Will Smith has starred in his fair share of blockbusters over the years, many of them taking place within the sci-fi genre, but it would be fair to say that the events of I, Robot stand a much better chance of being viewed as eerily prescient than the goings-on in Independence Day or Men in Black.
So much hype has been gathering around the Marvel Cinematic Universe's Spider-Man: No Way Home, that it's very easy to forget that there's a second multiversal blockbuster starring the friendly neighborhood superhero in production and on its way to theaters next year.
Dolph Lundgren may have shot to fame in the 1980s as yet another musclebound actor with limited dramatic capabilities but guns of steel, which was the style at the time, but his impressive academic background often gets overlooked when discussing his life and career.
One of the most recurring and entirely valid criticisms of the Marvel Cinematic Universe is that death is more of a semi-permanent inconvenience than an actual demise, and Loki's continued resurrections have even been turned into a running joke.
Now that Netflix has changed the way it measures viewership data and largely dropped the metric of how many households watched at least two minutes of a film and television title in favor of weekly rankings that count cumulative hours streamed, we've got a much better idea of what constitutes a success on the platform.
Jon Bernthal has become so accustomed to being asked about a potential return as the Punisher anytime he hits the interview circuit that the actor has a series of bullet points and quotes that he likes to pull out almost every time.
The impending release of Spider-Man: No Way Home may have shoved it down the Marvel Cinematic Universe pecking order, but Eternals is still quietly hoovering up those box office dollars, with the intergalactic adventure sitting on a global haul of $370 million heading into the weekend.
A lot of filmmakers are open in admitting that they're never really finished working on a project, it just gets taken away from them by the studio as deadlines for post-production and release begin closing in.
When it comes to naming wizened sages from major blockbusters that dispel nuggets of wisdom to the heroes in their hour of need, who also prove themselves handy when the sh*t hits the fan and they're forced to throw hands, three names above all stand out.
If the Marvel Cinematic Universe's Blade reboot comes to theaters before the end of 2023 as we're all expecting, then Mahershala Ali will be far and away the oldest actor to ever take top billing in their first standalone movie.