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Warner Bros has pulled The Man of Steel from a planned late 2012 release date and has slotted it to open wide on June 14, 2013 release. The Zack Snyder-directed reboot of the Superman franchise feels like a summer film anyway. Henry Cavill stars with a cast that includes Henry Cavill, Michael Shannon, Kevin Costner, Amy Adams, Diane Lane and Russell Crowe. The distribution calendar is just forming for films that far in advance, but what’s also interesting about that date is it strays close to the expiration of certain rights that revert back to the estates of creators Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster. Warner Bros has spent a fortune defending its position to keep the Superman rights–some say as much as $25 million in legal fees–but right now it looks like there will be a splitting of rights between the creator estates and DC Comics. As long as the film has been shot, Warner Bros won’t have problems releasing the films, but you don’t reboot Superman to make one movie, so there will likely have to be some stunning court decision or a major payday for those heirs if Man of Steel is to soar in a trilogy of movies.
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Warner Bros. must be impressed with what they’ve seen to move it to Summer Tentpole slot.
It likely has nothing to do with it being good or bad, as they haven’t actually started shooting yet. They probably just want to give it and THE HOBBIT a little breathing room.
Hmm. I seem to recall many commenters here on several posts saying, “FIRST will come the announcement of the DELAY. Wait a bit, THEN will come news of the CANCELLATION.”
They were right about the first part. Will they continue to be right about the second part? I do so love Deadline Hollywood and its commenters.
So Cavill is being credited twice, for both ‘Clark Kent’ and ‘Superman’?
LOL.
He’s just that awesome. lol
That must be his wooden twin in the Immortals then. lol I think he should be credited 5 times for that movie. His performance is just that “impressive”.
I SHOULD’VE KNOWN THAT THE NEW SUPERMAN MOVIE RETURN WOULDN’T BE A YEAR A WAY. I AM NOW HOPPING THAT THE TWO YEARS WAIT WILL BE WORTH THE WAIT. I AM GLAD TO SEE THAT THE WRITERS WILL USED ANOTHER VILLAIN BESIDE LEX LUTHOR AS THE MAIN VILLAIN. IT WILL BE INTERESTED TO SEE IF SUPERMAN AND LEX LUTHOR ARE STILL CHILDHOOD BUDDY IN THE REBOOT DC WORLD. GOOD LUCK TO THE FUTURE. YOUR TRULY CHARLES DAVID HASKELL
Not even reading your post ’cause you used all caps.
I post all the time on DH…today “pass” set the bar for cool posts.
I salute you!
Looks like Superman is scared of Peter Jackson, smart move. The Hobbit 3D is going to own that holiday season, i’d be surprised to see anyone open against/around it.
No, Warner Bros. has distribution for both The Hobbit and Superman. They just want to give the two a little breathing room. Can you imagine releasing both The Hobbit and Superman in the same month!?
I wonder why June 14th? The 4th of July weekend is wide open correct?
Yeah 4th of July is open, so is August 4 and Sept 4…maybe another month? Don’t know, Jeff is the marketing genius here…
So far, the only movie set for that weekend is Despicable Me 2.
Snyder’s next failure definitely can’t compete with that film. The Superman rehash needs to find some weekend where nothing is opening at least a week on either side of it.
My guess is because WB/Legendary have Pacific Rim set for July 12 and they don’t want to release two tentpoles that close together.
SUPERMAN RETURNS opened on that weekend in 2006 and it didn’t do as well as they’d hoped. That’s my guess as to why they’re avoiding it this time.
Pay no attention to the fact that it also opened during the World Cup and a week before the second movie in one of the biggest franchises of all time.
The Hobbit and Man of Steel are both from WB so it isn’t Superman being scared of The Hobbit, just WB being smart.
July 4th has Despicable Me 2.
WB has a LOT of money riding on Superman, and Chris Nolan is busy making Batman so he cannot fully devote time as the producer of Superman to make sure Zack doesn’t blow it. If Zack Snyder fails to deliver on this film…other than projects already signed..his career and power will drop to the minor leagues.
Then Zack’s career is over, because nobody wants to see the boring origin again. Nobody was asking for a pre-Superman movie. People wanted to see Superman being Superman. Zack is doing Clark Kent: The movie, just like Singer, only with more action. But still no Superman until the very end of the film. And when it bombs, he’ll be as clueless as Singer was. People wanted to see Superman being Superman on his Superman adventures, and got a ton of Clark Kent’s family drama instead.
I believe you are right. His track record at Warner Bros. is far from stellar. Watchmen, Legend of the Guardians and Sucker Punch all under-performed. I’m amazed they have kept him on board as director with such an important property. I wouldn’t be surprised to see a new director before it shoots. Nolan may be around the set much in the same way it was rumored that Spielberg kept tight reins on Tobe Hooper during the production of “Poltergeist.”
I don’t get it…isn’t this the same ‘superhero’ that WB tried to ‘relaunch’ in 2006? Didn’t they learn their lesson with that bomb? Do we really need this movie to be ‘relaunched’? This is pure and simple laziness….and arrogance.
How many of these films have to lose money before Hollywood starts to try to work again?
So glad I never invested in WB stock….
They just don’t know how to handle Superman. So they keep retreading the same tired rut. Easier to remake the old movies than try to show something new about him. Superman has had a billion stories laid out about him in comic books, cartoon episodes, radio shows, live action TV episodes, and newspaper strips. A billion stories, but the only thing Warners can do is keep retreading Donner’s films.
It’s gutlessness on a staggering scale. This cowardice doesn’t even make any sense, because even if they can’t bring themselves to try anything new with Superman, there are also a billion stories that have already been written and tested in other formats. The huge irony is that if they only licensed Superman out to other studios, a billion dollar franchise would instantly be born at any other studio. But because Warner does it itself, and is completely bereft of imagination and determined to make the blandest, most boring, stalest movie possible, all that potential riches evaporate. The waste of this potential is almost criminal. All that could have been, but never will be, because Superman is at the one studio incapable of doing him.
Warner Bros stock? Just curious, what’s their ticker symbol?
this movie will most likely suck as do snyder’s precious films. But it will make tons of cash regardless. It may not have staying power but opening weekend will have huge numbers.
You know….I would really love to have seen Patrick Warburton take on the role of Superman. He’s got a great look and bares a strong resemblance to the WB version.
I know he does comedy but I think if he ever tried doing drama…he should be considered for superhero film.
Open Superman on Labor Day 2013.
The script is having a polish and they still haven’t settled on a costume design. Just because the release date has been moved doesn’t mean they’re holding off on starting production. They’ve got plenty of non-CGI, non-Superman stuff to shoot, I’m sure. He just better have the red trunks…
The next announcement will be that, because of the aforementioned legal considerations, the project has been scrapped altogether. I will only believe this film is moving forward, with Zack Snyder (director of smash hits “Sucker Punch,” “Watchmen” and the “Owls of Gahoole”) still at the helm, once principal photography has begun.
OR… because the schedule’s been pushed back, Nolan will now be available to direct and Snyder can “oversee” as executive producer.
They are giving it the same weekend that GREEN LANTERN opened! Dear God! LOL. What? What? I have no words.
LOL @ the Zack Snyder haters. Bunch of trolls. Almost $450M worldwide for 300.
http://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=300.htm
I *loved* Watchmen and Sucker Punch. Yes, they flopped, but because the AUDIENCE wasn’t ready. Watchmen was considered by many including Alan Moore himself to be unfilmable, while Sucker Punch was COMPLETELY original, and was not a remake, reboot or rehash. I saw it in IMAX and it blew me out of the back of the theater. It was better than THOR, IMO.
Instead of worrying about Zack (the visuals are covered, believe me) you SHOULD be worrying about the fucking SCREENPLAY. Will they sell out Superman’s core ethics to kowtow to the cynical, hipster, know-it-all generation, like they did with Superman Returns, and how they’re doing NOW with the Superman comic relaunch? Goyer and Nolan are not infallible.
Everyone knows BATMAN is the more valuable property than SUPERMAN for DC!
- Number of Monthly Titles with BATMAN related – 11
- Number of Monthly Titles with SUPERMAN or related – 4
They would have been better off doing a new Superman series for WB continuing from Smallville!
They need another Harry Potter gravy train, splitting the Hobbit and making superman right and into sequel status is a step in that direction.
Actually this is great news for 2 reasons:
1) Superman was first published in Action Comics #1 in June 1938. That would make 2013 his 75th birthday. What better way to celebrate than to release a blockbuster movie?
2) Since comic book story lines are usually mapped out at least a year in advance, this give DC Comics plenty of time to get a tie-in story done that doesn’t suck or seem thrown together at the last minute.
Jeez. I’m so sick of “the new generation” talking about Smallville. Go to see Harry Potter or Twilight. Stay away from Supes. Tom Welling is no Chris Reeve. I hate the mentioning of this show in the same sentence with Superman.
Then it is time for you to retire to the old folks home gramps. So sick of the Boomer generation’s stranglehold on Superman. Even Geoff Johns is too old. He grew up reading that old Silver Age crap and now is determined to bring that ancient stuff back, much to the boredom and horror of the new generation. I mean they made the new Green Lantern movie about Silver Age Hal Jordan!! No wonder it bombed! Everybody in the audience must have been over 50. The new generation only cares about the MODERN Green Lantern: John Stewart. The boomers also want the Flash movie to be about Silver Age Barry Allen, when modern generations only care about Wally West. That Flash movie will bomb as hard as Green Lantern! The younger generation don’t want these stars of yesteryear. We want the heroes and stars of our own generation. The boomers, and their worshipers like Johns, need to hurry up and die, so Superman can at long last be free of them!
ps: Some future Superman writer needs to add Alicia Baker to comic book Superman’s romantic past. She was a cool character in Smallville, and could function as Superman’s Catwoman/Black Cat.
This Superman will be a Superdud. EPIC FAIL.
People need to see a different kind of Superman film… something fresh, something new, something the audience hasn’t seen before.