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So last week my main account was unfortunately hacked and I was temporarily locked out. Thankfully I’ve now regained control, made the necessary changes and I’m in the process of re-following everyone the hacker unfollowed in the interim.
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LANTERNS EP and Season 2 writer Christopher Cantwell shot down Variety's report that the series didn't get a second season:
"Nothing's cancelled. Calm down."
Variety has since corrected its article.
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As others are noting, this reads very Team Ellison, from contradicting their own recent references to Clayface as a modest box office success, to acting like Lanterns not getting a quick renewal has great meaning when HBO Max just took 8 months to renew IT: Welcome to Derry.
James Gunn and Peter Safran have been dismissed from DC Studios after their decade-long plans imploded, following a string of projects that lost money and failed to hook audiences.
Sources suggest the thinking was Gunn and Safran spent big — and lost too much — on projects that just weren’t resonating with audiences, raising eyebrows with their decision to focus on lesser-known characters like Supergirl and Clayface rather than building out the franchise with marquee names.
As one studio insider puts it: “The industry has taken away the wrong lessons from Marvel’s success. Higher budgets don’t equal quality storytelling.”
variety.com/2026/film/news/j…
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WandaVision
VisionQuest
Agatha All Along
Each one really added something unique to the MCU and they work so well together thematically. Great journey.
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Lanterns was getting Game of Thrones level viewership but it "isn't quite capturing the zeitgeist" I’m so sure
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Literally revitalized Superman as a character in pop culture and everyone was talking about hopecore the entire year but okay
One of the reasons Skydance replaced James Gunn and Peter Safran as the heads of DC Studios had to do with box office.
• ‘Supergirl’ was a massive bomb this year.
• ‘Superman’s $618M box office was not impressive to Skydance either, as the film lacked “pop culture impact” in their eyes.
(Source: hollywoodreporter.com/movies…)
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Just utterly insane. Lanterns was dominating the conversation every Sunday while it was on.
The most blatant, bullshit agenda from Skydance.
LANTERNS has not been renewed for a Season 2.
Paramount insider says the show "isn't quite capturing the zeitgeist."
(via @Variety)
Skydance and the Ellisons would rather straight up gaslight everyone about Lanterns and Superman’s popularity than prioritise a growing cinematic universe over their own politics. A terrible way to run any business, let alone a filmmaking one.
LANTERNS has not been renewed for a Season 2.
Paramount insider says the show "isn't quite capturing the zeitgeist."
(via @Variety)
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That’s the thing im upset about, you can say what you want but James Gunn is clearly passionate about DC comics and we’re going from passion at the forefront to political agendas and corporate greed
We were blessed to have Matt Ryan’s Constantine stick around in the Arrowverse, but robbed at the same time by having only one season of this dope-ass show.
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"Superman and Lanterns didn't hit the pop culture zeitgeist," "Superman and Clayface were not financially successful," and "Gunn and Safran didn't have plans for Wonder Womanand Batman" are statements so unbelievably false. I'm watching propaganda in real time
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Yeah they’re fucking bullshitting now regardless of how you feel about this show it was everywhere and did really well
LANTERNS has not been renewed for a Season 2.
Paramount insider says the show "isn't quite capturing the zeitgeist."
(via @Variety)
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Apparently Lanterns, the 5th most watched show in the history of HBO, btw, “didn’t quite capture the zeitgeist”
They’re not just assholes, they’re completely stupid.
DC Studios Exit: James Gunn and Peter Safran Spent Big, Lost Money and Didn't Hook Audiences variety.com/2026/film/news/j…
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saying Superman 2025 lacked cultural impact is really just a self-own for not knowing shit about the movie industry
which is on brand for right wing chuds to be fair
One of the reasons Skydance replaced James Gunn and Peter Safran as the heads of DC Studios had to do with box office.
• ‘Supergirl’ was a massive bomb this year.
• ‘Superman’s $618M box office was not impressive to Skydance either, as the film lacked “pop culture impact” in their eyes.
(Source: hollywoodreporter.com/movies…)
Donovan McComish retweeted
This is a hit piece, plain and simple.
Skydance wants to downplay every single project under the previous regime to prop up their hijacking of DC.
Saying that Superman had “no cultural impact”
Calling Lanterns viewership “decent” even though it was the third biggest Season 1 in HBO’s history.
Now they are saying Clayface won’t break even theatrically, even though it will make three times its budget and anyone who has been following box office knows it has turned a profit already.
These are all blatant lies, no one is falling for this bullshit and everyone sees what’s going on here.
‘CLAYFACE’ will reportedly not break-even theatrically.
It is expected to break-even only when the studio factors in post-theatrical revenues.
(Source: variety.com/2026/film/news/j…)
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I think it is pretty clear that Ellison and Co. are blatantly downplaying what success the DCU actually had in order to paint Gunn and Safran as people that had no clue what they were doing, literally contradicting reports less than a month old to do that
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A hit piece meant to defend Skydance.
Just sad.
DC Studios Exit: James Gunn and Peter Safran Spent Big, Lost Money and Didn't Hook Audiences variety.com/2026/film/news/j…