Call it The Dark Knight effect or something (we did), because Batman being taken so seriously followed by Batman pulling in serious money has David Goyer (story, Dark Knight) spilling the beans about an unofficial stop Warner Brothers has put on the properties they’ve licensed from DC comics…

From IESB:

Director/writer David Goyer says all the DC properties currently over at Warner Bros. have been put on hold for the time being.

When asked about several projects he’s been involved with - i.e. Supermax, The Flash - Goyer said in a recent interview with IESB, “A lot of the DC movies at Warner Brothers are all on hold while the figure out, they’re going to come up with some new plan, methodology, things like that so everything has just been pressed pause on at the moment. It was the double header of both Iron Man and The Dark Knight coming out, so more than ever I think they’ve realized, I think DC was responsible for 15% of Warner Brother’s revenue this year, something crazy like that, so they realized that comic books, it’s become a new genre, one of the most successful genres.”

All this serous foresight is making us feel like idiots for forecasting the end of the superhero movie back in March of last year (pre-Iron Man, mind you).