The early reviews for Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings have been rolling in since yesterday, and the milestone 25th installment in the Marvel Cinematic Universe is currently boasting an 89% score on Rotten Tomatoes with close to 100 reviews accounted for.
According to the most recent batch of rumors, Henry Cavill is no longer under contract as the DCEU's Superman, despite reports making the rounds last summer that he'd inked an extension. Regardless of his current status, three big screen appearances in ten and a half years is a very poor return given the actor's clear love for the character and desire to leave a much bigger impact than the one he was afforded the chance to make.
Kevin Bacon and the horror movie go way back, with the actor famously making his fourth-ever feature film appearance in Friday the 13th as Jack Burrell, receiving one of the classic slasher's most memorable deaths for his troubles. However, over the last 40 years he's largely made a point of staying away from the genre that first brought him to prominence.
Despite the theatrical industry still struggling to shake off the effects of the pandemic, Free Guy managed to show impressive legs at the box office by posting the strongest week-to-week hold of any major blockbuster released this summer to repeat at the number one spot.
Now that Fast & Furious 10 has been given an official release date of April 7th, 2023, audiences can start preparing themselves for the beginning of the end. There are only two movies left in the bombastic action franchise, drawing the sprawling story that kicked off 20 years ago to what promises to be an epic and suitably ludicrous conclusion.
Disney owns some of the biggest brands in the industry, a list that includes the entire Marvel Cinematic Universe, Star Wars, Indiana Jones, Pixar, Walt Disney Animation, Alien, Predator, Die Hard and dozens upon dozens more. Many of those aforementioned properties are known for their crossovers, but so far the Mouse House has preferred to keep things separate.
Looking at how Netflix operates, there was really no other outcome than Sweet Girl rocketing right to the top of the streaming service's most-watched list. It's a brand new in-house action thriller with a high concept premise and a proven star in the lead role, which is exactly the sort of criteria that guarantees success on the platform.
It's already becoming a running joke among Marvel Cinematic Universe fans to blame Mephisto for everything that's going on in Phase Four, which all came from months of rumors claiming that the villain would be revealed as the one responsible for manipulating reality around Scarlet Witch in WandaVision.
Ever since Disney first acquired the rights to Star Wars and began creating new content set in a galaxy far, far away, many fans have increasingly viewed Lucasfilm President Kathleen Kennedy as the biggest villain the franchise has ever seen, more so than Darth Vader or Palpatine.
We haven't seen a new installment in the Beverly Hills Cop franchise for 27 years, but Eddie Murphy's fourth outing as Axel Foley has been stuck in development hell for almost that entire time. The latest version has been in the works for over five years already, but it just took a big step towards finally getting into production at long last.