Date: Friday, 27 July 2012
DreamWorks Animation has acquired the company Classic Media in a deal worth $155m this week, picking up the rights to many properties including Casper, The Lone Ranger, Lassie and Where's Waldo.
The future of the cinematic DC Comics universe is starting to take shape, but what shape will that universe be in by the time it arrives? While Marvel movies have had a pretty good run of things for many years now (with only the occasional bad blip like ELEKTRA and GHOST RIDER as blemishes), DC characters have fared less well.
