The MCU has a lot of plates spinning these days, but they’re only telling one, increasingly huge story. DC has another approach: They have multiple iterations on the same characters. For instance, ...

“I am absolutely thrilled and humbled that Altered Innocence is helping me bring The People’s Joker to theaters this spring,” Drew said in a statement about the acquisition. “This movie started as a ...

Vera Drew’s “The People’s Joker” opens with a wall of text assuring us — or more accurately, assuring Warner Bros. — that it is legally allowed to exist. It features DC superhero characters like ...

Vera Drew's film was the subject of controversy at the 2022 Toronto Film Festival, where Warner Bros. Discovery tried to prevent it from being screened. By Jourdain Searles Vera Drew’s debut feature ...

"The People's Joker" is proof that miracles do happen. Beginning as a re-edit of Todd Haynes' 2019 "The Joker," the superhero parody cinematic anomaly revolves around a transwoman, Joker the Harlequin ...

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The buzzy parody film The People’s Joker, which reimagines the story of the classic Batman villain through the lens of its director and star’s transition, was pulled from future screenings at TIFF ...

Vera Drew swears that she’s not just trying to sell tickets when she says that the new version of The People’s Joker, which hits theaters April 5, is “a completely different movie” from the version ...