Lionsgate is exiting the direct-to-consumer business with its Comic-Con HQ SVOD channel, which stopped producing original content earlier this year.

The new Stargate Origins teaser trailer offers a behind-the-scenes look at the latest entry in the enduring sci-fi franchise.

Typically having five release dates in a month means meager offerings in the final week, but it’s now the fourth quarter, so we have one of the summer’s more interesting failures, a moderately-budgeted adaptation of Stephen King’s The Dark Tower , plus the first season of the Robert Kirkman-created horror series Outcast , and a full house of holiday-targeting “complete series” releases from the BBC that includes the geek favorite series Orphan Black and Sherlock .

With the domestic October box office going out with a pathetic whimper, Thor: Ragnarok opened in about 52% of the world market and earned an impressive $107.6 million.

Late October brings an abundance of geek movie news.

The long-gestating Shazam! film, based on the DC Comics character, has its star.

Prices in the ongoing charity eBay auctions for pairs of San Diego Comic-Con tickets are at $6000 to $6100 as this is written.

Udon has planned a series of Robotech art books.

Hulu has released a full-length trailer for Marvel’s Runaways .

Fantasy Fight Games has released details for the first expansions for its upcoming Star Wars: Legion miniatures game.

A new international trailer for Justice League reveals a few more tidbits about the highly anticipated film.

Paul Dini disrupts the game of cat and mouse in a new graphic novel from publisher Erasmus Fox.