Watch Robert Downey Jr.’s First Iron Man Screen Test In Avengers: Endgame Featurette

Robert Downey Jr.’s Tony Stark was the core of the MCU. His performance as the hero in 2008’s Iron Man drew universal praise that went a long way towards making the film a hit, and successfully launching the MCU as a concept.

Since then, he’s developed the role across many movies, creating a character arc that concluded with him saving the universe in an act of heroic self-sacrifice in the finale of Avengers: Endgame. After his titanic contribution to the MCU’s success, the Endgame Blu-ray is now set to do him justice with a look at his early days in the part, in a feature entitled Setting The Tone: Casting Robert Downey Jr.

In advance of the home video release, we have a preview of the feature up above that shows Downey Jr.’s screen test for the role. The scene in question comes early in the final film, with Stark justifying his weapon sales to a journalist. He explains that he produces weapons “to keep the peace,” then sends the woman off to get him a drink. Considering this is Downey Jr.’s very first time playing Tony Stark, the character is remarkably fully-formed. Though, I guess the reason they wanted him in the first place was that his mannerisms perfectly fitted their idea of who Stark should be.

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It’s a nice little piece of cinema history, and I’m hoping that we’ll see a couple more early moments for characters in some of the other special features. Would it be too much to see Chris Evans’ audition to play Steve Rogers in A Man Out of Time: Creating Captain America, or Scarlett Johansson’s first lines in Black Widow: Whatever It Takes?

In any case, it’s sounding like the Avengers: Endgame Blu-ray is going to be all but essential for MCU fans. I tend not to pick up too many home video releases, but I’m probably going to grab this one simply because I remain fascinated by how the Russo Brothers and Marvel Studios managed to pull off the movie with such style. Plus, I really want to hear those commentaries.

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Netflix Reveals That It Lost 130,000 Subscribers Last Quarter

Streaming giant Netflix has long seemed unassailable. Since its meteoric rise it’s come to dominate the world of television and movies, producing multiple original series and financing all kinds of interesting films. It’s generally been considered the ‘default’ streaming service. Meaning that even if a person subscribes to two or three, one of them will certainly be Netflix.

But now, as revealed in a letter to shareholders, there’s a chance that the Netflix wave may have finally broken. During Q2 this year, 130,000 domestic subscribers terminated their accounts. Of course, once the news was revealed, the company’s stock took a hit.

On top of that, their international growth failed to meet expectations. This news isn’t quite as dramatic – Netflix still gained 2.7 million subscribers in Q2 2019 – but it’s a marked drop on previous increases, with the company generally adding about 5 million subscribers in prior quarters.

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Netflix’s explanation for this was that they had a “weaker content slate” in Q2, which concluded just before the release of Stranger Things season 3. Here’s the reasoning in their own words:

“Our missed forecast was across all regions, but slightly more so in regions with price increases. We believe competition was a factor since there wasn’t a material change in the competitive landscape during Q2, and competitive intensity and our penetration is varied across regions (while our over-forecast was in every region).

Rather, we think Q2’s content slate drove less growth in paid net adds than we anticipated. Additionally, Q1 was so large for us (9.6m net adds), there may have been more pull-forward effect than we realized. In prior quarters with over-forecasts, we’ve found that the underlying long-term growth was not affected and staying focused on the fundamentals of our business served us well.”

Well, that may well be the case, but this news doesn’t look great. While the company is still cash-rich and a huge player in the entertainment sector, it’s facing increasingly stiff competition from competitors like Amazon Prime, HBO GO and Hulu (and maybe even some from younger viewers preferring to stick to Twitch and YouTube).

Then there’s the impending arrival of Disney Plus. The House of Mouse is clearly gunning for Netflix subscribers, betting big on new TV spinoffs of Marvel and Star Wars and their gargantuan back catalogue. It looks like the competition is finally starting to hot up in the streaming market. Let’s just hope the consumers benefit by seeing some good deals.

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Playing with Fire Trailer: John Cena and Friends Are Firefighting Babysitters

John Cena, Keegan-Michael Key, John Leguizamo and Tyler Mane come to the rescue of some kids in the all-new comedy Playing with Fire.

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