Batgirl

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In 2018 it was announced that Michael Flatley – yes, that Michael Flatley, Lord of the Dance Michael Flatley – had written, directed, financed and starred in a globetrotting spy thriller called Blackbird. Not much was known about the film, other than that most of it seemed to feature Flatley wearing a fedora and gazing into the middle distance. The film was shot in two weeks in 2014, and starred Michael Madsen. A trailer was released, and yet the film itself never made it to television. By all reports a terrible film, Empires of the Deep failed to find distribution in 2014, and a 2016 crowdfunding campaign failed to help get it on to screens. But if this really is it – if Batgirl really is destined to be locked in a vault unseen until the end of time – then at least it finds itself in decent company. A $130m underwater 3D fantasy starring Olga Kurylenko as the queen of the mermaids sounds like the best film of 2011. Until this week, it was hard to look upon the imminent Batgirl movie with anything but a wearied sigh.

Los Angeles: 'Batgirl' won't be taking a flight. The feature film adaptation of the DC Comics character, has been cancelled at Warner Bros., reports Variety ...

‘Batgirl’ was budgeted to screen in homes on HBO Max, and not for a major global release in theatres. Footage for the animated adaptation of the ‘Scooby-Doo’ series was showcased in a sizzle reel for HBO Max back in December 2021. Also on the chopping block, ‘Scoob!: Holiday Haunt’, a follow-up to the 2020 film ‘Scoob!’ has been shelved by the studio.

"Batgirl" was set to star Leslie Grace and would see Michael Keaton return to the role of Bruce Wayne for the first time since 1992's "Batman Returns."

"Leslie Grace is an incredibly talented actor and this decision is not a reflection of her performance. Why Won't the 'Batgirl' Movie Be Released in Theaters or on Streaming? She was set to star in the film alongside Michael Keaton, who was going to reprise his role as Batman for the first time since 1992's Batman Returns. Why Won't the 'Batgirl' Movie Be Released in Theaters or on Streaming? Although filming has finished and post-production is said to be nearly complete, it has been reported that the film will now not be released either in theaters or on streaming service HBO Max. The film was set to see Leslie Grace make her debut in the DC Universe as the titular superhero, also known as Barbara Gordon.

Set Dressers dress the set in Glasgow, for what is believed to be the film set of the new Batgirl movie (Photo: Andrew Milligan/PA Wire).

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Upcoming DC movie Batgirl has been shelved at Warner Bros. Advertisement. Rather than a theatrical release, the feature was set for a December 2022 premiere ...

For more from the biggest stars in TV, listen to the Radio Times podcast with Jane Garvey. Leslie Grace was set to star as Barbara Gordon/Batgirl, while JK Simmons played her father, Commissioner Gordon. Rather than a theatrical release, the feature was set for a December 2022 premiere on HBO Max and was part of the studio's push to create feature films specifically for the streamer.

Batgirl movie: why has Warner Bros film starring Leslie Grace been axed - who was in cast with Brendan Fraser? A statement from Warner Bros insisted that the ...

“There’s some crazy stuff that happens. Directing duo Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah, billed as Adil & Bilall, were Batgirl’s directors. In our fight sequences the way he would just hit marks, it came from all of his experience. You can’t improvise that kind of experience. “We are incredibly grateful to the filmmakers of Batgirl and Scoob! Holiday Haunt and their respective casts and we hope to collaborate with everyone again in the near future.” A Warner Bros spokesperson said: “The decision not to release Batgirl reflects our leadship’s strategic shift as it relates to the DC universe and HBO Max.

The new DC blockbuster film has been shelved by Warner Bros. Here are the reasons the movie has been cancelled.

As per a report by the New York Post, the initial test screenings of the film received overwhelmingly poor responses from audiences. It is thought the production company’s main reason for the cancellation is a poor response to test screenings. What is the worst film of 2022?

The movie Batgirl, which had completed shooting and was in post-production, was cancelled on Tuesday to cut costs and focus more on theater-based releases.

The project was approved in 2021 with a focus on the David Zaslav, CEO of Warner Bros. Discovery, recently oversaw the shutting down of CNN’s $300 million streaming service, CNN+, just a month after it was launched. The film, which was to see Fans might want a repeat of what happened with Zack Snyder’s version of Justice League with Batgirl, too. Batgirl will instead become one of the American movies that haven't been released. Despite being surprising, the move is hardly shocking because business experts had already noticed that Comic-Con 2022 passed by without any mention of the film.

A truly bizarre situation unfolded in Hollywood yesterday as an avalanche of sites began to report that Warner Bros. would not be releasing its upcoming ...

But that can only happen if you do not monetize the movie at all, no release in theaters, nor on HBO Max, and it cannot be sold do a different studio either. All of this seems like a part of WB’s grand plan to rework the DC universe under new management, given how fractured its become and how troubled many of its projects are, whether that’s actor issues or production quality. A truly bizarre situation unfolded in Hollywood yesterday as an avalanche of sites began to report that Warner Bros. would not be releasing its upcoming Batgirl movie.

Not only are more series than ever being developed on big budgets, but blockbuster movies are being made for streaming services, and among the latest was HBO ...

Although there have been a number of reports regarding the actual quality of the film, most seem to agree Batgirl wasn't that bad. After a follower pointed out the movie's minority star and directors, Derrickson seemed to question whether that played a role in Warner Bros.' decision: "wow what a coincidence, huh?" Directors El Arbi and Fallah just recently collaborated with Marvel Studios on Ms. Marvel, so perhaps their comic book future may be over there on Season 2 or other projects. HBO Max's sudden cancelation of Batgirl has truly shaken Hollywood, with many calling the move completely unprecedented. Canceling a flick that has already wrapped production and is well into post-production is certainly a unique move, but Warner Bros. Discovery doesn't seem as invested in the previous management's desire to push HBO Max. There have been a number of reasons given for the cancelation between poor quality, tax purposes, and a change in the company's overall direction, but the official explanation is that the choice "reflects [their] leadership's strategic shift."

'In the Heights' actress Leslie Grace played the lead role in 'Batgirl,' which will now no longer be released on HBO Max or in theaters.

Batgirl is not the only nearly complete film the studio canceled. Leslie Grace, who starred in In The Heights, played the title role of Barbara Gordon (aka Batgirl) with Bad Boys for Life directors Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah behind the camera. According to the outlet, the film had finished principal photography earlier this year and was already in post-production.

Sorry, DC universe fans: the movie, which starred 'In The Heights' actress Leslie Grace in the title role, will not be released theatrically or on HBO Max.

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"Batgirl" was slated for release on HBO Max and would have starred “In the Heights” actress Leslie Grace, plus Michael Keaton as Batman.

And even the star power of Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson in the upcoming “Black Adam” isn’t enough to offset the flood of continual bad news. But the biggest holy cow moment of all from “Batgirl” was going to be the return of Keaton as Batman. There are few bigger deals in comic book culture than his answering a Bat-signal’s call in the 21st century. “Batgirl” making it this far only to never be seen is a new black eye for WB/DC, which continues to stumble over its own good intentions by not having a true Kevin Feige figure to come up with a master plan for its superheroes. Simmons is best known for giving one of the all-time great superhero movie performances in Sam Raimi’s original “Spider-Man” trilogy as Daily Bugle editor in chief J. Jonah Jameson. If Simmons is in your superhero movie, it’s a big deal. If Zachary Levi’s Shazam was standing heroically over Henry Cavill’s Superman with lightning striking behind him in an ode to “ Kingdom Come,” you think people wouldn’t pay money to see that? Now that the Warner Bros./Discovery merger is complete, it seems the expectations for live-action adaptations featuring DC characters has changed drastically.

InIn 1989, Alan Moore wanted to write a comic about what a man does when driven to the point of insanity. In the comic book, The Killing Joke, the Joker ...

But the fan campaign to make that film happen also turned out to mainly be made up of bots and fake accounts. But the rest of us are going to suffer. More likely, Batgirl is just a victim, again, of a corporation out to make a buck. When you’re a giant unwieldy mess of a merger, you have to be ruthless. According to Variety, the film was tucked away, never to be seen, not because it was a bad movie but because the massive entity now known as Warner Bros. Discovery wanted a tax write-off. When Disney acquired Fox in 2019, it promptly killed a live-action Lumberjanes show, threatened to get rid of Taika Waititi’s Jojo Rabbit for fear of offending brand loyalists with a happy-go-lucky Adolf Hitler, and shoved the perfectly lovely The New Mutants in the vault. In the comic book, The Killing Joke, the Joker kidnaps and tortures Jim Gordon to see if he can drive him to the point of insanity that both the Joker and Batman have already reached in their own respective ways. Despite the fact that most of us have seen Batman Forever, Catwoman, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, Green Lantern, Wonder Woman 1984, Joker, Suicide Squad, Superman Returns, Jonah Hex, and Superman IV: The Quest for Peace and know just how tolerant Warner Bros. typically is of dog-shit superhero movies. Maybe this is all an elaborate plan by Warner Bros. Discovery to drum up support for the film and foster a big movement by fans who will demand the company release it. I can only hope Warner Bros. Discovery wasn’t as cruel when it canceled the already completed Batgirl film this week. At the time, much was said about how awful The New Mutants was. In 1989, Alan Moore wanted to write a comic about what a man does when driven to the point of insanity.

Following the announcement that Warner Bros. was shelving the already-completed Batgirl, fans of Zack Snyder took to social media to make this decision all ...

However, there's little to no chance of the Snyderverse coming back. Tweet may have been deleted (opens in a new tab) Tweet may have been deleted (opens in a new tab) Tweet may have been deleted (opens in a new tab) For fans of Snyder, the shelving of Batgirl opened the possibility that Warner Bros. was "restoring" the Snyderverse. This belief was only made stronger by the announcement that Ben Affleck would be returning as Batman in Aquaman 2. Variety later reported that the decision came as a result of new studio goals following the Warner Bros. Discovery merger.

The "Batgirl" film that was set to bring the DC Comics character to the big screen will no longer be released by Warner Bros., according to the studio.

"Leslie Grace is an incredibly talented actor and this decision is not a reflection of her performance," the statement added. "We are incredibly grateful to the filmmakers of 'Batgirl' and 'Scoob! Holiday Haunt' and their respective casts and we hope to collaborate with everyone again in the near future." The movie was set to star "In the Heights" star Leslie Grace in the title role.

“The decision to not release Batgirl reflects our leadership's strategic shift as it relates to the DC universe and HBO Max… Leslie Grace is an incredibly ...

He also had a cameo in the upcoming Aquaman sequel, but due to The Flash’s release date change, that also had to be adjusted. The outlet pointed out how several of their sources say that Warner Bros. “will almost certainly take a tax write-down” on the project, but in doing so, the studio would “[not be able to] monetize [the] movie:” Even worse is that with this potentially being used as a tax write-down, the world will never release it. "The makers of the live action Batgirl and the animated Scoob! learned today that those films were being stopped in their tracks. “The decision to not release Batgirl reflects our leadership’s strategic shift as it relates to the DC universe and HBO Max… Leslie Grace is an incredibly talented actor, and this decision is not a reflection of her performance. "Batgirl found itself on the bad end of that decision, apparently neither big enough to feel worthy of a major theatrical release nor small enough to make economic sense in an increasingly cutthroat streaming landscape.

Warner Bros. Discovery Inc. halted work on its new “Batgirl” superhero movie despite having already filmed the picture, according to multiple reports from ...

The movie, based on DC Comics characters, was in the final stages of editing. Warner Bros. didn’t respond to requests for comment. It won’t be released in theaters or on the company’s HBO Max streaming service, Variety and Deadline reported Tuesday. Variety said the film cost $90 million to make.

Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah have released a statement to express shock and sadness over the decision for their already shot film to be killed.

“We’ll talk about how we’re going to do it, and when, soon,” he said. “Leslie Grace is an incredibly talented actor and this decision is not a reflection of her performance. The $90m-budget film, which was intended to premiere on US streaming service HBO Max, had finished shooting and was being test screened. It’s reported that Discovery took on about $43bn of debt during the merger. As directors, it is critical that our work be shown to audiences, and while the film was far from finished, we wish that fans all over the world would have had the opportunity to see and embrace the final film themselves. “Batgirl For Life.”

The film was based on the DC Comics character Barbara Gordon - or Batgirl - played by Leslie Grace. She appeared alongside Michael Keaton as Batman, Brendan ...

- Yellow Submarine: In 2009, Disney and director Robert Zemeckis announced a remake of the Beatles' 1968 musical comedy, due for release in 2012. He had been courting Brad Pitt to play the lead role of Ned Land, but Pitt officially turned the role down earlier that year. - 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea: The Australian government had offered $20m to secure the production of a remake of Jules Verne's classic story. It was one of many ideas put forward for the film, with Smith's script thrown out by director Tim Burton - who also chose Nicolas Cage to be the film's leading man. Shelving it means the company won't have to carry the losses on its books. The film reportedly had not tested well with audiences in early screenings.

The DC film about the superhero sidekick fell short of what the company wanted for its key comic book franchise and no longer fit with the studio's film ...

The company has also shelved a “Scoob!” sequel that was planned for HBO Max. Zaslav has promised Wall Street $3 billion in cost savings from the merger, but one of the people close to the company said that scrapping “Batgirl” was not a money-saving measure. Choosing to not release a film of that size means the company will have to eat the costs. The film, which cast “In the Heights” star Leslie Grace in the title role, was conceived with the small screen in mind. But the movie, as scripted and produced, also wasn’t a big enough of a spectacle to merit a full-blown theatrical release. Kilar left the company ahead of its combination with Discovery Inc. in a $43-billion deal that closed this year.

It has opted to shelve the US$90 million ($143m) film as the reorganised studio revamps its approach to streaming and DC Comics films. The studio ultimately ...

“As directors, it is critical that our work be shown to audiences, and while the film was far from finished, we wish that fans all over the world would have had the opportunity to see and embrace the final film themselves. But marketing a movie like Batgirl for that kind of release would require tens of millions more. “We are saddened and shocked by the news. We still can't believe it,” El Arbi and Fallah said in a statement. An early cut of Batgirl had recently undergone one test screening. Batgirl, greenlit before WarnerMedia's merger with Discovery Inc., will instead simply not see the light of day.

Just as the film was in post-production, management at Warner Bros Discovery decided to pull the plug on the DC Comics film BatGirl, despite it having a ...

It would not be surprising to see the company shut down several cable networks whose outlook is bleak. One area which is likely to be hit is cable networks. At the same time, they also gave thumbs down to airing the animated film “Scoobi! Holiday Haunt” which was estimated to have a $40 million budget.

“Querida familia! On the heels of the recent news about our movie 'Batgirl,' I am proud of the love, hard work and intention all of our incredible cast and ...

Let them all underestimate me…And when their guard is down, and their pride is rising, let me kick their butts.” That will be their weakness. We are incredibly grateful to the filmmakers of Batgirl and Scoob! Holiday Haunt and their respective casts and we hope to collaborate with everyone again in the near future.” That opportunity expires in mid-August, and allows WBD to not have to carry the losses on its books at a time when the studio is trying to find $3 billion in cost-saving synergies; this particular film costing around $70M. On the heels of the recent news about our movie ‘Batgirl,’ I am proud of the love, hard work and intention all of our incredible cast and tireless crew put into this film over 7 months in Scotland. I feel blessed to have worked among absolute greats and forged relationships for a lifetime in the process! Grace won the part of Barbara Gordon aka Batgirl after a final round that included Isabella Merced, Zoey Deutch and Haley Lu Richardson as Deadline’s Justin Kroll first reported.

" I am proud of the love, hard work and intention all of our incredible cast and tireless crew put into this film," Grace wrote on social media.

It’s all very positive, and very light on the “fuck you, Warner Bros. Discovery president David Zaslav.” Grace’s post comes not long after the film’s directors, Adil El Arbi and Bilall Falla, made their own social media statements about the cancellation, describing themselves as “saddened and shocked by the news.” On the heels of the recent news about our movie “Batgirl,” I am proud of the love, hard work and intention all of our incredible cast and tireless crew put into this film over 7 months in Scotland. I feel blessed to have worked among absolute greats and forged relationships for a lifetime in the process! To every Batgirl fan - THANK YOU for the love and belief, allowing me to take on the cape and become, as Babs said best, “my own damn hero!”