John David Washington may only have a handful of credits under his belt, but he's already well on the way to joining his father Denzel at the top of the Hollywood A-list. After gaining mainstream attention with a starring role in Dwayne Johnson's HBO series Ballers, Washington firmly established himself as one of the industry's fastest-rising talents thanks to a Golden Globe nominated lead performance in Spike Lee's BlackKklansman.
The Marvel Cinematic Universe's Phase Four will finally kick off before the end of the year with WandaVision, a far cry from the original plans. Black Widow was supposed to launch the franchise's post-Avengers: Endgame slate and be followed by The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, but the MCU has recently undergone a second major release date shuffle.
Chris Hemsworth's first collaboration with Netflix ended up working out pretty well, with Extraction becoming the streaming service's most-watched original movie ever, drawing in 90 million viewers in the first month it was available. Of course, it helped that the film dropped when the Coronavirus restrictions were at their tightest and the majority of subscribers were stuck at home with nothing better to do, but Sam Hargrave's feature debut would still go down as one of the best action flicks to be found even in a regular year.
Ever since the franchise's first installment, the Marvel Cinematic Universe has conditioned fans to stick around to the very end of the credits. While some of these stingers are just throwaway gags that don't contribute anything at all in the grand scheme of things, Spider-Man: Far From Home dropped two massive revelations after the movie had first faded to black.
In case you hadn't noticed, Enola Holmes arrived on Netflix yesterday, and has already rocketed to the top of the streaming service's list of most popular titles. The literary adaptation has firmly captured the imagination of subscribers around the world, winning rave reviews and handing the platform a brand new franchise on a plate.
Vin Diesel is best known as the star of the Fast & Furious franchise who specializes in wearing white tank tops, mumbling about family and apparently using gravel as mouthwash. The 53 year-old can usually be found sticking rigidly to type, but there are many more strings to his bow than you might think.
Despite launching a franchise that's spanned thirteen movies and earned almost $2.3 billion at the box office, action has never been the main focus of Star Trek on the big screen. The long-running sci-fi series has always tended to shine more of a spotlight on big ideas than sheer scale and spectacle, and J.J. Abrams' rebooted Kelvin timeline came in for criticism from some longtime fans for reinventing the Enterprise crew as the stars of mega budget blockbusters.
We're less than two weeks away from The Haunting of Bly Manor arriving on Netflix, and if the success of predecessor Hill House is any indication, the second season of the supernatural anthology series is poised to become one of the platform's biggest TV hits of the year. The first run surprised many people when it came out of nowhere to quickly establish a reputation as one of the finest horror shows in recent history, and now the pressure is on for creator Mike Flanagan to deliver once again.
Paramount have been desperate for a franchise that can come anywhere close to replicating the multi-billion dollar success of Transformers and Mission: Impossible, the only two big name brands they have at their disposal that account for seven of the studio's thirteen highest-grossing movies ever. They've tried to replicate the Transformers formula several times, but so far, any further collaborations with Hasbro haven't yielded any sort of sustained success.