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Michael Keaton doesn’t seem upset about Batgirl cancellation: “Big, fun, nice check”

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We all remember Batgirl and the decision to cancel the film; one person who isn’t looking back at that project is Michael Keaton, who seemingly took the check and moved on. If you don’t remember, Warner Bros. pulled the plug on a $90 million Batgirl, which was already shot and through post-production when the decision […]

Warner Bros. chief says dropping Batgirl and more took a lot of “courage”

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If you think scrapping projects like Batgirl and Coyote vs. Acme as tax right-offs was easy, Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav says think again. Zaslav appeared at the New York Times Dealbook Summit in New York this past week and dropped some major headlines concerning his controversial choice to can Batgirl, the Scoob! sequel […]

Batgirl directors on The Flash and their cancelled DC film: “Biggest disappointment of our careers”

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Filmmakers Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah made headlines earlier this year when Warner Bros. Discovery and the team behind DC Studios canned their Batgirl film after it was already filmed and in post-production. It was reported that the execs felt Batgirl was too poor of a film to be released and could hurt the […]

Comic Book Review – Absolute Batman: Three Jokers

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Ricky Church reviews Absolute Batman: Three Jokers… It goes without saying Batman and The Joker’s rivalry is one of, if not the, best in all of pop culture with how diametrically opposed they are in their years long battle. Whenever DC readies itself to publish a new Batman/Joker story there is a certain level of […]

Batgirl star Leslie Grace opens about the movie’s devastating cancellation

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Having a project bomb is never easy for a filmmaker, but having the project flat-out shelved before anyone could judge it seems like the lowest blow. Actress Leslie Grace recently went through that as Warner Bros. Discovery canceled her Batgirl film. The film came from directors Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah, and it was […]

Losing Out On Superman & The Cancelled Batgirl: Brendan Fraser’s Horrible DC Track Record

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If there’s one actor who deserved a significant run in a superhero movie, it’s Brendan Fraser. The actor is so charming and talented that, shockingly, no studio tried to scoop him up to represent their brand. It turns out that DC has tried to get the actor involved twice, even going as far as shooting […]

Leslie Grace shows off second Batgirl suit from axed DC movie

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One of the biggest shocks in Hollywood last year came with the news that Warner Bros. was completely shelving its Batgirl movie, with the studio abruptly pulling the plug on the $90 million-budgeted DC Films project deep into post-production as part of a tax write-off/cost-saving measure following the Discovery merger.  Unlike the likes of Zack […]

Batgirl video teases a festive action sequence from the aborted DC movie

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With the movie now locked away deep within the vaults of Warner Bros. Discovery following its shock cancellation last month, it’s highly unlikely that we’ll ever get to see the cancelled Batgirl movie and will instead have to imagine what might have been, based upon the few official promotional shots and the various set photos […]

Warner Bros. holding Batgirl “funeral screenings” for cast and crew

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While the decision by Warner Bros. Discovery to cancel Batgirl left many DC fans shocked and disappointed, we can only imagine the reaction of the cast and crew who’d dedicated many months of their lives towards a project which now seems unlikely to ever see the light of day. However, there is some small consolation […]