San Diego Comic-Con News: DC Comics has unveiled images of the six Evil Batmen from the Dark Multiverse as well as the designs for promotional pins for each of these corrupt Dark Knights.

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

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

This week’s home entertainment offerings include the first film in Legendary Pictures’ Monsterverse , a bloody apotheosis of the modern action film, a Japanese-animated series based on the Valerian graphic novels that inspired Luc Besson’s new film, another anime CGI film based on the Resident Evil game that many gamers prefer to the live-action RE films, plus the latest seasons of the Cartoon Network’s Adventure Time , and Syfy’s The Expanse .

Matt Reeves' well-reviewed War for the Planet of the Apes won the weekend with an estimated $56.5 million, but, in yet another example of what could be “sequelitis,” War’s debut was down 22% from its predecessor's.

Direct market sales of comics and graphic novels dropped 21.34% in June compared to the same month in 2016, according to numbers released by Diamond Comic Distributors today.

Dark Horse has released an initial image and the title for Frank Miller’s long-promised 300 prequel.

Illumination Entertainment’s Despicable Me 3 easily won the pre-4th of July weekend box office, but like the animated “threequel” Cars 3 a few weeks earlier, DM3 under-performed expectations in its debut.

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.

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