5 Years Later, Tom Hanks' Sci-Fi Gem Is Officially a Global Streaming Smash

Published Jul 26, 2026, 8:00 PM EDT

Adam Blevins began working in the entertainment industry in 2022 as a Staff Writer for Agents of Fandom, where he progressed to Senior Editor and interviewed talent from Marvel Studios, House of the Dragon, and Planet of the Apes. He joined Collider as a News Author in April 2024, was promoted to a Senior position in December 2024, and has written over 3,000 articles for the site, including exclusives relating to Avengers: Doomsday, The Penguin, Star Wars: Skeleton Crew, and more. He primarily writes about the latest box office numbers and the hottest movies and TV shows on streaming, while also covering superhero and sci-fi news. He has completed a set visit for The Chosen and even has several months of experience writing Gaming Features at ScreenRant. You can find him on X, LinkedIn, and Muckrack.

2026 has been a huge year for Tom Hanks, who finally returned to his tenured role as Woody in Toy Story 5, which is expected to be the third movie of the year to gross over $1 billion at the box office. Hanks also returned to the World War II genre to narrate a moving new docuseries, World War II with Tom Hanks, which is now streaming on the History Channel with more episodes still to come. Hanks has also been hard at work filming the sequel to one of his most underrated movies of his career, Greyhound, the WWII naval thriller that dropped on Apple TV back in 2020. No word yet on when the film will be released, but with production taking place throughout 2026, it’s a safe bet that the sequel will be released before the end of 2027.

Back in 2021, only one year after starring in Greyhound, Hanks returned to the platform for a much different movie, Finch. The sci-fi thriller has shades of The Last of Us, though it’s set in a much more futuristic world, and one much less horrifying. Similar to Greyhound, the film was not released in theaters and was instead dropped straight to Apple TV, but it’s since been one of the platform’s most popular movies. Even now, five years removed from its initial premiere, fans around the world can’t stop watching Finch, which has pushed the film back into the Apple TV top 10 in more than 10 countries around the world. Ivor Powell and Craig Luck wrote the script for Finch, with long-time Game of Thrones producer Miguel Sapochnik directing the film.

Your answers point to the world your instincts were built for. This is the universe your temperament, your survival instincts, and your particular brand of stubbornness were made for.

You took the red pill a long time ago — probably before anyone offered it to you. You’re a systems thinker who can’t help but notice the seams in things.

The wasteland doesn’t reward the clever or the well-connected — it rewards those who are hard to kill and harder to break. That’s you.

You’d survive here because you know how to exist in moral grey areas without losing yourself completely.

Arrakis is the most hostile environment in the known universe — and you are precisely the kind of person it rewards.

The galaxy far, far away is vast, loud, and in a constant state of violent political upheaval — and you wouldn’t have it any other way.

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