Are James Gunn and Warner Bros. determined to sink Superman? You’d be forgiven if you thought so by looking at the flat-out weird marketing campaign for the upcoming film, the first in Gunn and Peter Safran’s DCU. The trailers, posters, interviews, and behind-the-scenes videos were largely bland...
Read MoreOne of the most ridiculed scenes in the Superman advertising campaign is no longer in the movie. At the end of the first Superman TV spot, there’s a shot of David Corenswet’s Superman flying towards the screen. You probably remember it because it was everywhere after that commercial hit the i...
Read MoreDid Superman tell a super fib about his box office prospects? A month ago, James Gunn’s upcoming superhero film, the first in his and DC Studios co-CEO Peter Safran’s new DCU, was tracking to make up to $175 million domestically in its opening weekend, a terrific number that would have put the m...
Read MoreHowever his Superman turns out, James Gunn at least understands why movies are so bad right now… or part of why, at least. In an interview with Rolling Stone to promote the film, the interviewer asked Gunn whether a movie getting a release date before the script is written is a problem, which is...
Read MoreDid you always want a concrete, overexplained reason why nobody recognizes Clark Kent as Superman due to a mere pair of glasses? Apparently, James Gunn’s got you covered. In an interview with Rolling Stone in the lead-up to the debut of his upcoming film Superman, Gunn talked about his aversion t...
Read MoreWarner Bros. wants moviegoers to look up in the sky one more time before they look up at movie screens. Today, the studio released the final trailer for Superman, James Gunn’s opening salvo (cinematically speaking, anyway) in his and Peter Safran’s DCU. While the plot has largely been kept under...
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