I'm assuming it's a bookstore that sells the Planet. Basically, the window is advertising, "The Daily Planet sold here."
DC Cinematic Universe ( The James Gunn era)
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It looks very much like a book store that sells The Daily Planet, best sellers, as well as favorites, seven days a week.
I hope Clark is a reporter for the Daily Planet Book Store Newsletter covering the local dog show and Kelly Ripa's book signing.
I feel like I've definitely seen signage in bookstore windows saying, "X newspaper sold here," though I also feel like they're usually smaller, less obvious signs provided by the newspaper itself. Still, the Planet is often a BFD in the world of Superman stories.
The window display as shown here also has a bit of an old-school flavor to me, much like the Planet logo itself.
Perhaps the storefront is for a newsstand on the ground floor of the Daily Planet building.
Something popped up in my Instagram feed about that. Very strange!
Yeah, I saw that in my YT feed and did a doubletake at when the teaser was uploaded. Much as I love WATCHMEN, I'm baffled as to why DC would do an animated movie now.
Well, the last animated movie project they did was a 3-part Crisis on Infinite Earths, bringing an end to the animated-movie continuity they only started 7 or so films earlier. I think the animation division has gotten executive mandates to remake proven best-sellers and play it safe. Just more of the general bizarre decision-making of WB under its current leadership.
Whomever greenlit an animated COIE and didn't even attempt to have the character designs look anything like George Perez's work should be keelhauled.
Think it was discussed here a few years back when it was announced. Feels too close to the look of the Snyder movie.
The Blue Beetle movie will continue as an animated series
https://deadline.com/2024/06/blue-beetle-animated-series-dc-studios-1235973196/
https://deadline.com/2024/06/blue-beetle-animated-series-dc-studios-1235973196/
Hmm...
"Deadline understands the animated series will build on the movie, developed under DC Studios’ previous regime, but will divert from telling the same story. Instead, the show will create its own story..."
Well, that's... ambiguous. That could mean that it's in the movie continuity but covers a different storyline and leaves the movie's story threads for a sequel. Or it could mean that it's a distinct continuity just borrowing elements from the movie, like most animated series based on movies.
Or it could end up being something like the MTV Spider-Man, which was nominally a continuation of the first Sam Raimi film but was ignored and contradicted by the sequels.
Gunn has been clear (and by "clear" I mean "kinda confusing") that his DCU, starting with the Creature Commandos cartoon, will be its own separate continuity from prior DC productions. Where this is gonna get weird is in the case of things like Blue Beetle and Peacemaker, which are apparently going to carry over elements from their DCEU incarnations to the DCU versions, and at the same time represent a continuity break. So the first season of Peacemaker won't be canon to the second, but per Gunn almost everything will carry over except whatever is explicitly incompatible with the DCU (e.g., the portrayal of the Justice Leaguers). It strikes me as ill-advised and frankly a little self-serving on Gunn's part; he recasts and reinvents other people's projects but not his own existing baby. It would have been a better idea to make a clean break with all things DCEU, if he's going with a new universe, IMO.
Then again, I don't give two hoots about Peacemaker, so I don't really care what Gunn does or doesn't do with it for my own purposes. Ditto Blue Beetle.
Then again, I don't give two hoots about Peacemaker, so I don't really care what Gunn does or doesn't do with it for my own purposes. Ditto Blue Beetle.
So Peacemaker is kinda Superman & Lois? Taking the cast/chars, but actually not REALLY being the same ones you watched previously.
Kinda, but I gather season 2 of Peacemaker will track with season 1 more closely than S&L did with the Arrowverse. I think Gunn is gonna retain everything he can except, like, the Miller and Momoa cameos. Apparently there will even be some in-story reference to or explanation for the universe change. Again, I think it's basically Gunn not wanting to give up his baby, even as he scraps pretty much everything else from the DCEU.
Yeah, I'm not sure what the whole thing about it building off the movie, but "diverting" from it and that "create it's own story" is supposed to mean. It seems weird that they'd go back to the movie's cast and creative team, but then not make it a direct follow up to the movie.
If it's not a direct follow up to the movie, wouldn't it be simpler and less confusing to just make a clean break and start from scratch?
I don't think I ever heard of this....
It's the one with Doogie Howser as Spidey.
As I said, one possible interpretation is that it is an in-continuity followup but just won't be focusing on any of the specific story threads set up by the movie, so that they can be saved for a second movie. Kind of like how Marvel's 1970s-80s Star Wars comics and DC's 1980s Star Trek comics had to send the characters off on side missions that didn't relate to any of the main story elements of the movies in hopes of avoiding contradictions with the sequels. But it's vague enough that it's hard to know for sure.
It ran for one 13-episode season in 2003 and starred Neil Patrick Harris as Peter, Lisa Loeb as MJ, and Ian Ziering as Harry Osborn. It was an early attempt at cel-shaded 3D computer animation, which didn't look great, though when I saw some footage from it within the past couple of years, I realized it wasn't as bad-looking as I remembered. It was nominally an attempt to do a more "mature" Spidey cartoon, but it defined maturity in terms of violence and grim themes, and the character writing wasn't very sophisticated compared to the classic '90s animated series.
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