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.

Cosmic Ghost Rider will muck with the history of the Marvel Universe in a new miniseries.

Chip Zdarsky and Mark Bagley will replay the major events of Spider-Man’s life as he ages in real time.

These are estimate of the sales on comic books by Diamond U.S. to comic specialty stores during November 2018.

These are estimates of the sales on graphic novels by Diamond U.S. to comic specialty stores during November 2018.

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.

Comics and graphic novel sales were down 13.61% in November compared to the year ago period.

Here is the latest in geek movie news.

Captain Marvel blasts onto comic covers this coming February.