It's a bold move for studio Searchlight Pictures to release Guillermo del Toro's Nightmare Alley on December 17, and while counter-programming can often yield decent business, it's the riskiest gambit of the year going directly head-to-head with Spider-Man: No Way Home at the box office.
When you hear the words 'Stan Lee' and 'cinematic universe' in the same sentence, your mind is instantly going to wander over to Kevin Feige's series of Marvel Comics adaptations, which is fair enough when the MCU is the highest-grossing franchise in the history of cinema.
Justin Lin will be sticking around to helm the tenth and eleventh installments in the Fast & Furious franchise, which are poised to shoot back-to-back and draw the increasingly ludicrous story of Dominic Toretto and his extended family to a close after two decades of high-octane adventures.
Having dropped $55 million just to secure the rights to the movie, Netflix evidently have high hopes for Scott Cooper's The Pale Blue Eye, which marks the Into the Furnace and Hostiles director's third collaboration with Christian Bale.
Ever since the major pieces started falling into place for HBO Max's Batgirl, we'd been operating under the impression that the streaming service's first in-house DCEU blockbuster would begin shooting before the end of 2021, even as we got closer and closer to the final month of the year.
Despite winning praise for featuring one of Johnny Depp's best performances in years, biographical drama Minamata has proven to be a point of contention between director Andrew Levitas and studio MGM.
Up until the other day, Universal's dark horror comedy Renfield probably wasn't even on a lot of people's radar, but that's obviously going to change in a major way when you pull off what could turn out to be the casting masterstroke of the century by hiring Nicolas Cage to play Dracula.
Ben Affleck may have two Academy Awards and three Golden Globes in his trophy cabinet for his efforts as a writer, director and producer, but he's spent the better part of 25 years having his acting ability called into question.