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This week’s show covers news on Aquaman, The Birds of Prey title, Watchmen, Sweet Tooth, and the “Elseworlds” crossover.
Final trailer for Aquaman released, tickets now on sale – (YouTube)
- Giant underwater creatures, including Topo?
- Deadline – Atom Tickets’ best-seller ever in first 24 hours; On Fandango, better sales than Venom ($80.2M opening weekend) and Mission: Impossible –Fallout ($61.2M)
- Exclusive screenings in select theaters on December 15th for Amazon Prime members
- Entertainment Weekly – Julie Andrews (Mary Poppins, The Sound of Music) will voice the underwater creature Karathen, the “most powerful creature on Earth”, according to James Wan
- Runtime – appears to be 2 hours, 23 minutes
Official title for Birds of Prey movie is Birds of Prey (And The Fantabulous Emancipation of one Harley Quinn) – Margot Robbie on Instagram
- Confirmed as full title by The Hollywood Reporter
- Releases on February 7, 2020
Trailer for The Lego Movie 2 – The Second Part – (on YouTube)
- Brief snippets of Batman, dancing Superman and Green Lantern
- General Mayhem
- Releases February 8, 2019
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New images of HBO’s Watchmen on Instagram
- “Masks Save Lives” (Tulsa Police)
- “Hiding in plain sight”
Hulu orders a pilot for the DC/Vertigo series Sweet Tooth – (Deadline)
- 40 issue series written and drawn by Jeff Lemire from 2009-2013
- TV series synopsis – “Sweet Tooth is the coming-of-age fable of Gus, a boy/deer hybrid who leaves home to find the world ravaged by a cataclysmic event. He joins a ragtag family of hybrids and humans searching to find answers behind the event…ultimately discovering a vast conspiracy that forces him to question his very existence.”
- Will be written and produced by Jim Mickle (Hap and Leonard), and Team Downey (Robert Downey Jr. and Susan Downey)
Production has started on DC Universe’s Swamp Thing series
- Crystal Reed (Abby Arcane) shared BTS photo of Director Len Wiseman on Instagram
- Wiseman also shared some location scouting pictures/videos
First look at Donna Troy on Titans (Here)
- Will first appear in Episode 8 “Donna Troy”
Jon Cryer (Superman IV, Two and a Half Men) has been cast in a recurring role as Lex Luthor for Supergirl Season 4 – (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Will first appear in episode 15
Release date for Season 3 of Young Justice on DC Universe announced (YouTube)
- Will debut Friday January 4th
Elseworlds – *General spoiler warning
Comic book cover-style poster for “Elseworlds”
- Art by Amy Reeder
New photo of Batwoman in “Elseworlds” – Entertainment Weekly
- Ruby Rose talks excitement about putting on the costume
First footage of Batwoman – YouTube
- Plus Grant Gustin as Green Arrow
On Batman – Entertainment Weekly
- Oliver thinks Batman is an urban legend, but Barry wants to meet him
- Batman has been gone for 3 years and Gotham has become overrun by crime
Promo for Supergirl – YouTube
- Alex and Kara in Star Labs
New photo of Clark Kent and Lois Lane on the Kent Farm – Entertainment Weekly
- The same Kent farm that was used for filming Smallville
- Started meetings for crossover in March, Greg Berlanti had already asked for and “received permission to use Superman”
Story details on “Elseworlds” – Entertainment Weekly
- There is more comedy in this crossover than previous years
- Focuses heavily on the trio of Green Arrow, Flash, and Supergirl
- There is a Legends of Tomorrow cameo
- Will be more episodic – the Arrow episode is an Arrow episode, etc., with an ongoing narrative
Another new promo for “Elseworlds” – (YouTube)
- Dr. Deegan – using the Book of Destiny?, working with the Monitor?
- John Wesley Shipp Flash – “Do not do to this Earth what you did to mine”
- Evil Superman vs. Supergirl, Flash, Flash, and Green Arrow?
Some comic stuff
Twitter question from @chrisanello7 – “Who is your favorite Batman character?”
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