No more Matrix: Keanu Reeves, James McTeigue both confirm that no more Matrix movies are planned after Resurrections...

 ... and I am not at all surprised.

As reported by NME.com:

Keanu Reeves has said there are no plans to make a sequel to The Matrix: Resurrections. 

In a new interview on the Empire podcast, Reeves – who reprises his role of Neo in the film – said he didn’t think director Lana Wachowski was interested in doing another Matrix movie. [...] Producer James McTeigue also confirmed there are no plans for any more Matrix movies.

“At the moment, it’s just the movie you’ve seen,” [McTeigue] told Collider. “We’ve got no prequel in mind. We’ve got no sequel in mind. We’ve got no further trilogy.”

This definitely feels like the right call. If I had to describe The Matrix: Resurrections with one word, that word would be "unnecessary." Hearing from the people involved that even they have no appetite for more Matrix movies is mildly heartening.

Whether Discovery/Warner are willing to let sleeping Matrices lie is, of course, another matter entirely, but poor box office performance (Resurrections took in just $22.5million in the US by Boxing Day) should serve to cool even their enthusiasm.

To whomever wants to fill the void with more Matrix franchise content, I offer only this word of advice: take some time to figure out what the conflict of the movie is actually going to be, because the perpetual-motion-machine nonsense simply isn't cutting it. By all means, delve deeper into the structure of the AI society, with its never-before-mentioned factions and internecine warfare, but figure out something else for them to be fighting over, other than the Matrix's energy output, because the Matrix can't have any energy output.

Also, please don't have the power of Neo and Trinity's non-existent romance be the thing which literally powers machine society, because that's just stupid. The power of love is supposed to be a metaphor that you feel, not something you measure with a multimeter. Just saying.

The Matrix was Resurrected, and it appears that (almost) nobody cared

I couldn't help myself. In spite of both previous Matrix sequels being boring, nonsensical films with no reason to exist, I couldn't resist my morbid curiosity. I watched The Matrix Resurrections.

On the plus side, I can confirm that it's definitely the best of the Matrix sequels. On the down side, it still has no reason to exist, and its maker (Lana Wachowski) appears to have agreed with me on that, because all of the film's non-action sequences basically bang on endlessly about how hollow and meaningless nostalgia exercises like The Matrix Resurrections are, while constantly referring to the movie's own audience as "sheeple" who crave subservience while lacking the imagination or will to do anything more meaningful or creative with their lives.

Diablo II was Resurrected, and it would appear that nobody cared

One of many annoying things about Activision Blizzard (although, to be sure, far from the worst thing) is the way they crow about the sales performance of their products without providing a single meaningful metric that an independent commentator could use to make their own judgment as to how things are actually going.

Diablo II: Resurrected, for example, was touted by Blizzard as having their "Highest-Ever First Week Sales for a Remaster," which really only tells us that it sold better than WarCraft: Reforged, which was infamously terrible. It also presumably sold better than StarCraft: Remastered, although we don't have any clear idea how that remaster sold, either, so it's hard to know how much better.

This bullshit situation basically leaves outsiders (including investors) reading tea leaves to try to figure out how D2R actually performed. And the stakes are high: after Diablo III, which was a sales success but a failure in basically every other way, and after the disastrous announcement of Diablo: Immortal, ActiBlizz desperately need to put a "W" on the board. 

In fact, I'd argue they need two of them: 

1. D2R needed to bring back disaffected Diablo II fans, most of whom have left the Blizzard fold for Path of Exile, Last Epoch, Lost Ark, Grim Dawn, &c; and 
2. Diablo IV needs to be good enough to keep them in the Blizzard fold, if they do come back.

So, with D2R now available, did ActiBlizz actually succeed at part #1 of this two-part strategy?