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posting a series of images to Instagram, including a red script cover with the title “Joker: Folie à Deux,” as well as a shot of Oscar-winning franchise star Joaquin Phoenix smoking while reading the screenplay. The script cover lists the writers as Phillips and Scott Silver, who both penned the first installment.The official Warner Bros.

shed more than a few tears leading up to the final episode of her eponymous talk show.But her last dance on Thursday, May 26, will be an especially “emotional” one, an insider who was at the taping has told The Post.In her remaining weeks after nearly two decades on air, she’s welcomed some final face time with a procession of A-list guests including Oprah Winfrey, Justin Timberlake, just-anointed “Saturday Night Live” alum Kate McKinnon, Michelle Obama, Sean “Diddy” Combs, potty-mouthed Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Kevin Hart, Chelsea Handler and Michael B. Jordan, among others.But the show source said her tears have been “happy” ones untinged by bitterness or regret, despite the heavy cloud hanging over her since allegations of a “toxic” work environment first cast a pall over her “be kind” brand.

was drastically cut back after her ex-husband Johnny Depp launched a smear campaign against her by saying she lied about abuse allegations.But in a new blow for the actress, the high-powered head of DC Films testified Tuesday that the star’s role in the big-budget flick was in no way impacted by innuendo surrounding her tumultuous marriage to Depp. Walter Hamada made the claim via video link at the former couple’s blockbuster defamation trial in Virginia.

When it comes to comic book cinema, it’s the MCU’s world, and everyone else just lives there. Actually, you could say the same thing about cinema in general right now, to this writer’s dismay.

In news that won’t be much of a surprise to anyone, today, at CinemaCon, Warner Bros. chief Toby Emmerich announced a sequel to Matt Reeves’ successful “The Batman” is in the works with Robert Pattinson in the lead once more.

Warner Bros. has been developing an animated feature film based on the beloved monster-hit video game “Minecraft” for ages and it looks like the studio is ready to get things going sooner rather than later.

It is looking like the “Fantastic Beasts” movies are putting Warner Bros. in a difficult position.

Well, it’s getting to be that time of year again: the bi-yearly-ish shake-up of DC Entertainment at Warner Bros. which has happened several times over the years now ever since the franchise spun out early following the disappointing release of “Batman Vs.

It is looking like the “Fantastic Beasts” movies are putting Warner Bros. in a difficult position.

upcoming WB film adaption of the DC superhero.Miller, 29, who identifies as nonbinary and uses they/them pronouns, has caught fire from Warner Bros. studio heads after they were arrested on March 28 in Hawaii for disorderly conduct and harassment.Gustin, 32, has portrayed Barry Allen/The Flash on the CW series of the same name since 2014, and the show was recently renewed for a ninth season.

After several recent incidents and allegations of aggression and violence, including a very recent arrest in Hawaii, it appears that Ezra Miller (“Justice League,” the “Fantastic Beasts” franchise) may have finally gone too far for Warner Bros., the studio he is currently working for, who is finally considering some action against him. A new bombshell piece from Rolling Stone reveals that soon after the actor’s arrest Warner Bros.

Warner Bros. has been all-in with actor Ezra Miller.

It’s hard to avoid social media posts and comments from “Harry Potter” and “Fantastic Beasts” creator J.K. Rowling that are a not so veiled attempt to belittle the trans community.

If you haven’t been paying attention to the early weekend box office estimates, it would appear Matt Reeves’ “The Batman” is a massive hit. Domestically, the film has already earned $128 million and worldwide, the superhero feature is right under $250 million.

Warner Bros’ “The Batman” from director Matt Reeves is a bonafide hit: a $125 million opening weekend—the second-biggest domestic box office opening since 2019 — and an additional $120 million overseas for a global debut of $249 million. Not bad for a three-hour superhero movie that skews adult, isn’t four-quadrant kid-friendly, and comes out still in an era when the pandemic still affects theatergoing.

according to Deadline. The details-scarce project has allegedly “long been in the works at Warner Bros.,” according to the outlet, which also noted that the film is currently in a pre-script stage.“Beetlejuice” — which starred Michael Keaton as the titular ghoul who had several misadventures with a recently deceased young couple, played by Geena Davis and Alec Baldwin — grossed $73 million worldwide in its opening year, according to Box Office Mojo, and fittingly took home an Oscar for best makeup and hairstyling in 1989.

Since it started in 2016, critical praise for the “Fantastic Beasts” series hasn’t panned out exactly as Warner Bros. anticipated.

The always prodigious Steven Spielberg just released his first musical, “West Side Story,” in December, is already done shooting his next film (“Meet The Fabelman”), and already has many future projects brewing. One of those potential films may allow the filmmaker to tackle crime in San Francisco during the swinging 1960s, placing Spielberg directly in the cop action genre.

Yesterday, news broke that production company, Village Roadshow, had filed a lawsuit against Warner Bros. over the release of “The Matrix Resurrections.” The bulk of the suit is about how Village Roadshow believes WB sabotaged the release of ‘Resurrections’ by having it debut in theaters and on HBO Max at the same time, leading to low box office grosses.

reported was filed at the Los Angeles Superior Court Monday. In fact, Warner Media ordered its entire 2021 roster to be released on their sister platform HBO Max, while moving up the release date for “The Matrix Resurrections” from its originally scheduled 2022 premiere to December 2021, attorneys for Village Roadshow claimed in the filing.“WB’s sole purpose in moving the release date of ‘The Matrix Resurrections’ forward was to create a desperately needed wave of year-end HBO Max premium subscriptions from what it knew would be a blockbuster film, despite knowing full well that it would decimate the film’s box office revenue and deprive Village Roadshow of any economic upside that WB and its affiliates would enjoy,” the suit stated.Village Roadshow also claims to be the victim of “rampant piracy” facilitated by the streaming release, adding that Warner Bros.

When you look at the history of the “Matrix” franchise after the release of “The Matrix Revolutions” in 2003, there are several starts and stops where Warner Bros. was reportedly actively developing a new reboot/sequel of the franchise with an all-new cast and crew.

EA’s director of product marketing from 2000-2003 has revealed details on why a Harry Potter MMO was cancelled.In an interview with Twitch Streamer The Real Brondolorian, as reported by Eurogamer, Kim Salzer, an ex-EA employee, was asked about a game that was never released.

2021 has been a year of experimentation for Warner Bros. and HBO Max.

HBO Max‘s first-look teaser for the much-anticipated “Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts.”The preview, which aired Sunday night on TBS and Cartoon Network following the “Harry Potter: Hogwarts Tournament of Houses,” featured appearances from Robbie Coltrane (who played Hagrid), Matthew Lewis (Neville Longbottom) and Mark Williams (Arthur Weasley). The retrospective event premieres Jan.

Mortal Kombat Ed Boon has taken to Twitter to pen a lighthearted response to Keanu Reeves’ statement that some of his characters shouldn’t appear in the series. For the unaware, Reeves recently did an interview with Esquire where he was asked if Neo from The Matrix or the eponymous John Wick would make an appearance in the fighting game series.“If it was up to me? No.

Ok, so today we learned Jane Campion will never take on a superhero film because she “actually hates” them. But that doesn’t mean that every auteur filmmaker is anti-superhero, right? To serve as the yin to Campion’s yang, we have Pedro Almodóvar, who spoke to Variety and gave a very different answer.

With a seemingly new take on Superman coming from producer J.J. Abrams and writer Ta-Nahesi Coates, along with the announcement of a Michael B.

accused him of abusing women on the show — and insisted they fired her following multiple complaints about her own behavior.Rose accused Scott, who played her on-screen father, of hurting a female stunt double, yelling “like a little b—h at women,” coming and going as he pleased on the set and abusing women.“Dougray hurt a female stunt double, he yelled like a little b—h at women and was a nightmare,” the 35-year-old Australian actress posted in an Instagram story.

Late last year, before the release of Warner Bros.’ “Wonder Woman 1984,” WarnerMedia announced that all of WB’s 2021 films would have a day-and-date release in theaters and on HBO Max. The news sent shockwaves through the film industry, including the filmmakers that were directly affected, as the studio failed to tell them beforehand.

New Line Cinema and Warner Bros. finally brought the “Mortal Kombat” franchise back to the big screen with a hard-reboot produced by James Wan and director Simon McQuoid.

Obviously, when it comes to the spectrum of how people feel about day-and-date releases of feature films on streaming platforms and in theaters, folks like the CEO of IMAX are going to be on the side of exclusive theatrical windows. But one of the main ways he defends this stance, in a recent interview with Puck, is by pointing out the record levels of piracy that have been seen after Warner Bros.

Australia is undergoing something they somewhat avoided last year, the pandemic hurting the entertainment industry in a major way compared to other nations.

One of the early elements reported on Lana Wachowski’s “The Matrix Resurrections” was that the film would see an actor play a “Morpheus-type role” in the fourth installment and when Warner Bros. cast Yahya Abdul-Mateen II (“Watchmen,” ‘Aquaman,” “Candyman”) in the role, it felt like he ultimately was replacing Lawrence Fishburne.

While it’s not a spoiler, by any stretch of the imagination, folks shouldn’t be surprised when they see the title card for “Dune” calling the film “Part One.” From the get-go, film fans have known that filmmaker Denis Villeneuve was splitting Frank Herbert’s epic sci-fi novel into two parts. And it was assumed, by Villeneuve and fans, that Warner Bros.

Even though it was more than two decades ago, “The Matrix” used the internet in its marketing campaign in a pretty effective way, especially given that the internet was still in its relative infancy. And it appears Warner Bros.

What if your imaginary friend was real? And what if that real imaginary friend is evil? That’s the basic idea behind James Wan’s new horror film, “Malignant.” READ MORE: Fall 2021 Movie Preview: 60+ Must-See Films As seen in the new trailer for the feature, “Malignant” follows the story of a woman that grew up dealing with her traumatic early childhood with the help of her imaginary friend, Gabriel.