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During the Warner Bros. panel, they unveiled a couple of surprises in regards to some of their DC titles — particularly Matt Reeves’ The Batman and James Gunn’s Suicide Squad sequel — which is called The Suicide Squad. The Batman opens June 25, 2021 while The Suicide Squad is set for an August 6, 2021 date. The…

Peter Sarsgaard has been added to the cast of The Batman, Warner Bros and DC’s latest take on the superhero franchise. Director Matt Reeves tweeted out the news Friday, while not revealing any character information. But he does join a pic toplined by Robert Pattinson as Batman, Zoe Kravitz as Catwoman, Andy Serkis as…

EXCLUSIVE: Warner Bros is negotiating with Colin Farrell to play The Penguin in the Matt Reeves-directed The Batman. If the deal closes, he will round out the trio of villains going against Rob Pattinson's Caped Crusader, with Paul Dano as The Riddler and Zoe Kravitz as Catwoman. The Irish-born actor has turned in an…

Today’s casting of Paul Dano as The Riddler in Matt Reeves’ The Batman and the exit of Jonah Hill from negotiations Wednesday shouldn’t confuse the issue: Deadline hears the search is on to find The Penguin. Those actors were not in line for the same role. Sources said that Reeves and Warner Bros’ next order of…

EXCLUSIVE: Netflix and Matt Reeves’ 6th & Idaho have locked down rights to Way Station, the Hugo Award winning novel by Clifford D. Simak. They are going out to writers to craft a large scale sci-fi thriller. The film will be produced by 6th & Idaho's Reeves, Adam Kassan and Rafi Crohn, as well as Adam Massey and…

Warner Bros has approved Robert Pattinson as the star of The Batman, the trilogy of films that Matt Reeves will direct later this year, Deadline hears. Pattinson has been considered a frontrunner because the filmmaker liked him, but the studio was torn between him and Nicholas Hoult, and wanted both of the actors on…

Matt Reeves is getting close to naming his Batman. While a report declared that Twilight Saga star Rob Pattinson had been set for The Batman, Deadline hears that the filmmaker and Warner Bros haven’t gotten to that place yet. Pattinson is on a short list but so is Nicholas Hoult, who stars in Tolkien and is about to…

EXCLUSIVE: Game Of Thrones lynchpin Peter Dinklage, Netflix, Matt Reeves (Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes) and publisher-producer Boom! Studios are teaming up on a feature version of Boom!’s post-apocalyptic graphic novel Last Sons Of America by Phillip Kennedy Johnson and Matthew Dow Smith. Dinklage will star in the…

EXCLUSIVE: Warner Bros. is dating their next rendition of Batman for June  25, 2021. This is the one that Matt Reeves has been attached to as writer and director. Ben Affleck, we hear, will not be donning the Dark Knight’s tights after playing the Caped Crusader in Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice, Suicide…

Ed Zwick has signed on to direct the first episode and executive produce Away, Netflix’s upcoming drama series from playwright Andrew Hinderaker, Jason Katims (Friday Night Lights, Parenthood) and Matt Reeves (Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, Felicity). Written by Hinderaker, the series, loosely inspired by Chris…

“We are working on getting our draft in the next couple of weeks and things are progressing,” Matt Reeves said at TCA today about the current state of his Batman redux which he is set to direct for Warner Bros. “We have conceptual stuff going and coming into being and my head is totally in the script. In fact I’m…

EXCLUSIVE: Days after acquiring his film Mowgli from Warner Bros, Netflix has doubled down with Andy Serkis by acquiring rights to the George Orwell novel Animal Farm. Serkis will direct a performance-capture film. 6th & Idaho’s Matt Reeves, Rafi Crohn and Adam Kassan will produce with The Imaginarium’s Serkis and Jona…