On paper, Tomorrowland had all of the ingredients to be a major success for Disney, one with the potential to launch yet another lucrative franchise based on the Mouse House's most iconic theme park attractions, but it wasn't to be.
It's incredible to think of how different the movie industry would be right now if it wasn't for the pandemic, with audiences still waiting on a huge number of titles that they should have seen a long time ago. The perfect example is No Time to Die, which isn't releasing domestically until next week, eighteen months behind schedule.
Nothing in the carefully-curated world of blockbuster franchises happens by accident, so the interest of comic book fans was piqued when it was revealed Stephen Graham had boarded the cast of Venom: Let There Be Carnage as a San Francisco cop named Mulligan, who enlists Eddie Brock to help him find the whereabouts of Cletus Kasady's undiscovered victims.
The process of shooting mega budget studio blockbusters is not an easy one, especially if unexpected circumstances end up derailing or delaying production. James Bond producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson admitted they were screwed when cameras began rolling on Quantum of Solace without a completed script, but that didn't stop the exact same thing from happening again with No Time to Die.
The MPAA often comes in for criticism about how and why it decides on its rating system, in particular the judicious use of profanity. You could make a quaint, intimate character-driven drama about something as random or trivial as a married couple buying a new toaster, but if they say "f*ck" more than once, it gets an R-rating.
At last week's TUDUM event, Netflix revealed the first full-length trailer for Army of Thieves, the second chapter in the rapidly-expanding Army of the Dead universe that already has animated companion series Lost Vegas in post-production, with a sequel to Zack Snyder's smash hit opening installment also in the early stages of development.
As expected, the internet can't stop talking about the credits scene of Venom: Let There Be Carnage, which is surely a source of major frustration for Tom Hardy. The leading man, co-writer and producer urged fans not to reveal spoilers, only for the stinger to leak online 24 hours before the movie was even released.
Eighteen months later than expected and the end of the Daniel Craig era is finally upon us, with the actor's final outing as James Bond in No Time to Die now playing internationally ahead of a domestic release next Friday. It's been a long time coming, and the good news for fans is that the reviews have deemed it as a fitting swansong.
We'll be diving into the specifics of the Venom: Let There Be Carnage's credits scene from here on out, so consider this your spoiler warning. At the end of Ruben Fleischer's first installment, the stinger revealing surprise guest Woody Harrelson as Cletus Kasady made it perfectly clear where the sequel was heading, with fans having been desperate to see the serial killer's symbiotic alter ego brought into live-action for the longest time.
It's long since gone down in Hollywood legend that Will Smith turned down the role of Neo in The Matrix because he didn't fully understand the script, opting to make Wild Wild West instead.