It would be stating the obvious to say that Bruce Willis makes a lot of movies these days, with this weekend's action thriller Deadlock marking his ninth credit since May 2020, but very rarely does the Die Hard icon play the bad guy.
There was almost no chance of Tom Holland walking away from the role of Spider-Man after the release of No Way Home, but the actor has been shouting from the rooftops about how much he's looking forward to no longer being under contract with either Sony or Marvel Studios to play the superhero.
Remaking one of the all-time great musicals is nothing if not a risky gambit given the original's monolithic stature in the genre, but Steven Spielberg has more than earned the right to do whatever he wants, and what he wanted to do was update West Side Story.
On paper, a $120 million fantasy blockbuster produced by Disney that had staked out a prime November release date seems like a slam dunk, especially when you factor in a stacked ensemble that included Keira Knightley, Helen Mirren, Morgan Freeman, Richard E. Grant and more.
As soon as Spider-Man: No Way Home was given an official title and a multiversal premise, the floodgates to the rumor mill were well and truly opened, and we've now reached a point where barely a day goes by without purported plot information, surprise cameos or spoilers being widely shared online.
It's been sixteen years since we last saw Zorro in live-action, when Martin Campbell reunited with Antonio Banderas and Catherine Zeta-Jones to deliver a subpar sequel to the gloriously entertaining 1998 swashbuckler.