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EXCLUSIVE: Film and TV producer and former studio executive Lynn Harris is joining Matt Reeves’ 6th & Idaho Productions as producing partner. The news comes in the wake of Hocus Pocus 2, which Harris produced, being Disney+’s most watched movie ever. Reeves, who is currently at work on the sequel to…

HBO Max’s The Batman prequel series has found its showrunner. The series, which is about Arkham Asylum, will be overseen by The Staircase creator Antonio Campos, who will serve as showrunner-executive producer and also will direct on the series, Deadline has confirmed. Initially, the series…

Movie studios go to great lengths to precent film storylines from leaking and superhero movies are known to take the secrecy one step further. Paul Dano is opening up about his time filming The Batman and the “special binder” that had a “tracking device” to maintain everything under wraps. “Don't…

EXCLUSIVE: Warner Bros is going all in on The Batman director Matt Reeves and his 6th & Idaho production company. He has become the first filmmaker given an overall first look film deal since Warner Bros Pictures Group Co-Chairs/CEOs Michael De Luca and Pamela Abdy were hired by Warner Bros. Discovery chief David…

When Matt Reeves graduated from the USC School of Cinematic Arts, Tim Burton was about to film Batman’s big return to the big screen. Now The Batman writer-director and Class of 1988 alum will give the 2022 commencement address on May 13 at the campus-adjacent Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles. SCA also said today…

No surprise here: The Batman 2 is happening with Matt Reeves returning as director and Robert Pattinson as the Caped Crusader, Warner Bros. Motion Picture Group Boss Toby Emmerich announced today during the studio’s CinemaCon presentation in Las Vegas. ‘Barbie’ Heads To Summer 2023 – CinemaCon The news comes at a time…

Before NATO Boss John Fithian and MPA Chief Charles Rivkin took the stage this AM at CinemaCon in Las Vegas,  The Batman director Matt Reeves started things off, praising exhibition, and promising theater owners, he’s in for the long haul when it comes to making movies for the big screen. "What we do takes audiences…

Warner Bros/DC's The Batman has winged its way past three-quarters of a billion dollars at the worldwide box office, maintaining its spot as the highest-grossing film of the year, globally and domestically. The worldwide cume through Sunday is $751.1M with the Matt Reeves-directed spin on the Caped Crusader counting $3…

Warner Bros/DC's The Batman has winged its way past the half a billion dollar mark worldwide to become the fourth highest-grossing studio release of the pandemic era. The global total is $505.8M through Wednesday, and there’s still plenty of gas left in the Batmobile. The split on the critically praised, Matt…

It might have been another Manic Monday as The Bangles would say but that didn’t stop people from going to see The Batman yesterday, even with the top three circuits jacking up their ticket prices by largely a buck. Among first Mondays during the pandemic, the Matt Reeves directed movie grossed $11.1M which ranks…

The Batman director Matt Reeves has duly confirmed that the movie’s prequel series on HBO Max, which centered on a corrupt cop, is not moving forward. Reeves already indicated this on our Hero Nation podcast, that he had a conversation with HBO Max execs to steer his Batman spinoff series toward one of the more…

MONDAY AM: Rival studios easily saw Batman doing in the mid $130Ms yesterday AM, and today Warner Bros. is reporting $134M after a $34.1M Sunday, -21% from Saturday. Presales were strong throughout the weekend. Look for Batman to ease 50% in weekend 2 with an estimated $67M. Batman doesn’t encounter any studio wide…