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No, there won’t be any finger-pointing at the box office this weekend over a franchise film failing to open. That’s because Lionsgate/Thunder Road Films/87 Eleven’s John Wick: Chapter 4 looks to not only reinvigorate a tentpole-heavy spring, but also debut to a franchise record of $115 million in…

Zachary Levi, star of Shazam! Fury of the Gods, is opening up about the box office results of the DC film sequel that fell below the already low projections the studio had for the movie. A fan of the actor tweeted about the “disappointment” the superhero film was at the box office, asking not to…

David F. Sandberg’s Shazam! Fury of the Gods was released and the director is opening up about the heavy criticism against the DC film. Sandberg took to Twitter to note that he had just gotten his “lowest critic score” on Rotten Tomatoes which stood at 52% at the time of this post. The filmmaker also…

Shazam! Fury of the Gods star Rachel Zegler took to social media over the weekend to lament what she called "senselessly mean" reactions to the film. The DC sequel had a lackluster opening at the global box office, landing with $65.5 million worldwide. It currently carries a 52% score from critics on…

UPDATE, writethru: New Line/DC/Warner Bros' Shazam! Fury of the Gods has had a less than heroic launch with $65.5M global, including $35M from the international box office. We always knew this sequel was going to come in lower than its predecessor, but the result is also far off where projections were…

Djimon Hounsou’s acting career spans 30-plus years, includes two Oscar nominations and roles in myriad prestige and blockbuster projects such as Amistad, Gladiator, In America, Laura Croft, Blood Diamond, Guardians of the Galaxy, Furious 7, Aquaman, Captain Marvel, Shazam!, A Quiet Pace Part II and Day One…

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Friday afternoon: We’re hearing that New Line’s Shazam! Fury of the Gods is currently on its way to an $11M Friday, inclusive of last night’s $3.4M, for what’s looking like a $30M opening at 4,071 theaters. The pic cost $125M before P&A, $25M more than the first Shazam! While that’s nothing to…

The Shazamily is back, and on a much larger scale, but at its heart this superhero saga is still about family, and that’s the good thing here. In 2019’s origin story (which goes way back to 1940 comics when the then-named Captain Marvel was…

In what should come as no surprise, James Gunn will be directing his own script for Superman: Legacy, a major linchpin project that will kick off the the multiplatform connected DC universe – “Chapter One, Gods and Monsters“ ­– which he and his DC Co-Chairman & CEO Peter Safran are launching…

When Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav installed the new leadership of James Gunn and Peter Safran at DC, heavy decisions were promptly made from the unplugging of Patty Jenkins’ Wonder Woman 3 to Henry Cavill losing his Superman cape. Related Story DC’s ‘Shazam! Fury Of The Gods…

Shazam! Fury of the Gods finally lands in a rainy windswept Los Angeles tonight for its premiere at the Regency Village. But the franchise’s filmmaker David F. Sandberg won’t be in attendance after testing positive for Covid. Taking to social, Sandberg wrote, “Sadly I won't be going to the Shazam…