The IMDb Star Meter is by no means an indicator of popularity, but rather an insight into which actors are trending in terms of profile views and searches, but that didn't stop Gina Carano from using her recent ascension to second position as a defense with which to accuse the media of running a smear campaign against her after The Mandalorian's Cara Dune found herself constantly swept up in online controversy.
Based on the numbers the series pulled in on YouTube, Netflix looked like they were onto a winner when they debuted the first two seasons of Cobra Kai on the platform during the summer, and the Karate Kid sequel show managed to knock the hotly anticipated new episodes of Lucifer from the top spot of the most-watched list in almost no time at all.
No offense to Ray Fisher, but the idea of audiences turning up in their droves to see a Cyborg solo movie always seemed more than a little far-fetched, especially when his entire involvement as part of the DCEU had amounted to a GIF in Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice and a severely underwritten and under-cooked supporting role in Justice League where he wasn't given a great deal to do.
Ever since Bryan Singer's X-Men kicked off the comic book boom two decades ago, audiences have become accustomed to seeing at least one Marvel superhero movie on their screens annually. In fact, 2020 marked the first time in a decade that an entire calendar year went past without a new feature film from the MCU being released.
Decades in the future, film scholars will examine the history of Justice League in great detail and wonder exactly what the hell happened. Zack Snyder's comic book blockbuster was initially announced as the first half of a two-part saga, the second chapter of which would arrive after Ben Affleck directed The Batman, but here we are close to four and a half years later with things looking markedly different.
Given how prolific he's been over the last decade, it was only a matter of time before Nicolas Cage showed up on Netflix. After all, the Academy Award winner has been a staple of the VOD realm for years now thanks to churning out a succession of low budget efforts, so a streaming service felt like the next logical step.
Zack Snyder has directed eight movies during his career, with the ninth arriving this year when zombie heist actioner Army of the Dead hits Netflix, and so far he's revisited five of them. Indeed, Snyder seems to have the Ridley Scott problem, where he can't leave any of his films alone for too long before diving back in to make some alterations.
The idea of a live-action Batman Beyond movie has been floating around the Warner Bros. offices for over two decades, when it was first mooted as a drastic reinvention of the franchise to try and distance the Caped Crusader's next big screen adventure as far away as possible from Joel Schumacher's disastrous Batman & Robin.