Skydance replaces DC Studios leaders James Gunn and Peter Safran

Skydance fair gave DC Studios a pre-earnings guidance shake-up.

James Gunn and Peter Safran, who co-led DC Studios, are leaving their positions following four years, Skydance announced on Monday onward of its third-quarter earnings report.

Jeremy Latcham, who helped established the Marvel Cinematic Universe, volition be DC Studios' new chairman and imaginative chief, starting in December. Latcham helped create hit movies akin "The Avengers," "Iron Man," and "Guardians of the Galaxy."

Latcham volition study to Skydance movie co-chiefs Dana Goldberg and Josh Greenstein.

Gunn and Safran were hired by Warner Bros. in October 2022 to reboot DC's franchises, which for years struggled to equivalent the business achievement of Disney-owned Marvel.

The producers volition come back to imaginative work, Skydance stated in its release.

Safran and Gunn aren't entirely done alongside DC. Their Superman sequel "Man of Tomorrow" is slated to arrive out next July, and they're operating on another DC project, Gunn confirmed on Monday.

Gunn stated in an Instagram post on Monday midday that he was "incredibly relieved and enthusiastic to get rear to clean filmmaking."

"I dislike the at-times company nature of the job," Gunn stated in his post.

Under Gunn and Safran, DC Studios had solid business successes akin "Superman" in July 2025, as fine as major misses akin "Supergirl" in June.

Skydance unveiled its guidance teams to staffers in a delayed October email, weeks following Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery merged. At the time, the companywide communication didn't contain a DC Studios org chart.