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Promising Young Woman’s Emerald Fennell Tapped to Write Zatanna

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Zatanna is the next DC Comics hero to get a big-screen adaptation. Emerald Fennell has been hired to write the adaptation. Fennell is the Oscar-nominated director of Promising Young Women.

Zatanna comes from Warner Bros.’ DC Films and J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot Productions and is to be released in theaters.

The is Zatanna’s first big screen appearance but the character has appeared in numerous animated releases from Warner Bros. and DC. The character also appeared on Smallville on The CW played by Serinda Swan.

Created by Gardner Fox and Murphy Anderson, Zatanna is one of the most powerful magic users in the DC universe. She’s known for having to cast spells in statements backward, which should make for an entertaining film. The character debuted in 1964 in Hawkman #4.

(via Variety)

Walter Hamada Joins DC Films

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Walter Hamada will join DC Films as President, DC-Based Film Production working with Geoff Johns who remains as DC Entertainment President and Chief Creative Officer.

In the announcement, Toby Emmerich, Warner Bros.’ President/Chief Content Officer said:

Walter is creative, resourceful, and committed to excellence, and will bring those qualities to his oversight of our superhero films. He’s a terrific production executive and served as an executive producer on two of the summer’s most popular films, New Line’s It and Annabelle: Creation. I’m confident Walter and Geoff, working with our filmmaking partners, will deliver films that will resonate with both broad global audiences as well as DC fanboys and fangirls. Walter’s a great addition to the Warner Bros. Pictures team, and I look forward to working with him in his new post.

Rumors of shake-ups have plagued the film division in charge of bringing DC’s characters to the screen after the performance of Justice League which so far has made $652 million worldwide and ranks at #9 for domestic earnings and #12 worldwide for 2016. The film is still showing in theaters and will most likely for the month.

Quite a few films are on tap for DC characters including films based on Aquaman, Shazam, The Flash, Cyborg, and a sequel to Wonder Woman.

Trump’s Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin Helped produce X-Men, Batman v Superman, Suicide Squad, and more.

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trumpOur first reality television President sure seems to be tapping into his Hollywood connections when it comes to asking opinions on what he should do as well as his nominees for different roles. It is being reported that President-elect Donald Trump has tapped Steven Mnuchin to be his Treasury secretary. You might be asking why we’re reporting on this, but Mnuchin is more than a former partner at Goldman Sachs, his career is actually relevant to this site!

Founded in 2006 Dune Entertainment was a movie financing company started by Mnuchin. The company helped co-finance 20th Century Fox, Fox Searchlight Pictures, and Fox 2000 Films such as X-Men: The Last Stand (which was a co-production with Marvel Entertainment and The Donners’ Company), Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer (a co-production with Marvel Studios, Constantin Film and 1492 Pictures), Alien vs. Predator: Requiem, The X-Files: I Want to Believe, X-Men Origins: Wolverine (a co-production with Marvel Entertainment, The Donners’ Company, and Seed), Avatar, Predators, X-Men: First Class (a co-production with Marvel Entertainment, The Donners’ Company, and Bad Hat Harry), Rise of the Planet of the Apes, Prometheus, and dozens of more films.

Marvel is mentioned because Marvel’s CEO Ike Perlmutter is buddy buddy with Trump.

RatPac Entertainment (aka RatPac-Dune Entertainment) was a movie production and financing company formed in a merger by producer-director Brett Ratner, James Packer, and Dune Entertainment’s Mnuchin after a collapse in a negotiation between Dune and 20th Century Fox. That company then closed a deal with Warner Bros. to become their key co-financing partner replacing Legendary Pictures.

That new venture helped produce such films as Gravity, The Lego Movie, Godzilla, Edge of Tomorrow, Mad Max: Fury Road, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (co-production with DC Entertainment, Cruel and Unusual Films and Atlas Entertainment), The Legend of Tarzan (co-production with Village Roadshow Pictures, Jerry Weintraub Productions, and Dark Horse Entertainment), Suicide Squad (co-production with DC Entertainment and Atlas Entertainment), The Lego Batman Movie (co-production with Warner Animation Group and DC Entertainment), Wonder Woman (co-production with DC Entertainment, Atlas Entertainment and Cruel and Unusual Films), Justice League (co-production with DC Films, Atlas Entertainment and Cruel and Unusual Films), The Flash (co-production with DC Films), Aquaman (o-production with DC Films and Cruel and Unusual Films), The Lego Movie Sequel, Shazam (co-production with DC Films and New Line Cinema), Cyborg (co-production with DC Films), Green Lantern Corps (co-production with DC Films), and the Justice League sequel (co-production with DC Films and Cruel and Unusual Films).

There’s also the upcoming Assassin’s Creed movie… so, yeah. He even acted in Rules Don’t Apply where he was a “Merrill Lynch Executive.”

Mnuchin has worked with Marvel, DC, and Dark Horse, on some of the major comic films of the last decade and next five years. The guy even has an IMDB page.

So, when you nerd rage over how much upcoming geek films suck, you can turn your venom towards our possible next Treasury secretary.

DC Films Gives Us Our First Tease of Justice League

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A new verified Facebook page called DC Films launched today and with it came a teaser image for The Dawn of the Justice League which shows off Aquaman, Cyborg, Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman, and The Flash. It’s also our first look at what we can expect for Cyborg and the Flash.

Also missing, the Green Lantern who is rumored to appear in Batman v Superman, but is being kept a secret.

The Dawn of the Justice League