The next eight months is the time for you to start cultivating media contacts that will bear fruit in the last quarter of 2019.

This week’s home entertainment releases, the final volley of 2018, include one last barrage of feature films including Ruben Fleischer’s highly enjoyable superhero/villain origin story, Venom , Paul Feig’s darkly comic mystery, A Simple Favor , Shane Black’s unsuccessful attempt to reinvigorate The Predator franchise, and Eli Roth’s adaptation of a classic children’s mystery/horror novel. DVD Round-Up will return in 2019—Happy New Years to all our readers.

For the thirteenth time this year a movie based on a Marvel Comics character has topped the weekend box office chart. Phil Lord and Chris Miller’s Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse set a new December record for an animated film with a $35.4 million bow, while Aquaman continued to crush it overseas.

This week, Steve Bennett names the best Christmas comic of 2018, looks at the upcoming Kim Possible movie, and notes the growth of geek culture internationally.

This week, Scott Thorne shares his thoughts on recent GAMA news.

This week’s home entertainment offerings include an action movie sequel starring Denzel Washington, an animated feature from Warner Bros. Animation, a vigilante drama starring Jennifer Garner, plus the first season of Seth Macfarlane's The Orville, and the latest uncut Naruto collection.

The big box office news this weekend didn’t happen in the fallow North American market where a re-release of Schindler's List was the only new entry with over 1,000 locations, rather it took place in the Middle Kingdom where Warner Bros. debuted its DC Comics-based Aquaman, which posted the fourth best opening ever for a superhero film in the Middle Kingdom.

This week, Steve Bennet looks at the new Popeye shorts, the DuckTales Christmas episode, a DuckTales character not expected here, and how Monica's Gang meets the Justice League.

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This week, Scott Thorne looks at the recent Payless promotion and how stores and companies can use Framing to enhance perceived value.

This week's home entertainment offerings include one of Tom Cruise’s best Mission: Impossible efforts, the fifth film in The Conjuring horror franchise, the Muppet-misfire known as The Happytime Murders , the capturing-Eichmann docudrama Operation Finale, the latest seasons of network TV's The Family Guy, and the sexy violent HBO series Westworld, plus a new Blu-ray of the first season of Peter Davison's reign as the Fifth Doctor, and an American anime written by Warren Ellis.

Disney Animation's Ralph Breaks the Internet topped the box office for the second weekend in a row, dominating the weekend after Thanksgiving, one of Hollywood’s few remaining fallow periods.