With the Discovery WarnerMedia $43 billion deal closed, the newly minted Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav is looking to overhaul DC and revitalize the brand for a new era.

In a report from Variety, Zaslav, who is CEO of the combined Warner Bros. Discovery, is looking to shake up DC in a move that could affect all feature film development, streaming series, and the creatives within DC itself, to better compete with companies like Marvel.

One key priority is finding a Kevin Feige-like figure to oversee the company. However, instead of a “creative guru” sources say Zaslav is more interested in hiring someone with a business background who can “keep all the different factions at DC working more harmoniously.”

During the search, 20th Century Studios and Paramount executive Emma Watts was considered a possible hire. Though Variety says Watts will not take the job.

Zaslav has reportedly identified certain weaknesses in DC, like how the company left several “top-shelf characters such as Superman” to languish. As for promising strategies, Discovery seems to believe that films like Joker are a “shining example” of how “second-billed” characters can become commercial and critical hits.

Current DC Films boss Walter Hamada has stabilized the ship somewhat, releasing hit films like The Batman and The Suicide Squad, and developed a slate of spinoffs for HBO Max including Peacemaker and the two Batman shows — Penguin and a series focused on Arkham Asylum. Hamada is under contract until the end of 2023 and could remain under Zaslav.

For now, plans are still under review but DC isn’t slowing down. The comics giant has several films in the pipeline including Shazam Fury of the Gods, Black Adam, Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom, and the upcoming Flash movie.

Matt T.M. Kim is IGN's News Editor. You can reach him @lawoftd.

With the Discovery WarnerMedia $43 billion deal closed, the newly minted Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav is looking to overhaul DC and revitalize the brand for a new era.

In a report from Variety, Zaslav, who is CEO of the combined Warner Bros. Discovery, is looking to shake up DC in a move that could affect all feature film development, streaming series, and the creatives within DC itself, to better compete with companies like Marvel.

One key priority is finding a Kevin Feige-like figure to oversee the company. However, instead of a “creative guru” sources say Zaslav is more interested in hiring someone with a business background who can “keep all the different factions at DC working more harmoniously.”

During the search, 20th Century Studios and Paramount executive Emma Watts was considered a possible hire. Though Variety says Watts will not take the job.

Zaslav has reportedly identified certain weaknesses in DC, like how the company left several “top-shelf characters such as Superman” to languish. As for promising strategies, Discovery seems to believe that films like Joker are a “shining example” of how “second-billed” characters can become commercial and critical hits.

Current DC Films boss Walter Hamada has stabilized the ship somewhat, releasing hit films like The Batman and The Suicide Squad, and developed a slate of spinoffs for HBO Max including Peacemaker and the two Batman shows — Penguin and a series focused on Arkham Asylum. Hamada is under contract until the end of 2023 and could remain under Zaslav.

For now, plans are still under review but DC isn’t slowing down. The comics giant has several films in the pipeline including Shazam Fury of the Gods, Black Adam, Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom, and the upcoming Flash movie.

Matt T.M. Kim is IGN's News Editor. You can reach him @lawoftd.

In the grand tradition of Harley Quinn and the Wonder Twins, the Arrowverse's Dreamer is making the jump from TV to comics in 2022. Supergirl actress Nicole Maines is co-writing the very first comic to feature her character, Dreamer.

Dreamer will make her comic book debut in July's Superman: Son of Kal-El #13. Maines is co-writing that issue alongside regular series writer Tom Taylor, while Clayton Henry is handling art. Check out the covers for this upcoming story in the slideshow gallery below:

Issue #13 will introduce Nia Nal as a potential ally to Jon Kent in his ongoing fight against Bendix. It's easy to see how the character might fit into the bigger picture for the series. Nia, who is revealed in Supergirl to be the distant ancestor of Legion of Super Heroes member Dream Girl, may reflect Jon's own struggle to embrace his newfound role as Superman.

Dreamer's debut also marks another step forward for DC's LGBTQ representation. Dreamer was the first transgender superhero to be featured on television, and her comic book debut comes less than a year after Jon himself came out as bisexual.

"I'm so excited to work with Nicole Maines to bring Dreamer from the screen to the pages of Superman: Son of Kal-El and to the DC Comics Universe,” said Taylor in DC's press release. “I want to thank all the people at DC who have championed Dreamer and who recognize the importance of this powerful trans superhero in this time."

“Jon Kent and Nia Nal are two characters that have a lot in common, both as superheroes with the weight of the world on their shoulders, and as young people with impossibly big shoes to fill,” said Maines. “Weaving their stories together for Superman: Son of Kal-El with Tom was a complete pleasure, and there is only a little pun intended when I say that Superman and Dreamer make for a brilliant new Dream-Team.”

Dreamer isn't the first Arrowverse character to make the jump from screen to page. DC introduced Arrow's John Diggle in a 2013 issue of Green Arrow (part of the same storyline that would later inspire Arrow's Season 6 villain Ricardo Diaz). More recently, the character Ryan Wilder appeared in a Batgirl comic shortly ahead of her TV debut in Batwoman: Season 2.

Maines also joins Batwoman's Camrus Johnson in becoming a DC Comics writer. Johnson scripted a story in 2021's Batman: Urban Legends #4 featuring his character Luke Fox.

Jesse is a mild-mannered staff writer for IGN. Allow him to lend a machete to your intellectual thicket by following @jschedeen on Twitter.

In the grand tradition of Harley Quinn and the Wonder Twins, the Arrowverse's Dreamer is making the jump from TV to comics in 2022. Supergirl actress Nicole Maines is co-writing the very first comic to feature her character, Dreamer.

Dreamer will make her comic book debut in July's Superman: Son of Kal-El #13. Maines is co-writing that issue alongside regular series writer Tom Taylor, while Clayton Henry is handling art. Check out the covers for this upcoming story in the slideshow gallery below:

Issue #13 will introduce Nia Nal as a potential ally to Jon Kent in his ongoing fight against Bendix. It's easy to see how the character might fit into the bigger picture for the series. Nia, who is revealed in Supergirl to be the distant ancestor of Legion of Super Heroes member Dream Girl, may reflect Jon's own struggle to embrace his newfound role as Superman.

Dreamer's debut also marks another step forward for DC's LGBTQ representation. Dreamer was the first transgender superhero to be featured on television, and her comic book debut comes less than a year after Jon himself came out as bisexual.

"I'm so excited to work with Nicole Maines to bring Dreamer from the screen to the pages of Superman: Son of Kal-El and to the DC Comics Universe,” said Taylor in DC's press release. “I want to thank all the people at DC who have championed Dreamer and who recognize the importance of this powerful trans superhero in this time."

“Jon Kent and Nia Nal are two characters that have a lot in common, both as superheroes with the weight of the world on their shoulders, and as young people with impossibly big shoes to fill,” said Maines. “Weaving their stories together for Superman: Son of Kal-El with Tom was a complete pleasure, and there is only a little pun intended when I say that Superman and Dreamer make for a brilliant new Dream-Team.”

Dreamer isn't the first Arrowverse character to make the jump from screen to page. DC introduced Arrow's John Diggle in a 2013 issue of Green Arrow (part of the same storyline that would later inspire Arrow's Season 6 villain Ricardo Diaz). More recently, the character Ryan Wilder appeared in a Batgirl comic shortly ahead of her TV debut in Batwoman: Season 2.

Maines also joins Batwoman's Camrus Johnson in becoming a DC Comics writer. Johnson scripted a story in 2021's Batman: Urban Legends #4 featuring his character Luke Fox.

Jesse is a mild-mannered staff writer for IGN. Allow him to lend a machete to your intellectual thicket by following @jschedeen on Twitter.

Apple isn't pulling its punches when it comes to its stance on Meta's plans to charge developers up to 47.5% on item sales within its emerging metaverse. As a matter of fact, it feels that the Facebook parent company's decision is "hypocritical."

Meta announced on Monday that it was testing new tools for creators to monetize products within the metaverse. But it also shared that it would be charging developers an additional 17.5% for goods sold in its social VR game Horizon Worlds. That extra cut comes on top of the company's existing Meta Quest Store platform fee of 30%, resulting in developers losing a total of nearly 50% of their profit on each virtual item sold.

Meta has previously been quite vocal about its disdain for Apple's 30% commission for in-app purchases – something Apple Senior Director of Corporate Communication Fred Sainz has called "hypocritical" in an email to MarketWatch.

"Meta has repeatedly taken aim at Apple for charging developers a 30% commission for in-app purchases in the App Store — and have used small businesses and creators as a scapegoat at every turn," Sainz said. "Now — Meta seeks to charge those same creators significantly more than any other platform. [Meta's] announcement lays bare Meta's hypocrisy. It goes to show that while they seek to use Apple's platform for free, they happily take from the creators and small businesses that use their own."

Blockparty CEO Vladislav Ginzburg weighed in on the subject to MarketWatch, saying, “Facebook keeps all media uploaded to it, retains all user data and owns every step of the process to sell to marketers. Rather than enable creators to share in the value they bring to Facebook, their goal is to take half of the sale. No thanks.”

Apple has certainly had its fair share of blowback for its 30% commissions, though. Epic even opened a "direct payment" option for Fortnite in-app purchases on mobile devices as a way for players to bypass what the publisher called "exorbitant" payment fees, prompting Apple to remove the game from its App Store in retaliation. The resulting legal battle, however, resulted in a judge ruling that Apple would have to allow outside payment options in its apps going forward.

Horizon Worlds, which launched in December of 2021 for Oculus Quest 2, is a metaverse-focused virtual reality game that allows players to chat, hang out, and purchase virtual assets. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg revealed earlier this year that the game will be coming to mobile platforms at some point in 2022.

Billy Givens is a freelance writer at IGN.

Netflix has revealed four new cast members coming to The Witcher Season 3.

Meng’er Zhang - Xu Xialing in Marvel's Shang-Chi and The Legend of the Ten Rings - will play Milva, a stone-cold archer and huntress that was raised by dryads in Brokilon Forest (which Ciri ventured through in Season 1).

Also joining the cast as Gallatin is Robbie Amell, who played Chris Redfield in last year's Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City. A new character not from Andrzej Sapkowski's books, Gallatin leads an army of guerrilla Scoia'tael fighters for Nilfgaard and, despite being a loyal elf, clashes with Francesca (Mecia Simson) over power.

Hugh Skinner will play Prince Radovid, a royal playboy that suddenly finds himself in the inner circle of Redanian Intelligence with Sigismund Dijkstra (Graham McTavish). Skinner has acted previously in Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again, Falling For Figaro, and Fleabag.

The final new cast member revealed by Netflix is Christelle Elwin of Half Bad and Bloods. She'll play Mistle, a member of a gang called The Rats that steal from the rich to (sometimes) give to the poor. She's street hard, suspicious of everyone, and out for revenge, until a chance meeting with another familiar face changes everything.

The Witcher Season 3 began production last week as Henry Cavill, Anya Chalotra, and Freya Allan all returned to The Continent.

The third season is based on Sapkowski's second novel in the main Witcher saga and promises "a battlefield of political corruption, dark magic, and treachery".

Ryan Dinsdale is an IGN freelancer who occasionally remembers to tweet @thelastdinsdale. He'll talk about The Witcher all day.

Mads Mikkelsen has indicated that Indiana Jones 5 is returning to the franchise's early roots, capturing the "original feel" of Raiders of the Lost Ark and Temple of Doom.

During an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Mikkelsen, who is starring in an as-yet-undisclosed role in the fifth Indy adventure, revealed a little more about what we can expect from Indiana Jones 5 as he admitted that the next installment will have a similar "feel" to the first and second films of the franchise led by Harrison Ford's bullwhip-wielding archaeologist.

"[Raiders of the Lost Ark] was one of my favorite films, and it just oozed that golden period of serials from the 1940s — and that's in the fifth film as well," Mikkelsen explained, teasing the next installment. "They're going heavily back to the first and second film and getting that original feel, the original Indy, something dense and epic."

James Mangold has saddled up to take the reigns on Indiana Jones 5, assuming directing duties from Steven Spielberg, who is on board as an executive producer. Mikkelsen praised the duo and noted a similarity in the way the two filmmakers approach the franchise, saying, "It felt like a Spielberg film, though it's obviously James making it with the same vision."

Though details about the story are being kept under wraps, Mikkelsen previously discussed his collaborative approach to realizing his character in the film and compared his function in the film to that of character actor Peter Lorre, whose performances famously added color to numerous Hollywood productions, from Casablanca to The Maltese Falcon.

While we don't know much else about Mikkelsen's role in the film at the present time, we do know that Indiana Jones 5 will likely be Harrison Ford's last outing as the globetrotting adventurer. The movie itself will "conclude this iconic character's journey" and see part of his "history resolved," right after he's dusted off his signature brown jacket and fedora.

Joining Ford for this new adventure, which may partially take place in 1969, will be Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Thomas Kretschmann, Boyd Holbrook, Shaunette Renee Wilson, and Antonio Banderas. Indiana Jones 5 was first announced in 2016 with a premiere date of July 19, 2019, but it has suffered many delays and is now set to arrive in theaters on June 30, 2023.

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TikTok had added the ability to dislike comments, but the feedback can only be seen by the social media giant itself.

Cormac Keenan, head of trust and safety at TikTok, announced it would be testing the new feature in a blog post about fostering kindness and safety on the platform.

Adding the invisible dislike button – which can't be seen by the content creator or any other users – will "let individuals identify comments they believe to be irrelevant or inappropriate" to TikTok itself without spreading visible negativity throughout the platform.

Keenan added: "This community feedback will add to the range of factors we already use to help keep the comment section consistently relevant and a place for genuine engagement.

"To avoid creating ill-feeling between community members or demoralize creators, only the person who registered a dislike on a comment will be able to see that they have done so."

This is just one of the ways TikTok will battle abusive and hateful content on its platform, Keenan said, as "we believe community should be built on a foundation of respect, kindness, and understanding."

It also announced new safety reminders for creators that will encourage them to filter, block, and delete negative comments, and said it will otherwise continue to update its community guidelines accordingly based on user feedback.

As with most social media platforms, TikTok is restless about changes to the platform – and has reportedly begun testing paid subscriptions for certain influencers' feeds.

Ryan Dinsdale is an IGN freelancer who occasionally remembers to tweet @thelastdinsdale. He'll talk about The Witcher all day.

Blizzard has revealed the origin story for Overwatch 2's new hero, Sojourn.

A new trailer (below) shared how the series' first Black female hero came to be involved with Overwatch, with her story being directly linked to Soldier: 76 (aka Jack Morrison).

"My unit of the Canadian Special Forces teamed up with Overwatch during the Omnic crisis," Sojourn says in the trailer. "Jack Morrison and I worked well together and after the war he reached out."

While it doesn't show any actual gameplay, Sojourn can be seen holding a large gun reminiscent of Soldier: 76's weapon, and the trailer description said she's equipped with cybernetic abilities.

Sojourn seemingly served with Overwatch sometime between the original and second game, saying "no matter what their mission was, mine was to bring every last one of them home."

Sojourn concludes by saying: "It was the honour of a lifetime to have served with Overwatch but you can love a thing with your whole heart and still know it's time to say goodbye. Even the best journeys end, but a new one is right around the corner."

While Overwatch 2 brings back the entire cast of characters from the first game, Sojourn is the only confirmed new character so far.

Players with access to the first PC closed beta can test her out on April 26, and though Blizzard has not confirmed a release date for the game's official launch, it has said the PvP and PvE modes will arrive separately.

Ryan Dinsdale is an IGN freelancer who occasionally remembers to tweet @thelastdinsdale. He'll talk about The Witcher all day.

If you are an iPhone user looking to switch over to an Android smartphone, but are worrying about how you will carry over data between the two, Google has created an iPhone app that will make the switch less of a headache on your end.

As spotted by 9to5Google, the tech giant has quietly released a free app on its competitor's storefront titled "Switch to Android." As the name implies, the app is designed to help you quickly and securely move things such as contacts, calendar events, and photos from your iOS device over to Android. Unfortunately, the app does not allow you to transfer your messages between iOS to Android.

The app is unlisted, meaning typing in the app's name and even looking at Google LLC's App Store profile doesn't show it available for download. Fortunately, 9to5Google shared the direct link for those looking to download it. Google did not immediately respond to IGN's request for comment on the app, or when it will receive a wider release.

Interestingly, the app works wirelessly, meaning you do not have to worry about connecting the two phones with a USB cable. Previously, the data transfer from iPhone to Android was a lot more complicated than upgrading from one iPhone to another and vice versa. It required backing up your data over to a Google Drive and then manually restoring it on the new Android device. It was made somewhat easier with Android 12, but it is only for transferring WhatsApp messages. The new app smoothens the process significantly.

Google has taken a page out of Apple's playbook, as the iPhone maker released a "Move to iOS" app on the Play Store in 2015, which tries to convert Android users into iPhone users while also making it as easy as possible to make the switch.

Taylor is the Associate Tech Editor at IGN. You can follow her on Twitter @TayNixster.