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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.
The Tyranny of Donkey Kong 2 is a 2022 American monster film based on the Nintendo Games character Donkey Kong and the NES game Donkey Kong Jr. Written and Directed by Matt Reeves, the film stars Andy Serkis and Lou Ferrigno as Donkey Kong and Jack Black as Mario, alongside Seth Green, Mila Kunis, and Jacob Tremblay. The Tyranny of Donkey Kong 2 was released on March 18th, 2022, as the second installment in the Donkey Kong Trilogy; it was largely panned by critics, with criticisms aimed at the plot, script, pacing, direction, runtime and lack of respect to Donkey Kong Jr., but the action sequences, tone, score and performances were praised. The film was the second Nintendo property to become a box-office bomb, grossing over $61 million against a budget of $15 million, and lost over $50 million. A third film, The Tyranny of Donkey Kong 3: The Last Call was released on December 29th 2024, to critical and commercial success and became the best reviewed Donkey Kong film to-date.
