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Marvel Studios' juggernaut, Avengers: Endgame, topped the charts for a third straight weekend, but it scored only a narrow victory over Warner Bros.' live-action hybrid Detective Pikachu, which set a new domestic record for a video game adaptation with a $58 million opening weekend.

Marvel Studios' Avengers: Endgame obliterated all opening weekend box office records with an astounding $350 million debut in North America, which was just part of an equally impressive global bow totaling $1.2 billion .

The James Cameron-produced, Robert Rodriguez directed Alita: Battle Angel won the Presidents’ Day Weekend box office with ease, surpassing modest expectations with a $27.8 million 3-day total. But the 2019 box office slide continued.

2019 has gotten off to a horrendous start at the box office, and this weekend was the worst so far.

Sales on Marvel Comics and independent publishers, especially Image Comics, were up, but DC Comics sales were down.

Games Workshop announced the launch range for Warhammer: The Old World, which includes two core army boxes, this week.

The plucky detective returns with an occult horror twist!

The first volume of what is planned to be a multivolume set will arrive in January 2025.

Daniel Warren Johnson won two awards for Transformers.