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If anyone questioned the relationship between Hollywood and comic books before, there's no doubt about it now.

On the heels of Disney acquiring Marvel Entertainment for $4 billion last week, now comes word Warner Bros. is taking firmer control over DC Comics, overseeing the publishing company under a new division that will report directly to Warner Pictures.

According to an announcement by DC today, Diane Nelson, the former president of Warner Premiere, will serve as President of "DC Entertainment," as the new division is called. Nelson will report to Jeff Robinov, president of Warner Bros. Pictures Group.

“Based on the great success we’ve had working with DC Comics to create some of the most popular and successful super hero films of all time, I’ve long believed that there was much more we could do across all of Warner Bros.’ businesses with this great body of characters and stories,â€￾ said Robinov.


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Thoughts? Reactions?

I see it as possibly a good thing because this just may WB to get more aggressive in the comic movie biz. Marvel hs been putting out movies at a lions pace since 2000, and while they have produced a few turkeys here and there, it hasn't stopped Marvel from trying to re-boot them to make them better.

All DC has been doing is focusing on its Superman and Batman franchise while occasionally putting out something here and there. And those things they out out usually wind up having minimal quality: Catwoman, Constantine Superman Returns (kind of).

Hopefully this will lead to more DC films.

Hmmmm. I was just wondering. Was Constantine produced by DC?

Of course, the best news we could hear as consumers, is if Disney and WB could foot the overheads for their comics publishing arm, so they could reduce the cover price, but that is bit too silly a pipe dream.