Roland Emmerich’s Independence Day: Resurgence became the latest high-priced Hollywood sequel to fall short at the box office, opening below expectations with an estimated $41 million.

Hasbro, Inc announced a partnership with the Araca Group to produce Monopoly the Musical.

This week’s home entertainment offerings include an often brilliant science fiction road movie that will remind many of John Carpenter’s Starman, the sequel to My Big Fat Greek Wedding , the latest comedy from Sacha Baron Cohen, a chance to get the first season of the revived Doctor Who on Blu-ray, the second half of the BBC’s excellent adaptation of Shakespeare’s history plays featuring Benedict Cumberbatch as Richard III, and for the first time ever here in North America, the complete, uncut 1976 super robot anime Gaiking .

Roland Emmerich and Dean Devlin, who finally got the sequel to their 1996 sci-fi disaster film Independence Day into theaters 20 years later, are still planning to reboot their 1994 science fiction film Stargate .

The streaming service Netflix announced the launching of five new animated series for kids and renewed Kong: King of Apes for a second season.

We round up a raft of recent geek movie casting announcements.

This week’s home entertainment releases include a superior genre-blending thriller, an excellent comic book-based science fiction TV series, plus lower-priced editions of the original Star Trek and the Next Gen series, and one of the most faithful screen adaptations of Edgar Rice Burroughs’ Tarzan .

Despite some recovery by DC, comics and graphic novel sales to comic stores were down 9.05% vs. the year-ago period in May.

It is now official, DC’s edgiest band of antiheroes, the self-anointed “worst heroes ever” (aka the Suicide Squad) , will hit the big screen this summer for the first time with a mass audience-friendly “PG” rating, rather than the bolder “R” that many hardcore fans had originally envisioned.

The first of 2016’s billion dollar movies to come out on disc, a biting Hollywood satire that deserves a better fate than it enjoyed at the box office, another savage and surreal example of grandparenting gone bad, the first collection of The Shannara Chronicles , a high-def edition of the original Roots miniseries, and a superb slate of anime releases.