DC Studios

DC Studios (originally known as DC Films from 2016 to 2022) is an American film, television, and animation production company that is a division of Warner Bros. Entertainment, which is a subsidiary of Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD). The studio has been led by filmmaker James Gunn and producer Peter Safran as its co-chairmen and co-CEOs since November 2022, and it is responsible for the production of films, television series, and animated projects based on characters appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics.

The studio was initially formed in May 2016 as DC Films and was led by comic book writer and producer Geoff Johns and producer Jon Berg as part of Warner Bros. Pictures to oversee the DC Comics–based film productions, primarily those in their flagship media franchise and shared universe, the DC Extended Universe (DCEU). After several DCEU films were met with poor reception and underperformed financially, Johns and Berg left by the end of 2017 and the studio was reorganized, with Walter Hamada hired as the president of DC Films in January 2018. After WBD became Warner Bros.' owner in April 2022, DC Films was overhauled and Hamada left in October 2022. Gunn and Safran, who had both worked on some DCEU media, then assumed control of the company, when it became DC Studios, and the duo began work on a new franchise, the DC Universe (DCU), to serve as a reboot of the DCEU.

From 2016 to 2023, the studio released 13 films within the DCEU, initially as DC Films from ''Suicide Squad'' (2016) to ''Black Adam'' (2022), and after becoming DC Studios, it released ''Shazam! Fury of the Gods'' (2023) to ''Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom'' (2023). DC Studios is set to begin releasing films within the DCU, starting with ''Superman'' (2025). The first television series originally produced by the studio is the animated ''Creature Commandos'', which is set to premiere in 2024. Since 2023, DC Studios also inherited and produces content not set within the continuity of the DCEU or the DCU as part of the "DC Elseworlds" label, and has produced several films part of the DC Universe Animated Original Movies banner.

The studio's films ''Aquaman'' (2018) and ''Joker'' (2019) are among the 50 highest-grossing films of all time, with ''Joker'' becoming the first R-rated film to gross over $1 billion. The studio has been involved with the production of other DC Comics character–based film franchises that have grossed $1 billion at the box office, including the ''Superman'', ''Batman'', and ''Wonder Woman'' multi-film franchises.

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