On the weekend, new DC Studios Superman Features became the third largest box office debut in the United States this year. The film’s success shows that, given the studio’s new film universe adapted by DC Comics for large screens, dramatists may not actually be as tired of superheroes as people tend to imagine. But making the interconnected movie franchise work easier is harder to say. even though Superman In coming up with the numbers, DC may be hard to do the same time in the next few cape movies.
Although not Minecraft Movies‘sand Lilo & StitchDomestic opening weekend, Superman The international box office of the state-owned $125 million is another $95 million, making WB’s most powerful superhero debut since Matt Reeves Batman In 2022. You can see these numbers reflected in huge numbers Superman Since the movie’s first premiere, the hype (some of which are weird and rough) has surpassed social media. because SupermanThe success of DC Studios co-CEO James Gunn is reportedly considering several spin-off series around Edi Gathegi’s Trarific Mister and Skyler Gisondo’s Jimmy Olsen. But before achieving that, the studio first had to sell its two large tentacle functions below the public: Craig Gillespie’s Super girl With James Watkins Clay surface.
After the disaster known as DCEU, WB is desperate for a new beginning and has a vision for how it can use DC characters in a way that audiences really like. This requires creating DC Studios with Gunn and Co-Ceo Peter Safran to guide the entire effort. Although Gunn worked on previous DC projects, his appointment to DC Studios felt like a power move by WB, expressing his desire to oppose Marvel’s box office advantage. Although Gunn wants to launch his new DC universe with animations seems a bit strange Biological Commando (HBO) Max’s streaming series is easy to understand the logic at the core of his plan to make the new Superman franchise.
Superman has always been the backbone of the DC Comics brand and embodies most of the content that makes the company’s character fascinating. In a universe full of gods, alien monsters and superparty, Superman represents the best of hope and humanity. He is a near-attractive power, but he is also just a fool from Kansas, who loves his family and believes in the importance of journalism. He has a bunch of super friends, but he also has big beef with billionaires’ beef, who can’t revolve around the concept that immigration is someone who makes a valuable contribution to society.
Those basic beats have been defined Superman Since the character first appeared in 1938, the story has been part of what makes Gunn’s new film so good because it weaves all of these ideas into a colorful, optimistic Joyride that feels not like the rest of WB’s recent experience with Man of Steel Man.
Some of them SupermanHis success can also be attributed to the basic fact that he is a character most people are familiar with, a film acknowledged by covering up Clark Kent’s tragic backstory and sending you into his life as an established superhero. But, for Superman’s cousin, Cara/Super Girl and B-Tier Batman Clayface can’t say exactly the same thing.
Thanks to CBS Super girl and HBO Max Harley Quinn In recent years, the animation series Kara and Clayface have had big shows on small screens. However, the character’s profile is always lower compared to other DC’s heroes and villains. Watch through one lens, DC Studios follow Superman and Super girl and Clay surface Reading is a computed move to avoid avoiding in the examples of MCU and DCEU, both focusing on a range of features that look at the A-list characters you see on lunch boxes and book bags. But, at least on paper, the upcoming features are also incorporated into habits in the way of studios like Marvel and Disney to expand their own genre franchise and viewed as a spin-off of badly conceived works.
This is the general atmosphere you get from the DC Studio project you are currently developing The real detective– HBO Max-style green lantern performance, and features about Bane and Deathstroke. sequel Batman – Precedeed by DCU and exists with its own continuity – will also be launched in 2027. At some point, the studio intends to introduce a New Bruce Wayne will probably be linked to Superman and Wonder Woman (whose reboot is also in the pipeline) to form some kind of Justice League.
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Most of DC Studios’ distant films and series feel like a variety of projects you want the studio to lead – stories with instantly recognizable characters whose stories are well known to make viewers curious and excited and excited about how to do differently. Milly Alcock’s Supergirl Superman Came as a guest, seems more suitable for maintaining the current momentum of the franchise. But given that we were in the early days of this DCU, it was like Clay surfaceAbout an actor who becomes a murderous mud monster, it feels like a tougher sell (even if Mike Flanagan is writing the script).
It’s easy to imagine Super girl and Clay surface Revealing the more tired the audience is not the comic-inspired narrative, but the huge, interconnected franchise is more concerned with growth than composed of good movies. This energy is what drags the MCU into its era of failure and makes most of Disney plus’ Star Wars The series of slogans can be passed, and DC Studios obviously doesn’t want to end in a similar position. Turning Clark’s cousin and the little-known DC villain into a box office Swordsman could be a bigger challenge – but Superman At least it shows that Gunn and Safran know where to start. And if the studio plays the cards correctly, then this is indeed the beginning of a new golden age of DC.
