EXCLUSIVE: Film and TV producer and former studio executive Lynn Harris is joining Matt Reeves’ 6th & Idaho Productions as producing partner. These announcements follow the release of Hocus Pocus 2. which Harris produced, being Disney+’s most watched movie ever.
Reeves, who is currently at work on the sequel to this year’s critical and $771M grossing global box office hit Batman As well as an HBO Max spinoff series based on the film. The PenguinWarner Bros. Television and Film has an agreement with, for both film and television.
“I am so excited to be partnering with Lynn at 6th & Idaho,” Reeves. “She is a terrific producer and has an amazing track record of working with filmmakers on memorable and important films. I can’t wait for the stories we will tell together.”
“I have long admired Matt as a filmmaker, and to have the opportunity with work with him and the team at 6th and Idaho to help grow the company is incredible,” Harris said. “Working with Mike [DeLuca] and Pam [Abdy] in their news roles running Warner Bros. Pictures is a bit of a full-circle moment for me, bringing me back to my roots at Warner Bros. and New Line.”
“Lynn is an incredibly talented producer and we’re excited that she’s partnering with Matt and rejoining us here at Warner Bros.,” Deadline hears from Pam Abdy and Mike DeLuca, co-chairs and CEOs of Warner Bros. Pictures Group.
6th & Idaho executives Daniel Pipski and Rafi Crohn will continue in their current roles, and Dylan Clark, who was Reeves’ producing partner on Batman, will continue in that role on the film’s sequel.
Among Harris’ credits, she also recently executive produced the Oscar winning Warner Bros. drama King Richard. You can also get additional producing credits The Shallows And Wave Five Sony Pictures also available Blade 3: The Notebook And About a Boy.
Harris, along with Matti, was co-founder and president of Weimaraner Republic Pictures. Weimaraner Republic will operate independently as a production company, headed by Leshem. It has a strong development slate that includes television and film projects at MGM and Fox Searchlight. Participant. WBTV. Showtime.
Harris was the EVP Production, Warner Bros. Pictures from 2004 to 2014. She developed and managed a wide range of highly successful films including the $723M worldwide grossing, 7x Oscar-winning film. Gravity. Films such as Man of Steel and Magic Mike, 2x Oscar-nominated Extremely loud and extremely close, Clash of the Titans, Wild Things Are3x Oscar winner Benjamin Button’s Curious Case, Contagion and Godzilla and Guy Ritchie’s The Man From U.N.C.L.E.
Harris was an executive producer at New Line Cinema for ten years before joining Warner Bros. Harris was also responsible for executive producing films such as Seven, Boogie Nights. Magnolia. Life as a House. The first two films in this collection are the Blade series.
Harris began her career in television movies at Leonard Hill Films, and then moved to Fox Broadcasting for current programming. She then moved to features, becoming a story editor and then vice-president of Lynda Obst productions. Ryan Goodell and Kevin Yorn of Yorn Levine represented her in this transaction.