• Collider’s Summer Preview dropped a new image of Milly Alcock as Kara Zor-El flying hands-forward in full Supergirl costume — fans immediately compared it to the iconic Christopher Reeve Superman gatefold pose from 1978
• James Gunn also shared a behind-the-scenes photo of Alcock alongside David Corenswet, the first image of the two Kryptonian cousins together on set
• New TV spots have debuted showing Superman and Supergirl’s first on-screen meeting, which is a major moment for the DCU’s second year
• Supergirl hits theaters this summer from Warner Bros., following directly from last year’s Superman; the film also stars Eve Ridley and Matthias Schweighöfer
• Before Supergirl arrives, My Adventures with Superman Season 3 premieres in June — giving DC fans their Superman fix first

The new Supergirl image does exactly what a good superhero photo is supposed to do: it makes the character feel inevitable.

Collider released the exclusive look as part of their Summer 2026 preview, and the image of Milly Alcock as Kara Zor-El — arms stretched forward, in full flight — landed with immediate force. Superman Homepage noted the obvious parallel right away: the pose mirrors the famous Christopher Reeve gatefold image from the 1978 Superman: The Movie soundtrack release. Hands forward, full speed, unstoppable. It’s a deliberate echo, and it works.

James Gunn added to the week’s DC energy by sharing a behind-the-scenes photo on social media featuring Alcock alongside David Corenswet — the first image of the two Kryptonian cousins together. Gunn had originally posted the same photo back in 2025, but the repost landed differently now, with Supergirl‘s theatrical release weeks away and anticipation at its highest point yet.

Where We Left Kara

Milly Alcock’s Kara Zor-El was introduced in last year’s Superman, James Gunn’s DCU reboot starring Corenswet as Clark Kent. When the credits rolled, Kara was picking up Krypto from Clark’s after a weekend of heavy drinking on some Red Sun planets — where, as A.V. Club’s preview notes, her alcohol tolerance doesn’t hold up the way it does under a yellow sun. It was a light, character-establishing moment that told you this version of Supergirl was going to be different from previous iterations.

In her solo film, she’ll be paired with Ruthye (Eve Ridley) on a quest to hunt down Krem of the Yellow Hills, played by Matthias Schweighöfer. The story leans into the DCU’s intergalactic side — further from Metropolis, further from the familiar Earth-bound superhero template. New TV spots have started surfacing that preview Superman and Supergirl’s first real meeting in the film, which is the kind of scene the internet will be dissecting frame by frame before the opening weekend arrives.

The Buildup

DC Studios is managing the rollout carefully. Before Supergirl opens, My Adventures with Superman returns for its third season in June — the animated series had been on a two-year hiatus, and its comeback gives fans an earlier return to the Superman universe while the theatrical marketing ramps up.

The brand extension goes further. Ulta Beauty has launched a DC Studios collaboration tied to the film, with three Supergirl-inspired makeup collections — Power Glam (bold blue eyeshadow, sharp liner), Grunge Romance (smudged shadow, blurred berry lip), and Iconic Shimmer (playful shine). It’s the kind of lifestyle tie-in that signals a studio betting on a character landing as more than just a box office event.

After Superman became the DCU’s most-discussed relaunch in years, the pressure on Supergirl is real. Gunn is betting that Alcock — who came into the role already carrying critical momentum from House of the Dragon — can hold a film on her own. The new image suggests she’s ready.

Supergirl opens in theaters this summer from Warner Bros.

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• Early tracking for Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow projects a $47M–$65M domestic opening weekend
• The film cost $175M to produce plus an estimated $75M in marketing — putting break-even around $500M globally
• It opens June 26 and is the second film in James Gunn’s rebooted DC Universe after Superman
• Milly Alcock stars as Kara Zor-El; the film is directed by Craig Gillespie
• Analysts note the numbers would fall significantly below last year’s Superman debut

The early numbers for Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow are making people nervous.

Box Office Theory projections cited by industry observers suggest the Warner Bros. film — opening June 26 — is currently tracking for a domestic debut somewhere between $47 million and $65 million. For a superhero tentpole with a $175 million production budget and roughly $75 million more in marketing costs, that puts break-even around $500 million globally. A $65 million opening doesn’t get you there.

The figures would also represent a significant step down from last year’s Superman, which opened the James Gunn-era DCU on stronger footing. As the second chapter in that reboot, Supergirl was supposed to build momentum, not create doubt.

What’s Behind the Numbers

Directed by Craig Gillespie (I, Tonya), the film stars Milly Alcock as Kara Zor-El — the same Alcock who made a brief cameo in Superman and generated genuine excitement in the role. The creative case for the film exists. The commercial math, at least at this stage, is what’s raising eyebrows.

Early tracking is not destiny. Films can overperform projections based on reviews, word of mouth, and marketing pushes in the final weeks. But when analysts are already flagging concern this far out, it tends to shape the conversation going into release.

The Bigger Picture

For Gunn’s DC reboot, the stakes are real. Superman was the proof of concept. Supergirl is supposed to show the universe can sustain itself beyond its hero. A soft opening wouldn’t sink the project — but it would complicate the story Warner Bros. wants to tell about where the DCU is heading.

June 26 will tell us a lot.

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• HBO’s Lanterns drops a new trailer that finally delivers the ring-powered superhero action fans were asking for
• Kyle Chandler and Aaron Pierre star as Hal Jordan and John Stewart in the buddy-cop DC mystery series
• Laura Linney appears in a mysterious, seemingly authoritative role — her character’s identity is still under wraps
• Nathan Fillion reprises his Superman role as Guy Gardner, and Ulrich Thomsen plays villain Sinestro
• Lanterns premieres August 16 on HBO Max

HBO has heard the fans — and this new Lanterns trailer is the answer. After a first teaser that leaned so hard into gritty crime drama that some viewers forgot they were watching a superhero show, the second official trailer for the upcoming DC Studios series finally goes green. Fully, unmistakably, gloriously green.

The trailer puts Kyle Chandler’s Hal Jordan and Aaron Pierre’s John Stewart front and center in their now-familiar push-pull dynamic — the grizzled Lantern veteran who didn’t exactly volunteer to babysit a recruit, and the fiercely ambitious newcomer who’s pretty sure he can do this whole thing better anyway. But where the first look kept the ring mostly holstered, this one lets it rip. We see Jordan conjure a massive green energy shield to block what appears to be a laser beam fired down from space. We see him manufacture a glowing green dollar bill to feed a jukebox — a move Stewart immediately calls him out for. The ring is real, the powers are real, and yes, this is absolutely a superhero show.

The trailer also takes us briefly off-planet, with a shot of what is decidedly not Earth and a glimpse of Jordan in the classic Green Lantern uniform — Corps logo visible on the chest, even if the full costume reveal is still being held back. It’s a deliberate step toward answering the loudest criticism of early marketing: that Lanterns looked more like a Midwest crime procedural than anything from the pages of DC Comics.

Fear Is the Theme — and That Points Somewhere Very Specific

Running through the entire trailer is a single repeated question: “Are you afraid?” It echoes from scene to scene, asked with varying degrees of menace and weight, and it’s not subtle. An in-universe TV clip shows Jordan being asked how he was chosen to be a Green Lantern. His answer: “It’s only one question: Are you afraid?”

For anyone familiar with Green Lantern mythology, that’s a neon sign pointing straight at one character — Sinestro, the Master of Fear, a onetime Green Lantern who went on to form the Sinestro Corps, an interstellar army that weaponizes fear rather than willpower. We already know Ulrich Thomsen (Banshee) is playing the villain. The trailer also teases a flash of red energy beams — which could hint at the Red Lantern Corps, a rival faction powered by rage — though that’s still an open question heading into August.

The origins of both heroes also get some texture here. Jordan, as comics fans know, was essentially chosen by accident — stumbling upon the dying alien Green Lantern Abin Sur, who passed the ring to the nearest worthy human. Stewart, by contrast, intends to earn it. “I was raised fearless, and I’ll do this better than he has ever done it before,” Pierre’s Stewart tells Laura Linney’s still-unnamed character late in the trailer. Her reply — calm, assured, carrying the weight of someone who knows exactly what she’s doing — is simply: “Then go and get it, John Stewart.”

Linney’s role is one of the trailer’s genuine mysteries. She’s clearly someone with authority and significance in Stewart’s life, but the show is keeping the specifics locked down tight.

Nathan Fillion Is Back, and the Cast Is Stacked

One confirmed presence: Nathan Fillion gets a quick but memorable moment as Guy Gardner, the arrogant, irritable third Green Lantern who made his DCU debut in last year’s Superman. He also popped up in Peacemaker Season 2, and his appearance here — glimpsed outside what looks like a prison cell — suggests Gardner’s role in Lanterns will be about as welcome to Jordan and Stewart as a parking ticket.

The ensemble around Chandler and Pierre is genuinely impressive. Kelly Macdonald plays the town sheriff. Garret Dillahunt is a reactionary local named William Macon. Poorna Jagannathan plays a character described as manipulative. Nicole Ari Parker and Sherman Augustus appear as John’s parents. Jason Ritter plays the sheriff’s husband. Paul Ben-Victor plays Antaan, a fugitive alien. And Jasmine Cephas Jones and J. Alphonse Nicholson round out the cast.

The show was co-created by Chris Mundy (Ozark, True Detective), Damon Lindelof (Lost, The Leftovers, Watchmen), and Eisner Award-winning comics writer Tom King, whose Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow is also the basis for this summer’s Supergirl film. Mundy serves as showrunner and co-wrote the pilot with Lindelof and King. The first two episodes were directed by James Hawes, with Stephen Williams, Geeta Vasant Patel, and Alik Sakharov directing additional episodes.

What the Show Is Actually About

The official logline puts it cleanly: “The series follows new recruit John Stewart and Lantern legend Hal Jordan, two intergalactic cops drawn into a dark, earth-based mystery as they investigate a murder in the American heartland.” Think True Detective with power rings — a buddy-cop murder mystery that happens to have intergalactic stakes underneath it.

What the trailers have been less forthcoming about is the full shape of the story. According to showrunner Chris Mundy, the show actually unfolds across two different time periods — one set in 2016, when Hal and John investigate an alien-related shooting in the small town of Rushville, and another set in 2026, after the events of Superman. What the 2026 storyline involves remains a closely guarded secret.

Mundy has also spoken about the deliberate creative choice to write Hal Jordan at an age that’s unusual for superhero stories. “We wrote Hal at an age that isn’t typical for superhero stories,” he said. “And doing that felt like a way to get at a fear of replacement that doesn’t normally come in these types of shows.” That tension — the legend who isn’t ready to step aside, the successor who’s already certain he’s better — is clearly the emotional engine of the whole series.

This is the first live-action Green Lantern project since the 2011 Ryan Reynolds film, which was a notable enough misfire that it kept the character out of the DC Films universe entirely for over a decade. James Gunn and Peter Safran’s DCU is giving the Corps another shot, and Lanterns is the foundation. Aaron Pierre is already confirmed to reprise the role of John Stewart in next summer’s Man of Tomorrow, which teams Superman and Lex Luthor against the alien threat of Brainiac — so whatever happens in Rushville this August, John Stewart’s story is just getting started.

Lanterns premieres August 16 on HBO Max.

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