Kevin Smith Says DC Series ‘Strange Adventures’ Is Dead At HBO Max & Wanted Nicolas Cage To Play Bizarro

author J.K. Rowling, after her tweets in support of author Salman Rushdie. On Friday, following the news that Rushdie was stabbed in the neck during an event in New York City, Rowling took to Twitter to wish him well.

Warner Bros. Discovery today issued a statement supporting Harry Potter creator J.K. Rowling, who was threatened by a Twitter user for her anguish at last week’s attack on fellow author Salman Rushdie.

JK Rowling has received a public message of support from Warner Bros. after the author received a death threat online. The Harry Potter author made a public plea for Twitter to take action after she received an online threat after fellow writer Sir Salmon Rushdie was stabbed at an event in New York. Sir Salmon, 75, was stabbed on stage at the Chautauqua Institution on Friday, leaving him on a ventilator. Hours after the news broke, Rowling, 57, tweeted a message of support for the author writing: ‘Horrifying news.

EXCLUSIVE: Sienna Miller and Sam Worthington will star with Kevin Costner in Horizon, leading the ensemble cast of Costner’s passion project Horizon. Costner, who is directing, producing and financing, is casting up the historical epic that begins production August 29 in Utah. Jamie Campbell Bower, who plays the villainous Vecna in Stranger Things, is also part of the cast, the actor announced on Jimmy Fallon’s Tonight Show.

the New York Times reported on Thursday.When asked why he took a step back from production, he responded, “I don’t know — you have to ask Dan and David.”Martin launched the series called “A Song of Ice and Fire” in 1996, with the first book in the series titled “A Game of Thrones.”The series was picked up by HBO in 2010, helmed by David Benioff and D.B. Weiss — who initially included the story’s creator in production, allowing Martin to visit the sets or provide the duo with advice on who to cast.

Pennyworth wants to make sure everyone knows what it’s really about. In a not-so-subtle move, HBO Max announced the series will now be titled Pennyworth: The Origin of Batman’s Butler for its upcoming third season on the Warner Bros. Discovery streaming platform.

EXCLUSIVE: Sonay Hoffman has joined NBC’s newly picked up drama series Found as executive producer and co-showrunner. She will work alongside series creator/executive producer/showrunner Nkechi Okoro Carroll on the series, from Berlanti Productions, Warner Bros. Television and Universal Television.

While DC fans are still reeling from the news that HBO Max's Batgirl movie starring Leslie Grace is being completely scrapped - despite being completely finished - there are still some DC projects in the works at the streaming service.The streaming service's Green Lantern TV series from Arrowverse producer Greg Berlanti with Finn Wittrock and Jeremy Irvine set to star, is still in development, according to The Hollywood Reporter. That same report also reveals that another DC project - Strange Adventures - has been scrapped, though TV Line adds that a Black Canary spin-off movie starring Jurnee Smollett is still in development too. Still happening: While DC fans are still reeling from the news that HBO Max's Batgirl movie starring Leslie Grace is being completely scrapped - despite being completely finished - there are still some DC projects in the works at the streaming service Finn: The streaming service's Green Lantern TV series from Arrowverse producer Greg Berlanti with Finn Wittrock and Jeremy Irvine set to star, is still in development, according to The Hollywood Reporter Greg Berlanti is behind both Green Lantern and Strange Adventures, which were both announced for HBO Max back in October 2019.Green Lantern has been much farther in its development, though, with Finn Wittrock signing on in April 2021 to play Guy Gardner and Jeremy Irvine playing Alan Scott.

Black Canary is still happening.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterGreg Berlanti’s DC series “Strange Adventures” is not moving forward at HBO Max, Variety has confirmed.The planned anthology series was first announced as being in development at the streamer in 2019. Kevin Smith discussed the fate of the series on his “Hollywood Babble-On” podcast, saying he was working on an episode with “Supergirl” writer Eric Carrasco.“I got a call the other day from Eric before all of this story broke and he was just like ‘Strange Adventures is officially dead,’ and I was like ‘What the f–k, are you serious?!'” Smith said.“I thought ‘Strange Adventures’ being a causality kind of made sense to me,” he continued.

Add Strange Adventures to the list of HBO Max projects that have recently been placed on the chopping block following the Warner Bros. Discovery merger.

Queen Sugar will return on September 6.According to Deadline, this season will feature direction from an all-woman team. In addition to the the show’s creator and executive producer Ava DuVernay, season 7’s directors will also include Kat Candler, Stacey Muhammad, showrunner Shaz Bennett, Patricia Cardoso, Aurora Guerrero, and DeMane Davis.Queen Sugar tells the story of three siblings in rural Louisiana who must deal with the aftermath of their father’s death and their inheritance of his massive sugarcane farm. DuVernay’s series contains themes of racial profiling, slavery in America and its flawed criminal justice system, along with other struggles faced by Black people in this country.“To everything, there is a season,” DuVernay said in a statement for Variety.

EXCLUSIVE: IDW Entertainment has 5 series in development with Ánima Studios, Cartoon Network Studios, HBO Max, Universal Content Productions (UCP), Universal International Studios, and Warner Bros. Television. The projects are based on IDW Publishing and Top Shelf Productions (an imprint of IDW) graphic novels and comics.

Marlon Wayans’ new comedy inspired by his life and career is on the move. Starz has taken in for development Book of Marlon, with Wayans set to star, co-write and executive produce. The project, which was previously in development at HBO Max, hails from Sherman’s Showcase and South Side creators Diallo Riddle and Bashir Salahuddin, Wayans’ longtime producing partner Rick Alvarez (Marlon), Michael Rotenberg and Warner Bros. TV.

EXCLUSIVE: Right-wing news service The Daily Wire is staffing up its fledgling kids entertainment division. 

Joe Otterson TV ReporterMarlon Wayans is moving his semi-autobiographical comedy series “Book of Marlon” to Starz.The premium cabler has put the show into development after it was previously set up at HBO Max. It was originally set up at HBO Max in 2020 as part of an overall deal Wayans had signed there.In the half-hour show, Wayans would play a fictionalized version of himself, exploring his professional life as a comedian and actor, as well as his personal life as he attempts to reconcile being a good person and loving father with being Marlon.

Last week, it was revealed that Warner Bros. Discovery had shelved a nearly $90 million budgeted superhero film with “Batgirl.” The movie confused many as the film was mostly completed, and on the company’s earnings call back on Thursday, it was stated they would only release films they “believed in.”  Director Kevin Smith, who has worked on many comic book movies or TV projects, has thrown his own two cents into the controversial move.

Kevin Smith called out Warner Bros. for their decision to shelve the upcoming Batgirl film while forging on with the release of the Ezra Miller film The Flash.The Red Bank, New Jersey native, 52, made the remarks on his YouTube series Hollywood Babble-On, saying it was 'an incredibly bad look to cancel the Latina Batgirl movie,' which stars actress Leslie Grace, 27, in the titular role.'I don’t give a s*** if the movie was absolute f***ing dog s*** - I guarantee you that it wasn’t,' Smith said, adding that Batgirl filmmakers Bilall Fallah and Adil El Arbi had previously worked on 'a couple of episodes of Ms.

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorHBO Max customers pulling their hair out over slow and glitchy performance may finally find some relief.Warner Bros. Discovery said Monday that HBO Max has completed the rollout of a new user experience — featuring a “more performant tech stack” and enhanced design and navigation features — across all platforms.The company started the transition last September, before the closing of the Discovery acquisition of WarnerMedia earlier this year. The new HBO Max app uses the cross-platform app engine created by You.i, which WarnerMedia acquired in December 2020.

Kevin Smith still wants to see the “Batgirl” movie.

Kevin Smith is speaking out over WB’s decision to cancel the release of Batgirl.