James Gunn

James Gunn’s Woke ‘Superman’ Needs to Open Big in China, Pre-Sales Show a Bust Is Brewing

Director James Gunn’s “Superman reboot,” hitting theaters this weekend, carries a production and promotional budget in the $300 to $400 million range. The David-Corenswet-starring film will need a big debut in China, where DC Studios has seen its superhero movies go to die or never show at all. Early “Superman” ticket sales figures suggest the Middle Kingdom could prove to be Kryptonite.

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‘Superman’ Director James Gunn Says His Film ‘Is About Politics,’ ‘An Immigrant that Came from Other Places,’ and the ‘Kindness We Have Lost’

“Superman” director James Gunn — who was fired by Disney after a decade’s worth of tweets he wrote about child rape, Mexicans, AIDS, and the Holocaust went viral; who said “Trump wakes up every morning hoping more kids are murdered by immigrants so it will help him in the polls;” who called Sen. Ted Cruz a “traitor;” who peddled the Trump “pee tape” hoax, and who said in 2023 “there is such a thing as superhero fatigue,” is now telling a large segment of America that his new superhero movie might not be for them. 

LONDON, ENGLAND - JULY 02: James Gunn attends the "Superman" Fan Event in London

Bret Easton Ellis on How Left-Wing Bias Made CNN Unwatchable and Trump Thriving Against Hollywood’s Hysteria

Best-selling author and producer Bret Easton Ellis, in the latest episode of his podcast, railed against the collective hysteria on the Resistance Left over President Donald Trump, how entertainment and media corporations are constructing destructive speech rules in the wake of James Gunn and Roseanne Barr’s firing, and how CNN’s “thuddingly obvious” political bias has made it unwatchable.

BEVERLY HILLS, CA - NOVEMBER 18: Author Bret Easton Ellis attends the 'Band of Outsid