This week’s home entertainment releases include xXx: The Return of Xander Cage starring Vin Diesel, the final film in the horror/survival series Resident Evil , the teen drama The Space Between Us , and a gritty Japanese anime series.

James Gunn’s Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol. 2 brushed aside an expensive challenger and cruised to an easy second consecutive victory at the weekend box office.

Here's a review of Dark Horse Number Ones TP , published by Dark Horse Comics.

These are estimates of the sales on graphic novels by Diamond U.S. to comic specialty stores during April 2017.

Here's a preview of Secret Empire: Uprising #1, published by Marvel Comics.

For the sixth consecutive month, sales of comics and graphic novels to comic stores declined compared to the previous year in numbers released by Diamond Comic Distributors.

Saga was one of only seven non-manga titles in the Top 20 in April.

The nominees for the 2017 Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards have been announced.

It’s not a great week for home entertainment releases, but there are some offerings of wildly varying quality including an unjustly maligned movie with a major appeal to dog owners, the third movie in the Ring horror film franchise, a low-price edition of the science fiction series The 4400 , and a wonderful, wordless animated film The Red Turtle , which was co-produced by Studio Ghibli.

As the North American box office awaited next weekend’s arrival of the summer season and its highly anticipated first “event” movie, Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol. 2 , there was a bit churn at the box office during a weak frame that saw the top 12 films earn 30% less than they did on the same weekend last year.