James Gunn is clearing up several reports about DC Studios projects amid the Paramount-Warner Bros. merger. The merger of the two media companies is at a standstill, but that doesn’t mean that development of superhero franchises at DC is on hold. Answering a fan query on Threads about the…

EXCLUSIVE: Ryan Gosling and his Open Invite producing partner Jessie Henderson are in early development on a live-action Flintstones feature project at Warner Bros, we hear, one that would center on a grown-up Bamm-Bamm Rubble. Right now we hear the duo are looking for a writer. The first…

Warner Bros. Pictures Animation’s Margie Claus starring Melissa McCarthy will fly into theaters on Nov. 12, 2027. The pic has also set its additional voiceover cast with Jim Gaffigan as Santa, Andrew Scott as Jack Frost along with Annie Mumolo, Georgette Falcone, Octavia Spencer, Gary Farmer, Luis…

EXCLUSIVE: Warner Bros Pictures is in negotiations for the feature film rights to Allen Levi’s breakout novel Theo of Golden, a word-of-mouth juggernaut bestseller that has established the first-time author as a publishing phenomenon as he nears 70. Deal is being papered I’m told, and Tom Hanks is in…

There’s a big shock in the film comms sphere and that’s Warner Bros EVP of Communications Katie Martin Kelley, who was Motion Picture Chairs Michael De Luca and Pam Abdy’s right hand, is heading to Netflix as VP Communications where she’ll oversee Dan Lin’s feature film portfolio. Martin Kelley…

What in the world was Warner Bros thinking? In 2023 the studio canceled, shelved and ditched the finished animated/live action hybrid feature Coyote vs. Acme in favor of a tax writeoff rather than releasing the movie in theaters, or even streaming. This sort of corporate move would indicate the…

Editors’ Note: On July 13, California, New York & 10 other states sued to stop Paramount Skydance’s planned $111 billion acquisition of Warner Bros Discovery. Last week a federal judge dealt the David Ellison-run Paramount a blow by setting the much anticipated antitrust action for a two-week trial in…

When it comes to Paramount’s legal wrestling with 12 state attorneys general’s antitrust case over the Melrose lot’s possible merger with Warner Bros, the key is to divide and conquer with exhibition. Deadline knows that Paramount has made a written commitment to at least one of the top two…

Superman sequel Man of Tomorrow seems poised to get DC back on track in 2027, Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav told Wall Street analysts Thursday. Director and DC co-chief James Gunn “is focused on Man of Tomorrow,” Zaslav said when asked about any revision to DC’s strategy in the wake of…

Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav says staffers are working “extremely hard” and staying focused despite uncertainty about the fate of the company’s pending merger with Paramount. Speaking to Wall Street analysts on the company’s second-quarter earnings call, Zaslav said he had assumed “it…

The weekend before summer 2027 is getting quite bulky, so Warner Bros is shifting the release date of its special forces commando pic F.A.S.T. to mid-May next year, specifically May 14, a frame where it launched Final Destination: Bloodlines and more recently Mortal Kombat II. The film, which…

The deeper DC universe continues to be mined with this fall’s Clayface which is making a big, though secret (shhhh) splash here at San Diego Comic-Con this morning in DC’s Jim Lee and Friends panel taking place at 11:30am at Room 6DE in the Convention Center. The jumping off point here for…