This week’s home entertainment offerings include a worthy sequel, Barbershop: The Next Cut , an uneven, but personal almost “auteuristic” R-rated comedy from Melissa McCarthy, a wild, sci-fi-tinged crime picture with a great cast that includes Gal Gadot and Ryan Reynolds, and a delightful “street musical” set in Dublin in the 1980s that will please all those who enjoyed Once and Begin Again .

Justin Lin’s Star Trek Beyond easily topped the weekend box office with $59.6 million, while The Secret Life of Pets melted down newcomer Ice Age: Collision Course , which posted the worst opening for a studio-produced animated feature film in a decade.

Eleven comic titles had sales to comic stores over 100,000 copies in June, one of the better performances in recent years.

Salkowitz presents a quick cull of the panels, screenings and events that hold some appeal to business folks at San Diego Comic-Con.

This week Bennett takes another look at angry fans.

This week’s home entertainment releases won’t overshadow the fireworks, but there are some items of interest including Stephen Chow’s wild Hong Kong fantasy/comedy The Mermaid , a visually stunning Brazilian animated feature, the latest season of the marvelously Machiavellian political drama House of Cards , reasonably-priced collections of The Real Ghostbusters , and a bevy of interesting anime offerings led by the only Studio Ghibli film that has never been released here before and the steampunk sci-fi epic The Empire of Corpses.

Hasbro, Inc. will launch the new Speak Out party game for adults in August.

Sales and profits declined at book superstore giant Barnes & Noble for both the quarter and year.

Renegade Game Studios has announced two new games: the dungeon-scouring deckbuilding game Clank!, and the adorable, fast-playing family game Doggy Go!.

Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodriguez are returning to their Eisner Award-winning comic book series Locke & Key for a one-shot comic that is due from IDW in December of 2016.