It was a close race for the top spot, but manners maketh box office champion as a new film emerged victorious. Winning the weekend is Kingsman: The Golden Circle (read our review) with a debut of $39 million. The sequel opened with slightly more than its predecessor ($36.2 million), indicating audiences are still interested in the burgeoning spy series. Golden Circle‘s critical reaction was not nearly as enthusiastic as the response to The Secret Service, which may have had a negative impact on the film’s commercial prospects in a more competitive period at the marketplace.

It’s Batman Day (or Harley Quinn day, depending on who you ask), and DC kicked it off with a Birthday Wish from the man who wrote the original theme for Batman: The Animated Series, Danny Elfman. The former frontman for Oingo Boingo made the move from rock start to film composer seamlessly, working on a ton of genre movies and television including the original Flash series, the Simpsons, Wanted, Batman, Beetlejuice, Darkman II, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Scrooged, Edward Scissorhands, The Frightners, Mission Impossible — the list goes on and on and on. Elfman is back working in the

Anyone familiar with the now-defunct Star Wars extended universe knows that characters like Emperor Palpatine are considerably less dead in the books than they are in the movies. With cloning a huge canonical part of the Star Wars mythology, it was only a matter of time before some adventurous writer decided to bring major villains back from the dead; that is how Luke Skywalker ended up facing off against the clones of a young Palpatine (not to mention an evil Luke Skywalker clone).

Captain Marvel star Brie Larson says she wants to throw her hat in the ring to direct a future movie for Marvel Studios. Even though she’s been in the movie and television business since 1998, Larson’s career was catapulted to the next level in 2016 when she won her Best Actress Oscar for the compelling kidnapping drama Room.

By Sheryl Oh The ‘Riverdale’ spinoff will be Sabrina the Teenage Witch like we’ve never seen her before. “Gritty” remains the word of the moment as it seems every single adaptation that ends up on screen tries to find a dark edge. A new show titled The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina is primed to follow suit — it’s even in the name.