As always, Friday brings the weekly onslaught of fresh titles to VOD, each looking to deem themselves worthy of both your time and money, which grows increasingly harder in the age of streaming supremacy.
Nobody's going to hold up Paul W.S. Anderson and Milla Jovovich's Resident Evil franchise as a paragon of cinematic virtue, but the six-film series definitely had plenty of fans, as evidenced by a box office haul in excess of $1.2 billion making it the highest-grossing string of video game adaptations ever.
As one of the most powerful figures in the industry, which comes with the territory when you're the architect of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, a monolithic film and television enterprise which has grossed over $23 billion at the box office and helped propel Disney Plus to 118 million subscribers in two years, Kevin Feige is a busy dude.
In a deviation from the norm, Netflix dropped its heaviest original hitters on Wednesday this week instead of Friday, which was all to do with the impending Thanksgiving holiday, and it's worked a treat.
It's been dubbed as 'the Squid Game effect' in certain circles already, with the awareness and visibility of Korean drama increasing exponentially after the socially conscious, societally timely and gruesomely violent thriller went on to dominate the Netflix most-watched list for well over a month on its way to becoming the platform's most-watched original episodic effort ever.
Having been hyped up as one of Netflix's most hotly-anticipated shows of the year, the live-action Cowboy Bebop adaptation landed with a bit of a dull thud when fans and newcomers alike finally got to see it for themselves on November 19.
Zack Snyder probably doesn't bat an eyelid when he discovers he's trending these days, such is the regularity with which it happens. True to form, his four-hour cut of Justice League was one of Twitter's top topics yesterday as fans named it as the 2021 movie they were most thankful for.
Up until yesterday, there was nothing particularly memorable about The Boss Baby, other than the fact the 2017 animated feature marked the last credited appearance of Tobey Maguire, something that may or may not be about to change when Spider-Man: No Way Home comes to theaters in exactly three weeks.