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After unveiling footage at industry events and dropping the latest trailer just this week, Warner Bros world premieres Joker at the Venice Film Festival today. The most anticipated film of the event, the Todd Phillips-directed DC origins story screened for Lido press this morning — with the longest lines I have ever…

A blackout left thousands of Washington, D.C. residents without power Saturday afternoon as temperatures soared above 90 degrees. The lights went out just before 3 p.m., NBC Washington reported. Potomac Electric Power Company said a problem at one of its substations caused the outages in the northwestern parts of the…

The seriously creepy teaser for Warner Bros’ Joker starring Joaquin Phoenix has landed, and you don’t need to be clown-phobic to get the heebie-jeebies. The trailer was unveiled Tuesday to eager attendees at CinemaCon, but now the rest of the world can get a first look at the DC standalone pic. Check out the so, so…

When it comes to evaluating the financial performance of top movies, it isn't about what a film grosses at the box office. The true tale is told when production budgets, P&A, talent participations and other costs collide with box office grosses and ancillary revenues from VOD to DVD and TV. To get close to that mysteri…

EXCLUSIVE: Rachel Skarsten has been cast as a villainous lead opposite Ruby Rose in Batwoman, the CW’s groundbreaking drama pilot from Greg Berlanti's Berlanti Productions and Warner Bros Television. Written by Caroline Dries and directed by David Nutter, Batwoman marks the first gay lead character of a live-action…

Intel and Warner Bros. showcased one vision for the future of entertainment in self-driving vehicles in a tricked-out concept car it unveiled this morning at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. The car transports guests on a virtual ride through Gotham City in a 2019 BMW X5 that’s retrofitted with a…

As Wonder Woman 1984 wraps, star Gal Gadot gave us an early Christmas gift with some behind-the-scenes pics from the Warner Bros. sequel focusing on the legendary DC Comics hero accompanied by touching words about the production. “We did it. Again!!” wrote Gadot on Instagram. “And as much as the first time shooting…

SATURDAY UPDATE: Riding a wave into seven more markets on Friday, Warner Bros/DC’s Aquaman fished out another $27M from overseas turnstiles, lifting the international box office cume to $179.1M. There are 43 offshore hubs now in release, ahead of a further 28 next session which open alongside North America. The…

Just as fanboys and fangirls are trying to let the events of this year’s Arrowverse crossover event sink in, next year’s fall crossover event has been revealed: “Crisis on Infinite Earths”. As soon as it was announced fans lost their minds. The announcement of the title was unveiled at the end of tonights three-part…

EXCLUSIVE: Chris Messina has joined Warner Bros/DC’s Birds of Prey in the villainous role of Victor Zsasz, a sadistic serial killer who carves a tally mark onto himself for each of his victims. Zsasz will be working in cahoots with Ewan McGregor’s lead bad guy Black Mask. Cathy Yan is directing from Christina Hodson’s…

Deadline has confirmed that Amanda Idoko is adapting the Quality Comics’ superhero Plastic Man for an upcoming Warner Bros./DC feature, which does not yet have a director nor a green light. Jack Cole created the character in 1941, and DC absorbed the brand in 1956. Plastic Man was a member of the Justice League and…

The CW has five the DC series on the air, and a high-profile Batwoman pilot set for this coming season. How big can the DC footprint on the network get? “We have five on the air but we also added a sixth night (of network programming),” the CW president Mark Pedowitz said during the network’s TCA executive…