Streaming services are very reticent to release official viewership data, for the sole reason that they don't have to. The various platforms are under no obligation to share how many subscribers have watched the latest film and television smash hits, so they largely keep the data to themselves.
Based on comments made by creators the Duffer brothers, executive producer Shawn Levy and several members of the cast, there's a finite ending point in mind for Stranger Things. All good things must draw to a close eventually, and the core creative team have long since revealed they know exactly how and when the Netflix cultural phenomenon will wrap up its multi-season narrative.
It's been twelve months since it was first announced that Amazon's smash hit superhero series The Boys was getting a spinoff fast-tracked into development, looking to capitalize on the buzz and expand the franchise after the main show became one of the streaming service's best, brightest and most beloved in-house originals.
Netflix phenomenon The Witcher is a dark, violent, raunchy, foul-mouthed and often gruesome series set in a richly-detailed fantasy universe where monsters, witches, mages and more exist, with Geralt of Rivia offering out his services to dispatch any and all threats if the money is right.
The buzz for Venom: Let There Be Carnage is close to reaching fever pitch, with the sequel to 2018's monster box office hit set to do huge business when it finally comes to theaters over a year behind schedule this weekend. It's been a long wait for fans of Tom Hardy's symbiotic double act, and the first reactions have now arrived online.
No Time to Die hasn't even been released yet, but the rumor mill has already shifted into gear about what comes next for James Bond. Longtime franchise producer Barbara Broccoli definitively ruled out the notion of a woman stepping in to inherit the mantle of 007, before confirming that the casting search will begin next year.
If it wasn't for Tom Hardy, then Venom wouldn't have been anywhere near as good as it turned out. As always, the reliably dedicated and committed star gave his all to the role, avoiding any standard tropes of what the leading man of a superhero blockbuster is supposed to be by presenting Eddie Brock as a sweaty, neurotic and nervous mess.
So far, all of the live-action Star Wars shows for Disney Plus have either teased or outright introduced at least a couple of fan favorite characters from the rich history of the franchise. The Mandalorian's second season quadrupled down on it, bringing Temuera Morrison's Boba Fett, Katee Sackhoff's Bo-Katan, Rosario Dawson's Ahsoka Tano and Mark Hamill's Luke Skywalker into the mix in a veritable nostalgic bonanza.
Having conquered live-action twice over, with Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings still dominating the box office to push the franchise's combined haul well past $25 billion as the Disney Plus shows draw in massive viewership figures, the Marvel Cinematic Universe has now set its sights on animation as the next frontier to dominate.
The people who demanded to have M. Night Shyamalan's Split removed from Netflix after launching a petition claiming the work of fiction set in a heightened and fantastical reality was demeaning, offensive and dehumanizing should probably stay a million miles away from the Marvel Cinematic Universe's Moon Knight when it comes to Disney Plus next year.