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Diane Nelson's take on Zack Snyder and Joss Whedon's Justice League blew up yesterday But no matter what the world throws at you, at Bleeding Cool, you can still read all about comics, merch, TV shows, games, movies, and more The Daily Lying In The Gutters remains a long-running run around the day before and[...]

Catch up on more of our coverage with this tag. DC President Diane Nelson Compared DC Unfavourably to Marvel As well as David Maisel talking about DC's approach compared to Marvel, they also spoke to an old friend of Bleeding Cool, the former President of DC Entertainment, Diane Nelson, who was there for the whole Zack Snyder[...]

Last year, Diane Nelson, formerly president of DC Entertainment, joined Jeffrey Katzenberg's short-form video publisher/distributor/platform Quibi She joined former HP CEO Meg Whitman and former co-president and CCO of The Hollywood Reporter Janice Min And somehow the Hollywood Reporter had that scoop They have been making lots of announcements over deals for ten minute video[...]

Yesterday, DC Comics creative freelancers received a mass e-mail covering their activities on social media. While I understand that this kind of thing has been an increasing concern in recent years, I understand that this is happening right now as a result of the actions and internal company employee reactions and concerns reported by Bleeding Cool[...]

And the comic book side would no longer have input into the movies. And now it seems something similar is happening at DC. Over the weekend, President of DC Entertainment, Diane Nelson posted on her private Facebook page a message of which Bleeding Cool has received an incomplete copy It read, I have lost (In Business) My best friend; My reality touchstone; My partner[...]

The DCEU will maintain continuity, except when it doesn't, and the Justice League reshoots were designed to lighten the tone of the movie. In an interview with bird-themed pop culture website Vulture, DC Entertainment President Diane Nelson announced that DC has abandoned the strict continuity of a Marvel-style shared universe to adopt a much looser definition[...]

The story will feature the Justice League heading to Gotham City to protect the world from the Joker and an alliance of super-villains. As Bleeding Cool reported on March 2, this development was first announced in Japan during a presentation by Jim Lee, Diane Nelson, and Warner Bros Japan President Masami Takahashi during an event to promote[...]

The new book was announced during a visit to the country by DC Entertainment executives Diane Nelson and Jim Lee to promote upcoming movies Wonder Woman and Justice League, and the expansion of the corporate synergy of DC's characters in Japan and the need to appeal to female readers. Sending Nelson and Lee was a wise choice, all things[...]

That's right. Geoff Johns is now President & Chief Creative Officer of DC Entertainment. Diane Nelson is still President of DC Entertainment, and Geoff still reports to Diane.Warner Bros has Presidents like Marvel has Captain Americas. And while there was a lot of Hyatt bar gossip about this at San Diego Comic-Con, I understand from better-connected sources that Co-Publishers Dan DiDio and Jim Lee also[...]

Next Tuesday, DC Entertainment President Diane Nelson and the rest of the DC Entertainment senior staff are flying from Burbank to New York, for a dinner that night to celebrate and commemorate the closing of the DC Comics New York offices. Invites for Vice Presidents or equivalent posts only, it seems. As for the DC Comics rank[...]

We reported earlier this week that DC Entertainment President Diane Nelson was to address DC Comics staffers about the practicalities of the big move west, as the publisher moves from New York to Burbank. Subsequently, a letter was sent to DC Comics freelancers, informing them of what was to come. Aside from the use of first names,[...]

I am told that just over a week ago, DC Entertainment President Diane Nelson sent out an e-mail sent to New York DC Comics staffers. Telling them that today, DC Comics will reveal details regarding the move from New York to Burbank next April. Including exactly when the different departments will be packing up and moving.  Six months to go[...]

I understand that, the week before San Diego Comic Con, when editors are rushing to get work in from creators in the knowledge that next week will be a bit of a dead zone in that regard, the President of DC Entertainment, Diane Nelson will be popping in from Burbank to New York. The last time[...]

The Wall Street Journal broke the story on the new Justice League movie as well as the likes of Shazam, 100 Bullets, Fables and Metal Men in production.

Diane Nelson, President of DC Comics, has written a letter to every freelance creator at DC Comics, ahead of an upcoming survey to be taken from such employees. She begins by stating, DC Entertainment is committed to its talent We have the best, brightest and most creative partners in any entertainment industry, and we are deeply invested[...]

Unnamed as yet, but it does rather add to the slate. Both in film, and now in TV, DC Vertigo has begun to provide up to half the DC projects being considered in a variety of media. I remember an old quote of DC Entertainment President Diane Nelson; I will say that Vertigo is an area of great[...]

But DC Comics staff have been assured by DC Entertainment President Diane Nelson, that if they want to join the move West, they can There will be no compulsory redundancies. While all eyes are on the New York DC Comics office and who exactly will move with the publisher and who will quit, the names of[...]

The Wall Street Journal has talked to DC entertainment Diane Nelson about the move from New York to Burbank for DC Comics. Including the following… Will there be any layoffs? Since some people likely won't move, might you end up cutting positions? No, this is not about any kind of efficiency in terms of overhead or anything else[...]

There's a big all-hands meeting with Diane Nelson in person, scheduled for today, with individual meetings with human resources scheduled for later in the week. Bleeding Cool has been told by DC insiders that despite what Dan DiDio may have suggested last week, not all current DC employees will be offered relocation to Burbank. Previous Warner President[...]

The DC We Can Be Heroes – Superman Edition was looking as if it might not quite make it's $100,000 mark on Indiegogo, raising money for charities associated with the Horn Of Africa, and spearheaded by DC Entertainment President Diane Nelson. That was before one Timothy Draper donated $25,000 for the top reward of having DC[...]

But Robinov was the man who restructured DC Comics into DC Entertainment, who appointed Diane Nelson as President and basically pulled it kicking and screaming from the position within Warner Bros that Paul Levitz and Kevin Tsujihara had negotiated, into the cold harsh daylight where it would have to earn its keep At the time, it[...]

Tonight in Los Angeles, there's a gala to celebrate the work of Geoff Johns by the great and the good. And in this week's final Green Lantern issue from

And it might explain discussion about increasing efficiencies at DC… There's been a suggestion that Diane Nelson may have moved on at Warners, while waiting for her bosses to finish their jousting for top position And this is the big news. The third suggestion is that something radical is happening to publishing policy, involving a major jump[...]

The LA Times reports that at the top of Warner Bros, three executives Television Group President Bruce Rosenblum, Motion Pictures Group President Jeff Robinov and Home Entertainment Group President Kevin Tsujihara are jostling for the position of President of Warner Bros and are not working together as a result. It also reports that other Warner executives[...]

The first DC Retailer Roadshow took place yesterday at Warner Bros in Burbank, as around twenty teams of retailers were ushered through security checks into the belly of the beast. Executive big guns Bob Wayne, Jim Lee, Dan DiDio, Diane Nelson, Hank Kanalz and John Rood were in attendance with Rood moderating He did not attempt[...]

But it would be McFarlane Toys that downsized the most losing almost all their employees reducing to a skeleton staff. Then there was Dave Elliott, fired from Radical, with a court case planned for October. But the firing of the year wasn't really a firing, more of a slightly-pressured resignation, as Paul Levitz left his role as[...]

Well, I understand from senior sources that Paul Levitz, President and Publisher of DC Comics will now no longer report to President and COO of Warner Bros, Alan Horn, but to fellow executive Diane Nelson, President of Warner Premiere. All these Presidents, it feels like an media conglomerate version of Mount Rushmore. What does that mean to[...]