Dwyane Johnson Would Love To Be An DC Films “Advisor” & Hopes For A Possible Marvel/DC Crossover

Warner Bros.' highly-anticipated Joker sequel - entitled Joker: Folie A Deux - has continued to build out its cast with Harry Lawtey coming aboard.The 25-year-old actor - who is best known for playing Robert Spearing in the HBO series Industry - has joined the cast, via Deadline.Joaquin Phoenix will reprise his Oscar-winning role as Arthur Fleck a.k.a. The Joker, while Lady Gaga has come aboard to play his lover, Harley Quinn.

EXCLUSIVE: The $4.4 billion grossing producer of several Warner Bros. DC movies as well as the highest grossing horror franchise of all-time at $2 billion, The Conjuring, has re-upped with the Burbank, CA lot for another three years.

Even though “Black Adam” hasn’t even officially hit theaters yet, there’s already lots of buzz about the film’s end-credits scene. So, a spoiler alert if it’s not apparent to the reader what that scene entails: Henry Cavill returns as Superman to stare down Dwayne Johnson‘s Black Adam.

Black Adam is set to open in theaters Friday, but to get the desired PG-13 rating, a lot of the footage ended up on the cutting room floor. Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson stars as the title character in the latest entry in the DC Comics universe, portraying a 5000-year-old Egyptian, who was imprisoned for millennia for corrupt acts after receiving super powers from the gods. But when he is released from his imprisonment, he begins catching criminals and then executing them. In an interview with Collider, producers Beau Flynn and Hiram Garcia explained the tight-rope they walked to stay true to the character, but to make a film that would allow the majority of their fans to buy a ticket on opening day.

Rebecca Rubin Film and Media Reporter “Black Adam,” a comic book adventure starring Dwayne Johnson, will loom large over the weekend box office. The film, from Warner Bros. and DC Comics, is expected to generate $60 million or more from 4,350 North American theaters between Friday and Sunday. That’ll easily be enough to dethrone “Halloween Ends,” which took the No. 1 spot last weekend with $41 million. “Black Adam” is squaring off against “Ticket to Paradise,” a romantic comedy featuring Julia Roberts and George Clooney, which is aiming to generate $15 million from 3,500 cinemas in its box office debut.

Dwayne Johnson was brought to tears during an appearance on The One Show alongside Rob Delaney.In an emotional interview, Delaney recalled a time after the death of his two-year-old son Henry when Johnson reached out to offer support.Henry passed away in January 2018, having undergone two years of treatment for a brain tumour.Appearing alongside Johnson on the chat show, Delaney said: “We hadn’t [worked together] at this point, but yeah he sent me a lovely tweet after Henry died, which he didn’t have to do, you know?“And that was very sweet and made me feel great, and then a couple of years later we did Hobbs And Shaw.”Johnson was visibly emotional after hearing Delaney’s anecdote. The Black Adam star then explained how Delaney’s grief had impacted him as a father of three girls.“That story, hearing that rocked us in our household,” said Johnson.Delaney described Johnson’s messages of support as “sweet” and a “good template” for how to approach someone grieving.In the first of two public tweets, Johnson simply wrote “Henry” and linked to Delaney’s Facebook post about his son’s passing.The second tweet read: “Stay strong my friend.

The long-awaited DC Universe “Black Adam” superhero film premiered recently in New York, the embargo has been lifted, and everyone is free, per Warner Bros., to discuss the film in whatever terms they like. If you’re online, especially on Twitter tonight, you’re likely going to be hearing a lot about the film’s post-credit scene that will have been spoiled in a matter of minutes and will likely have fans, or at least the DC Universe disciples, in a big lather.

After 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.

Dwayne Johnson has jokingly suggested he should take over Liz Truss as the UK Prime Minister.Speaking to Sky News at the premiere of his new “anti-hero” DC film Black Adam, Johnson gave a tongue-in-cheek response when asked if he would consider the position.“Are you ready for another Johnson prime minister?” he said, in reference to Truss’ predecessor Boris Johnson. “Maybe Rock prime minister?”He added: “I will tell you this… It’s great to be back in London.

Warner Bros Discovery’s film studio has been through a series of shake ups this year, most recently with the exit of Courtenay Valenti, the ascendance of Mike De Luca and Pam Abdy and the unsuccessful negotiations with Dan Lin to run DC. Despite the tumult, the studio has one very powerful ally as it tries to find its cadence.

J. Kim Murphy The hierarchy of power in the DC Universe may be about to change with “Black Adam,” but the new film is landing low on the hierarchy of critical reputation for Warner Bros.’ last decade of superhero entries. With reviews hitting for the Dwayne Johnson vehicle this afternoon, “Black Adam” currently stands at a mediocre 30% approval rating from top critics on the the review-aggregate website Rotten Tomatoes. Should the number stand, it would mark the lowest such figure for a DC film since 2017’s “Justice League,” which netted a 23% approval rating from top critics and was so reviled among fans that a reworked version was eventually ordered by Warner Bros., arriving in the form of “Zack Snyder’s Justice League” in 2021.

Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson shocked fans more than once during Monday’s episode of "The Kelly Clarkson Show." Johnson joined the longtime singer for a segment of "Kellyoke," and the pair sang a country duet. Fans were stunned to hear Johnson’s vocals as he sang the late Loretta Lynn’s "Don’t Come Home a Drinkin’" alongside Clarkson.

Aldis Hodge is showing off his muscular arms at the premiere of his new movie, Black Adam, held at Cineworld Leicester Square on Tuesday night (October 18) in London, England.

Peter Debruge Chief Film Critic SPOILER ALERT: The following review contains mild spoilers for “Black Adam.” It’s kind of a cheat, casting someone as massive as Dwayne Johnson to play a DC superhero — or antihero, in the case of “Black Adam,” an action-packed, adolescent-skewing standalone that presents the swole Samoan star as a nearly invincible global threat. Black Adam is basically an A-bomb in human form, whose emergence from a 5,000-year lockdown calls for emergency intervention by the Justice Society of America, or “JSA,” which dispatches four glorified bench-warmers to contain the situation: Hawkman (Aldis Hodge, gruff), Atom Smasher (Noah Centineo, doofy), Cyclone (Quintessa Swindell, colorful) and Doctor Fate (Pierce Brosnan, the standout, even if his character reads like a second-rate Doctor Strange).

Aquaman,” at least, had giant rideable seahorses and Nicole Kidman as a mermaid. “Black Adam” boasts Pierce Brosnan giving a worse performance than when he sang “Knowing Me, Knowing You” in “Mamma Mia!”Two decades after Johnson mind-numbingly barreled through the sand as “The Scorpion King,” he plays basically the same complicated warrior type only with less hair and zero personality. A prologue informs us that 5,000 years ago in fictional Kahndaq — could be Egypt, could be the Middle East — a young slave sacrificed himself to free his people and was therefore granted super powers by the ancient wizard from “Shazam!” He becomes Teth-Adam, Kahndaq’s champion.Back in the present day, the poor city is under military occupation by an evil company called Intergang (the bad guys have “no worries!” Australian accents) and is being plundered for its main natural resource, Eternium.

Kylie Jenner is coming out with a Batman themed collection for Kylie Cosmetics on Wednesday.The 25-year-old reality TV siren teased the look of the partnership on Tuesday afternoon where she was wearing a blue and black Batgirl style mask with bat ears as her lips were heavily made up.'Batman x @kyliejenner - our batman collection drops tomorrow 10.19 on kyliecosmetics.com,' the mother of two wrote in her caption on Instagram. She's gone batty! Kylie Jenner is coming out with a Batman themed collection for Kylie Cosmetics on Wednesday Last week she shared a short clip with herself in the Bat headpiece.'Dream come true BATMAN™️ x @kyliecosmetics coming soon ..' she wrote in her caption. Kylie Cosmetics is collaborating with Warner Bros.

It’s been a long wait — nearly a decade, in fact — since Dwayne Johnson first signed on to become an integral part of the DC universe. He’s recently turned 50 (not that he looks it). But now, at last, he’s launched a big-league entry in the cinematic superpowers world with Black Adam.

Black Adam is set to open in theaters Friday, but to get the desired PG-13 rating, a lot of the footage ended up on the cutting room floor. Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson stars as the title character in the latest entry in the DC Comics universe, portraying a 5000-year-old Egyptian, who was imprisoned for millennia for corrupt acts after receiving super powers from the gods. But when he is released from his imprisonment, he begins catching criminals and then executing them. In an interview with Collider, producers Beau Flynn and Hiram Garcia explained the tight-rope they walked to stay true to the character, but to make a film that would allow the majority of their fans to buy a ticket on opening day.

This Morning's Alison Hammond giggled as Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson joked that they should tie the knot again.The TV star and the Hollywood A-lister had a spoof marriage on the ITV daytime show back in 2017.And when the beefy star went on the programme again on Tuesday (October 18) he teased that he and his former "wife" should exchange vows again.READ MORE: Alison Hammond offended as I Can See Your Voice co-star 'avoids her' in airportFormer wrestler The Rock, 50, was on the show via video link to chat about his new superhero film Black Adam.At the end he asked his publicists off screen if he could extend the interview to speak especially to Alison, then paid a special tribute to her.The actor – who married his wife Lauren Hashian in 2019 – told the TV star she was “doing so great”.“I just want to say this really quickly," he said."Alison, I want to tell you, we've known each other for a long time – I’m so happy for you."I know you’ve been doing so great, you’ve been nominated for all these National TV Awards, you’ve been incredible so ‘mwah’.""Congratulations!" he added, before quipping: "We’ve got to get married again!”Alison, 47, made a heart shape with her hands as she told the Jumanji star: “I'm proud of you as well, I’m so proud of you."Viewers absolutely loved the cute exchange.For more of the latest showbiz news from Daily Star, make sure you sign up to one of our newsletters here."Dwayne Johnson, love this man," one person posted on Twitter."Dwayne Johnson is such a nice guy," said another admirer.One viewer joked: "Good luck @AlisonHammond tomorrow divorcing Dwayne Johnson (The Rock).