Last week, it was revealed that DC TV mastermind Greg Berlanti is working on a potential series starring Black Lightning. Berlanti is developing the project with husband/wife duo Mara Brock Akil and Salim Akil. Now, the project has found a network. It has been announced (via TV Line) that Fox has picked up the pilot for Black Lightning. This would serve as Fox’s third current DC project. Gotham is entering its third season on the network this fall, while Vertigo adaptation Lucifer is going into its second. Black Lightning will focus on Jefferson Pierce, who retired as the vigilante Black Lightning years ago. But with a daughter hell-bent on justice and a…

Last week, Ben Affleck shared a cryptic video on social media featuring Deathstroke, who is reportedly the main villain of the director’s Batman film. Immediately after the video was posted, it was widely speculated by Omega Underground and others that Joe Manganiello is playing Deathstroke. The actor – who was actually rumored to play this role in Suicide Squad last year – is now in London, and he recently followed Zack Snyder on Twitter. Now, it’s happening. DC Films co-chief Geoff Johns confirms to The Wall Street Journal that Manganiello is playing Deathstroke in Affleck’s Batman movie. Johns is co-writing the script for this film with Affleck. He doesn’t confirm if…

Suicide Squad recently concluded its fifth weekend of release, and the DC film continues to be a box office hit. Over the four-day Labor Day weekend, the movie grossed $12.7 million, maintaining its #2 position. The film is now at $300.1 million domestically and $378.1 million. This brings its worldwide total to $678.2 million. Suicide Squad has now surpassed Man of Steel as the second biggest installment of the DC Extended Universe, both domestically and worldwide. Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice maintains the top spot with $330.4 million domestically and $872.7 million worldwide. These are very impressive numbers, and hopefully, we’ll hear something official about Suicide Squad 2 soon. Stay…

Earlier this summer, Greg Berlanti confirmed that he was developing a movie starring DC’s Booster Gold, with the potential to direct. Berlanti is known for his work on all four of The CW’s DC television shows, which make up the Arrowverse. Booster Gold will mark his second DC movie, following 2011’s Green Lantern. Unfortunately, it sounds like Booster Gold will be completely separate from the rest of Warner Bros.’ DC films. In an interview with Vulture, Berlanti confirmed that – for the time being at least – Booster Gold will not be set in the DC Extended Universe. “As of right now we have no connective tissue to those worlds.…

Over the past couple years, DC Entertainment has significantly increased its live action television portfolio. The company has Arrow, The Flash, Supergirl and DC’s Legends of Tomorrow on The CW, while Fox is airing Gotham and Lucifer. NBC will premiere Powerless in the midseason. And that’s not even counting Vertigo titles like Preacher and iZombie. Now, yet another DC Comics character is coming to the small screen. According to Deadline, Warner Bros. TV is developing Black Lightning, based on the superhero of the same name. The project is being developed by Greg Berlanti, who is involved with all four of The CW’s DC shows. He is working with Being Mary…

Superman will be stopping by in the first two episodes of Supergirl‘s second season. However, he will be bringing along one of his classic villains: John Corben, aka Metallo. According to Entertainment Weekly, actor Frederick Schmidt has been cast as Metallo on Supergirl. The character will appear in at least two episodes, including the season two premiere. This version of Corben is described as an international assassin who “…is badly injured after taking on both Supergirl and Superman.” A “shadow” organization then intervenes, transforming Corben into the villain Metallo. Supergirl marks the latest live action adaptation of Metallo. The character was previously in Smallville, Lois & Clark and Superboy. Stay…

Deathstroke has been heavily rumored to join the DC Extended Universe for some time. He was expected to show up in Suicide Squad at some point, but that never happened. Meanwhile, Arrow‘s Marc Guggenheim confirmed that the character wasn’t going to return to the show, due to DC utilizing him for “another project.” Now, Slade Wilson is officially coming to the big screen. Batman actor Ben Affleck posted the following video on both Twitter and Facebook, offering a first look at Deathstroke. The Wrap has also revealed that Slade Wilson will be the main antagonist in Affleck’s Batman movie.  Additionally, Justice League is still shooting, and this video is said to be shot in the Flying…

Back in 2004 and 2005, DC Comics published a series titled The Monolith. Created by writers Jimmy Palmiotti and Justin Gray, the series ran for twelve issues until it was canceled, due to poor sales. DC later relinquished the rights to the property, which reverted back to Palmiotti and Gray. A collection of the series was published by Image Comics in 2012. But now, the property is coming to the big screen. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Lionsgate is developing a film adaptation of The Monolith. Dave Wilson, the creative director of Blur Studio, will make his directorial debut with this movie. Barnett Brettler is writing the script, while Erwin…

Suicide Squad held onto the top spot at the North American box office for three weekends in a row – the first installment of the DC Extended Universe to do so. However, with horror thriller Don’t Breathe drastically overperforming in its opening weekend, it’s time for the Squad to move down to second place. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Suicide Squad grossed an estimated $12.1 million this weekend. This is a 42% drop from last weekend’s gross of $21.7 million. The DC film has currently earned $282.9 million domestically, $353 million internationally and $636 million worldwide. Gitesh Pandya predicts that Suicide Squad will end its domestic run with about $310…

Suicide Squad is entering its fourth weekend of release. After three weeks at the top spot, the DC film is expected to go down to #2, as horror thriller Don’t Breathe is on track to open with #1. Squad is tracking for a $10-12 million gross this weekend. But now, the movie has surpassed yet another milestone. Writer-director David Ayer announced on Twitter last night that Suicide Squad has hit $600 million worldwide. It had passed $500 million just last week. For a critically panned film starring lesser known comic book characters, $600 million+ is an impressive number. Warner Bros. reportedly spent $325 million to both produce and market Suicide…