This week’s home entertainment releases include what is perhaps, alas, the final Toy Story film, the seventh film in the Conjuring franchise, an unsettling slasher film from the creator of Heriditary , and the second season of the CW’s DC Comics-based Black Lightning .

This week, Scott Thorne wraps up his analysis of the trends in the Game Industry from this year's Alliance Open House.

Todd Phillips' The Joker set a new October weekend box office record with an estimated $93.5 million debut, but it still wasn't enough to insure a year-over-year win as the total box office was down 18.2% from the same weekend last year when Venom debuted with $80.2 million.

This week, Steve Bennett confesses that Snoopy reminded him that it was 50th Anniversary of the Apollo moon landing, and he then explores the famous beagle's relationship with NASA.

This week, Rob Salkowitz looks at the explosion of activity by the streamers at New York Comic Con.

This week’s home entertainment offerings include arguably the most entertaining Spider-Man movie yet, a Christmas zombie apocalypse musical, an excellent TV series adaptation of Grant Morrison’s Doom Patrol previously available only on the DC Universe streaming service, Kevin Williamson’s dark fantasy take on traditional fairy tales, and more of the wacky, surreal FLCL anime from Production IG.

This week, Scott Thorne expands on last week's article by identifying two more trends in the Game Industry from the Alliance Open House.

Dreamworks Animation’s Abominable brought in an estimated $21 million, topping a lackluster fall weekend that saw revenues drop about 14% from the same frame a year ago when the comedy Night School debuted with $27.5 million.

This week, Steve Bennett continues into the use of space stories in comics today, and discusses the changes made to the Fantastic Four, for better or for worse.

This week's home entertainment releases include Danny Boyle’s diverting musical fantasy Yesterday, remakes/updates of Child’s Play and Shaft, a "girl with guns" action film from Luc Besson, plus the latest season of DC's Legends of Tomorrow, and a complete, 14-disc collection of the original 1980s Voltron.

This week, Scott Thorne offers further observations on trends at the Alliance Open House, and the new Wizards of the Coast Retail Improvement Grant program.

A movie based on the popular ITV series Downton Abbey (seen here on PBS) easily topped the weekend box office in a crowded field in which new films took the top three spots and helped the weekend box office to a solid 33.5% gain over the same frame a year ago.