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If we’re going to praise the visual rapture of Denis Villeneuve’s “Dune” movies—and we should—and in particular, the newly released “Dune: Part Two,” there’s no conversation that can happen without mention of Academy Award-winning cinematographer Greig Fraser, who won his first Oscar for “Dune” in 2022. READ MORE: Denis Villeneuve Calls ‘Dune: Part Two’ A “Dark Tragedy,” Talks Potential ‘Messiah’ Sequel & More [Interview] While “Dune: Part Two” is genuinely unanimously praised by critics (read our review here)—and this weekend, it grossed $178.5 million worldwide, and with $81 domestic, that’s the biggest opening since “Barbie”— it does have a small group of detractors.

The Batman’s first spin-off series The Penguin is set to debut later this year.Created by Lauren LeFranc (Impulse), the series sees Colin Farrell reprise his role as Oswald Cobblepot aka the Penguin, and follows the character’s rise to power in Gotham City’s criminal underworld.The show takes place one week after events in 2022’s The Batman directed by Matt Reeves, who serves as a producer on the spin-off series.Other confirmed cast members include Cristin Milioti as Sofia Falcone, Clancy Brown as Salvatore Maroni, Michael Zegen as Alberto Falcone and Michael Kelly as Johnny Vitti.While nothing has been confirmed, there’s every possibility that Batman will make an appearance in the series.As a continuation from The Batman, it’s likely this series will tee up events for the upcoming sequel, The Batman Part 2 – which is scheduled to be released on October 2, 2026. As such, it makes sense for Robert Pattinson to make some kind of fleeting appearance to drive excitement, whether as Batman or as Bruce Wayne.There’s a chance other characters from the original film could make guest appearances too, including Zoe Kravitz’ Catwoman and Jeffrey Wright’s James Gordon.Max released a trailer for the series in March – check it out above.This isn’t the only spin-off show in the pipeline, with a series about Arkham Asylum also in development from The Staircase showrunner Antonio Campos.In a four-star review of The Batman, NME wrote: “Director Matt Reeves has mixed up gritty mob drama with film-noir detective thriller – and thanks to Dano’s ultra-creepy villain, some psychological horror too.

Though many critics thought another Batman reboot would be overkill, filmmaker Matt Reeves largely silenced early detractors with his moody and atmospheric “The Batman” (2022), which starred Robert Pattinson. As we eagerly await “The Batman—Part II,” Reeves willflesh out his vision for Gotham City with “The Batman” spinoff series “The Penguin.” Focusing on the crime villain Oswald Copplepot, aka The Penguin (played by Colin Farrell), the series is set in the aftermath of a power vacuum in the crime-ridden megalopolis of Gotham created by the death of crime boss Carmine Falcone (played by John Turturro in Reeves’ first film).

Jake Gyllenhaal has revealed that he would love to play Batman if he were given the opportunity.As James Gunn‘s DC Universe begins to shape up, more roles in the superhero world are being cast, including Superman, Supergirl and Lex Luthor. However, one hero that has yet to be cast is Batman/Bruce Wayne.A perennial contender to play Batman whenever the role opens up, Jake Gyllenhaal was recently asked about potentially starring in Gunn’s DC Universe as the Caped Crusader. Gyllenhaal said to Screen Rant: “Oh, man.

The Batman franchise won’t be released anytime soon after a new release date is announced.The sequel to Matt Reeves’ movie starring Robert Pattinson as the winged DC superhero was announced at CinemaCon in April 2022, with Mattson Tomlin to co-write with Reeves. It was then announced in January 2023 that the movie was set to be released October 3 2024.However, delays reportedly caused by last year’s SAG-AFTRA and WGA strikes have meant that the movie won’t be hitting screens until October 2 2026, pushing its release back a whole year.The first movie in Reeves’ iteration of Gotham’s superhero was a success, receiving generally positive reviews and making more than £601million ($770million) at the box office, becoming the seventh-highest-grossing film of 2022.With an ensemble cast including Zoë Kravitz, Paul Dano and Jeffrey Wright, it was nominated for three Academy Awards, including for Best Visual Effects.In a four-star-review of The Batman, NME wrote: “Director Matt Reeves has mixed up gritty mob drama with film-noir detective thriller – and thanks to Dano’s ultra-creepy villain, some psychological horror too.

Initially scheduled for fall 2025, writer/director Matt Reeves’ “The Batman” sequel, tentatively known as “The Batman – Part II,” has been delayed an entire year. Once set for October 3, 2025, Warner Bros.

“Superhero fatigue” is the buzzword that keeps on giving this week. We’ve seen superhero movies dominate for over a decade, but 2023 saw all studios taking it in the teeth, even the previously unassailable Marvel Studios.

Barry Keoghan will return as the Joker in The Batman: Part II, the Irish actor has seemingly confirmed.The Saltburn star’s appearance as the iconic Gotham villain was teased in the first instalment – which starred Robert Pattinson as Bruce Wayne/Batman – but he didn’t actually feature in the final cut.Instead, Keoghan’s Joker appeared in a 5-minute deleted scene that was released online. Director Matt Reeves later explained that the cameo was surplus to requirements due to it being too similar to a scene with the Riddler.

Matt Reeves seems to have successfully rebooted the Caped Crusader in his 2022 film, “The Batman.” The popularity of that film, both commercially and critically, has led to the filmmaker working on several spinoffs. But according to James Gunn, the co-CEO of DC Studios, not everything Reeves is working on, in terms of superheroes, exists only within “The Batman” universe.

The Batman.Keoghan revealed in October last year that he had first auditioned for Riddler, sending director Matt Reeves an “unsolicited” recording of himself to campaign for the role. The audition clip – which he shared online and can be seen below – instead landed him the role of the Joker once Paul Dano was named the Riddler.Now watch @BarryKeoghan's audition for Matt Reeves' The Batman. This one got him the role of Joker.

The Batman movie.Director Matt Reeves opened up about Dano’s perfectionism in an interview with The Guardian and noted how Dano did multiple takes for his character – The Riddler – and his final confrontation with Batman in the movie.He said Dano took two days and a huge number of takes to get the scene with Batman/Bruce Wayne, played by Robert Pattinson, just right.Reeves told The Guardian: “Paul loves doing a lot of takes, as do I. We took two days on the final scene between him and Robert Pattinson as Batman.

If you’re anything of a film-gear head or even just have a passing understanding of VFX—bluescreen, greenscreen, etc.—you probably have a basic understanding of the Volume.  The use of the Volume is pretty prevalent these days, and it’s used a lot, but it first came to light to the public and those who write about movies with the ”Star Wars” series, “The Mandalorian” because the Lucasfilm series was basically the first production to use it.

British actor Nicholas Hoult (“The Great”) is no stranger to studio blockbusters playing a young version of Beast in the popular “X-Men” franchise and had a standout but one-off role in George Miller’s acclaimed “Mad Max: Fury Road.” Hoult, doing press rounds to promote “Renfield,” is now speaking to The Guardian (via Variety) about his recent run of high-profile acting opportunities that he’s missed out on.

At the end of Matt Reeve‘s ‘The Batman,’ Carmine Falcone’s death leaves the Gotham underworld without a kingpin. And as far as Colin Farrell‘s Oswald Copplepot is concerned, that position is his for the taking.

Filming on “The Penguin,” HBO Max‘s first series spinoff of Matt Reeves‘ “The Batman” got underway in New York City last month, with set footage of star Colin Farrell back in full Oz makeup on the street making the rounds online. The series focuses on the power vacuum in Gotham’s criminal underworld after the events of Reeves’ film and The Penguin’s rise to power.

For many people, if they are asked who the greatest living cinematographer is in all of film, the name that immediately comes to mind would likely be Roger Deakins. He’s been nominated for 15 Oscars (winning two) and is responsible for the camera work in a number of iconic films.

The Batman 2 is due to start filming within the year.The Matt Reeves-directed follow-up to 2021’s revamp of the Batman franchise is due to be one of the first films to make up the new DC Elseworlds franchise. And, given the success of the first film, it seems that DC Studios is keen to get production rolling on its follow-up.And now, one of the film’s production team has given an update as to when Robert Pattinson will be suiting up to bring back his haunted version of Bruce Wayne.

I know this isn’t a shock to say, but superhero film fans can be very reactionary. After the huge success of Matt Reeves’ “The Batman” last year, fans were anxiously awaiting confirmation that a sequel was getting made.

This week will be a deluge of guild and craft organization awards announcements. The Art Directors Guild revealed their nominees for their 2023 ADG Awards and there were genuinely few surprises.

With all the current upheaval at DC Studios, it feels as if there’s only one sure thing for the DCU in the years ahead: Matt Reeves‘ “The Batman” films and their HBO Max spinoff shows. Don’t expect Reeves’ sequel to last year’s hit for a few years, but “The Penguin” with Colin Farrell enters production next month.

Music! It is the beating soul beneath a film’s imagery, visuals, and performance. And one of the things we love most about writing about the Best Scores & Soundtracks of the year, in this case, 2022, is how it just makes us understand a film all over again on a deeper, more intuitive-level, especially when you’re just listening to a score or soundtrack on its own, without the context of a movie, and it’s just communicating so much to you.

We all love actors, directors, music, and all of it, but cinema is obviously a visual medium first and foremost, and boy, do we love a handsome, nice-to-look-at picture. Cinematography usually gets turned into “pretty pictures,” what is the most colorful, the most sun-dappled, etc.

UPDATE: James Gunn and Matt Reeves have denied the rumors about integrating “The Batman” into the DCU, calling it “entirely untrue.” You can see his tweet after the original story below… What the hell is going on over at DC Studios? That’s the question on superhero film fans’ minds as we see the beginning stages of James Gunn and Peter Safran’s reign over the DCU.

What the hell is going on over at DC Studios? That’s the question on superhero film fans’ minds, as we see the beginning stages of James Gunn and Peter Safran’s reign over the DCU. That question has been amplified by the recent news that Patty Jenkins is no longer making “Wonder Woman 3” and apparently, there is a not-so-small chance that the entirety of the DCU could be facing a reboot.

As we close the chapter on another year in film, it’s hard not to recognize just how omnipresent the superhero film genre has become. Sure, it’s been growing steadily over the past decade, but 2022, despite a couple of years of COVID slowdowns, has been the biggest year yet for the genre, especially when you consider the huge number of projects arriving on TV screens.

As we close the chapter on another year in film, it’s hard not to recognize just how omnipresent the superhero film genre has become. Sure, it’s been growing steadily over the past decade, but 2022, despite a couple of years of COVID slowdowns, has been the biggest year yet for the genre, especially when you consider the huge number of projects arriving on TV screens.

2022 was a generous year for movie lovers: a new Sight and Sound list was released to stir the pot about the greatest 100 films of all time; film festivals around the world returned to in-person experiences; even the whimsical gibberish from Nicole Kidman and AMC Theaters about going to see a movie gave us something to bond over as things adjusted to a strange but safer normal.  READ MORE: The 100 Most Anticipated Films Of 2023 It was a year of cinematic memoirs, with Steven Spielberg, Alejandro G.

It’s only been two weeks since James Gunn and Peter Safran took over as co-CEOs of DC Studios. However, it would appear the duo has been very busy over that time, according to the CEO of Warner Bros.

Andy Serkis has had a busy 2022 this year with supporting roles as Alfred in Matt Reeves‘ “The Batman” and inmate Kino Loy in “Andor,” airing on Disney+ now. But thanks to those gigs, Serkis had to leave behind some other projects he was involved in, like the “Venom” franchise, which he directed the second installment of last year.

In the wake of the formation of DC Studios by Warner Bros. Discovery, Matt Reeves continues to forge on, expanding his own cinematic universe spun off from the hit feature film, “The Batman.” Multiple HBO Max shows and a second movie is on the horizon.

Well before the release of March’s “The Batman,” which went on to become a critical hit and box office force when it hit theaters, Warner Bros. was already deep into development on multiple TV spinoffs of the superhero reboot film.

Following the breaking news that James Gunn and Peter Safran have been tapped to oversee the newly branded DC Studios, the good DC news keeps coming. Director/producer Matt Reeves’ corner of the DC Universe—“The Batman”—is still expanding and multiple HBO Max shows, such as Colin Farrell’s “Penguin,” are already in the works.

When it was announced that Paul Dano was going to play The Riddler in “The Batman,” fans were surprised but excited. Dano doesn’t strike people as the type of actor who would go for a big franchise superhero film, but when you see him, you can fully understand why he was chosen for the role.

While “Black Adam” is on the horizon, “Joker 2” is putting a cast together, and a sequel to “The Batman” is in the early development stages, there is still some mystery about where things will be going next for DC Films. A rather large update has been dropped today, giving us a small idea of what else could be coming, such as a mystery film from James Gunn (“The Suicide Squad,” “Peacemaker”) and a sequel to “Man of Steel,” with Henry Cavill reprising the Superman role.

Penguin spin-off series.In a recent interview with ExtraTV, the actor revealed that the new show will pick up a week after the events of The Batman, which saw Gotham City flooded following a terrorist attack plotted by the Riddler.“[The Penguin series] starts about a week after The Batman ends, so Gotham is still somewhat underwater,” said Farrell.He then detailed the very first scene of the series, saying: “I read the first script for the first episode and it opens up with my feet splashing through the water in Falcone’s office. Even just that alone when I read it, I thought, “Oh jeeze!”.“It’s lovely,” he continued.

What’s in store for the DC Universe? Well, while Warner Bros. Discovery canceled projects like “Batgirl” and “Wonder Twins,” and many worried about the state of dozens of projects still in development, filmmaker Matt Reeves’ take on the “Batman” universe is still moving forward unbothered.