IDW Publishing has been awarded a license by Disney Licensed Publishing for Star Wars comics aimed at younger readers.

The Fate of the Furious , the eighth film in Universal’s Fast & Furious street racing franchise, set a new international box office record, earning $432.2 million from over 60 international territories, including a record $190 million from the burgeoning Chinese market.

Lucasfilm and Disney have released a teaser trailer and first poster for Star Wars: The Last Jedi .

Lucasfilm is launching Star Wars Forces of Destiny , a new IP featuring female characters, with web shorts and toys, followed by other products.

These are estimates of the sales on comic books by Diamond U.S. to comic specialty stores during March 2017.

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

For the fifth consecutive month, beginning last November, sales of comics and graphic novels to the comic store channel by Diamond Comic Distributors fell in March.

Chronicle Books will release Donner Dinner Party, a rowdy game of frontier cannibalism this summer.

Rogue One: A Star Wars Story dominates this week’s home entertainment releases like it ruled the box office, but there are a few other offerings of interest including the raunchy, star-studded, R-rated comedy Office Christmas Party , a strong new film from Jim Jarmusch, plus Blu-ray editions of some 1990s anime classics including Mobile Suit Gundam 0083 , and Martian Successor Nadesico.

In Part 2, we covered the discussion of talent management, securing hot talent, creating new talent, event fatigue, timing of events, and trade pricing.