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WARNER BROS Is Fixing MAJOR PROBLEMS With DC Studios, DC Comics, CNN, Cartoon Network, and HBO Max!

Warner Bros. Discovery Has New DC Heads, but Here Are 8 Major Headaches It Still Faces
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After a prolonged search for a new DC Films leader, Warner Bros. Discovery has finally solved one — just one — of their many conundrums.

Director James Gunn and producer Peter Safran are set to become the new co-chairman and CEO of Warner Bros. Discovery’s superhero film, TV and animation branch next week, starting on November 1. The change was accompanied by the announcement that DC Films is being rebranded as DC Studios — probably not coincidentally, this puts it more in line with its closest rival, Marvel Studios, over at Disney.

The duo of Gunn and Safran have worked extensively at the company — Gunn directed “The Suicide Squad” and HBO Max’s “Peacemaker,” while Safran executive produced those projects and other DC films such as “Aquaman” and “Shazam!” — although Gunn’s appointment as a director with somewhat minimal producing experience is unusual for a major studio role like this. Details on their full vision are a bit hazy, but one thing is clear — the two will be inheriting a ton of baggage.

On the one hand, Gunn and Safran will begin their post almost immediately after the relative box office success of “Black Adam,” which received terrible reviews but opened to a solid $67 million. On the other hand, they’ll be tasked with whipping DC’s film and TV slate, which can charitably be described as “messy,” into shape, and contending with some bad press plaguing WBD overall.

The company — which was founded a mere six months ago from the merger between WarnerMedia and Discovery — has been racking up impressive amounts of controversy, carries a debt of $55 billion, and has seen its stock fall 50 percent in value since April. It’s not the worst merger in the history of the universe (or even in Warner’s own history: the infamous failed 2001 AOL TimeWarner merger still has it beat), but the company has definitely had the messiest 2022 of any entertainment corporation. And many of the biggest profile blunders facing the company relate to how it’s handled its DC shows and films, so presumably some of the pressure to fix it will end up on Gunn and Safran’s laps.

Here’s a shortlist of all the controversies at WBD, as well as what’s on Gunn and Safran’s plate as DC’s new head honchos.

Henry Cavill as Superman
Henry Cavill as Superman

"Man of Steel"/Warner Bros.

Making Sense of the DC Film Slate
Reportedly, part of the reason for the search, and the stepping down of former DC Film head Walter Hamada, was that WBD president David Zaslav wanted DC to have its equivalent to Marvel Studio’s Kevin Feige, someone who can guide the films and TV shows produced in a cohesive direction. Currently though, DC’s slate is anything but cohesive.

Upcoming films set to be released include movies that take place in the same general universe established by 2013’s “Man of Steel,” (“Shazam! Fury of the Gods,” “The Flash,” “Blue Beetle,”), but also two movies that exist in their own franchises: the in-development sequel to this year’s “The Batman,” and “Joker: Folie à Deux,” a followup to 2019’s “Joker.” Considering how successful both of the previous films in those series were critically and commercially, WBD presumably wants as many installments for both as possible. But at the same time, plans seem in place to keep the “Man of Steel” universe going, judging from Henry Cavill’s promise that he will be in another film as Superman following his “Black Adam” cameo.