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Matthew George "Matt" Reeves (born April 27, 1966 in Rockville Center, New York, USA) is an American screenwriter, director, and producer. He began making movies at age eight, directing friends and using a wind-up camera. Reeves befriended filmmaker J.J. Abrams when both were 13 years old and they were making short films together. When Reeves and Abrams were 15 or 16 years old, Steven Spielberg hired them to transfer some of his own Super 8 films to videotape. Reeves began his career as a screenwriter for the films Under Siege 2: Dark Territory (1995) and The Pallbearer (1996), the latter of which marked his feature-length directorial debut. He then transitioned into television as a director and co-creator of the drama series Felicity (1998–2002) alongside J.J. Abrams. Reeves has since directed the horror film Cloverfield (2008), the romantic horror film Let Me In (2010), and the science fiction sequels Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014) and War for the Planet of the Apes (2017). In February 2017, Warner Bros. announced that Reeves would direct The Batman (2022) by DC, starring Robert Pattinson.
Rise of the Guardians is a 2012 American 3D computer-animated action fantasy film produced by DreamWorks Animation and distributed by Paramount Pictures. The film was directed by Matt Reeves from a screenplay by David Lindsay-Abaire based on the book series The Guardians of Childhood and the short film The Man in the Moon by William Joyce. It stars Andrew Garfield, Ben Affleck, Tom Hiddleston, Anne Hathaway, Tom Hardy, Liam Neeson, Ewan McGregor, Daisy Ridley, Elizabeth Olsen, Aaron Eckhart And Kyle Chandler. The film tells a story about Guardians Santa Claus, the Tooth Fairy, the Easter Bunny, The Leprechaun, The Groundhog, Cupid and the Sandman, who enlist Jack Frost to stop the evil Pitch Black and Heat Miser from engulfing the world in darkness in a fight of dreams. The film was released in the United States on November 21, 2012. It grossed $1.026 Billion worldwide against a budget of $145 million. It won the academy award for best picture, best actor for Andrew Garfield And best music from Lorne Balfe. The sequel, Rise Of The Guardians 2 was released on March 26th 2015.
