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EXCLUSIVE: His Dark Materials episodic director William McGregor has come aboard to helm the movie Smile (working title) for Netflix and Matt Reeves’ 6th & Idaho, a project described as a vampire story in the spirit of Nicolas Winding Refn’s Drive.  McGregor will co-write with Helen Kingston, who wrote the 2019 Lena…

EXCLUSIVE: The Matrix and Joker co-producer Village Roadshow Pictures is teaming with Matt Reeves’ 6th & Idaho (The Batman) and XYZ Films (Mandy) for the English-language remake of recently-released Russian sci-fi-thriller Sputnik. Set in the Soviet Union in the 1980s during the Cold War, the film follows a young…

EXCLUSIVE: Netflix is teaming up with The Batman writer-director Matt Reeves’ 6th & Idaho and Burn director Mike Gan on the Black List survival thriller previously known in industry circles as Dead Of Winter. Burn producer Sukee Chew is also producing the untitled project for her management and production banner…

EXCLUSIVE: HBO Max has put in development The Future, a one-hour sci-fi tech drama based on Dan Frey’s forthcoming novel The Future Is Yours, from The Batman director and Felicity co-creator Matt Reeves’ 6th & Idaho, Run co-writer-director Aneesh Chaganty and producers Natalie Qasabian and Sev Ohanian, and Warner…

EXCLUSIVE: Netflix has preemptively acquired a new feature thriller pitch from screenwriter Sean O'Keefe to be produced by Matt Reeves' 6th & Idaho. The project is billed as being in the spirit of Ron Howard’s 1996 action kidnap thriller hit Ransom but with a female bent. The new project reps a reteaming of Netflix…

In a competitive situation, Warner Bros. Television has acquired the rights to Diane Cook’s upcoming novel The New Wilderness to develop as a television series. Matt Reeves’ 6th & Idaho will executive produce the project as part of its overall deal with WBTV. Cook is slated to write and executive produce the pilot for…

The Batman director and Felicity co-creator Matt Reeves has signed an exclusive, multi-year overall deal with Warner Bros. The rich pact had quietly closed months ago, and is now being confirmed. Under the overall agreement, Reeves will develop new television programming for all platforms via his 6th & Idaho…

Matt Reeves is in London right now, safely waiting until production on his highly anticipated Warner Bros. feature The Batman can resume after closing down four weeks because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Like many filmmakers and content creators taking cover, it’s a good time to hit pause, assess, and even…

EXCLUSIVE: We’re hearing that Netflix and Matt Reeves’ company 6th & Idaho are in advanced talks to make the music-themed feature film Idol, on which Hailee Steinfeld is attached to star and produce. The deal has not closed yet, but we understand it is imminent. We’re hearing the news from several sources. Netflix…

EXCLUSIVE: In the latest bold step for the movie division of Netflix, the company has made one of its most significant overall deals with an A-list feature filmmaker. Matt Reeves, who moved from War For The Planet Of The Apes into writing to direct the next solo Batman movie for Warner Bros and DC, is berthing his 6th…