the innocent. With the...

When Matt Ryan debuted on NBC’s live action Constantine series a few years back, most fans were in agreement that the producers had found the best live action Hellblazer possible. Unfortunately, the network didn’t think ratings were up to snuff and cancelled the show after only 13 episodes. On the plus side, Ryan has since continued playing the character in various other projects, those being Arrow, Justice League Dark and an animated web series slated for release via the CW Seed online streaming service (see the above trailer).

Naturally, one would think a show such as Legends of Tomorrow would provide a decent way for John Constantine to rejoin the Arrowverse due to its ability to pluck DC heroes and villains from wherever they may exist on the timestream. In fact, executive producer and showrunner Phil Klemmer expressed interest in doing so in an interview a couple months ago.

Constantine is getting resurrected, and we’ve got your first look at Matt Ryan’s demon hunter in all his animated glory for the CW Seed offshoot.

Live-action series star Ryan — who played the character on the short-lived NBC drama, and then reprised his role on The CW’s Arrow — returns to voice the DC Comics hero.

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“Armed with an arcane knowledge of the dark arts and a wicked wit, he fights the good fight,” reads the official show description. “With his soul already damned to hell, he...

DC fans had their minds blown when it was announced a month ago that an origins movie for the Joker was in the works. Sitting outside the DC Extended Universe, the film is set to feature a new actor as the Clown Prince of Crime in place of Jared Leto. Furthermore, The Hangover’s Todd Phillips is directing with legendary filmmaker Martin Scorsese on hand to produce.

Still, there wasn’t initially any guarantee that the project would see the light of day anytime soon. After all, plenty of other DC films have been announced only to never end up materializing (see: Lobo and Justice League Dark). That won’t be the case for The Joker, though, as we’re now hearing that it’s being fast-tracked into production.

Variety’s Justin Kroll confirmed via Twitter that sources have informed him the script is set to be handed in to Warner Bros. next week.

The DC Extended Universe seems to be in much better shape following the massive success of Wonder Woman. So, does that mean we're finally going to see Man of Steel 2 happen? We know that Warner Bros. has been working on a standalone Superman movie for a while, but official information has been pretty scarce. We had heard rumors that Kingsman and X-Men: First Class director Matthew Vaughn was in the running for the gig. Now, the director himself has confirmed that he very well may be the man to tackle Man of Steel 2.

Matthew Vaughn is currently promoting Kingsman: The Golden Circle, which is set to arrive in theaters next week. Speaking with Hey U Guys, the director was asked about what he is planning to do now that Kingsman 2 is done and he revealed that he has met with Warner Bros. about possibly helming the Man of Steel sequel.

When we last checked in with the long-gestating Justice League Dark film, director Doug Liman had walked away from it to go make sci-fi actioner Chaos Walking. At the time, Warner Bros. had said it hoped to name a replacement director “shortly,” which we now know means “longer than three months, because here we are at…

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With a new Justice League Dark script in development, we finally have an idea about how things could play out.

A quick note was dropped last night that Warner Bros. has brought in Housebound's Gerard Johnstone to polish up the script for Justice League Dark.    The WB are still looking for a director for the new film that centers around the characters John Constantine, Swamp Thing, Deadman, Zatanna and Etrigan the Demon. According to the report at Deadline the studio was already impressed with his horror comedy Housebound, which got him in the door. His presentation did the rest.    We wonder if this suggests the tone that WB is going for with this upcoming project. Housebound was a excellent blend of horror and laughs. We are not suggesting that Jld should be laugh a minute but Johnstone's comedic instincts should at the very...

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In Hollywood, it's not unusual for a procession of writers to labor away on scripts for movies that may never get made. But it's striking that we've just heard about new writers hired to work on a trio of high-profile projects that are all eagerly awaited. Here are the details.   Justice League Dark Who is the new writer? Gerard Johnstone, according to Deadline. He's best known for writing and directing the excellent comic thriller Housebound (pictured at...

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At one time Warner Bros. had Gerard Johnstone on their short list of directors for Justice League Dark, but now the studio has been tapped him to polish the script.

Variety reports that the studio was interested in Johnstone touching up the script based on his presentation on the project. The studio has been looking at directors over the past couple of months after Doug Liman left the project to focus on Lionsgate’s Chaos Walking. They haven't really liked anything that they have been pitched, though.

Little is know about the plot of Justice League Dark, in the comic books the “Dark Universe” focuses on the supernatural superhero team of John Constantine, Swamp Thing, Deadman, Zatanna, and Etrigan the Demon. The film will play a major role in the DC Cinematic Universe.

This could be a pretty interesting-type of superhero movie that we really have yet to see in...

Warner Bros. taps Gerard Johnstone to polish the Justice League Dark script as the studio continues searching for a director.

What do Maleficent 2 and Justice League Dark have in common beyond an interest in the fantastical and supernatural? Well, they both just reminded us of their very existence because their respective studios have hired new writers to tackle their screenplays. Someday, these movies could exist. Maybe! Maleficent 2 The Tracking Board reports that Disney has […]

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We recently heard a rumor that Housebound director Gerard Johnstone was one of the frontrunners to helm Justice League Dark, but it's now being reported that WB actually hired him to work on the script...

Screenwriter Gerard Johnstone has been tapped to rewrite “Justice League Dark” for Warner Bros. and DC Entertainment, an individual with knowledge of the project tells TheWrap. Johnstone is best known for his 2014 film “Housebound.” Based on the DC comics, “Justice League Dark” features the wizard-for-hire John Constantine, elemental Swamp Thing, the ghost Deadman, magician Zatanna, and Etrigan the Demon as they team up to battle threats beyond the ability of the traditional Justice League. Plot details are being kept under wraps. Also Read: 'The Batman' Director Matt Reeves Clarifies: 'Of Course Batman Will Be Part of the DC Universe' Keanu Reeves played Constantine.

Exclusive: Warner Bros and DC are starting over in their search for a director for Justice League Dark, but one of the aspirants, Gerard Johnstone, has been hired to do a polish on the script. He made an impression on the studio with his presentation, but what got him in there was his 2014 film Housebound. The search to find a director to helm a darker version of Justice League — reportedly centering on John Constantine, Swamp Thing, Deadman, Zatanna and Etrigan the Demon…...

Superstition, Fantastic Voyage, Justice League Dark, And Other Film And TV News Superstition, Fantastic Voyage, Justice League Dark, and other films and TV shows have made recent production news. These productions come from studios based primarily in the United States. The production information within is subject to change. Justice League Dark Jon Spaihts has been tapped by Warner [...]

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What is supposedly the budget for Aquaman? Want to see a photographer turn several uniquely disabled kids into the Justice League? Would you like to see a Marvel TV comedy series at some point? Does Justice League Dark have a new writer? Is Maggie Sawyer going to survive on Supergirl? How does James Gunn narrow […]

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By David Kozlowski | 25 August 2017

Welcome to Issue #10 of The Lrm Weekend, a weekly column offering opinions about film, TV, comics, Star Wars, Marvel, DC, animation, and anime. We also want to hear from you! Share your feedback and ideas for future columns: @LRM_Weekend

Previous Issues: 8.18.17 | 8.11.17 | 8.4.17 | 7.28.17 | 7.21.17 | 7.14.17

Hey Lrm Weekenders, we've hit double-digits! This week we're taking a dive into the odd career of martial artist-action star Steven Seagal, exploring the creations of Hellboy's Mike Mignola, and reaching back to the amazing, epic sci-fi films of the 80s. But first, in our editorial we explain why WB needs to stick a knife between the ribs of the Dceu and dump it into the nearest body of water.

Warner Bros. Must Come To Their Senses And Kill The Dceu -- Focus On Stand-Alone Solo and Elseworlds Films!

Hollywood has fallen deeply, tragically in love with trilogies, franchises, and connected universes, often to the detriment of simple,...

Update: Umberto Gonzalez from TheWrap has a conflicting report that Jon Spaihts did a draft of Justice League Dark months ago and has since moved on.

We recently heard that Warner Bros. is starting from scratch on Justice League Dark and now a new report claims that a writer with plenty of mystical experience has now boarded the DC Comics adaptation.

Doctor Strange writer Jon Spaihts has reportedly been tapped to write the latest script draft for DC's Justice League Dark movie.

There have been several recent rumors of WB zeroing in on a potential director for its Justice League Dark movie, but would-be director presentations failed to resonate with studio execs.

Warner Bros. has so many potential DC movies currently in development that it can be difficult to keep them all straight. One project that has been in development hell for a while is Justice League Dark.

This year marked the return of the King Kong franchise, after a 12-year absence Kong: Skull Island hit theaters earlier this year. With its retro 70s setting and a well-rounded cast that included Brie Larson, Samuel L. Jackson, John Goodman and John C. Reilly, the film pulled in over half a billion dollars worldwide on a $185 million dollar budget. SlashFilm recently spoke with Adam Wingard, the director of the next film we will see Kong in, Godzilla vs. Kong. Wingard was asked if the new film set for release in 2020 would stay with the 70’s timeline we seen in Kong: Skull Island.

No, ours is more in continuity with the sequel to Godzilla right now. They’re doing Godzilla 2 with Mike Dougherty directing, so our film is in present day. We have a couple characters from Godzilla 2 in ours, but it’ll be interesting to see how Kong has fared over the years.

A new report claims that Warner Bros. and New Line are having the script for the upcoming Justice League Dark film completely reworked.

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In this latest episode of Los Fanboys, Jammer and David shoot the breeze a bit on The Defenders in their spoiler-free first impressions. From there, we discuss the box office, the Punisher teaser, the synopsis for M. Night Shyamalan’s Glass, the terrible Death Note critical reception, and of course, the reveal that Lucasfilm is hard at work on an Obi-Wan film, which is a terrible idea.

Show Guide:

00:00:00 - Intro Defenders first impressions

00:09:00 - Box office

00:19:35 - Punisher teaser reactions

00:24:02 - Glass synopsis

00:29:55 - Death Note critical reactions

00:41:55 - Adam Wingard talks Godzilla vs. Kong

00:49:00 - Daniel Craig back as Bond

00:51:50 - Justice League Dark closing in on director?

00:56:30 - Obi-Wan movie in the works

01:01:30 - What we...

This upcoming season of American Horror Story is set to be a unique one. For the past six seasons, they’ve managed to (mostly) successfully utilize a unique theme and exploit it for maximum horror. This year’s season deals with a more grounded horror — the recent U.S. presidential election.

But don’t worry. This isn’t going to be some House of Cards-type story. Nor will it actually have actors portraying Trump and Clinton in ridiculous ways. They will instead utilize news footage to show the actual election and (we’re assuming) debates. The actual story will take place after the election, and is kicked off by the results of said election.

As indicated by the trailer, it sounds like some real unsavory types are super enthused about the results of Trump taking office (including a TV-humping Evan Peters). One such group is a “cult” of clowns that have been emboldened,...

It sounds like Warner Bros. may finally be preparing to announce a replacement for Doug Liman on the Justice League Dark movie, as both Daniel Espinosa & Gerard Johnstone are said to be in contention...

The Guardians of the Galaxy franchise has made a huge impact on the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Not only did it confirm that Marvel can pretty much make a good movie out of any concept, but it also pioneered a more colorful, over-the-top style that Marvel Studios is now taking advantage of. While it’s likely not a total influence on the upcoming Thor: Ragnarok (that film's style and tone is likely due to director Taika Waititi's own sensibilities), it’s likely a tone Marvel was more willing to explore after Guardians’ success.

But what does this mean for the McU as it begins to foray deeper and deeper into the cosmic side of things? Will every film set in the farthest reaches of space have a very similar tone? Given that James Gunn is reportedly helping to usher in Marvel Studios’ era of cosmic films, Collider thought to ask him that very question.

Could Steppenwolf have a new secret origin in Justice League? Do you know who is voicing Uncle Ben in Disney Xd’s Spider-Man animated series? Why doesn’t Luc Besson enjoy superhero movies, specifically Captain America? Why did director Doug Liman really leave Justice League Dark? What will Deadpool and Cable‘s relationship be like in Deadpool 2? […]

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Doug Liman first decided against directing Gambit and later left Justice League Dark too. Here, the filmmaker elaborates on why the DC Comics adaptation ultimately wasn't a good fit for him...

After having seen Doug Liman‘s latest film, “The Wall” starring Aaron Taylor-Johnson an John Cena, I couldn’t help, but start thinking about the writer-director’s track record and how great his hits to misses ratio has been so far in his 18 year career. No small feat, given the current climate of today’s blockbuster-crazed Hollywood standards, Liman is still delvering his own creative vision on-screen and doing so with limited attention directed towards it.

Continue reading Doug Liman Explains His ‘Justice League Dark’ Exit at The Playlist.

Doug Liman offers another explanation as to why he stepped down from directing Warner Bros.' planned live action Justice League Dark film.

The Wall's Doug Liman recently talked to CinemaBlend about why he walked away from DC's highly anticipated Justice League Dark film. Here's what he had to say about the decision.

DC's greatest live-action television series has been canceled since 2015, yet the character at its center continues to live on. I am, of course, referring to Constantine, the NBC series that ran for only one season ending with a cliffhanger never-the-less. Constantine was great because certain episodes, including "A Feast of Friends", were incredibly true to specific storylines from the Hellblazer comic, with the show never shying away from the horror elements of John Constantine's world. The show's greatest strength, however, was the casting of Matt Ryan as Constantine, which remains among the most accurate casting for a superhero adaptation in any medium.

Ryan was so good that he's been brought back to conquer the role several times. First, Ryan donned the ratty jacket and tie again in the episode of Arrow titled Haunted, before voicing the character in DC's best animated feature, 2017's Justice League Dark. Ryan will also...

With the Warner Bros. always in direct competition with Marvel on Saturday at Comic-con, they are forced to bring out their big guns. 

This was the case when they brought out the DC properties. During the panel the studio announced their upcoming slate of superhero movies in a video persentation. They went over the previously announced movies like Green Lantern Corps, Justice League Dark, Aquaman and Wonder Woman 2; they hit us with the title of the upcoming Flash movie. Freaking Flashpoint! 

That's right folks, the creative minds at DC are giving The Flash the most complicated/entertaining storyline in all of The Flash's history. Flashpoint revolves around The Flash's power to run so fast that he can manipulate time and the consequences that come with it. 

If they stick with the comic arc then it will be in a world where Barry Allen (The Flash) wakes up and the world has changed.

It's being reported that Sony Pictures has found a director for their adaptation of the classic anime Robotech in It helmer Andy Muschietti, who was previously being courted for Justice League Dark.

Though DC oddly seems to forget about this every single time that it happens, each direct-to-video animated movie that it releases inadvertently spoils what the next direct-to-video animated movie will be about. It happened when The Killing Joke DVD revealed the existence of Justice League Dark, and now the Batman & Harley Quinn DVD that comes out next month seems to have named Gotham By Gaslight as the next DC animated movie. That comes from a sharp-eyed Reddit user (via ComicBook.com), who somehow spotted the back cover of the Batman & Harley Quinn DVD and noticed a preview for Batman: Gotham By Gaslight listed in the special features.

For those who aren’t familiar with the original story, Gotham By Gaslight was a one-off Batman story from Brian Augustyn and Hellboy creator Mike Mignola. It was released in 1989, and though it predates the official label, it’s considered ...

Burbank, CA (June 28, 2017) – Warner Bros. Home Entertainment and DC Entertainment celebrate a decade of heroic animation with the release of the DC Universe Original Movies: 10th Anniversary Collection, a comprehensive box set of all 30 films, 5 animated shorts, new special features and exclusive collectible items coming November 7, 2017 to Blu-ray™. The entire 30-film set will also be available on Digital starting August 15, 2017.

Launched in 2007 with the landmark release of Superman Doomsday, the DC Universe Original Movies are based on or inspired by storylines and/or characters from within the ever-expanding DC library. Produced by DC Entertainment and Warner Bros. Animation, the stories range from films based upon iconic DC Super Hero stories (Superman Doomsday, Justice League: The New Frontier, Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Batman: The Killing Joke) to films inspired by themes from within DC history (Batman vs. Robin was inspired by “The Court of Owls,” Superman vs. The Elite was...

Warner Bros. is putting together one monumental box set in honor of the 10th Anniversary of the DC Animated Universe! Find out what all is included!

While Wonder Woman may be putting the DC Entertainment Universe back on track, there is DC content that Warner Bros. and DC have never had a problem with, the animated DC Original Movies. In fact, their movies have been touted as being better than Marvel's, which is no small feat.

As a way of honoring the success of the DC Animated films turning 10, this year, Warner Bros. Home Entertainment has created a box set the likes we never could've fathomed.

On November 7, 2017, WB will release the DC Universe Original Movies: 10th Anniversary Collection on Blu-Ray. The collection includes all 30 Animated movies, 5 shorts, new special features, and exclusive collectible items. The Digital version will release much earlier on August 15, 2017.

Unfortunately, a price point has not been issued yet,...

Warner Bros. Home Entertainment and DC Entertainment celebrate a decade of heroic animation with the release of the DC Universe Original Movies: 10th Anniversary Collection, a comprehensive box set of all 30 films, 5 animated shorts, new special features and exclusive collectible items coming November 7, 2017 to Blu-ray. The entire 30-film set will also be available on Digital starting August 15, 2017. The studio has also released the box artwork for this immersive DC Universe Original Movies set, which you can see below.

Launched in 2007 with the landmark release of Superman Doomsday, the DC Universe Original Movies are based on or inspired by storylines and/or characters from within the ever-expanding DC library. Produced by DC Entertainment and Warner Bros. Animation and released by Warner Bros. Home Entertainment, the stories range from films based upon iconic DC Super Hero stories (Superman Doomsday, Justice League: The New Frontier, Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Batman: The Killing Joke...