This week’s home entertainment offerings include a worthy sequel, Barbershop: The Next Cut , an uneven, but personal almost “auteuristic” R-rated comedy from Melissa McCarthy, a wild, sci-fi-tinged crime picture with a great cast that includes Gal Gadot and Ryan Reynolds, and a delightful “street musical” set in Dublin in the 1980s that will please all those who enjoyed Once and Begin Again .

Comic-Con News: During the Batman: The Killing Joke World Premiere Panel at Comic-Con, DC Entertainment revealed the lineup of "direct to video" animated features slated for release in 2017, the most intriguing of which is an adaptation of Marv Wolfman and George Perez’ 1984 New Teen Titans , saga The Judas Contract.

Zack Snyder’s Batman v Superman , which might just be the highest-grossing “failure” of all time, leads this week’s home entertainment releases that also include Don Cheadle’s innovative screen portrait of Miles Davis, the slight, but amusing Elvis & Nixon , the first season of SyFy’s The Magicians , and the fourth season of the cloning saga Orphan Black , plus the debut of the Bleach anime on Blu-ray.

When asked about the status of Fox’s long-gestating Gambit X-Men spin-off film, producer/writer Simon Kinberg stated that the studio now had “a great script on that,” and was planning to begin shooting the film in the spring of 2017.

These are estimates of the sales on comic books by Diamond U.S. to comic specialty stores during June 2016.

These are estimates of the sales on graphic novels by Diamond U.S. to comic specialty stores during June 2016.

Exciting new graphic novels are driving sales in the book channel, the publisher dynamics are changing, and TV brought a long-running series back into the public eye in June, according to the Top 20 Adult Fiction Graphic Novel chart provided exclusively to ICv2 by Nielsen BookScan.

The Great Lakes Avengers will have an ongoing series this fall.

Marvel has announced the launch of a new superteam, the U.S. Avengers , debuting in a new title this fall.

This week’s home entertainment offerings include a solid animated feature that is likely to please the little ones, two of the best films about the “war on terror,” some rare De Patie Freleng animated segments from the 1970s, and a full slate of anime releases.