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Dwayne Johnson on ‘Black Adam’ Sequel Being Dropped: “Got Caught in a Vortex of New Leadership”
Dwayne Johnson is opening up about what happened to the failed Black Adam sequel and how it got caught in a “web of new leadership” at Warner Bros. Discovery. While appearing on a recent episode of Kevin Hart’s Hart to Heart show, the actor talked about the character and film, which was a passion project for […]
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Zachary Levi Backs Report That Dwayne Johnson Nixed Post-Credit Scene in ‘Shazam! Fury of the Gods’
Zachary Levi was casting thunderbolts Tuesday, after a report circulated that Black Adam star Dwayne Johnson blocked characters from the Rock’s film showing up in a post-credits scene in Levi’s Shazam! Fury of the Gods. It was already known that members of Black Adam’s Justice Society of America were originally slated to appear in Fury […]
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‘Shazam! Fury of the Gods’ Post-Credits Scene Was Inspired by a Scrapped Villain Story
[This story contains spoilers for Shazam! Fury of the Gods.] If that final end-credits scene of Shazam! Fury of the Gods looked familiar, it was supposed to. After a long battle against the daughters of Atlas — Hespera (Helen Mirren), Kalypso (Lucy Liu) and Anthea (Rachel Zegler)— the DC sequel ends with Billy Batson (Asher Angel/Zachary […]
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A Candid Chat With Two Managers on Streaming Paychecks, Signings and Running a Boutique Firm
Mel McKeon and Laura Myones Ruf have been working side by side so long that it’s common they finish each other’s sentences. That comes in helpful, especially now, as the veteran talent managers have a lot to talk about. It’s been a year since the two, who started working together in 1997 with Myones starting […]
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Noah Centineo on ‘The Recruit,’ ‘Black Adam’ and His Journey From Teen Heartthrob to Action Star
[The following story includes spoilers for Netflix’s The Recruit.] Noah Centineo became the internet’s boyfriend in 2018 when he starred as the dreamy Peter Kavinsky in Netflix’s To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before. But Centineo’s career goes back much further than that. The actor has been in the industry since he had a role […]
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‘Black Adam 2’ Not Moving Forward as Part of New DC’s “First Chapter”
The hierarchy of power did change at DC, just not in the way Dwayne Johnson intended it. Black Adam, the DC superhero movie that Johnson starred in and produced, was to have launched a new franchise, but Johnson announced Tuesday that plans for a sequel were halted and will not be un-halted any time soon. […]
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New Line Picks Up Fantasy Pitch ‘Crescenthia’ from ‘Black Adam’ Producer Beau Flynn (Exclusive)
New Line has acquired the high-concept fantasy pitch Crescenthia from Beau Flynn, the producer of the company’s DC movie, Black Adam. Writing duo Alex Ankeles and Morgan Jurgenson are behind the project which Flynn will be producing through his FlynnPictureCo. Details are being kept secret but Crescenthia, which is a working title, is described as […]
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‘Black Panther: Wakanda Forever,’ ‘Black Adam’ Unlikely to Be Released in China (Exclusive)
Hollywood’s two biggest superhero movies of late 2022 — Disney’s Black Panther: Wakanda Forever and Warner Bros.’ Dwayne Johnson tentpole Black Adam — are expected to be blocked from release in China, as Beijing regulators continue to crack down on U.S. access to the world’s second-largest theatrical market. There is less on the line […]
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Box Office: ‘Black Adam’ Tops Another Slow Weekend With $18.5M Before ‘Black Panther 2’ Arrives
DC and Warner Bros.’ Black Adam stayed atop the weekend box office chart in its third outing with an estimated $18.5 million from 3,985 theaters for a domestic tally of $137.4 million through Sunday. Globally, the pic has jumped the $300 million mark. Black Adam also dominated overseas, earning another $25.4 million from 76 markets […]
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‘Black Adam’ Star Aldis Hodge Talks Superman Surprise, Reshoot Secrets and His New Take on Alex Cross
[This story contains spoilers for Black Adam.] Aldis Hodge’s bucket list has gotten much shorter in recent weeks. For nearly half of his 33-year career, Hodge has been trying to land a superhero role, and it finally came by way of Carter “Hawkman” Hall in Black Adam, the reigning number-one movie in the world. The […]
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Box Office: ‘Black Adam’ Leads So-So Halloween Weekend With $27.7M
DC and Warner Bros.’ Black Adam had no trouble topping the Halloween weekend box office, although the superhero pic dropped more than expected considering it had little competition. The film earned an estimated $27.7 million from 4,402 theaters in its second outing. That’s a drop of 59 percent, one of the bigger declines for a […]
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Startup BlueStar Investing $180M in New Atlanta Production Campus
BlueStar Studios — a business formed earlier this year that’s led by Rich Goldberg, a vet of companies such as Jaunt and DirecTV — unwrapped details of an ambitious plan to build a 53-acre production campus in Forest Park, Georgia, just outside Atlanta. The total investment is expected to be $180 million. Recent filming in […]
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