History Creator / DCFilms

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Following the release of ''Film/BatmanVSupermanDawnOfJustice'', a new motion picture studio was created in mid-2016 by Creator/WarnerBros to oversee the production and creative control of theatrical films set in the Franchise/DCExtendedUniverse (DCEU), the cinematic SharedUniverse adapting Creator/DCComics characters, with veteran comics writer Creator/GeoffJohns and veteran studio executive Jon Berg appointed as its chairmen.

''Film/{{Suicide Squad|2016}}'', ''Film/{{Wonder Woman|2017}}'' and ''Film/{{Justice League|2017}}'' were the first batch of films to be released under the new DC Films banner, although production on them had started earlier. Berg left the studio in December 2017 after the underwhelming results of a heavily reworked ''Justice League'', and Walter Hamada (Creator/NewLineCinema producer who worked on the ''[[Film/TheConjuringUniverse Conjuring Universe]]'' films most notably) was made chairman of DC Films in his stead in January 2018, with Johns stepping down from producing and remaining as consultant and co-writer. Hamada was assisted by fellow New Line producer Peter Safran, who had a more hands-on management of the films. The studio also branched out to produce other DC Comics-inspired films that have no connection to the DCEU whatsoever, the first of them being ''Film/{{Joker|2019}}'', followed by ''Film/{{The Batman|2022}}''.

A massive new studio overhaul happened following the creation of Creator/WarnerBrosDiscovery, which started with the cancellation of Creator/HBOMax original projects such as the ''Wonder Twins'' and ''Batgirl'' films, followed by the departure of Hamada. On October 25, 2022, it was announced that Creator/JamesGunn and Peter Safran would be appointed as co-chairmen and co-[=CEOs=], with the studio to be renamed "DC Studios" while the DCEU would be rebranded as the DC Universe.
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!! Noteworthy people who have worked for DC Films
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[[folder:DC Extended Universe:]]
* UsefulNotes/DCExtendedUniverseActors
* Creator/BenAffleck (executive producer)
* Creator/DavidAyer (director, writer)
* Music/LorneBalfe (composer)
* Jaume Collet-Serra (director)
* Music/DannyElfman (composer)
* Creator/JamesGunn (director, writer)
* Walter Hamada (chairman, producer)
* [[Music/JunkieXL Tom Holkenborg]] (composer)
* Creator/PattyJenkins (director, writer)
* Creator/GeoffJohns (writer, consultant, former co-chairman)
* Creator/AndresMuschietti (director)
* Creator/MargotRobbie (co-producer)
* Peter Safran (producer)
* Creator/DavidFSandberg (director)
* Creator/ZackSnyder (director, executive producer)
* Creator/PatrickTatopoulos (production designer)
* Creator/ChrisTerrio (writer)
* Creator/JamesWan (director)
* Creator/JossWhedon (writer, uncredited director[[note]]He only had writer credits on ''Justice League'', despite heavily altering the film with reshoots he directed[[/note]])
* Music/HansZimmer (composer)
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[[folder:Other Films:]]
* UsefulNotes/DCComicsFilmsActors [[note]]''Joker'', ''Joker: Folie à Deux'', ''The Batman''[[/note]]
* Creator/MichaelGiacchino (composer)
* Music/HildurGudnadottir (composer)
* Creator/ToddPhillips (director, writer)
* Creator/MattReeves (director, writer)
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!!Works produced under the DC Films banner with pages on TV Tropes:
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* Franchise/DCExtendedUniverse:
** ''Film/ManOfSteel'' (2013)[[note]]Retroactively; Warner's main movie division handled this film before the studio's creation.[[/note]]
** ''Film/BatmanVSupermanDawnOfJustice'' (2016)[[note]]Retroactively; Warner's main movie division handled this film before the studio's creation.[[/note]]
** ''Film/{{Suicide Squad|2016}}'' (2016)
** ''Film/{{Wonder Woman|2017}}'' (2017)
** ''Film/{{Justice League|2017}}'' (2017)
*** ''Film/ZackSnydersJusticeLeague'' (2021)
** ''Film/{{Aquaman|2018}}'' (2018)
** ''[[Film/Shazam2019 SHAZAM!]]'' (2019)
** ''Film/{{Birds of Prey|2020}}'' (2020)
** ''Film/WonderWoman1984'' (2020)
** ''Film/TheSuicideSquad'' (2021)
** ''Series/{{Peacemaker|2022}}'' (2022)
** ''Film/{{Black Adam|2022}}'' (2022)
** ''Film/ShazamFuryOfTheGods'' (2023)
** ''Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom'' (2023)
** ''Film/{{The Flash|2023}}'' (2023)
* ''Film/{{Joker|2019}}'' (2019)
** ''Joker: Folie à Deux'' (2024)
* ''Film/{{The Batman|2022}}'' (2022)
%%** ''Blue Beetle'' (2023)
%%** ''Penguin'' series (TBA)
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A massive new studio overhaul happened following the creation of Creator/WarnerBrosDiscovery, which started with the cancellation of Creator/HBOMax original projects such as the ''Wonder Twins'' and ''Batgirl'' films, followed by the departure of Hamada. On October 25, 2022, it was announced that Creator/JamesGunn and Peter Safran would be appointed as co-chairmen and co-[=CEOs=], with the studio to be renamed DC Studios while the DCEU would be rebranded as the DC Universe.

*** ''Series/{{Peacemaker|2022}}'' (2022)

A massive new studio overhaul happened following the creation of Creator/WarnerBrosDiscovery, which started with the cancellation of Creator/HBOMax original projects such as the ''Wonder Twins'' and ''Batgirl'' films, followed by the departure of Hamada. On October 25, 2022, it was announced that Creator/JamesGunn and Peter Safran would be appointed as co-chairmen and co-[=CEOs=], with the studio to be renamed DC Studios while the DCEU would be rebooted into simply the DC Universe.

* Franchise/DCExtendedUniverse: [[note]]''Film/ManOfSteel'' and ''Film/BatmanVSupermanDawnOfJustice'' were produced by Warner's main movie division before the studio's creation.[[/note]]

A massive new studio overhaul happened following the creation of Creator/WarnerBrosDiscovery, which started with the cancellation of Creator/HBOMax original projects such as the ''Wonder Twins'' and ''Batgirl'' films, followed by the departure of Hamada. On October 25, 2022, it was announced that Creator/JamesGunn and Peter Safran would be appointed as co-chairmen and co-[=CEOs=], with the studio to be renamed DC Studios.

A massive new studio overhaul happened following the creation of Creator/WarnerBrosDiscovery, which started with the cancellation of Creator/HBOMax original projects such as the ''Wonder Twins'' and ''Batgirl'' films, followed by the departure of Hamada. On October 25, 2022, it was announced that Creator/JamesGunn and Peter Safran would take over DC Films as co-chairmen and co-CEOs, with the studio to be renamed DC Studios.

A massive new studio overhaul happened following the creation of Creator/WarnerBrosDiscovery, which started with the cancellation of Creator/HBOMax original projects such as the ''Wonder Twins'' and ''Batgirl'' films, followed by the departure of Hamada.

** ''Film/ShazamFuryOfTheGods'' (2022)

A massive new studio overhaul happened following the creation of Creator/WarnerBrosDiscovery, which started with the cancellation of Creator/HBOMax original projects such as the ''Wonder Twins'' and ''Batgirl'' films.

* UsefulNotes/DCComicsFilmsActors [[note]]''Joker'', ''The Batman''[[/note]]

''Film/{{Suicide Squad|2016}}'', ''Film/{{Wonder Woman|2017}}'' and ''Film/{{Justice League|2017}}'' were the first batch of films to be released under the new DC Films banner, although production on them had started earlier. Berg left the studio in December 2017 after the underwhelming results of a heavily reworked ''Justice League'', and Walter Hamada (Creator/NewLineCinema producer who worked on the ''[[Film/TheConjuringUniverse Conjuring Universe]]'' films most notably) was made chairman of DC Films in his stead in January 2018, with Johns stepping down from producing and remaining as consultant and co-writer. Hamada is assisted by fellow New Line producer Peter Safran, who has a more hands-on management of the films.

Rocky beginnings with ExecutiveMeddling and {{Troubled Production}}s aplenty in 2016 and 2017 and ensuing changing of heads aside, the studio's current official policy for its films is to be "director-driven", unlike Creator/MarvelStudios, in which there is a tighter leash on directors (even though there have been cases of ExecutiveMeddling at the studio since ''Justice League''). The studio has branched out to produce other DC Comics-inspired films that have no connection to the DCEU whatsoever, the first of them being 2019's ''Film/{{Joker|2019}}''.

A massive new studio overhaul happened following the creation of Creator/WarnerBrosDiscovery, which started with the cancellation of Creator/HBOMax original projects such as the ''Batgirl'' film.

A massive new studio overhaul is expected following the creation of Creator/WarnerBrosDiscovery, which started with the cancellation of Creator/HBOMax original projects such as the ''Batgirl'' film.

* Creator/AdilElArbiAndBilallFallah (directors)

Rocky beginnings with ExecutiveMeddling and {{Troubled Production}}s aplenty in 2016 and 2017 and ensuing changing of heads aside, the studio's current official policy for its films is to be "director-driven", unlike Creator/MarvelStudios, in which there is a tighter leash on directors (even though there have been cases of ExecutiveMeddling at the studio since ''Justice League''). The studio has branched out to produce other DC Comics-inspired films that have no connection to the DCEU whatsoever, the first of them being 2019's ''Film/{{Joker|2019}}''. Aside from films, the studio also produces streaming SpinOff series related to some films for Creator/HBOMax.

A massive new studio overhaul is expected following the creation of Creator/WarnerBrosDiscovery.

** ''Shazam: Fury of the Gods'' (2022)

%%** ''Shazam: Fury of the Gods'' (2022)
%%** ''Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom'' (2023)

%%** ''Arkham Asylum'' series (TBA)

Rocky beginnings with ExecutiveMeddling and {{Troubled Production}}s aplenty in 2016 and 2017 and ensuing changing of heads aside, the studio's current official policy for its films is to be "director-driven", unlike Creator/MarvelStudios, in which there is a tighter leash on directors (even though there have been cases of ExecutiveMeddling at the studio since ''Justice League''). The studio has branched out to produce other DC Comics-inspired films that have no connection to the DCEU whatsoever, the first of them being 2019's ''Film/{{Joker|2019}}''.

Aside from films, the studio also produces streaming SpinOff series related to some films for Creator/HBOMax.

!!Works produced under the DC Films banner:

** ''Shazam: Fury of the Gods'' (2022)

** ''Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom'' (2023)
** ''Batgirl'' (TBA)
** ''Blue Beetle'' (TBA)

** ''Penguin'' series (TBA)
** ''Arkham Asylum'' series (TBA)

Rocky beginnings with ExecutiveMeddling and {{Troubled Production}}s aplenty in 2016 and 2017 and ensuing changing of heads aside, the studio's current official policy for its films is to be "director-driven", unlike Creator/MarvelStudios, in which there is a tighter leash on directors (even though there have been cases of ExecutiveMeddling at the studio since ''Justice League'').

The studio has branched out to produce other DC Comics-inspired films that have no connection to the DCEU whatsoever, the first of them being 2019's ''Film/{{Joker|2019}}''. The studio also produces streaming SpinOff series related to some films for Creator/HBOMax.

** ''Gotham P.D.'' series (TBA)

** ''Film/{{The Flash|2022}}'' (2022)
** ''Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom'' (2022)
** ''Shazam: Fury of the Gods'' (2023)

The studio has branched out to produce other DC Comics-inspired films that have no connection to the DCEU whatsoever, the first of them being 2019's ''Film/{{Joker|2019}}''. The studio is also set to produce streaming SpinOff series related to some films for Creator/HBOMax.

*** ''Peacemaker'' series (2022)

** ''The Flash'' (2022)

** ''Black Adam'' (2022)

** ''Black Adam'' (2022)