Latest news with #Reeves
Hindustan Times
24 minutes ago
- Entertainment
- Hindustan Times
The Batman Part II gets release date from Matt Reeves: Here's when to expect it in theaters
Matt Reeves has finally shared a big update on The Batman Part II. After months of silence, the sequel is officially moving forward. The wait has been long after the film was first announced in April 2022. Since then, delays and rumors have kept fans in the dark. Now, the release is locked for October 1, 2027. That's more than five years after the original film. Matt Reeves confirms The Batman Part II is progressing, sharing a photo of the script on Instagram.( mattreevesla/Instagram) Also Read: Bezos-Sanchez wedding: Newlyweds break cover as they leave Venice hotel, head for breakfast in Harry's Bar On Friday, Reeves posted a photo of the finished script on Instagram. The caption read: 'Partners in Crime (Fighters),' with co-writer Mattson Tomlin tagged. The page was blurred, but a Batman logo was clearly visible. Reeves did not dive into the details, but for now, the post would suffice. The photo gave no plot hints. Still, fans welcomed even a blurry glimpse of progress. For fans, this was confirmation that things are moving again. It also marks Tomlin's return to the writing team. He helped shape the story of the first film. Together, they are back to building the next chapter. Also Read: Taylor Swift's epic 'Love Story' performance with Travis Kelce and George Kittle goes viral: Watch James Gunn responds to frustrated fans Many fans have been frustrated by the delay. James Gunn finally addressed those concerns. In an Entertainment Weekly interview, he asked fans to be patient. 'Let the guy write the screenplay in the amount of time he needs,' he said. He also made it clear: Reeves doesn't owe fans anything. 'You like his movie because of Matt,' Gunn added. 'So let Matt do things the way he does.' Gunn's message was simple: creativity takes time. Trust the process. Will Robert Pattinson return as Batman? The first Batman movie was released in March 2022. Robert Pattinson brought a darker, more grounded version of Bruce Wayne. The film was praised for its style and tone. So far, there's no word on casting. Still, Pattinson is widely expected to return. Fans hope the core team stays together. The sequel won't connect to Gunn's new DC Universe. Instead, it will stay under DC's Elseworlds banner. That means it's separate from Superman and other new films. Reeves can continue to tell his story without any crossover pressure. It has been quiet for a long time. But now there's movement. The story is written. The vision is back on track. The road to 2027 is still long. But at least fans now know: Gotham will return. Reeves is behind the wheel again. FAQs 1. When is The Batman Part II releasing? The sequel is currently scheduled to hit theatres on October 1, 2027, five and a half years after the first film's release. 2. Is Robert Pattinson returning as Batman? While Robert Pattinson is expected to reprise his role, official casting details have not been confirmed yet. 3. Why was The Batman sequel delayed? Director Matt Reeves took time to finish the script. James Gunn, co-head of DC Studios, also urged fans to be patient, saying Reeves should be allowed to work at his own pace.
Express Tribune
18 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Express Tribune
One step closer to Batman: Matt Reeves completes script for The Batman 2
Matt Reeves has officially completed the script for The Batman 2, confirming the long-awaited sequel's progress. The director took to Instagram on Friday, sharing a photo of the script with co-writer Mattson Tomlin, announcing the milestone with the caption "Partners in Crime (Fighters)." While the first page of the script was blurred out, the image clearly featured the iconic Batman logo, giving fans a glimpse of what's to come. The sequel to The Batman, which was initially announced in April 2022 after the success of Robert Pattinson's debut as the Dark Knight, has faced multiple delays. However, it is now set for release on October 1, 2027, marking over five years since the first film grossed more than $772 million at the box office. The news comes just ahead of the launch of James Gunn and Peter Safran's new DC Universe with Superman. Gunn recently addressed fan frustration over the delay of The Batman 2's script in an interview with Entertainment Weekly, urging fans to be patient with Reeves. "Let the guy write the screenplay in the amount of time he needs," Gunn said. He further emphasized that Reeves would not deliver the script until he was completely satisfied with it, reassuring fans that the wait would be worth it. This announcement has sparked renewed excitement for the sequel, which promises to build on the success of its predecessor.
Yahoo
2 days ago
- Business
- Yahoo
Bailey contradicts Reeves's claim that economy has ‘turned a corner'
Andrew Bailey has poured cold water on the Chancellor's claim that Britain's economy has turned a corner, warning that growth is slowing as high taxes bite. The Governor of the Bank of England said the apparent growth spurt early this year was driven by temporary factors and was unlikely to be repeated. As a result, Britain's businesses must brace for a slowdown. 'We think the UK economy will grow at a more moderate pace over the coming quarters,' Mr Bailey told the annual conference of the British Chambers of Commerce (BCC). 'The unexpected strength in the first quarter was driven by strong outcomes for volatile components of GDP in the monthly figures for March.' Mr Bailey said growth was boosted by a stamp duty holiday that expired in March and a rush to export to the US before Donald Trump's tariffs kicked in. However, stamp duty has since risen along with other taxes, including Rachel Reeves's £25bn raid on employers' National Insurance contributions, and Mr Bailey said there were clear signs the economy was weakening as a result. The Governor added that he was 'beginning to hear a bit more evidence of adjustments through pay and employment' in response to higher National Insurance. He said there was 'softening of the labour market'. The comments are a blow to Ms Reeves, who claimed in May that Britain's economy was 'beginning to turn a corner' after official figures showed GDP grew by 0.7pc in the first three months of the year. The Chancellor has also repeatedly claimed that Labour has 'fixed the foundations' of the economy. Mr Bailey pointed out that the economy shrank by 0.3pc in April, which was 'consistent' with the idea that the growth spurt seen at the start of the year was only temporary. It echoes comments he made earlier in the week in which he warned that there was clear evidence of higher taxes hitting employment. The Governor added that economic growth was 'the only source of sustainable improvements to the standard of living'. Raising the growth rate of the UK economy was 'one of the most important challenges facing us as a society today', he said. The comments come after Shevaun Haviland, the BCC chief, pleaded with the Chancellor not to raise taxes again in the autumn, amid growing fears that Ms Reeves will be forced to come back for more. Ms Haviland said on Thursday: 'Taxing business is just counterproductive. The Chancellor needs to drive revenue from economic growth, not from taxation. Taxation kills business growth. 'We also go to her [Reeves] with ideas, with solutions, with opportunities and that's where we want to see her focus and for her taxing business further for the economy is going to have the opposite effect.' Sir Keir Starmer addressed business leaders at the start of the BCC conference, acknowledging that Labour's tax raid on companies had been painful. The Prime Minister said he had 'asked a lot' of businesses this year 'as we've had to fix the foundations of this economy'. Broaden your horizons with award-winning British journalism. Try The Telegraph free for 1 month with unlimited access to our award-winning website, exclusive app, money-saving offers and more. Error in retrieving data Sign in to access your portfolio Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data
1News
2 days ago
- General
- 1News
Auckland museum's Māori, Pacific galleries may be closed until 2029
The Auckland War Memorial Museum's Māori and Pacific galleries could remain closed until 2029. The museum was planning a major redevelopment for its centenary, which would revitalise much of the original 1929 building. That redevelopment was expected to run from about 2026 to 2029, but the discovery of asbestos in May of 2025 had complicated those plans. "The discovery happened because we started doing some scoping around what state the air conditioning systems were in, and we went up into the ceiling and that's when they discovered the remnants of a previous removal effort in the 1980s," museum director David Reeves said. The majority of the museum was reopened on June 3, and more galleries were set to reopen by the end of the year, but Reeves said the original 1929 foyer and connecting Māori Court and Pacific galleries would take a lot longer to reopen. ADVERTISEMENT "The Māori Court is a complex job because we're dealing with a glass ceiling, heritage architecture and spaces which are really inaccessible and difficult to get to," he said. "That could be up to 12 months to remedy that, by which time we're probably looking at when we might have had to close anyway for the centenary redevelopment. These two things have ended up colliding." The centenary redevelopment would be "substantial," Reeves said, and require the Māori Court to remain closed for about three years, although he noted the museum hadn't finished scoping that project. "Our desire is spruce up and make good some of the heritage architecture from 1929, there's renewal of air conditioning, electrics, lighting and things, and there's the renewal of the narratives, the displays, the interpretation of our world class Pacific and Māori collections," Reeves explained. Reeves hoped the asbestos clean-up would be finished sooner, but said it was possible the current closure could lead right into the next. "It is possible things might be closed until 2029, but we don't have the full information and the decisions on that yet," he said.
ITV News
3 days ago
- Business
- ITV News
Peston: Whatever the outcome is on welfare reform, Starmer and Reeves lose
Angela Rayner told MPs today that next week's vote on the Universal Credit and Personal Independence Payment bill will go ahead as planned. She has been in frontline politics long enough to know that this was a passable imitation of a turkey voting for Christmas. Because despite her party's humungous majority in the Commons, she and her leader Keir Starmer don't have the votes. What's gone wrong, and what can Starmer do? One problem for them is that - less than a year into the life of this parliament - too many of his MPs are tired of being treated like cattle, and are depressed by that they see as Starmer's lack of optimistic purpose. As several said to me, they feel exploited and taken for granted. Here is how one grumpy MP laid the blame at the PM's door: "He's never here. He never votes. And his team patronise and infantalise us." So when Labour's party managers threaten uncooperative MPs with being expelled if they vote the wrong way, some say bring it on, that returning to civvy street would be a blessed release. Then there is the almost primal fact about Labour politicians: their instincts are that benefits are to be increased, not cut, and most especially not for the vulnerable. So legislating to take £5 billion from disabled people before being able to demonstrate how these vulnerable people would be helped into fulfilling employment was always going to be inflammatory. Months ago, I put to the Work and Pensions Secretary Liz Kendall on my show that she was making a mistake by putting the welfare-cuts cart before the job-creation horse. In reply, she obfuscated. The truth is that it was a rushed job, driven by a Chancellor Rachel Reeves who believed she needed the savings to persuade the Office for Budget Responsibility that she wouldn't breach her own fiscal rules. It is the same misjudgement Reeves made when abolishing universal entitlement to the winter fuel payment: she decided that manifesting her financial prudence to big investors, the buyers of government debt, gilts, was the imperative. But while it is true that the government's borrowing costs are painfully high, and it would be difficult for her if they were to rise further, it is not obvious that investors would have dumped the pound and sterling assets if she had taken more time over the welfare reforms. What she could have done was to announce an intention to reform disability benefits in this autumn's budget, when presumably she would have been better placed to show the mechanisms for helping disabled people find and keep paid employment, and when she would also (probably) be able to sweeten the pill by abolishing the two-child limit on universal credit payments. So given that on the current trajectory, Starmer, Reeves and Kendall are heading for humiliating defeat in just a few days, why not at this late juncture just pull the legislation and roll its material reforms into the autumn budget? Here is the painful paradox. That staged approach might well have been credible in the spring. Now such a delay might well say to the nation's creditors that Starmer, Reeves and co are weak and directionless - and that could lead to a painful rise in the interest rate paid by the Treasury. So presumably what we'll see in coming days is the government amending its legislation to soften the cuts, at the political price of being accused of yet another u-turn and at considerable reputational cost to Starmer, Reeves and Kendall. And lenders to the government would also be jittery, if not despairing. There is no painless escape from this for Starmer and Reeves. And there is no ambiguity that this is a mess they made for themselves. For the past 11 months may have been blaming the last Conservative governmnent for all their previous woes, but this debacle is theirs alone.
