As you'd expect from a project that revolves around Stark Industries technology falling into the wrong hands, which forces his best friend into action to reclaim it and save the day, the shadow of Robert Downey Jr.'s Iron Man is going to touch every corner of Disney Plus series Armor Wars.
By their very nature, the scripts for superhero blockbusters are inherently ridiculous. You've got a bunch of characters with outlandish abilities either teaming up or facing off, leading to a combination of exposition, pseudo-scientific nonsense and plenty of one-liners; at least in the case of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
Whether it's by accident or design, the concept of 'twin films' is a regular occurrence when two movies with strikingly similar premises enter production at the same time, and inevitably find themselves compared to each other every step of the way. Unfortunately for one of them, there always has to be a critical and/or commercial winner.
Throughout the buildup to Venom: Let There Be Carnage, Spider-Man's name has cropped up almost as often as that of Tom Hardy's symbiote, with everyone hedging their bets on the sequel's credits scene teasing the most overt connection yet between Sony's Spider-Man Universe and Kevin Feige's MCU.
The Marvel Cinematic Universe never stops moving, with two dozen projects currently in various stages of production and development, all of which are expected to arrive before the end of 2024. Eternals is next out of the gate on November 5th, with Hawkeye premiering on Disney Plus less than three weeks later.
Production on Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom has been underway since the end of June, but it's only just been confirmed that the mid-credits scene from the first installment is definitely getting paid off following the news WandaVision fan favorite Randall Park has officially signed on the dotted line to return as Dr. Stephen Shin, as per The Hollywood Reporter.
When Michael Keaton briefly cast doubt on his involvement in The Flash before being officially confirmed for a second time, chatter instantly sprung up that Warner Bros. were looking to line up Christian Bale as the movie's multiversal Batman should the deal to secure Tim Burton's Dark Knight fall through.
It took a long time for Dwayne Johnson to dip his toes into the water of superhero cinema, but the world's highest-paid actor looks to be making up for lost time.
There are currently upwards of two dozen Stephen King adaptations currently in development for film and television, and while many of them are stories we've never seen told in live-action before, there's more than a few retreads of familiar tales.
Chris Pratt may be one of the biggest stars in the industry, who almost exclusively stars in spectacle-driven blockbusters, but he isn't quite as popular on the internet as he is in Tinseltown. Social media has attempted to make him the latest victim of cancel culture more than once, and the overall reaction to the news he'd voice the title character in Illumination's animated Super Mario Bros. movie was mixed across the board.