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Geoff Johns Moves Up That Top 100 Power List For 2016, Now Co-Running DC Films

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Geoff-Johns-Rings1I've started work on the next Bleeding Cool Top 100 Power List, looking at the most powerful people working in and around comics today. I'd already moved Geoff Johns up a notch or two, looks like I'm going to have to keep going.

The Hollywood Reporter reported (because that's what they do) that DC entertainment CCO Geoff Johns will now co-run the newly created DC Films department, with Jon Berg, in an attempt to "course-correct Warners' comic book movies."

Despite official denials as to the motivation, I did find myself talking to a respected film producer the other weekend who seemed knew for a fact that Suicide Squad was getting post-Deadpool reshoots. But the big motivator, according to THR is the poorly received (critically at least)  Batman V Superman.

The Burbank-based studio is making changes to the way it handles its DC Entertainment-centered films, giving oversight of the feature projects to a pair of executives and creating a dedicated division for the films. Current executive vp Jon Berg and Geoff Johns, DC's chief content officer who successfully launched the comics label's foray into television, will co-run the newly created DC Films, according to multiple sources.

They also clarify,

He is not leaving DC, according to sources, but adding film to his portfolio.

and that

As part of their new jobs, Berg and Johns will become producers on theJustice League movies.

While concluding,

Sources say it was Suicide Squad that escalated Johns' involvement in DC movies (he was already co-writing the next Batman standalone with Affleck) and he is involved in the film's post-production.

Climb, climb, climb…

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Rich JohnstonAbout Rich Johnston

Founder of Bleeding Cool. The longest-serving digital news reporter in the world, since 1992. Author of The Flying Friar, Holed Up, The Avengefuls, Doctor Who: Room With A Deja Vu, The Many Murders Of Miss Cranbourne, Chase Variant. Lives in South-West London, works from Blacks on Dean Street, shops at Piranha Comics. Father of two. Political cartoonist.
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