As we move closer and closer towards Halloween and the spooky season festivities kick off in earnest, it's a foregone conclusion that a deluge of scary titles will find themselves dominating the Netflix most-watched list.
It doesn't matter how many times the character is rebooted, reinvented or updated; people are never going to grow tired of Batman. Next year alone we're getting three different versions of the iconic superhero on the big screen, with Robert Pattinson, Michael Keaton and Ben Affleck all suiting up and reporting for duty on the big screen.
Lucasfilm exec James Waugh recently brushed off any concerns of franchise fatigue beginning to set in with Star Wars, and he'd better hope that he's right. While The Last Jedi and The Rise of Skywalker generated no shortage of backlash and even more criticism, the Disney Plus lineup has gone a long way to getting many of the dissenters back on board.
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings was the only real bright spot for an otherwise lukewarm September at the box office, with the Marvel Cinematic Universe's 25th installment outperforming expectations at every turn. However, October has the potential to be the biggest month the industry has seen for a long time, with a trio of heavy hitters all expected to do big business.
On paper, the idea of a Willy Wonka prequel is about as creatively bankrupt as it gets, but Warner Bros. will be looking to launch one last franchise out of the beloved Roald Dahl character before the writer's entire back catalogue migrates to Netflix, after the streamer picked it up in a huge deal the other week.