Two additional theater dates for the Pokemon the Movie: I Choose You! have been announced, along with news of special Pokemon TCG cards as part of merchandise tie-in.

In a story that rocked the media world, Disney held talks with Fox to acquire a number of key assets.

Hasbro has signed a new five-year exclusive deal for movie and television development with Paramount.

This week, Scott Thorne shares some Facebook stats on holiday shopping.

This week’s home entertainment releases include a rare Pixar failure, the first seasons of the HBO sci-fi series Westworld , and Guillermo Del Toro’s animated fantasy Trollhunters, plus the 15th season of Family Guy , a 50th Anniversary Speed Racer giftset, a collection of all 30 DC direct-to-disc animated movies, and Your Name , one of the best anime feature films of this decade.

This week, Bennett talks about Robert Kirkman’s non-zombie series and the Hallmark Channel pushing the Christmas promotion a bit too far.

The first season of Marvel’s Inhumans, currently running on ABC, isn’t doing well, with both IMAX and Marvel Studios making their feelings known over the past week, and even Marvel Television execs dodging questions.

Lionsgate is exiting the direct-to-consumer business with its Comic-Con HQ SVOD channel, which stopped producing original content earlier this year.

Typically having five release dates in a month means meager offerings in the final week, but it’s now the fourth quarter, so we have one of the summer’s more interesting failures, a moderately-budgeted adaptation of Stephen King’s The Dark Tower , plus the first season of the Robert Kirkman-created horror series Outcast , and a full house of holiday-targeting “complete series” releases from the BBC that includes the geek favorite series Orphan Black and Sherlock .

ICv2 spoke with Roye Okupe, Co-Founder and CEO of YouNeek Studios, Inc. to learn more about the company that is bringing an African perspective and characters to the world of North American comic book heroes.