Taika Waititi’s Thor: Ragnarok dropped just 54% and easily took the box office crown for the second weekend in a row, while two newcomers, the comedy sequel Daddy’s Home 2 and the period murder mystery Murder on the Orient Express both surpassed expectations.

Sequelitis may be infecting other sectors of Hollywood, but the Marvel Cinematic Universe has managed to overcome the box office law of diminishing returns once again with its third Thor film, Thor: Ragnarok , which debuted with $121 million, the fourth largest opening of 2017 so far.

With the domestic October box office going out with a pathetic whimper, Thor: Ragnarok opened in about 52% of the world market and earned an impressive $107.6 million.

Tyler Perry’s Boo 2! A Medea Halloween topped another weak session at the box office with an estimated $21.7 million debut, while four other new films underperformed, leaving the total of the top 12 films down 8.6% from the same weekend last year.

Blumhouse, which earlier this year scored mega-hits with the micro-budgeted horror films , Split and Get Out , has apparently done it again with Happy Death Day , which cost less than $5 million to produce, but easily took the box office crown with $26.5 million.

Some in Hollywood hoped that Denis Villeneuve’s Blade Runner 2049 would do for the science fiction genre and the October box office what It did for horror movies and September ticket sales, but the Blade Runner sequel, which was expected to open with at least $50 million, limped to victory with an estimated $31.5 million.

This week's box office race is too close to call, but Andy Muschietti's adaptation of Stephen King's It is currently leading, and it would be only fitting if the film that single-handedly reversed the summer box office slump and led the way to a record September found its way back to #1 in its fourth weekend.

The dice are kung-fu fighting in Charlie Price’s Kung-Fu Zoo.

In 2018, players can fight mega-corporations in WizKids new board game Dark.net , or try to coordinate card play in Team Play .

NECA has partnered with Alcon Entertainment to release The Art and Soul of Blade Runner 2049 .