This week’s home entertainment offerings include the first blockbuster film to feature LGBT and autistic superheroes, the big screen adaptation of the CHiPs TV series, a twenty-years-on look at the characters from Danny Boyle’s Trainspotting , a horror film written by Guardians of the Galaxy helmer James Gunn, the third season of Guillermo Del Toro and Chuck Hogan’s underrated medical/horror series The Strain , and a major slate of anime release.

The growing difference between the performance of would-be blockbuster films in North America and in the rest of the world was in full view this weekend as Michael Bay’s Transformers: The Last Knight managed the oxymoronic task of "bombing" while topping the North American box office.

IDW is taking the fight to the Transformers homeworld in this summer’s crossover comic event.

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

This week’s home entertainment releases include an acerbic adaptation of Daniel Clowes’ graphic novel Wilson , the 2017 science fiction horror film Life, a complete set of all 39 episodes of the Brian K. Vaughan-created, Stephen King novel-based Under the Dome , and the last half of the fan favorite third season of the Sailor Moon anime.

In spite of some signs of franchise fatigue, Pixar’s Cars 3 won the weekend box office with $53.5 million, but that didn’t diminish the exceptionally strong third weekend showing by Patty Jenkin’s Wonder Woman , or the surprisingly potent debuts of the Tupac Shakur biopic All Eyez on Me and the survival/horror film 47 Meters Down .

This week’s home entertainment releases include the very funny LEGO Batman Movie , the very bloody John Wick, Chapter 2 , a bunch of interesting TV offerings like the second season of Dark Matter and the final seasons of Grimm and The Vampire Diaries , plus a new high-def version of the classic outer space western anime series Outlaw Star .

The action’s been fast and furious in the world of geek movies over the past few days, and we round up the news here.

Hasbro has announced the first programming and activations for HASCON, its new in-house convention

The beginning of the month has brought a hoard of geek movie news.