At last the pace of home entertainment releases picks up a bit with a Benedict Cumberbatch-voiced Grinch, a superior caper film from the director of 12 Years a Slave, a superb biographical film featuring an Oscar-worthy performance by Rosamund Pike, and a very interesting anime film that will interest fans of Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli films.

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

Hulu makes a major deal with FUNimation, Pennyworth and The Mandalorian casts grow, and more in the latest geek TV news.

This week’s home entertainment offerings include the lightly likable cartoon Hotel Transylvania 3 , the action-packed Skyscraper , a highly realistic look at the difficulties of Eighth Grade , the innovative spy thriller Killing Eve , and Gus Van Sant’s powerful biography of cartoonist John Callahan, Don’t Worry He Won’t Get Far on Foot.

The studios have been busy shifting their schedules around.

The Meg, a years-in-the-making action fantasy about a mammoth prehistoric shark with a B-list cast of western actors led by Jason Statham, doubled its tracking numbers and took a $44.5 million bite out of the weekend box office.

After a solid, but somewhat underwhelming debut, given the film’s critical pedigree and pre-release buzz, the Tom Cruise-starring Mission: Impossible - Fallout demonstrated some strong staying power.

There has been a lot of movement in Hollywood in the last several days on geek related properties and we round that news up here.

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

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