Tag: Black Adam
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Noah Centineo Appeals to Global Film Festival Heads on Behalf of Embattled Iranian Filmmaker Saeed Roustaee
Actor Noah Centineo touched down at the Toronto International Film Festival this weekend to rally support for Saeed Roustaee, an Iranian filmmaker sentenced to prison by his government over the latter’s film “Leila’s Brothers.”Over Friday cocktails at festival headquarters, the TIFF Bell Lightbox, the “Black Adam” star appealed to top representatives from film festivals around…
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‘Blue Beetle’ Review: DC’s Latest Trades Big Scope for Smaller Stakes
This review was written during the 2023 WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes. Without the labor of the writers and actors currently on strike, the film being covered here wouldn’t exist.DC usually doesn’t usually care about the little guy. While Marvel has plenty of underdogs that become heroes, DC’s superheroes are more akin to gods. Even the…
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‘Black Adam’: Dwayne Johnson Says It’s “One Of The Biggest Mysteries” Why Film Isn’t Getting A Sequel
When it was released, though it did have a big opening weekend, it was clear “Black Adam” wasn’t going to be the hit Warner Bros. Discovery hoped it would be. Sure, in retrospect, the box office gross for the film eclipsed that of “Shazam! Fury of the Gods” and “The Flash,” but $393 million globally…
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Dwayne Johnson Blames Lack Of Black Adam Sequel On Studio Heads, Not Box Office Performance
It’s been almost a year since “Black Adam” failed to deliver on its promise that “the hierarchy of power in the DC Universe is about to change.” Or rather, it did change, just not in the way that star Dwayne Johnson had been banking on. With box office returns of $393 million, “Black Adam” fell…
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Dwayne Johnson Says Dropping Black Adam Will ‘Always Be One of the Biggest Mysteries’: ‘It Got Caught in a Vortex of New Leadership’
Dwayne Jonson appeared on a new episode of Kevin Hart’s “Hart to Hart” talk show on Peacock and looked back at the rise and fall of “Black Adam.” His 2022 comic book tentpole was designed to launch a new chapter of storytelling within Warner Bros.’ DC Universe, but DC Studios was overhauled soon after its…
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Dave Ligorner Joins Creative Advertising Agency Major Major
Major Major, the Los Angeles-based full-service creative advertising agency, has welcomed Dave Ligorner as its latest addition to the company.Hailing from his previous role at Buddha Jones, Ligorner is an impactful horror, indie and tentpole trailer producer. With 20 years in the field, Ligorner has produced several DC film trailers, including the 2023 Ezra Miller-led…
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Dwayne Johnson donates ‘historic’ amount of money to US actors’ strike foundation
The star of the Fast and Furious franchise has made a seven-figure donation to a Sag-Aftra Foundation Relief Fund, for actors who will face ‘financial ruin’ due to the strike in HollywoodDwayne Johnson, star of Black Adam and the Fast and Furious franchise, has made a “major, historic” financial contribution to the Sag-Aftra Foundation Relief…
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Box Office: ‘Spider-Verse’ Returns to No. 1 as ‘The Flash’ Collapses by 73% and Jennifer Lawrence’s ‘No Hard Feelings’ Opens to $15 Million
Somewhere across the multiverse, “The Flash,” once touted by its own studio as “one of the greatest superhero movies of all time,” would be towering over the box office with ease in its second weekend of release.But in this universe, audiences are flat-out rejecting the Warner Bros. movie, starring Ezra Miller as the eponymous, timeline-spanning…
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Here’s What Ben Affleck Could Bring to the Dcu as a Director
The DC Extended Universe, along with its parent company, Warner Bros, experienced a tumultuous 2022, from canceled projects, mixed reception of tent-pole releases, notably Black Adam, and massive executive changeover. 2023 has fared even worse for the company, as both Shazam! Fury of the Gods and The Flash both greatly underperformed at the box office…