DC Studios

DC Studios is an American film and television production company that is a division of Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD). It is responsible for the production of live-action and animated films and television series, as well as video games, based on characters from the American comic book publisher DC Comics, primarily as part of its flagship media franchise and shared universe, the DC Universe (DCU). The studio has been led by writer/director James Gunn and producer Peter Safran as its co-chairmen and co-CEOs since it was formed in November 2022.

The studio's predecessor, DC Films, was formed in May 2016 as a division of Warner Bros. Pictures to oversee DC-based film productions, primarily those from its shared universe franchise the DC Extended Universe (DCEU). It was led by DC comic book and television writer Geoff Johns and Warner Bros. producer Jon Berg as co-chairmen. After several DCEU films received poor reception and underperformed financially, the duo stepped down by the end of 2017, and the division was reorganized, with Walter Hamada hired as the studio's president. Following the merger of DC and Warner Bros. owner WarnerMedia with Discovery, Inc. in April 2022, WBD overhauled operations, resulting in Hamada stepping down in October 2022. DC Films was then dissolved in favor of DC Studios, a new division with greater oversight of DC media. Gunn and Safran, who had worked on some DCEU projects, were hired to lead the studio, and the duo began work on the DCU as a new franchise to serve as a soft reboot of the DCEU.

From 2016 to 2023, DC Films produced 13 films within the DCEU, from ''Suicide Squad'' (2016) to ''Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom'' (2023), alongside two standalone films, ''Joker'' (2019) and ''The Batman'' (2022). ''Joker'' and the studio's film ''Aquaman'' (2018) are among the 50 highest-grossing films of all time, with ''Joker'' becoming the first R-rated film to gross over $1 billion. The first DC Studios production is the television series ''The Penguin'' (2024), a spin-off from ''The Batman''. DC Studios plans to release films and television series within the DCU, starting with the animated series ''Creature Commandos'' in 2024, and the film ''Superman'' in 2025. Productions that are not part of the DCU are set to be part of the "DC Elseworlds" label. The studio's first animated film will be ''Dynamic Duo'' (2028). Provided by Wikipedia