As The Search For His Successor Continues, The President Of DC Films Has Parted Ways With The Company After 15 Years At Warner Bros.
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It was known this would happen for a while, but as promised. Walter Hamada has officially left Warner Bros after 15 years that began at New Line Cinema.
This is the week of Black Adam’s release, after all, exactly when Hamada stated he would leave after nearly having done so in the wake of the Batgirl cancellation debacle. His office has been packed, and he has been absent from creative meetings for quite some time. Hamada knew he wasn’t long for the company once WarnerMedia and Discovery merged, as Warner Bros/Discovery CEO David Zaslav sought an exec for DC Films in the style of Marvel’s Kevin Feige and Hamada’s way was just not alike at all.
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The problem is the very event that almost brought forward his departure has made the job so utterly repulsive with the precedent of uncertainty that decision and the similar ones in its proximity have set, even alienating one-time frontrunner Dan Lin. He was initially signed on through 2023; however, his extension was announced in January 2021. The rumblings that led to Warner’s sale to Discovery began just four months later.
Having become DC Films head after the Justice League’s release, he oversaw films such as Aquaman, Joker, The Suicide Squad, Peacemaker, and The Batman. His hits at New Line (which had been under Warner Bros’ ownership since the purchase of Turner in 1996, which had owned it since 1994) included The Conjuring and Annabelle franchises and It (2017).
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