DC Films Boss Walter Hamada Has Departed Studio As Warner Discovery Finalizes Exit: The Dish deadline.com/2022/10/dc-fil…
After 15 years at Warner Bros and four as the president of DC Films, Walter Hamada has left the Burbank, CA lot. Sources tell Deadline the exec waits for the senior Warner Bros Discovery brass to finalize his exit payout deadline.com/2022/10/dc-fil…
Hamada has run DC since 2018, and re-upped in January 2021 with a contract that was supposed to take him through 2023 bit.ly/3eH80GH
All of this occurs as New Line’s DC movie #BlackAdam — on which Hamada is an EP — is tracking to open to a projected $135 million at the global box office this weekend bit.ly/3eH80GH
The writing has been on the wall for Hamada’s DC exit for quite some time, and sources said he has packed up his office and hasn’t been part of recent creative meetings bit.ly/3eH80GH
Hamada will be the fifth Warner Bros motion picture studio executive to leave since David Zaslav took the reins of the newly merged Warner Bros Discovery bit.ly/3eH80GH
Hamada shepherded ‘The Batman’ during a Covid shoot, and the film grossed $771 million worldwide bit.ly/3eH80GH
Hamada also was an EP and had his hands on two of DC’s highest-grossing movies, James Wan’s ‘Aquaman’ ($1.1 billion) and Todd Phillips’ ‘Joker,’ which won two Oscars and became the highest-grossing R-rated movie of all time at $1.07 billion bit.ly/3eH80GH
Hamada was offered but has turned down a producing deal. He was ready to bolt after WBD killed ‘Batgirl’ in postproduction as part of a pivot from the last regime’s plan to make moderately budgeted films for HBO Max deadline.com/2022/10/dc-fil…
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