10 Things We Learned About Cinema In 2017

2. Netflix Hasn't Taken Over The Industry... Yet.

Given the bottomless pit of money that the company seem to possess and the current rate of their aggressive expansion, many were predicting 2017 to be the year that Netflix's movie division legitimately changed the game, and achieved their goal to establish the streaming service as a genuine force in Hollywood.

That didn't happen.

It was hardly a bad year for Netflix, either. Much of their original content this year was great, it just wasn't the breakthrough year that many had predicted would finally see the company's original features spoken about in the same glowing terms as many of its television shows.

They certainly diversified, that's for sure. Bright, Netflix's first foray into blockbuster territory, boasted Will Smith and a $90m budget. They let Bong Joon-Ho cut loose with Okja to great results.

Gerald's Game and 1922 were two strong Stephen King adaptations in a year full of them. Icarus and Strong Island were both recently shortlisted for the Best Documentary Academy Award. Wheelman and The Babysitter offered solid genre thrills and The Meyerowitz Stories is the rarest of beasts; an Adam Sandler movie that doesn't make you want to tear your eyes out.

That's definitely a solid run of movies for any studio to release in a year, and that was without even mentioning the likes of First They Killed My Father, Burning Sands, Win It All and others. Netflix are without a doubt making big strides in the industry, they just aren't doing it as quickly as they'd hoped.