{"id":43890,"date":"2016-05-18T14:26:31","date_gmt":"2016-05-18T21:26:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/?p=43890"},"modified":"2019-03-06T10:36:38","modified_gmt":"2019-03-06T18:36:38","slug":"warner-bros-execs-geoff-johns-dc-films","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/warner-bros-execs-geoff-johns-dc-films\/","title":{"rendered":"Geoff Johns Takes Co-Charge of DC Films After Batman v Superman’s Poor Performance"},"content":{"rendered":"

No matter any personal opinions on Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice<\/a>,<\/em> the fact is that it didn’t do nearly as well as Warner Bros. was hoping, both critically (it has a dismal 27% on Rotten Tomatoes) and financially (it made just $870 million worldwide since it first premiered on March 25, which may seem like a lot, but when you compare it to Captain America: Civil War’s<\/em> $966 million since May 6, and the fact that most blockbusters are aiming for $1 billion these days, it’s a definite disappointment).<\/p>\n

It also makes it clear that Warner Bros. needs to do something about this, and it looks like that’s exactly what they’re doing.<\/p>\n

First there were the Suicide Squad<\/em> re-shoots<\/a> (which, yes, are common for most movies, but hold a bit more weight and curiosity here), and now there’s a big re-structuring of executives.<\/p>\n

According to The Hollywood Reporter,<\/em> a new branch called DC Films has been created and it will be co-run by executive VP Jon Berg and DC’s chief content officer Geoff Johns.<\/p>\n

DC isn’t the only one getting a change – execs will now be in charge of separate branches, such as Courtenay Valenti taking over the LEGO<\/em> and Harry Potter<\/em> films – but all of this is most telling for WB’s DC department.<\/p>\n

Frankly, this sounds like a great thing. Johns is an imaginative leader, who spearheaded DC making such a splash on television, and is also extremely familiar with the comics. Plus, Johns and Berg are now also producers on the Justice League<\/em> films (along with Ben Affleck as executive producer), which, while still being directed by Zack Snyder, at least now there are people to reign him in.<\/p>\n

Most people, myself included, are fans of DC and want to see good movies. So far we have not gotten that with Man of Steel<\/em> or BvS,<\/em> but I have every hope that this course correction is a step in the right direction.<\/p>\n

What do you think of this shake-up? Are you excited to see Geoff Johns step into a new role with DC movies? Sound off below!<\/p>\n

Source: THR<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

No matter any personal opinions on Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, the fact is that it didn’t do nearly as well as Warner Bros. was hoping, both critically (it has a dismal 27% on Rotten Tomatoes) and financially (it made just $870 million worldwide since it first premiered on March 25, which may seem […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3796,11,108,3792,388,558],"tags":[890,4217,3145,112,3762,280,1162],"yst_prominent_words":[8639,13397,8182,5880,10525,8954,8041,14460,14454,14461,7591,8109,6636,6116,33021,8176,8124],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43890"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43890"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43890\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64255,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43890\/revisions\/64255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43890"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=43890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}