This week's home entertainment releases include Ron Howard's underrated Solo: A Star Wars Story, the basketball comedy Uncle Drew, plus the first season of the intriguing X-Men -based TV series The Gifted, and perhaps the worst gangster film ever made.

Eli Roth’s adaptation of the gothic children’s book The House With a Clock In its Walls topped the weekend box office with an estimated $26.8 million, but Tinseltown’s September swoon continued as three other new films tanked, and the total of the top 12 box office movies was down 25.3% from the same frame last year.

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The release of one of this summer’s biggest hits, Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, doesn’t leave much oxygen in the room for other movies on disc, but there are some interesting TV releases including the latest seasons of Supergirl, X-Files, and American Horror Story, plus a couple of anime offerings that typify the popular "isekai" fantasy subgenre.

Far from reviving the franchise, Shane Black’s The Predator has put the future of any further “alien hunter” movies in doubt with a lackluster $24 million debut, which nevertheless was more than enough to top the box office.

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As expected, The Nun, the fifth film in The Conjuring series, easily took the box office crown with a $53.5 million debut, the best in franchise history.

John M. Chu’s Crazy Rich Asians continued its remarkable run, earning $23 million over the first 3-days of the Labor Day Weekend, a drop of just 10% from its second weekend showing.