The Wall Street Journal just confirmed WBD is now scrapping the plan to have HBO Max Original DCEU films and are going to have the “Batgirl”, “Black Canary”, and at least “Static Shock” movies go theatrical just like the switch with “Blue Beetle”!!! :D They posted an interview with WBD’s new head David Zaslav as part of them having their Upfront today too. Posting the link in the comments so this goes in the tags and they talk about other things going on with the movies, TV shows, and everything WBD now owns both on streaming and regular cable. Also confirmed too they did indeed cancel the “Wonder Twins” movie too because they realized it wouldn’t be profitable, though still feel bad for the actors cast and hope they’re used in something else. So the projects made for HBO Max connecting to the DCEU/Reeves movies going forward will be TV shows only like “Peacemaker”, “The Penguin”, etc. I know this is what a lot of us wanted and a lot of these movies, especially “Batgirl” was originally supposed to be in theaters anyway. Also likely means “Batgirl” will be out around November/December of 2023 so waiting on that announcement now.

ETA: It’s now also been confirmed by The Hollywood Reporter, Variety, TVLine, and others.

In development since the early 2000s and formally announced in 2014, BLACK ADAM

is closer to the big screen with the release of its trailer.

With a release date of October, this film would go great with a chaser of Shazam! Fury of the Gods (release date December 16, 2022).

I didn’t see Marwan Kenzari (THE OLD GUARD, ALADDIN) in the teaser so I assumed his role is small. And who knows, maybe it is, but seeing him in Quintessa Swindell’s photo (Swindell with play Cyclone/Maxine Hunkel, granddaughter of Red Tornado), at least gives me hope that he has something substantive to do.

Pierce Brosnan, Noah Centineo, Allison Hodge and Kenzari.

OTHER WB/DC FILMS

-BATGIRL wrapped in April.

Leslie Grace and her directors Adil El Arbi and Bilail Fallah.

WhoseMS. MARVEL has dropped on Disney+

-Set photos of BLUE BEETLE’s Xolo Maridueña.

-New image from director Todd Philips showing us that the JOKER sequel is, in fact, no joke.

Could the title be a hint to the storyline?

-You won’t have The Wonder Twins to kick around anymore. The proposed HBO Max film that would have starred KJ Apa (RIVERDALE) and Isabel May (1883). The reason being, sources say, is that new leadership under the merged Warner Bros. Discovery feels that they should be theatrical first minded, also the budget expected to be too much for what was considered niche characters.

-We Need to Talk About KevinThe Flash.

Rumours was that WB leadership met to discuss their Ezra Miller problem in light of the actor’s very public and very asinine behaviour that has gotten Miller arrested and hit with a restraining order.

There is no way WB will digitally replace Miller as some people thought would be a solution. Time will tell if Miller can get it together a year from now in time for the press tour for the film so that they won’t be a massive embarrassment. And if Miller doesn’t get their act together, we’re dealing with the multiverse, baby. There are other Flashes in other timelines.

Listen to Home All Summer, the credits song from In the Heights written by Lin and performed by Anthony Ramos, Leslie Grace and Marc Anthony (!)

Lin speaks to the AV Club about creating more Latinx stars and waiting a year for the movie

The cast answers Lin’s question about their most exhausting moment on set.

In the Heights Is the Movie We All Need Right Now

When In the Heights premiered on Broadway in 2008, it became a guiding light for a generation of performers trying to find their way. “I must have watched it at least 15 times,” says Melissa Barrera of the four-time Tony-winning musical. “When I saw that show, I was like, ‘This is where I fit in on Broadway. These are people who look like me, who sound like me, who have names that sound like mine.’ ” The Mexican actress now costars in the show’s long-awaited feature film adaptation (in theaters and streaming on HBO Max on June 11) as Vanessa, an aspiring fashion designer yearning for a life outside of Washington Heights, the upper Manhattan neighborhood at the film’s center. Anthony Ramos, who stars as Usnavi, a bodega owner and neighborhood griot who, in between attempts to woo Vanessa, dreams of returning to the Dominican Republic, echoes the sentiment. “I didn’t know where I fit in on Broadway. I’m Latino, I’m from the hood in Brooklyn; people don’t even speak like me on Broadway. I ain’t gonna fit in on South Pacific. Who’s giving me a lead role on Broadway? [In the Heights] was like a beacon of hope for me.”

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Long before the sensation of Hamilton, Lin-Manuel Miranda created In the Heights (and originated the role of Usnavi) out of necessity. “I started writing [the] show because I desperately wanted a life in musical theater, and I didn’t see that many opportunities for me or for Latinx performers,” says Miranda, who is now a producer on the film. “We had West Side Story, which was back in the ’50s, and not that much new since then on the stage. The show came out of an impulse to create more opportunities for Latinx performers.” Crucially important in bringing the show to the screen was representing the breadth of the Latinx population. “The thing we tried really hard to do was cast with the understanding that the Latinx community is not a monolith. We come in all shades,” Miranda says. “We are Afro-Latinos, and lighter-skinned Latinos, and Latin Americans, and Central Americans. So the diversity within the film company really represents the many flavors that our community comes in. We’re very proud of that.”

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For those involved in the production, the film’s decade-long delays to bring those conversations to the screen have ultimately been for the better. “I think in a year where we’ve all been locked down and reminded about what is important, to put out a film where we are able to celebrate community and togetherness is something that feels really relevant,” Miranda says. “Sometimes I shiver when I think about previous versions of this film that were possible, because I feel like every detour, every setback, and every challenge this film has faced over the 10-plus years it’s taken to make it to the screen—it’s only made the movie better. It clarified for us what we wanted out of a big-screen adaptation of In the Heights.” For Ramos, the time for In the Heights to keep shining its light is just right. “I hope kids around the world, in Colombia, Peru, Uruguay, Paraguay, all these places where they’ve never seen this before, can watch this movie and be like, ‘Damn, hold up. Maybe I can do that.’ Because I know that’s what [it] did for me.”

‘Batgirl’ Officially Casts Ivory Aquino as First Trans Character in a DC Comics Feature Film

Ivory Aquino (“Tales of the City,” “When We Rise”) has been cast in the HBO Max feature film “Batgirl” as Alysia Yeoh, the best friend of the titular superhero, a.k.a. Barbara Gordon (Leslie Grace).

Both Aquino and Yeoh are transgender, marking the first time a live-action feature film adaptation of a DC Comics title will feature an openly trans character. Yeoh first appeared in a 2011 issue of “Batgirl” written by Gail Simone and penciled by Ardian Syaf.

News of Aquino’s casting first leaked online in mid-January after Grace posted a photo seemingly from the set of the film to her Instagram story, tagging Aquino and captioning the shot (of two women crossing the street) with “Barbara and Alysia ”.

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