Having made waves on the festival circuit earlier this year, The Beta Test arrives in theaters and on VOD today, with the razor-sharp satirical black comedy winning rave reviews from critics, where it's currently Certified Fresh with a 95% rating on Rotten Tomatoes.
Tom Hanks has always been vocally against the idea of high-profile movies skipping theaters entirely in favor of debuting on streaming, but in a twist of cruel irony, the circumstances caused by the pandemic have seen his last four features do exactly that.
The cast, crew and millions of fans around the world were shocked when Netflix canceled Daredevil in November 2018, but it soon became clear that it was part of a long-term plan on Kevin Feige's part.
As you'd fully expect, most of the chatter swirling around the DCEU's Black Adam focuses on leading man and producer Dwayne Johnson, completely understandable given that he's one of the most famous faces on the planet, never mind the fact the movie is a passion project of his that's been fifteen years in the making.
As you'll no doubt be aware, we're just six weeks away from the long-awaited arrival of Spider-Man: No Way Home, and yet there's not even a whisper as to when we can expect that second full-length trailer, at least not in an official capacity.
"Black Adam is edgy, right? That's gonna be a PG-13 movie where it was very much like, say, The Dark Knight, where that pushed the edges of PG-13. I think we do that very much with Black Adam. We have a very high kill count in our movie," Garcia said with a laugh.
Today marks the opening day of the Marvel Cinematic Universe's Eternals, which is generating plenty of headlines for the wrong reason after becoming the worst-reviewed installment in the franchise's history, with the Rotten Tomatoes score of the cosmic epic having even lower to 51%.
Netflix wouldn't spent $200 million on an original high concept blockbuster starring A-listers Dwayne Johnson, Ryan Reynolds and Gal Gadot, all of whom are more than familiar with lending their talents to a multi-film series, if there wasn't a plan in mind for a potential Red Notice franchise.
Plenty of actors have tackled multiple roles in Marvel projects before, with Josh Brolin and Chris Evans playing Cable and Johnny Storm for Fox before suiting up as Thanos and Captain America for Marvel Studios, while Ryan Reynolds played Hannibal King in Blade: Trinity half a decade before he debuted as Wade Wilson in X-Men Origins: Wolverine.
Plenty of names had been considered to direct the movie that eventually became Sam Raimi's Spider-Man, with James Cameron developing the project in the 1990s before a variety of other filmmakers were contacted about the position, including very surprising candidate David Fincher.