I'm Reading Your Stuff: General News and Discussion Thread

[SwordOfMorning]

That December 2026 date Dune is currently holding is only two months later and wouldn’t be so bad. Might actually work quite nicely with the winter setting. But there’s also been rumours Spider-Man might move to December and if that’s the case, I can’t see anything other than March for Batman.

A December delay is so small it would be basically meaningless. I doubt we'll be that lucky if there's a delay though lol, it's probably gonna be March if that happens cause they parked that date already.

 

[DarthSkywalker]

Prepare yourself for someone pulling up Grace Randolph's lie-strewn swill.

So I decided to look up ratings and yeah... I'm excited for the response.

‘The Penguin’ Viewership Did Something Rather Stunning For HBO

Want to know why The Penguin is considering a season 2, after previously planning to just be a miniseries?

www.forbes.com

The Penguin is the third most-watched HBO or Max show in terms of its first season, behind House of the Dragon (obviously benefitting from Game of Thrones’ massive audience) and The Last of Us. The Penguin, of course, has The Batman in its corner.

Streaming Ratings: ‘Cross’ Debuts at No. 1, ‘The Penguin’ Charts After Finale

'Deadpool & Wolverine' also has a big opening week on Disney+.

www.hollywoodreporter.com

While Cross had a big opening, HBO’s DC Comics-based series The Penguin made its first appearance on the Nielsen charts for the week after its finale. The series had 595 million viewing minutes on Max for the week — and apparently has been landing just outside the acquired series top 10 for most of its run. Nielsen says The Penguin amassed 3.8 billion minutes of viewing on Max in the eight-plus weeks since its premiere (plus 650 million more from linear airings on HBO).

 

[DarthSkywalker]

A December delay is so small it would be basically meaningless. I doubt we'll be that lucky if there's a delay though lol, it's probably gonna be March if that happens cause they parked that date already.

Unless it's a Christmas movie...

 

[SwordOfMorning]

Purely anecdotal but I have a lowkey suspicion The Penguin had the most cultural impact from the Reevesverse so far. It was really, really in the pop culture ether - felt like everyone was watching it and talking about it. "Cultural impact" has been so abused in inane ways in discourse around these movies that it makes me roll my eyes just typing it but its still a thing here.

 

[DarthSkywalker]

Purely anecdotal but I have a lowkey suspicion The Penguin had the most cultural impact from the Reevesverse so far. It was really, really in the pop culture ether - felt like everyone was watching it and talking about it.

Yeah. And I think how it aired really added to that. No binge means you can discuss episode by episode, make predictions, etc.

 

[Johnny Frost]

It's so painfully obvious that the March 5, 2027 slot is for The Batman II.

 

[SwordOfMorning]

It's so painfully obvious that the March 5, 2027 slot is for The Batman II.

It's so obvious it's actually pretty funny lol

 

[TheSmoothKnight]

People thinking this means the DCU Batman will make his first appearance. If that’s true , The Batman part II will be pushed back.

 

[DeadlyWest]

Not necessarily. I haven't seen the numbers outside of the Samba ones for the first week, which were good, but not great. That said, it seemed to stay in the zeitgeist it's whole run, got a ton of praise, and is now getting award nominations.

‘The Penguin’ U.S. Viewership Up 10% For Finale, Reaching Another Series High

Obviously how they found these numbers is a bit of a ? so take that into consideration but Deadline's not exactly TMZ. And well

"Globally, The Penguin is the third most-watched HBO or Max debut season, following The House of the Dragon and The Last of Us."

As I said

to call it not a massive hit is genuinely just incorrect

Edit: I see you literally beat me to the punch in the time I made my hot chocolate

So I decided to look up ratings and yeah... I'm excited for the response.

‘The Penguin’ Viewership Did Something Rather Stunning For HBO

Want to know why The Penguin is considering a season 2, after previously planning to just be a miniseries?

www.forbes.com

Streaming Ratings: ‘Cross’ Debuts at No. 1, ‘The Penguin’ Charts After Finale

'Deadpool & Wolverine' also has a big opening week on Disney+.

www.hollywoodreporter.com

 

[emc5466]

Hollywood Reporter says the Clayface budget is $40m. They also say that Mike Flanagan adores the Batman Animated Series version of the character.

 

[DarthSkywalker]

‘The Penguin’ U.S. Viewership Up 10% For Finale, Reaching Another Series High

Obviously how they found these numbers is a bit of a ? so take that into consideration but Deadline's not exactly TMZ. And well

"Globally, The Penguin is the third most-watched HBO or Max debut season, following The House of the Dragon and The Last of Us."

As I said

to call it not a massive hit is genuinely just incorrect

Edit: I see you literally beat me to the punch in the time I made my hot chocolate

I hope it was good hot chocolate.

 

[Rick190293]

Disappointed with the lack of news about Part II, and now this. March 2027 will be 5 years after part I. It can't be.

 

[emc5466]

 

[TheSmoothKnight]

I don’t think that’s happening but IMO, I still think having two cinematic Batman’s going up against each other is not going to work. I hate to say it , but how long is Gunn really going to wait on Reeves to complete the script before introducing the DCU Batman.

 

[Rick190293]

I don't think it will happen but let's face it, that's a possibility. And we've seen weirder things.

 

[flickchick85]

I don’t think that’s happening but IMO, I still think having two cinematic Batman’s going up against each other is not going to work. I hate to say it , but how long is Gunn really going to wait on Reeves to complete the script before introducing the DCU Batman.

The world can go a few years without a Batman movie. That’s not the must-be-avoided scenario you’re painting it as.

 

[DarthSkywalker]

The world can go a few years without a Batman movie. That’s not the must-be-avoided scenario you’re painting it as.

But FC, if the world doesn't stay over 50 Batman movies every year, it will explode!

 

[Sithborg]

Frankly, with Penguins success, what is more likely is that Reeves is given his own fiefdom for Bat stuff. Something that Gunn wouldn't exactly advertise.

 

[Johnny Frost]

Just the fact that they put Clayface so close to The Batman 2 already tells me that they intend to delay it, now whether it will be a small delay (I could see it being pushed back to December to match the winter aesthetic) or a big delay for the March 5th slot, only time will tell.

 

[J.Drangal]

Without wanting to sound cynical, I have to admit that after all the jokes about Reeves's slowness and Brave and The Bold possibly coming before he's finishing his trilogy, I'm a little amused that this Clayface could show up before The Batman Part II.

We've all heard the refrain by now, “let the man cook”, “there's still time” and so on. And it's true, the film is definitely happening and there's nothing inevitably stopping it from being a potential future hit.
However, for someone like us who doesn't have his nose in the game like us, right now, all he hears about this sequel are delays or interventions from collaborators in the dark. It's objectively not the best press. And even if The Penguin has reinvigorated entouthiasm for this version (me first), on the internet, one news chases another, especially if you can squeeze some drama out of it. But that's the game.

And what else would we be talking about, eh?

The world can go a few years without a Batman movie. That’s not the must-be-avoided scenario you’re painting it as.

"I survived 1997-2005."
To be honest, I was a teenager back then and so, in those years, my brain didn't have too much room for Batman anyway, vampirised by... well... the same obsessions as all teenagers... hum.


On a more serious note, I think there's a difference between a period without Batman in the cinema and the space between two opuses of the same saga. It's all about the momentum. But like said, the success of The Penguin puts all that into perspective.
And sometimes (often), all it takes is one hell of a premise and/or one hell of a trailer.

Still, let's hope that the next headlines will be all about the actual movie whether its development.

 

[TheSmoothKnight]

 

[emielaen]

He did say a first draft hadn't been turned in yet, not that it wasn't completed. Reeves has said they have given portions of the script to DC. Not the whole thing. The script is more or less finished.

 

[Boom]

And Justin Kroll said not too long ago that the plan was to start shooting in the second half of 2025 but that nothing was set in stone yet. I'm just not sure how it's possible that nothing is set yet unless the script really isn't near ready.

 

[Johnny Frost]

It's pretty clear to me that the mistake came from the article, before and after this interview Reeves was still saying he was finishing the script, the fact that they didn't give a direct quote from Matt confirming that the script was ready makes this even clearer.

 

[donuts]

I have a theory on how things might work at DC Studios, and they could theoretically be very filmmaker friendly and beneficial to the quality of the movies and series that we'll be seeing.

But I'll keep it for myself for now. We'll see.