Marvel Studios' juggernaut, Avengers: Endgame, topped the charts for a third straight weekend, but it scored only a narrow victory over Warner Bros.' live-action hybrid Detective Pikachu, which set a new domestic record for a video game adaptation with a $58 million opening weekend.

This week, Steve Bennett looks at the controversy around Thor in Avengers: Endgame.

Rob Salkowitz looks at a digital comics company that's finding paying customers a different way.

This week, Scott Thorne looks at how new WPN rules on prereleases may affect how retailers schedule them, and shares thoughts on retailer levels for Kickstarters.

This week’s home entertainment offerings include the unjustly neglected LEGO Movie 2 , the excellent country music biopic Blaze, plus the latest seasons of the black comedy Baskets , the gritty crime drama Better Call Saul , and the manga superhero drama My Hero Academia .

Avengers: Endgame dropped 59.2% from its record-breaking $357.1 million opening weekend as it earned an estimated $145.8 million in its second frame, giving it $620 million here in North America (and $2.2 billion worldwide) in just ten days of release.

This week, Steve Bennett looks at kids comics, and checks in on Star Vs. the Forces of Evil and the He-Man movie.

In this guest column, The Soldiery Events Manager John Phythyon shares his experience with War of the Spark and how he's planning for the coming WPN changes.

This week, Scott Thorne gives a quick view of the prerelease for Wizards of the Coast's War of the Spark, then looks at what it takes to get a retailer to back a game Kickstarter.

With five Tuesdays in April we have the dreaded "five-week" effect that typically results in a very weak slate of home entertainment releases, in this case providing only a well-constructed survival thriller (Arctic), a "Collector’s Edition" of all 8 seasons of Pendleton Ward’s Emmy-winning Adventure Time, and Catherine Hardwicke’s remake of the 2011 Mexican cartel shoot-'em-up Miss Bala.

Marvel Studios' Avengers: Endgame obliterated all opening weekend box office records with an astounding $350 million debut in North America, which was just part of an equally impressive global bow totaling $1.2 billion .

As the second season of She-Ra drops, Steve Bennett looks at the He-Man character, and the baggage he carries into film development.