It feels as though there's a new combatant throwing their hat into the ring and diving headfirst into the streaming wars every few months or so, probably because that's exactly what's been happening.
Paul Feig is a talented and successful filmmaker that's shown a knack for crafting broad studio comedies that draw in a wide audience, receiving critical and commercial acclaim in the process, but he bit off more than he could chew when he rebooted Ghostbusters.
Christopher Nolan's Batman Begins might not have been a massive box office success, with a global tally of $373 million miles away from the billion-dollar hauls of the two sequels, but it remains one of the most influential blockbusters of the 21st Century, for better or worse.
If there's one thing Dwayne Johnson's steady rise to the pinnacle of the Hollywood A-list has taught us, it's that he loves nothing more than a combination of sand, jungles, CGI creatures and a khaki outfit.
Looking at it now, the conflict between Vin Diesel and Dwayne Johnson on the set of the Fast & Furious movies was almost inevitable. After all, when the chrome-domed tank top enthusiast made the decision to reinvent the brand as a globetrotting series of increasingly preposterous heist thrillers, one of his first orders of business was to recruit an A-list action star who was much bigger and arguably balder, one that had even dubbed himself 'Franchise Viagra' with the box office receipts to prove it in his back pocket.
Ben Affleck had the world at his feet when he rocketed to the upper echelons of the Hollywood A-list at the age of just 26 by winning an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay after co-writing Good Will Hunting with Matt Damon. While his childhood friend sought out more challenging roles in the likes of Saving Private Ryan, Rounders and The Talented Mr. Ripley in the immediate aftermath of their overnight success, Affleck decided to become a movie star.
In theory, the Marvel Cinematic Universe's Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings is less than six months away provided that the Coronavirus domino effect doesn't force the studio into another wide-ranging reshuffle. Kevin Feige is keen to keep things as they are, but there was also a resignation in his recent comments where he admitted that confidence is meaningless in trying to predict what'll happen in the immediate future.
After yesterday's "In Living Color", we're now a third of the way through WandaVision's nine-episode run, and the overarching plot remains shrouded in mystery as director Matt Shakman and showrunner Jac Schaeffer play the long game in revealing the mystery behind what's really going on in Westview.