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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Actress Anna Faris has claimed that the late director Ivan Reitman inappropriately touched her on the set of their 2006 rom-com ‘My Super Ex Girlfriend’ deadline.com/2022/10/anna-f…
Speaking on her podcast Unqualified, the actress disclosed that Reitman “slapped my ass” during the production and on her first day “yelled” at her, leaving her feeling “angry, hurt and humiliated” deadline.com/2022/10/anna-f…
“I was doing a scene where I was on a ladder and I was supposed to be taking books off a shelf and he slapped my a– in front of the crew so hard. And all I could do was giggle.” Faris said she didn’t know how to react, so humor was a defence mechanism deadline.com/2022/10/anna-f…
Speculation has been growing that Sacha Baron Cohen has entered the MCU with a role in Marvel Studios’ upcoming Disney+ series #Ironheart as a comic book villain deadline.com/2022/10/sacha-…
A source close to the production confirmed to Deadline that there has been talk on the set about Cohen being part of #Ironheart, possibly playing Mephisto bit.ly/3s3BEJa
Like with any major Marvel characters, word is that Cohen would appear in other projects. If the Mephisto alter ego is confirmed, that could include the upcoming #WandaVision spinoff ‘Agatha: Coven of Chaos’ bit.ly/3s3BEJa
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TikTokers, the next generation of TV creators
The company has launched a Creator Accelerator that features 11 social media creators. The creators, who have over 10M followers on social media, have signed development deals with Universal Studio Group to create original series as part of the program bit.ly/3yN5TIf
Harrison Ford Set As General Thaddeus “Thunderbolt” Ross For ‘Captain America: New World Order’, Will Star Opposite Anthony Mackie deadline.com/2022/10/harris…
He’ll star there opposite Anthony Mackie, with Shira Haas, Tim Blake Nelson and Carl Lumbly also amongst the ensemble deadline.com/2022/10/harris…
Ford’s General Ross is a top-ranking military official, first introduced in the Marvel comics in 1997, who comes to lead the team of anti-heroes known as the Thunderbolts bit.ly/3Tuj7kO