It is… dispiriting to consider that the top dog in the streaming wars almost counts on their films leaving little-to-no impact before the next one drops the very next week. Does it matter that Charlize Theron’s The Old Guard was “number one” for a week or that Liam Neeson’s The Ice Road is already placing second to NBC’s cancelled Manifest? Maybe, maybe not. Netflix has made the “quick-kill blockbuster” (whereby a much-hyped film opens huge, drops like a rock but is still a hit regardless of whether anyone liked it because the raw numbers are big enough) into their business model. That much-hyped zombie actioner (which had a week-long Cinemark theatrical release) dropped after the first two weeks isn’t a shock. Zack Snyder directs Army of the Dead CLAY ENOS/NETFLIX
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