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 this afternoon.

The news comes at a time when the movie has clocked over $760M around the globe and a viewership of 4.1M households on HBO Max in its first week; besting the viewership of such Warner day-and-date movies last year as Suicide Squad, Dune, Wonder Woman 1984, and The Matrix Resurrections. The Batman is Warner’s first theatrical window release since Christopher Nolan’s Tenant in August 2020 after the studio adopted a pandemic theatrical day-and-date strategy its 2021 slate including December 2020’s Wonder Woman 1984.

HBO Max also has a Batman spinoff series in the works centering around Colin Farrell’s Penguin.

Matt Reeves took the stage briefly and said to the room of exhibitors, “Thank you all for your tremendous support for The Batman. We couldn’t have gotten here without the faith and ethusaiam of all your teams around the world

“I’m excited to jump back into this world for the next chapter.”