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Why James Gunn and Peter Safran’s Short-Lived DC Era Was Less Than Super variety.com/2026/film/column…

Skydance has uncovered “tens of millions” of dollars in luxury hospitality spending under the former Warner Bros. Discovery regime, including expenses for dining, travel and gifts, according to two sources: • The former WBD regime spent in ways big and small — like stacks of receipts for sandwiches and green juices from the gourmet grocery store Erewhon • The company expects to save “millions” by reducing spending on outside vendors, studio services and redundant marketing budgets • One source even suggests press junkets will be revamped Read the full cover story: wp.me/pc8uak-1lI5Jm

This week’s cover story: Skydance Succession: As David Ellison Sets His Team, Heads Are Rolling as Hollywood Finds Out Who's Really in Charge wp.me/pc8uak-1lI5Jm

DC Studios' new boss Jeremy Latcham previously worked at Marvel, where his "guiding light" was to make superhero movies for everyone. “When we were making the first Marvel movies I would always be like, 'I don’t know if my grandma would like that'… it became the stand-in for ‘is this going to work for regular people outside the bubble of Hollywood?’" Latcham said over the summer while talking to Christian Broadcasting News about his comic book movie philosophy. “In the old Marvel days, there’s this great story about my Meemaw and Peepaw because they became, like, a joke in the editing room – that we were making the movie for my grandparents in Oklahoma,” Latcham previously said in a separate interview with GamesRadar+. “If they weren’t gonna understand it, [it was] never going to work for anybody… I think that’s kind of the fun of these movies, of adapting material – finding a way to make it for everybody. You have to be true to the fans, but you have to make it ultimately for everybody.” variety.com/2026/film/news/j…