DC Films Boss Walter Hamada Has Departed Studio As Warner Discovery Finalizes Exit: The Dish
deadline.comAfter 15 years at Warner Bros, and four as the President of DC Films, Walter Hamada has finally left the Burbank, CA lot as sources tell Deadline the exec waits for the senior Warner Discovery brass to finalize his exit payout.
Hamada has run DC since 2018, and reupped in January 2021 with a contract that was supposed to take him through 2023. All of this occurs as New Line’s DC movie Black Adam — on which Hamada is an EP — is tracking to open to a projected $135M at the global box office this weekend despite some harsh reviews.
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.
Hamada will be the fifth Warner Bros. motion picture studio executive to leave since David Zaslav took the reigns of the newly merged Warner Discovery following Warner Bros.
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