Actresses Melissa McCarthy, Kate McKinnon, Leslie Jones, Kristen Wiig and Ghostbusters director Paul Feig speak onstage
Playing the Caped Crusader on the big screen is apparently not enough for Ben Affleck, who is to also direct a stand-alone Batman film.
The Oscar winner played Bruce Wayne in Batman V Superman: Dawn Of Justice and had been rumoured to be Warner Bros top choice to helm another film.
Chief executive Kevin Tsujihara confirmed they were moving forward with Affleck in the director's chair at CinemaCon, an annual gathering of theatre owners in Las Vegas.
The stand-alone Batman feature is part of Warner Bros' plans for an expanded DC Comics cinematic universe, similar to that of the Disney and Marvel collaboration.
Warner Bros has at least 10 features in the works, including Suicide Squad, Wonder Woman and Justice League.
Unsurprisingly, those films comprised a major portion of Warner Bros' presentation, signalling that the studio is moving forward energetically with its original plans despite Batman V Superman not performing as well at the box office as the studio would have liked.
Affleck, who is also directing Live By Night for the studio, made an appearance with Amy Adams, who plays Lois Lane.
He confirmed that both would be joining Zack Snyder's Justice League, which is currently in production in London.
Suicide Squad director David Ayer and stars Will Smith and Margot Robbie were on hand as well to hype up the super villains-gone-straight film, which launches in August.
Warner Bros also trotted out stars and footage from a number of their upcoming films including the Harry Potter spinoff Fantastic Beasts And Where to Find Them, The Lego Batman Movie, the Russell Crowe and Ryan Gosling comedy The Nice Guys, and Emilia's Clarke romantic drama Me Before You.
The title for the new Spider-Man film was also revealed by Sony Pictures at the event.
Tom Holland will play Peter Parker and his alter ego in Spider-Man: Homecoming which will be released in July 2017.
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