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James Gunn's Superman was carrying a whole rebuilt DC on its back and still had to be a movie for two hours. It managed both, and the strain shows in exactly one place.
Clint Eastwood's probable farewell as a director was buried by Warner Bros in a ghost release. The film is better than the release, and the release is part of the story.
Bong Joon-ho's first film after Parasite is a $118 million science fiction satire that Warner Bros marketed badly and audiences did not know how to process. A year on, the failure is the studio's, not the director's.
Drew Hancock's debut strips its premise to a weekend-house structure and one central idea. The discipline is the film's argument, and the argument lands cleanly.
Village Roadshow Entertainment Group filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in Delaware in March 2025, citing litigation costs and the collapse of its long-running Warner Bros co-financing relationship.