11 Years Later, Marvel's Most Divisive Action Sequel Is a Streaming Hit

Published Jul 17, 2026, 8:00 PM EDT

In over three years at Collider, senior author Jake has now penned over 3000 articles covering a wide range of TV and film for the resources, lists, utilities, news, and interview teams. Alongside interviewing stars such as Selin Hizli, Rose Ayling-Ellis, Harlan Coben, and Chelsea Peretti, Jake was lucky enough to visit the set of Aardman and Netflix’s Wallace and Gromit: A Vengeance Most Fowl in 2024, getting the chance to chat with four-time Academy Award winner Nick Park and Merlin Crossingham. Jake has also worked for other publications, including Agents of Fandom. You can also hear Jake every week as the resident film and TV journalist on Track Radio.

This weekend, the world will finally get its hands on Christopher Nolan’s most ambitious film yet, as the likes of Tom Holland, Zendaya, and **Jon Bernthal **star in the Matt Damon-led The Odyssey. But if almost three hours of a cinematic blockbuster starring Holland, Zendaya, and Bernthal wasn’t enough for you, you need only wait until July 31 for your next dose, as the trio stars in Spider-Man: Brand New Day.

Expected to rake in over $1 billion and help rectify the mistakes of the MCU in 2025, Brand New Day is the latest feature step on the road to Avengers: Doomsday, which debuts on December 18, the same day as Dune: Part Three**.** **It was recently reported that *Doomsday *would be the second-longest movie in the MCU, clocking in at 165 minutes, or 2 hours and 45 minutes. This news has only helped propel the already bursting excitement for Doomsday, which can be easily seen on the streaming charts.

Right now, across many platforms such as HBO Max and Disney+, the superhero hype can be felt. But this ripple of anticipation has now reached other streamers too, including Starz, with the most divisive Avengers movie, Avengers: Age of Ultron, currently ranking as one of the ten most-streamed movies on the platform in the U.S. The sequel to the hugely successful 2012 ***Avengers ***movie, the film follows the assembled heroes as they take on an AI threat in the form of Ultron (James Spader), who hopes to bring about world peace through human extinction.

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