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Deadline has confirmed that author Ta-Nehisi Coates is writing a Superman reboot feature for Warner Bros and DC, which J.J. Abrams is producing under his Bad Robot label. Hannah Minghella will serve as producer. No plot yet and no attachments despite the fact that we’ve heard how Henry Cavill is eager to get back into…

Look, up there in the sky – it’s a bird, it’s a plane…it’s President Donald Trump? The New York Times reported Saturday that President Trump floated the idea of a stunt when he left Walter Reed National Military Medical Center after treatment for COVID-19. The plan called for Trump to appear frail when people first…

Are you ready to travel back to the 1940s when Netflix did not exist and radio shows were the epicenter of entertainment? During DC FanDome: Explore the Multiverse on September 12, Warner Bros. and The Creative Coalition will bring the classic Superman radio series to life. The re-enactments of the Superman radio…

EXCLUSIVE: While there is not a Man of Steel sequel in the works, we’re hearing that Henry Cavill is in talks to reprise his Superman role in the Warner Bros DC Universe. We hear Cavill could come back in a couple of different ways, though not in a stand-alone film. But there are plans to put him back in the big red…

Hero Nation is a weekly column about genre news that now appears on Wednesdays. The walls separating Hollywood’s superhero universes aren’t as sturdy as they once seemed. On Tuesday night, for example, the Flash from television primetime (portrayed by Grant Gustin) ran into the Flash from feature films (portrayed by Ez…

Some Super-vision clearly will be required for Arrowverse fans when they watch the CW’s upcoming “Crisis on Infinite Earths” crossover event, which promises to be the largest assemblage of superheroes in a live-action epic in TV history. That team-up will include no fewer than three once and future Superman actors…

Brandon Routh is suited up for action as Superman in this first-look photo from The CW. The actor who starred in Superman Returns (2006) is back in the cape again to portray a greying-at-the-temples version of the Man of Steel for The CW’s upcoming Crisis on Infinite Earth crossover event. The stylized logo emblazoned…

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Frank Miller delivered a milestone masterpiece in the 1980s when he took Gotham City’s caped crusader back to his beginnings with Batman: Year One. Now, the restless creative mind behind The Dark Knight Returns, 300, Sin City, Ronin, Elektra: Assassin, and Give Me Liberty is taking the Man of Steel back to his…

It’s hard to think that any superhero film could qualify as a Hollywood rarity these days but Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse is just that. As an animated big-screen adaptation of a comic book superhero the Sony film is on a surprisingly short list. On Thursday the film’s three directors — Bob Persichetti, Peter Rams…

Adi Shankar, the producer of Netflix's Castlevania, says his upcoming project Superman Vs. the Ku Klux Klan has been indirectly energized by Bill Maher’s put-downs of comic book culture and comments about the late Stan Lee. Shankar said the firebrand comedian’s appraisal of comic book culture as an example of “using…

Armed with his MAGA hat, Kanye West took over the Oval Office this afternoon, declaring President Donald Trump to be the father he never had, who makes him feel like Superman. “My dad and mom separated, so I did not have lot of male energy in my home,” the husband of Kim Kardashian told Trump, who looked like a…