Eli Roth’s adaptation of the gothic children’s book The House With a Clock In its Walls topped the weekend box office with an estimated $26.8 million, but Tinseltown’s September swoon continued as three other new films tanked, and the total of the top 12 box office movies was down 25.3% from the same frame last year.

Image Comics has raised more than $100,000 for the survivors of the Las Vegas shooting.

There has been news on several geek-TV projects this week, and we round it up here.

Here's a preview of Red Sonja: Worlds Away Vol. 3 - Hell or Hyrkania TP, published by Dynamite Entertainment.

IDW will launch Dave Stevens’ jetpack-wearing hero into a new adventure in Rocketeer Reborn.

Schuman Family Games will release Kill Merlin! a board game about defeating the megalomaniacal old wizard.

Abrams announced a new graphic novel imprint, Megascope, which will focus on speculative work by and about people of color.

Z-Man Games is releasing Party Bugs , a light-hearted card game about dancing cockroaches.

Here's a short video teasing Joaquin Phoenix's Joker look.

WizKids will release new miniatures as part of the Pathfinder Battles: Playtest Heroes collection in January.

Just as Amazon is making a big push in the U.S. to expand its third-party seller program, the European Union has launched an investigation.