The Fantastic Four Beats Superman in the Bleeding Cool Weekly Bestseller List, strong performances from Marvel Swimsuit and Beneath The Trees

This means that future DCU movies and series don’t need to only move the story forward. They can also take things back in time. A period story about a metahuman from 100, 200, or 300 years ago is perfectly acceptable. This opens up possibilities for different sorts of stories in a way that the MCU has largely had to rely on the multiverse to tell.

James Gunn's 'Superman' is great until it climaxes with the same numbing effects-overkill as most other Marvel/DC efforts. It's time to find another way to end these movies.

Comic-book movies have come a long way over the last 50 years, but Marvel and DC’s big guns mark a pivotal month for the genre

With ICE raids blanketing California like a fog of bad decisions, Newsom and team have been vocal critics. So when the White House posted its Trump-as-Superman meme, Newsom's office responded with a reminder that was both factual and surgical: “Superman was an undocumented immigrant.”

Yes, Superman has a post-credits scene. Two, in fact. One around the mid-credits and a second at the very end. The scenes featured don't exactly tease anything or set up future DC projects, and that's how writer/director/studio head James Gunn wants it.

In a Wired Q&A, the cast answered 50 questions about Superman lore, one of which was if Lois Lane ever gets powers (which she has multiple times). The topic sparked a conversation about whether Gunn has ever considered giving Brosnahan's take on the character a boost.

Warner Bros./DC Studios’ “Superman” is keeping a red hot July box office humming with a $56.5 million opening day that includes $22.5 million from Thursday previews. Independent projections now have the first film in James Gunn’s new DC cinematic universe earning a $122 million domestic opening from 4,135 locations.

Moving over to DC Films would have been a lateral move with mammoth expectations. Whereas James Gunn's ascendance to DC Films co-CEO with producer Peter Safran is more of a promotion, as he only ran a corner of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

Also, it’s another great start for the summer box office, the second $100M+ opening after Lilo & Stitch ‘s $146M. Superman cost before P&A $225M net. Zack Snyder’s Man of Steel opened to $116.6M back in 2013, unadjusted for inflation.