Thanks to Hulu and the international STAR expansion, Disney now has the opportunity to debut a slew of R-rated film and television titles on streaming without harming the family-friendly image the company has worked so hard to cultivate for almost a century.
Having seen the roster of Marvel shows taken out of their hands and sent back to Kevin Feige and his team, Netflix shifted focus when it came to in-house comic book adaptations.
We've been hearing for years that Keanu Reeves is either in talks for a role in the Marvel Cinematic Universe or he's signed a deal to debut as an unspecified character, and yet nothing's come of it yet.
It's been well over a year since we heard that one of Hasbro's first orders of business after acquiring the rights to Power Rangers in a half-billion dollar deal from Saban was to launch an entire shared universe based on the long-running martial arts fantasy series.
Now that the precedent has been set for the Marvel Cinematic Universe's blockbuster movies to be spun off onto television via Disney Plus, as well as those shows then getting spinoffs of their own, the potential for brand new stories is virtually endless.
Once upon a time, cult favorite sci-fi thriller Code 8 was set to be a streaming series that would air exclusively on Quibi before the platform imploded in less than a year, with fans left furious that the story looked destined to remain unfinished.
No Time to Die is clearly still a big deal having recently passed Fast & Furious 9 at the global box office to become the highest-grossing Hollywood movie released since Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker in December 2019, but talk has long since turned to the identity of the next 007.
Plenty of movies have been made by the fans for the fans, and that definitely wrings true of upcoming video game adaptation Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City.
It's only been four years and change since Paul W.S. Anderson and Milla Jovovich wrapped up their six-film series with The Final Chapter, but 1990s-set reboot Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City is coming to theaters on Wednesday, where it's shaping up to be a completely different beast.
As a lifelong fan of both the horror genre and Resident Evil series, Johannes Roberts landed his dream job when he was tasked to direct feature-length reboot Welcome to Raccoon City, reworking the project from scratch after it had initially been developed by Mortal Kombat duo James Wan and Greg Russo.