Working on an Adam Sandler movie doesn't appear to be the most taxing endeavor, with the Happy Madison Productions head honcho gathering together a bunch of his friends to head off to various locations around the world to have a good time and churn out a series of disposable comedies that will never garner much in the way of critical acclaim, but always draw in a huge audience.
Spike Lee's incendiary war drama Da 5 Bloods is one of the best movies of 2020, and should find itself in awards season contention when the industry starts handing out prizes early next year. Based on the critical consensus, it could realistically be in the running for Best Picture, Best Director and Best Original Screenplay at the Academy Awards, although Delroy Lindo's phenomenal career-best performance looks to be the most likely to walk away victorious.
Death is easily reversible in the world of comic books and their big screen adaptations, meaning that the rumors will probably never stop about a potential return to the Marvel Cinematic Universe for Robert Downey Jr.'s Tony Stark. From almost the second Avengers: Endgame faded to black, the actor was linked with a comeback, and speculation only intensified when his first non-MCU movie in six years bombed spectacularly at the box office.
Close to one hundred thousand people have backed the petition for Netflix to remove steamy Polish thriller 365 Days from the content library, but the latest data has only reinforced the controversial movie's popularity. It may hold a 0% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, but it dominated the streaming service's most-watched list for weeks and now that the numbers have been crunched, it can be named as the platform's biggest hit of 2020 so far.
One of the reasons why Star Wars has remained one of the most popular and beloved brands on the planet for over 40 years is the cross-generational appeal that sees every new batch of audiences fall in love with a galaxy far, far away. The children who went to watch A New Hope with their parents in the 70s took their kids to catch The Phantom Menace on the big screen two decades later, and history repeated itself again when The Force Awakens kicked off the Sequel Trilogy.
Paramount may have publicly denied the rumor that they'd given up on making Star Trek movies, but none of the various projects in development seem like they'll be heading to the big screen anytime soon. Quentin Tarantino's R-rated effort has always been the least likely to happen given the sheer volume of ideas he comes up with that never get made, while the rebooted Kelvin timeline looks to be stuck in stasis after Beyond posted disappointing box office numbers.
Unless your name is Terrence Howard or Edward Norton, if you sign on to join the Marvel Cinematic Universe, then the chances are high that you'll be sticking around for a while. When it comes to the latter, in particular, his notoriously prickly reputation and fondness for becoming heavily involved in the creative side of his movies meant he was never destined to be an integral part of a franchise where Kevin Feige is the one and only person that calls the shots.
A couple of months back, set photos revealed that construction was underway at the same location Lucasfilm had used to shoot exteriors for The Mandalorian, leading to speculation that Obi-Wan Kenobi could be starting production much earlier than expected. However, star Ewan McGregor has always been adamant that he wouldn't be stepping back into the robes until 2021 at the earliest, so it seemed as though the crew were merely getting ahead of the game to ensure that the Disney Plus exclusive hits the ground running.
As the franchise's most popular character that was positioned at the forefront of everything he appeared in, the Marvel Cinematic Universe is going to feel the loss of Robert Downey Jr.'s Tony Stark much harder than the studio would ever publicly admit. After all, the majority of the Infinity Saga's major story threads all connected to the genius billionaire playboy philanthropist in some way, not to mention the fact that Tony played a substantial part in seven of the franchise's ten highest-grossing movies ever.