The biggest story of the week came out of Burbank, where DC Studios changed hands, and the rest of the week filled in around it: a VisionQuest finale that points straight at Doomsday, a final Doomsday trailer still waiting on a date, a monster at the top of the box office, and a Percy Jackson return date.
Skydance announced on Monday that James Gunn and Peter Safran are stepping down as co-chairs and co-CEOs of DC Studios after four years, and that Jeremy Latcham, the former Marvel Studios senior vice president of production and development, becomes President and Chief Creative Officer effective December 1. Gunn and Safran stay on as producers and return to full-time creative work. Reports say the two were told in person on November 6 by Skydance co-CEOs David Ellison and Ynon Kreiz at the Warner Bros. lot in Burbank, after Skydance’s acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery. Their record is a mixed one: Superman from 2025 earned more than $618 million worldwide, Clayface has passed $109 million worldwide on a $44 million budget, and Supergirl from 2026 was the big miss at $126.4 million worldwide on a reported $186 million net cost. What stays on track: Man of Tomorrow, with Gunn directing and David Corenswet back as Superman, is in post-production and still dated July 9, 2027, and The Batman Part II is in production with Gunn and Safran producing. Gunn says he is also writing another DC project, while Lanterns Season 2 and anything further out are now Latcham’s call.
One part of the Latcham appointment is getting more attention than the rest, and it is the part this audience will care about most. Latcham is open about his Christian faith. He grew up in a Nazarene church, drifted away, and says becoming a father brought him back. At Marvel he used what he calls the Grandma Test, asking whether his grandmother in Perkins, Oklahoma would enjoy a joke or a scene, as a stand-in for whether a movie would work for a regular family outside the Hollywood bubble. The Monday after Iron Man opened, his grandmother called to tell him her church had used the film’s redemption story in a Sunday sermon. In a June interview on the Bible Bros podcast, he said he is trying to build movies that are all redemptive and all have heart, and that Wonder Project should be the HBO for the faith and family audience. His recent work backs that up, including the Biblical series House of David and the family comedy The Breadwinner. What he has not said is anything about DC’s direction. He takes over December 1, and no one has confirmed any faith-based direction for the studio. The honest read is that his background is why faith and family audiences are watching this appointment more closely than any other studio hire in years.
On Disney+, VisionQuest closed its run with its biggest episode yet. Episode 8, “Forever,” streamed Tuesday, November 10 at 6pm Pacific, closing the eight-episode series and the WandaVision trilogy, with Vision facing Ultron, played by James Spader, alongside his sons Billy and Tommy. The episode confirms the mystery Client is Virgil Horton, a flamboyant mustachioed tech entrepreneur played by Spader and a descendant of Phineas Horton, and after losing Jocasta, Ultron dispatches Virgil and becomes the real final boss. The finale also includes a sitcom-world sequence, “UltraVision,” a WandaVision callback, and an Ultron dance number set to Glen Campbell’s “Rhinestone Cowboy.” The post-credits scene is the one everyone is talking about: a mysterious figure awakens Wanda at Mount Wundagore, and the scene leads directly to Doomsday and Wanda’s revival. No second season has been announced. For context, Nielsen had VisionQuest at No. 7 among originals for the week of October 19 through 25 with 490 million minutes streamed.
The Doomsday watch continues, still with no final trailer and no date from Marvel as of November 13. Robert Downey Jr. posted a silent Instagram clip on November 12 of himself checking his watch outside a film set, captioned “Patience, subjects… Time will tell. Doom won’t…” Disney+ posted a one-minute “Countdown to Avengers: Doomsday” spot on November 11 revisiting 11 essential MCU films, and Avengers: Endgame: Encore, the re-release with new Doomsday-connecting scenes, started streaming on Disney+ on Friday, November 13. Empire’s Doomsday issue goes on sale November 19 with four collectible covers, including a triptych with Chris Evans’ Steve Rogers holding Mjolnir at the center, and a 22-page feature with Kevin Feige, the Russo brothers and Downey. A description of the final trailer reportedly leaked online, with reports pointing to a premiere between November 16 and 22 and November 19 the most likely date. That is still rumor, not confirmed. The release remains December 18, and the presale context is unchanged from last week, past $125 million worldwide and $65 million domestic per media trackers rather than Disney’s own numbers.
At the box office, Godzilla Minus Zero roared to number one with $31.6 million domestic in its opening weekend, November 6 through 8, for GKIDS. The Cat in the Hat opened soft at $20.5 million, and Angel’s Drummer Boy took $9.3 million for third. You Can See Everything, the A24 Theranos documentary that led last week, added $8.8 million in its fourth weekend and now sits around $83.5 million domestic, still the seventh-highest-grossing labeled documentary ever. Also in the top 10: Ramayana from Sony, and Clayface, now past $59 million domestic in its third weekend.
Two things to queue up for the weekend and the week ahead: Percy Jackson Season 3 arrives November 20, and Avengers: Endgame: Encore, with its new Doomsday-connecting scenes, is streaming now on Disney+.
That is the week. A new boss at DC, a Wanda tease pointing at December, a trailer still coming, and a monster at the top. See you next Saturday.