With James Bond on hiatus following the poor reception afforded to Pierece Brosnan's swansong in Die Another Day, there was a gap in the market for anyone looking to become cinema's most popular secret agent, a position that Matt Damon's Jason Bourne was more than happy to seize for himself.
Eddie Redmayne followed up his Academy Award-winning performance as Stephen Hawking in The Theory of Everything with another awards-baiting turn the very next year, but despite landing a second consecutive Best Actor nomination, The Danish Girl didn't come without controversy.
It hasn't officially been confirmed by anyone other than Tyrese Gibson as of yet, but the longtime franchise veteran recently offered that the tenth and eleventh installments in the Fast & Furious franchise were set to shoot back-to-back.
Even though it's been 45 years since the movie turned Sylvester Stallone from an unknown into an Academy Award-nominated actor and writer in the Best Picture winner, the Rocky franchise is just as popular today as it's ever been.
As you may have gleaned from the title, spoilers for Ghostbusters: Afterlife follow from here on out, so you might want to turn back if you aren't one of the people who contributed to the movie's healthy $44 million opening weekend.
We're exactly one month away from The Matrix Resurrections releasing in theaters and on HBO Max, and while we've seen plenty of production stills, images and snippets of footage from the hotly-anticipated sequel, plot specifics are being kept firmly under wraps.
Based on the social media reactions, Marvel Cinematic Universe fans are just as excited to see in-canon stage show Rogers: The Musical as they are to see Hawkeye itself, with the all-singing and all-dancing extravaganza blowing up on Twitter from the second it was revealed to be part of the Disney Plus series.
For the most part, people have been massively enjoying Jason Reitman's Ghostbusters: Afterlife, which debuted at the top of the box office this weekend with a stronger than expected debut of $44 million.
One of the most convincing fan theories surrounding the Marvel Cinematic Universe is that Thanos hasn't been the biggest threat faced by the roster of superheroes during the franchise's thirteen years of existence. Instead, you can make a very good argument that the most prominent danger to the comic book mythology has always been Tony Stark.
While it would have been nice for it to have been kept a secret up until the movie's release, the spoilerific reveal that Harry Styles was set to make his Marvel Cinematic Universe debut in the post-credits scene of Eternals may have convinced some fans to head to the theater and check out the comic book adaptation, based solely on his involvement.