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    "headline": "James Gunn and Peter Safran step down at DC Studios as Marvel veteran Jeremy Latcham takes over",
    "description": "James Gunn and Peter Safran are leaving the top of DC Studios, and former Marvel producer Jeremy Latcham takes over as president on December 1, 2026.",
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    "articleBody": "James Gunn and Peter Safran are handing over the keys to DC Studios. Skydance Motion Picture Group said on November 9 that Jeremy Latcham, one of the producers who helped build the Marvel Cinematic Universe, becomes President and Chief Creative Officer of DC Studios on December 1, 2026. Gunn and Safran, co-chairs and co-CEOs since late 2022, will leave the executive suite and go back to making films and shows full time. They are not leaving DC: both stay on as producers of Man of Tomorrow, the follow-up to Gunn’s Superman, which opens in theaters on July 9, 2027. What Skydance and the outgoing chiefs said In the company’s announcement, David Ellison, who chairs Skydance, and his co-CEO Ynon Kreiz thanked the pair for steering the studio through what they called “a period of real transformation” and said they had complete confidence in a smooth handover. Gunn and Safran issued a joint statement that pointed to the projects they shipped. “Four years ago, we set out to unite DC under one creative vision,” they said. The pair added that they now want to get back to “telling the stories we love,” starting with the next Clark Kent and Lex Luthor chapter. They also noted that their history with Latcham runs through Marvel, where Gunn directed the Guardians of the Galaxy films that Latcham executive produced. Who is Jeremy Latcham Latcham started at Marvel in 2004 and worked his way up to run production and development as a senior vice president, alongside Kevin Feige. His credits read like an early MCU checklist. He started as an associate producer on the first Iron Man and moved up to co-producer for the sequel. Later he served as executive producer on Spider-Man: Homecoming, Guardians of the Galaxy, The Avengers and its follow-up, Age of Ultron. He left Marvel in 2017 to start Latcham Pictures and went on to produce the 2023 fantasy hit Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves as well as the thriller Bad Times at the El Royale. Most recently he had an overall deal at Hasbro Entertainment, with a second Dungeons & Dragons movie and an Action Man project on his desk. At DC he will run film, television and animation, covering creative development, production, talent and strategy, and his bosses will be Dana Goldberg and Josh Greenstein, who co-chair the Skydance film group. Latcham called the job “a massive responsibility that I do not take lightly” and said he wants to win over longtime fans and newcomers alike. The Gunn and Safran era in numbers The change lands barely a month after Paramount completed its takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery and the merged company took the Skydance name. A quick timeline of the four years: October 2022: Gunn and Safran are named to run the newly formed DC Studios. 2025: Superman reaches theaters and goes on to earn more than $618 million worldwide, according to Skydance. 2026: Lanterns arrives on television and Clayface passes $109 million worldwide. December 1, 2026: Latcham takes charge. Our own reporting tracked part of that run: Clayface opened at No. 1 in North America with $24 million in late October, and DC’s other big 2027 title has had its own drama, with Robert Pattinson praising Steven Soderbergh for stepping in on The Batman Part II. What carries over to Latcham The new chief inherits a slate already in motion. The Batman Part II, starring Pattinson, is in production with Soderbergh completing principal photography and Gunn and Safran producing. On the streaming side, The People v. Gorilla Grodd, an eight-episode HBO Max series featuring Skyler Gisondo’s Jimmy Olsen opposite Jimmy Tatro in the title role, has wrapped filming and is expected in 2027. For fans, the clearest signal is that the Superman story Gunn started stays in his hands. Man of Tomorrow is in post-production, and its July 9, 2027 release date is unchanged. Further reading Wikipedia: DC Studios Image: Erik Drost, CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons This article was produced with AI assistance and reviewed by our Editorial Desk. How we work.",
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