Batgirl

Michael Keaton reprised his role as Batman in the film, whose budget ballooned amid expensive reshoots.

Production was delayed because of Covid-19 and expensive reshoots were carried out, causing the film’s budget to skyrocket, according to The Wrap. Leslie Grace is best known for her role as Nina in In The Heights. Batgirl also starred Michael Keaton, who was set to reprise his role as Batman in the film, as well as J.K. Simmons and Brendan Frasier. It was directed by Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah, who are known for Mrs. Marvel. It’s unusual for studios to completely scrap projects. Starring Leslie Grace in the iconic comic book role, the movie had performed poorly in test screenings, according to the New York Post, which first broke the news of the cancellation.

Following a regime change in Warner Bros, plans to release the forthcoming DC movie Batgirl have been axed, causing the completed film — which starred In ...

First announced in 2017, the film initially had Avengers director Joss Whedon attached to direct before exiting in 2018. This, the reports indicate, is where the film was doomed, testing poorly during a time where new Warner Bros. leadership is looking to rebuild DC’s theatrical brand. However, new Warner Bros. CEO David Zaslav has major plans to overhaul the entire company’s film output, and regime changes often mean many once-sure bets get discarded in sometimes surprising ways.

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.

Warner Bros confirms film starring Leslie Grace as Barbara Gordon, Michael Keaton, JK Simmons and Brendan Fraser won't ever be released.

Warner Bros Discovery CEO David Zaslav, who recently oversaw swingeing cuts at CNN including shutting down its $300m streaming service CNN+ one month after it launched, is reportedly prioritising cost-cutting and refocusing the studio on theatrical films over streaming projects. The Hollywood Reporter said Batgirl’s budget was a factor in the decision, having risen to nearly $90m (£74.1m, A$130m) due to costs relating to it being shot during the Covid-19 pandemic. Several shows including Full Frontal With Samantha Bee, The Last OG and Chad have been cancelled since the Warner Bros Discovery merger, while a DC Comics film of The Wonder Twins that was in development has also been canned.

After years of anticipation from DC fans, Warner Bros finally found a way to introduce Barbara Gordon to live-action, announcing a solo movie for the hero ...

Batgirl, which finished filming earlier this year, has been scheduled to hit HBO Max sometime this year, however according to a number of new reports, Warner Bros doesn’t want Batgirl to see the light of day. Instead, Warner Bros chose to only focus on Shazam! Fury of the Gods and Black Adam, both of which have set release dates later this year. After years of anticipation from DC fans, Warner Bros finally found a way to introduce Barbara Gordon to live-action, announcing a solo movie for the hero with the developing Leslie Grace-led film.

The Dish: What's Behind The 'Batgirl' & 'Scoob!' Discard? David Zaslav's Abject Rejection Of Jason Kilar's HBO Max Strategy.

Warner Bros Discovery just released this statement: “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. But as all Warner Bros Discovery braces for Thursday’s quarterly earnings report and the layoffs that are sure to come, no one with a project made specifically for HBO Max or execs there can feel confident at this moment. Rather than spend vast sums pumping up the budgets of each film to compete in theatrical marketplace, and then spend $80 million in global P&A, the studio felt that scrapping both of the movies was a better choice, when coupled with the purchase accounting maneuver. This opportunity expires in mid-August, said sources, and it allows Warner Bros Discovery to not have to carry the losses on its books at a time when the studio is trying to pare down $3 billion in debt across its divisions. The makers of the live action Batgirl and the animated Scoob! learned today that those films were being stopped in their tracks. There are several threads here, but the move amounts to an emphatic rejection of past WarnerMedia CEO Jason Kilar’s strategy to make original $70 million live action and animated films directly for streaming site HBO Max.

The $70 million film was in middle of post-production when decision was made.

As for the exact reason behind the shelving, sources say the film did not fall in line with the new strategy being implemented by DC Films as well as HBO Max. The studio is looking to make theatrical tentpoles with budgets at $90 million-plus, and from early footage seen this did not fall into place with that model. The New York Post first reported the Batgirl news. This falls in line with the mandate put down by the new WB regime to cut back on the feature films premiering on the streamer and deciding which films will be released theatrically and which will be shelved, and sources close to the project say word came down this week that Batgirl did not make the cut.

Hours after deciding to pull the plug on Batgirl and the sequel to Scoob!, even though both films were deep in post-production, Warner Brothers has issued a ...

"Leslie Grace is an incredibly talented actor and this decision is not a reflection of her performance. Hours after deciding to pull the plug on Batgirl and the sequel to Scoob!, even though both films were deep in post-production, Warner Brothers has issued a statement saying the decision was strictly business-related. 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."

“Batgirl” was filmed with a cast that included Leslie Grace, as the title character. Michael Keaton starred as Bruce Wayne and J.K. Simmons portrayed ...

The cancellation is part of a wider pullback by Warner Bros. The company, which combined with Discovery Inc. in April, has been looking to wring $3 billion in costs out of its merger. The movie, based on DC Comics characters, was in the final stages of editing. It also was set to feature a transgender character, played by Ivory Aquino. In recent months Warner Bros. has halted work on the J.J. Abrams-led series “Demimonde,” and canceled shows such as “Gordita Chronicles” and “Close Enough.” Grace is of Dominican heritage. 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.

Avec ses 75 millions de dollars d'investissement, Batgirl était très loin des superproductions Marvel, ou même de The Batman et de ses 100 millions de dollars.

Contrairement à Marvel qui a depuis des années réussir à bâtir une cohérence narrative et économique stable (quitte à être parfois trop formatée), DC peine encore et toujours à trouver sa voie, alternant les films d’auteur comme l’excellent Joker, les superproductions à la The Batman, ou modifiant après coup les films de Zack Snyder pour livrer un montage inédit. D’autant plus que dans le cas de Batgirl, le tournage était terminé depuis déjà plusieurs mois. Toujours selon les informations des médias américains, les nouveaux dirigeants de Warner Bros, dont le PDG David Zaslav en charge de Discovery, veulent désormais recentrer les ambitions du DCEU sur les salles obscures.

La décision a de quoi surprendre autant qu'agacer : la Warner a purement et simplement annulé son film Batgirl qui était bientôt prêt à sortir.

Mais s'il fallait une preuve de plus que le DCEU est un immense bordel qui ne sait pas où il va, la voilà. Dès le départ, le film a été pensé pour sortir sur HBO Max avec un budget largement inférieur aux autres superproductions à 100 voire 200 millions de dollars comme The Batman. D'après Variety, Batgirl était ainsi trop cher pour terminer sur une plateforme de streaming où sa rentabilité n'était pas assurée. Tenter de sauver les meubles sur HBO Max n'aurait en plus pas permis au studio de procéder à un amortissement fiscal au niveau des impôts. Sortir le film en salles aurait nécessité 30 à 50 millions de dollars supplémentaires à domicile et des dizaines de millions en plus pour une exploitation mondiale, ce qui n'aurait pas non plus été suffisamment rentable à l'heure où le studio se concentre sur les restrictions budgétaires.

C'est une nouvelle à laquelle personne ne s'attendait. Le film DC Comics Batgirl, porté par Leslie Grace mais également Michael Keaton de retour en Bruce Wayne ...

Une perte à hauteur de 90 millions de dollars est par ailleurs évoquée par les médias américains… La raison de cette annulation soudaine évoquée par le site The Wrap serait la qualité du long métrage. En raison de projections-test catastrophiques, il aurait été décidé par les responsables du studio Warner Bros. de ne pas commander le tournage de scènes supplémentaires, tout simplement car le film "ne marche pas". Une annonce qui intervient alors que le tournage supervisé par le tandem belge Adil El Arbi et Bilall Fallah (Bad Boys For Life) venait d’achever le tournage, et que le film était déjà entré en phase de post-production.

Warner Bros is not the first studio to bury a film six feet deep. Here are a few more of the worst movies you'll never see.

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.

[VIDÉO] ▶️ Les studios Warner Bros. ont décidé de remiser définitivement au placard le long-métrage réalisé par le duo belgo-marocain Adil et Bilall.

Nous sommes incroyablement reconnaissants aux réalisateurs de Batgirl et Scoob ! Holiday Hunt et à leurs castings respectifs, nous espérons travailler avec tout le monde à nouveau à l’avenir", écrivent les studios dans un communiqué relayé par The Hollywood Reporter. Car la suite du film d’animation Scooby ! a été victime de la même sentence et ne sortira jamais non plus. Car Batgirl aurait dû être l’un des évènements de l’année. Le personnage était pour la première fois incarné par une actrice latina, Brendan Fraser (La Momie) devait être le grand méchant et Michael Keaton devait y redevenir Bruce Wayne. Produit pour HBO Max, le film a tout de même coûté 90 millions de dollars. Si Black Adam avec Dwayne Johnson et la suite de Shazam débarqueront bien sur grand écran en octobre et en décembre, Batgirl n’avait visiblement pas l’étoffe du cinéma. Son absence lors du panel consacré à DC Comics au Comic Con en juillet avait déjà interrogé la profession. Le tournage a pris fin il y a des mois et les équipes travaillaient sur la post-production. En comparaison, The Batman avec Robert Pattinson en a coûté 100 millions de plus. Elle avait déjà multiplié les interviews pour crier sa fierté d’avoir été choisie pour se glisser dans l’iconique costume.

"Batgirl," the feature film adaptation of the DC Comics character, has been killed at Warner Bros. and won't be released on any platform.

And it’s not like “Batgirl” was a small movie, either. Studio insiders insist the decision to axe “Batgirl” was not driven by the quality of the film or the commitment of the filmmakers, but by the desire for the studio’s slate of DC features to be at a blockbuster scale. “She’s a biker chick, so you’re going to see her do a bunch of badassery… 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 followup to the 2020 film “Scoob!,” has been shelved by the studio. It will not premiere on any platform at the studio — neither theatrically nor on HBO Max.

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.

'Batgirl,' the feature film adaptation of the DC Comics character, has been killed at Warner Bros., Variety has confirmed. It will not premiere on any ...

It will not premiere on any platform at the studio -- neither theatrically nor on HBO Max. 1 hr ago 1 hr ago 1 hr ago 1 hr ago 1 hr ago Chay Feuser, Cason Feuser’s mom, said her son was staying with his two sisters and a family friend, Alicia, at a campsite near Buster Creek, Alta., Sunday morning when the animal attacked. 1 hr ago When House Speaker Nancy Pelosi flew into Taiwan on an Air Force passenger jet Tuesday, she became the highest-ranking American official in 25 years to visit the self-ruled island. 1 hr ago And it's not like "Batgirl" was a small movie, either. It will not premiere on any platform at the studio -- neither theatrically nor on HBO Max.

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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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.

The nearly completed superhero film starring Leslie Grace was reportedly too pricey for HBO Max, but not expensive enough for theatrical release.

Batgirl’s surprising cancellation comes amidst a change in leadership for the recently merged Warner Bros. Discovery, which also quashed an upcoming animated Scooby-Doo sequel movie, according to Variety. “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. This way, Warner Bros. Discovery can recoup much of its expenses, citing a postmerger shift in strategy. But, per Variety, this route also means the film can’t see the light of day at any other studio.

Porté par Leslie Grace en Barbara Gordon, le film DC Batgirl ne sortira jamais au cinéma ou sur HBO Max. Vous ne verrez jamais le film Batgirl, porté par ...

La production du film restera dans l’histoire des chaos de Hollywood. Initialement piloté par Joss Whedon, il a jeté l’éponge un an plus tard. Mais le couperet est tombé, le film est officiellement annulé par Warner : il ne sortira ni au cinéma, ni sur HBO Max. La dernière fois qu’un film DC présentait des désaccords artistiques en interne, c’était pour le premier Suicide Squad. Résultat, le long-métrage a été tellement remanié et charcuté qu’il était catastrophique, tombant vite aux oubliettes.

With Batgirl being shelved just before completion, the status of Ezra Miller's Flash has further come into question.

For now, The Flash is still on track to be released on June 23, 2023; but that could change at any moment. As Keaton had reprised his role as Bruce Wayne/Batman in Batgirl, and Affleck is supposed to reappear in Aquaman 2, one would assume that The Flash is an important cog in the DC machinery going forward. The short-short answer is that the studio is still thinking about what to do, with no decision in sight.

"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.

Le New York Post a annoncé ce spectaculaire revirement et les dirigeants des studios ont confirmé au Hollywood Reporter avoir mis au rebut leur prochain film ...

« La décision de ne pas sortir Batgirl reflète le changement stratégique de notre direction en ce qui concerne l’univers DC et HBO Max. Leslie Grace est une actrice incroyablement talentueuse et cette décision n’est pas un reflet de sa performance. Selon The Hollywood Reporter, cette décision inhabituelle de mettre au placard un film en postproduction est le résultat d’un changement de direction au sein du studio. La décision de Warner Bros. de renoncer à la sortie de Batgirl a surpris.

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.