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Pictured: The movie he's very proud of producing
Cant wait for the Teen Titans movie
David Ellison wants the Justice League back on the big screen as soon as possible, according to insiders.
Jeremy Latcham is expected to prioritize Wonder Woman, Green Lantern, The Flash and DC’s other heavyweights, focusing on big names over deep cuts.
lets go they are going to rush justice league again, they didnt learn anything https://www.thewrap.com/creative-content/movies/dc-studios-why-james-gunn-peter-safran-fired-jeremy-latcham/
I thought they were exaggerating about the memaw stuff. Nope .
https://variety.com/2026/film/news/jeremy-latcham-dc-studios-boss-1236943971/
cool, now the only thing that's left is to close a licensing deal with Marvel so that every new DC universe film can somehow feature Sabra as the moral center guiding our heroes
I’m actually so irritated because I’ve been pretty happy with the new stuff coming out for the DCU. Hate to see it get immediately cooked :(
What else was there? I watched Superman as my one movie for the year, I know Supergirl was supposedly shit, then I just kinda stopped hearing about DC for a while
i watched Supergirl. i thought it was fine. it wasn't a transformative revelation or anything, but it worked for what it was... a weird, but limited arc about a character few people are invested in. i think people were very keen to shit on it because girl, honestly.
anyway, Lanterns was probably the most recent DC release that had wide acclaim and was redeveloped after Gunn became a studio head. watching it was the moment that indicated to me DC was trying to change from that decade of Zac Snyder/Batffleck that steadily morphed into over-the-top-zany-chaos-whatever into storytelling using characters.
but i guess they want to just do Shazam Forever: A Warrior for Christ now, starring Zachary Levi with special guest AI Jordan Peterson and a special message for antivaxxers with a groupon for ivermectin.
Clayface, I think?
Also the peacemaker, lanterns, creature commandos tv shows
I thought we were just talking movies
The distinction has been blurred in recent years.
same
Oh good so we're replacing the cuck fetish with just not being able to make a movie.
With cbs, paramount, etc —do these weirdos still want to make money? Or is this all just vanity projects now… because how do they keep reading the room so incorrectly… DC cu is a dog—it’s pretty much just Batman and the Gunn movies that got any buzz, the rest are flops.
Maybe it’s a money laundering op.
The company, now called "Skydance", is owned by David Ellison. This is over the anti-Nazi and anti-genocide themes in Gunn's works.
Yeah I get that the ellisons want to reshape these services and punish those they see as critical of isreal, so I suppose to them it’s ok for it to be a loss financially, but like with oracle going out on a limb with AI debt and their essential destruction of CBS news as any kind of new source, like at what point do they not start circling the drain with this stuff. I hate capeshit movies at this point, but even I know that marvel has consistently eaten DCs lunch with the movies. The James Gunn ones (I think I watched suicide squad 2 and Superman on flights) were at least watchable and seemed to be moderately successful after their post Nolan/dark knight overcorrection into the “gritty comic” Zach synder era of garbage…
Here's a priceless analysis by Bryan Cantrill on Oracle and Larry.
What makes like worth living is the fact that stereotypes aren't true. It's the complexity of life! As you know people, as you learn about things, you realize that these generalizations we have, virtually to a generalization, are false. Except for this one, as it turns out. What you think of Oracle, is even truer than you think it is. There has been no entity in human history with less complexity or nuance to it than Oracle. And I gotta say, as someone who has seen that complexity for my entire life, it's very hard to get used to that idea. It's like, "surely this is more complicated!" Like, wow, this is really simple! This company is very straightforward, in its defense. This company is about one man, his alter-ego, and what he wants to inflict upon humanity. That's it! [... Oracle is] like, you know, "Ship mediocrity, inflict misery, lie our asses off, screw our customers, and make a whole shitload of money!" Yeah.
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I'm holding back here! I'm holding back! There are things I'm not saying! [...] you talk to Oracle, it's like, "no, we don't fucking make dreams happen! We make money!"
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When I looked at the philanthropic work of Larry Ellison [... He] has been involved in two philanthropic organizations. First he made a $500 (or $300) million donation to Stanford. Oh that sounds good! I'm not sure they need it but ok. In exchange for not admitting wrongdoing in an options backdating scandal. You stay classy! You stay classy. Ok so there's that. And then there's this. This is not a joke. Literally other philanthropic work is to the Larry Ellison Institute for the Prolong of Life. Namely his.
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By the way, and I've already fallen into this trap here, do not fall into the trap of anthropomorphizing Larry Ellison. You need to think of Larry Ellison the way you think of a lawnmower. You don't anthropomorphize your lawnmower, the lawnmower just mows the lawn, you stick your hand in there and it'll chop it off, the end. You don't think "oh, the lawnmower hates me!" Lawnmower doesn't give a shit about you, lawnmower can't hate you. Don't anthropomorphize the lawnmower. Don't fall into that trap about Oracle. In particular with OpenSolaris, "Oh they wanted to kill OpenSolaris!" No! The Lawnmower doesn't care about OpenSolaris! The Lawnmower doesn't think about OpenSolaris. The Lawnmower can't care about OpenSolaris. The Lawnmower can't have empathy.
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The question isn't so much the sacking of Gunn as it is about the replacement.
the Evangelical Christian Cinematic Universe is generally regarded as an untapped market by these people. there is a whole demographic of households that can only watch The Hallmark Channel, listen to "Christian" labeled music, and content from the Angel Network family. they don't watch anything mainstream, because it might have LGBTQ content, deny Christ, or portray an interracial relationship not being lead by a strong, white, male head of household.
the production companies that do cater to these people can churn out literal garbage and they retain a captive audience no matter how piss poor the production and final products are.
i think its a miscalculation on their part to expand the platform from its highly profitable, concentrated niche into major networks and IP. they don't have the audience to sustain a more broad landscape. however, media companies are a bit of a vanity asset anyway for the megarich. if they can get it to break even operationally, there's the intangible value of exerting control over what people see and hear, from cultural products to direct propaganda.
there is a whole demographic of households that can only watch The Hallmark Channel, listen to "Christian" labeled music, and content from the Angel Network family.
You forgot about Pure Flix, now branded as Great American Pure Flix because it wasn't jingoistic enough before.
i am excited to subscribe and get a sneak peek at the latest Jim Caviezel project, Hitler Christ: The Prophecy Codex.
i think its money laundering + propaganda wrapped into a nice little present
