The critically-acclaimed Batman: Mask of the Phantasm animated movie, based on Batman: The Animated Series, is expected to hit 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray on Tuesday, September 12, 2023 from Warner Bros. Discovery Home Entertainment. Official press details are still to be issued, but Warner Bros. Discovery Home Entertainment has released a description and package artwork for the highly-anticipated forthcoming release. Continue below for more.
Batman: Mask of the Phantasm
Description: The Dark Knight must save Gotham City from a new threat in the critically acclaimed 1993 Warner Bros. major motion picture Batman: Mask of the Phantasm.
When a woman from Bruce Wayne’s past, Andrea Beaumont, comes back into his life, Bruce questions whether he should continue protecting Gotham City as Batman. But his introspection is short-lived when the city’s most notorious crime bosses are killed, and the Caped Crusader is blamed for their murders. The Dark Knight sets out to clear his name, revealing a new masked vigilante: the Phantasm.
Based on the hit television show Batman: The Animated Series and featuring Warner Bros.’ first-ever use of computer-generated animation, this film noir-inspired original story continues the Batman legacy with a dark mystery involving the Phantasm and Batman’s infamous archrival, the Joker.
Batman: Mask of the Phantasm (4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital) Special Feature includes:
–Kevin Conroy: I am the Knight
Stay tuned for more information, including press details, for the forthcoming Batman: Mask of the Phantasm 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray, arriving September 12, 2023 from Warner Bros. Discovery Home Entertainment. Check out the The World’s Finest Batman: The Animated Series subsite for an exhaustive breakdown of the iconic cartoon! Stay tuned for further updates and coverage on right here at The World’s Finest!
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Warner Bros. Japan said production is currently underway on Suicide Squad ISEKAI, an all-new original anime series based on the popular DC Comics characters. Announced during a special panel at the Anime Expo 2023 convention, the studio stated WIT Studio will be handling the animation production for the series. Watch the announcement trailer below.
Additional details announced include that Suicide Squad ISEKAI will be directed by Eri Osada, with screenplays by Tappei Nagatsuki and Eiji Umehara. Continuing, Naoto Hosoda is the main character designer and Kenichirou Suehiro is the music composer. A teaser poster was also released illustrated by Akira Amano, who’s credited with draft character designs for Suicide Squad ISEKAI. Click the thumbnails below to view the teaser poster and a look at the show’s logo.
Warner Bros. Japan describes Suicide Squad ISEKAI initially as follows:
DC’s Harley Quinn, the Joker, and The Suicide Squad rampage onto the stage of ISEKAI* in the new original anime series from Warner Bros. Japan and WIT Studio, Suicide Squad ISEKAI. The most maddening worlds collide in an epic and violent fantasy with the strongest line-up of anime creators!
*ISEKAI means “another world”, which is now one of the most popular genres for Japanese anime.
Suicide Squad ISEKAI is expected to be released in 2024, with more details to be released in the coming months. Stay tuned for select Suicide Squad ISEKAI coverage right here at The World’s Finest.
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Warner Bros. Animation has announced the fourth season of the acclaimed Harley Quinn animated series will debut July 27, 2023 exclusively on Max, the Warner Bros. Discovery streaming platform. The critically-acclaimed Max Original adult-animated series was renewed for a fourth season in 2022. The official description and trailer for Harley Quinn‘s fourth season is expected to be released soon.
Warner Bros. Animation and Max describe the series as follows:
Harley Quinn sets out to become Gotham City’s greatest villain with help from Poison Ivy and a ragtag crew of DC castoffs. With appearances by DC’s most notorious characters and featuring a notable voice cast, Harley Quinn showcases the titular antiheroine’s killer journey from girlfriend to leading lady.
The fourth season of Harley Quinn debuts July 27, 2023 on Max. All three seasons of Harley Quinn, plus the 2023 Harley Quinn: A Very Problematic Valentine’s Day Special two-part animated event, are currently available to stream on Max. For more on the Harley Quinn animated series, including reviews and media, check out The World’s Finest Harley Quinn subsite.
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Details on the final issue of Batman: The Adventures Continue – Season Three were released as part of DC Comics’ solicitations catalogue for August 2023. Batman: The Adventures Continue – Season Three #8 not only concludes the latest volume of the popular Batman:The Animated Series comic continuation, but it’s also the finale to the “three season” comic series. Continue below for artwork and details, all provided by DC Comics.
BATMAN: THE ADVENTURES CONTINUE – SEASON THREE #8
Written by ALAN BURNETT and PAUL DINI
Art and cover by TY TEMPLETON
Variant cover by KERON GRANT
Variant cover by GUSTAVO DUARTE
1:25 variant cover by HAYDEN SHERMAN
$3.99 US | 32 pages | 8 of 8 | Variant $4.99 US (card stock)
Over the last three seasons, the minds behind the version of Gotham that defined a generation have brought you a continuation of their masterwork—and now that continuation comes to an end. Ra’s al Ghul’s mysterious plot has now been fully revealed, but will Batman be able to stop it in time? Or has the Dark Knight’s luck finally run out? Find out in this series finale over 30 years in the making! ON SALE 8/8/23
The first volume of Batman: The Adventures Continue launched in April 2020 from DC Comics, accompanied by a tie-in toyline and heavy promotional campaign. High sales and acclaim resulted in the comic series being picked up for two additional volumes, or “seasons,” and introducing characters such as Azreal, Talon and Red Hood in to DC Animated Universe continuity.
Batman: Caped Crusader is heading to Amazon Prime Video, and it won’t be alone. The streaming service announced that, in addition to the long in-the-works upcoming Batman animated series by Bruce Timm, two other Batman-themed animated projects are coming to Prime. The other two projects picked up include the Merry Little Batman animated movie and it spin-off series, Bat-Family. All projects were originally slated for HBO Max. Continue below for press details and more.
Prime Video Acquires New DC Animated Batman Projects From Warner Bros. Animation
Original animated movie Merry Little Batman and spinoff series Bat-Family
Two-season series order for Batman: Caped Crusader,
produced by Warner Bros. Animation, Bad Robot Productions, and 6th & Idaho
Prime Video today announced the acquisition of two new DC animated Batman series, alongside an original animated film from Warner Bros. Animation and DC. The film Merry Little Batman is ordered with a spinoff series, Bat-Family, along with a two-season order for Batman: Caped Crusader, from executive producers Bruce Timm, J.J. Abrams, and Matt Reeves. The Batman animated titles will premiere exclusively on Prime Video in more than 240 countries and territories.
“Batman: The Animated Series helped pioneer in the evolution of superhero storytelling and defined the Dark Knight for a generation,” said Vernon Sanders, head of television, Amazon and MGM Studios. “Batman: Caped Crusader will no doubt continue that tradition and, alongside Merry Little Batman and Bat-Family, we’re thrilled to collaborate with Warner Bros. Animation to offer a variety of takes of the Batman mythos to our global Prime Video customers.”
“We are excited to partner with Amazon to begin an all-new animated chapter of Batman. From the cinematic noir storytelling of Batman: Caped Crusader to the comedic adventures of Merry Little Batman and Bat-Family, these new projects ensure that there will be an animated Batman story ready to excite fans of all ages,” said Sam Register, president, Warner Bros. Animation and Cartoon Network Studios.
Batman: Caped Crusader is an all-new animated series and reimagining of the Batman mythology through the visionary lens of executive producers Bruce Timm, J.J. Abrams, and Matt Reeves. Utilizing state-of-the-art animation techniques, this powerful creative partnership will once again reinvent the character and his iconic rogue’s gallery with sophisticated storytelling, nuanced characters, and intense action sequences, all set in a visually striking world. In addition to Timm, Abrams, and Reeves, Ed Brubaker and Sam Register are set to executive produce the series. Based on characters from DC, Batman: Caped Crusader is produced by Warner Bros. Animation, Bad Robot Productions, and 6th & Idaho.
Merry Little Batman is an animated family action comedy destined to join the rogue’s gallery of classic holiday movies. When young Damian Wayne finds himself alone in Wayne Manor on Christmas Eve, he must transform into “Little Batman” in order to defend his home and Gotham City from the crooks and supervillains intent on destroying the holidays. Produced by Warner Bros. Animation and based on characters from DC, Merry Little Batman is directed by Mike Roth (Regular Show) from a screenplay by Morgan Evans (Teen Titans Go!). Roth also serves as executive producer, alongside Sam Register.
Following the events of Merry Little Batman, Bat-Family follows Batman, Alfred, and young Damian Wayne-who has now taken on the mantle of Little Batman-alongside a few newcomers to Wayne Manor, as they navigate the fun and frustrations of life as a super family. Jase Ricci, Mike Roth, and Sam Register are set to executive produce the series, which is produced by Warner Bros. Animation.
About Warner Bros. Animation
Warner Bros. Animation (WBA) is one of the leading producers of animation in the entertainment industry, producing and developing projects for multiple platforms, both domestically and internationally. WBA’s current series include Batwheels, Bugs Bunny Builders, Creature Commandos, Gremlins: Secrets of the Mogwai, Harley Quinn, Jellystone!, Looney Tunes Cartoons, My Adventures with Superman, Noonan’s, Teen Titans Go!, Tiny Toons Looniversity, and Velma. The studio is currently in production with New Line Cinema on the upcoming original anime feature film, The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim. WBA’s full-length theatrical film, Teen Titans GO! to the Movies, was released in summer 2018. As home to the iconic animated characters from the DC, Hanna-Barbera, MGM and Looney Tunes libraries, WBA also produces highly successful animated films-including the DC Universe Movies-for DVD, Blu-ray, and digital media. One of the most-honored animation studios in history, WBA has won six Academy Awards, 40 Emmy Awards, the George Foster Peabody Award, a BAFTA Children’s Award, an Environmental Media Award, a Parents’ Choice Award, the HUMANITAS Prize, two Prism Awards and 21 Annie Awards (honoring excellence in animation).
About DC
DC, part of Warner Bros. Discovery, creates iconic characters and enduring stories and is one of the world’s largest publishers of comics and graphic novels. DC’s creative work entertains audiences of every generation around the world with DC’s stories and characters integrated across Warner Bros. Discovery’s film, television, animation, consumer products, home entertainment, games, and themed experiences divisions, and on the DC Universe Infinite digital comic subscription service. Learn more at DC.com.
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Batman: Caped Crusader, Merry Little Batman and Bat-Family were all originally set for HBO Max before they were scrapped from the service by parent company Warner Bros. Discovery, due to cost-saving measures, and shopped around for potential buyers in 2022. Stay tuned for updates on all three animated Batman projects, along with developments on other DC Comics-based animated projects, coming to Amazon Prime Video.
Additionally, continue below to watch the behind-the-scenes video for Batman: Caped Crusader released as part of the DC FanDome 2021 virtual convention event.
Additional press details for Batman: Caped Crusader can be found here. For details on other animated projects starring and featuring the Dark Knight, please feel free to explore this very website.
