The Sith List – Episode 533

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🎬 Box Office

• 🥊 Street Fighter punches its way to #1! The video game adaptation opens with $31M domestic and $51.1M worldwide.

• 🎥 You Can See Everything shocks Hollywood! Nathan Fielder's Elizabeth Holmes documentary earns an impressive $15M from just 855 theaters, becoming a surprise box-office hit.

  🍿 Things We Watched

• 🤖 Marvel's VisionQuest – Episodes 1 & 2

• Paul Bettany returns as Vision, with James Spader back as Ultron in a new story exploring identity, family, and humanity.

• Does the series capture the magic of WandaVision, or is Marvel asking too much of its audience?

• 🩸 Crystal Lake – Episode 1

• The Friday the 13th prequel finally arrives on Peacock, with Linda Cardellini as Pamela Voorhees.

• Does the premiere deliver the horror and atmosphere fans have been waiting for?

  ⭐ Star Wars Chit Chat

• 🎬 Jon Favreau reveals new Mandalorian secrets! A new director's commentary for The Mandalorian and Grogu includes 15 behind-the-scenes revelations about the film.

• 🌅 Young Luke Skywalker returns to Tatooine! Greg Pak's Star Wars: The Legend of Beggar's Canyon explores Luke's adventures with Biggs Darklighter before A New Hope.

• 🪖 Boba Fett gets the black, white, and red treatment! Marvel releases its oversized Boba Fett: Black, White & Red Treasury Edition, collecting four bounty-hunting adventures.

• 📚 The High Republic gets a new collection! A slipcase edition brings together stories from Starlight Stories, Tales of Enlightenment, and Survivors of the Stormwall.

  👻 Boo Bits – Your Week in Geek

• 🦇 The Batman: Part II gets a surprising director assist! Steven Soderbergh steps in to finish principal photography while Matt Reeves takes a temporary break. James Gunn confirms Reeves remains the film's director.

• 🎃 The Mummy returns! Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz reunite for The Mummy: The Book of the Dead, officially arriving October 15, 2027.

• 🧟 Clayface is getting some serious early buzz! First reactions praise DC's R-rated body-horror movie ahead of its October 22 theatrical release.

• 🔍 Nicolas Cage and Antonio Banderas together?! Banderas joins Cage for True Detective Season 5, set in Jamaica Bay, New York, with production planned for 2027.

• 📺 South Park goes full internet madness! Season 29 takes on the Backrooms, social media trends, and looksmaxxing culture.

• Street Fighter dominates the box office, VisionQuest brings back Vision and Ultron, Crystal Lake unleashes a new chapter of horror, Jon Favreau reveals Mandalorian secrets, and Boo Bits brings Batman, The Mummy, Clayface, True Detective, and South Park — another absolutely packed Week in Geek! 🚀

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🎙️ The Sith List 532

🎬 Box Office

• Other Mommy scares its way to #1 with a $27.5M domestic opening and roughly $45.2M worldwide.

• Verity drops to #2 with $11.5M, bringing its domestic total to roughly $53.9M.

• Resident Evil stays alive at #3 with $8.4M and has now climbed past $320M worldwide.

• The Social Reckoning… ouch. Aaron Sorkin’s follow-up opens to just $5.5M domestic and roughly $9M worldwide.

• 🟢 Lanterns – Season Finale

• The season-long mystery finally comes together as John Stewart and Hal Jordan’s story reaches its conclusion.

• The finale leans heavily into character, legacy, and the consequences of everything that came before.

• Did the finale deliver on the promise of the season?

• And after eight episodes — where does Lanterns rank among the new DCU projects so far?

  ⭐ Star Wars Chit Chat

• 🔥 Ezra Bridger’s missing adventure is finally being told. Star Wars: Ahsoka — Escape From Thrawn is a new five-issue Marvel series showing how Ezra escaped Thrawn after Ahsoka Season 1.

• 🚀 Star Wars: Starfighter is getting the full publishing treatment — including an art book, expanded novelization, visual dictionary, kids books, and a Marvel prequel miniseries.

• 📚 Star Wars turns 50 in 2027, and Lucasfilm revealed a wave of anniversary books, including Claudia Gray’s new Leia novel Princess of the Rebellion.

• 🤯 Star Wars + Marvel keeps getting weirder. The Hope Assembles crossover is now tied to a LEGO Ideas challenge inviting fans to create their own Star Wars/Marvel mash-ups.

• NYCC gave us plenty to chew on — Ahsoka, Starfighter, the 50th anniversary, and Marvel crossovers.

  👻 Boo Bits

• 🤖 VisionQuest gets a big NYCC push. Marvel screened the first episode and debuted another trailer ahead of the series premiere.

• 🕵️ Marvel announces Zodiac — a new Disney+ spy thriller reportedly heading into production next year.

• ❌ X-Men ’97 Season 3 footage teases Mystique leading the Brotherhood — and even a possible Rogue and Gambit wedding.

• 🕷️ Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man Season 2 is on the way, with Doctor Octopus and the black symbiote entering the picture.

• 🌃 Blade Runner 2099 drops its first full trailer, bringing Michelle Yeoh and Hunter Schafer into the next chapter of the franchise.

• 🩸 Crystal Lake promises to go hard, digging deeper into Pamela and Jason Voorhees while pushing the horror even further.

• Horror owns the box office, Lanterns wraps its first season, Ezra escapes Thrawn, Starfighter expands its universe, and NYCC unloads VisionQuest, X-Men ’97, Spider-Man, Blade Runner, and Crystal Lake — Episode 532 is another packed Week in Geek! 🚀

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The Sith List – Episode 531

🎬 Box Office

• Verity takes #1 with a strong $32.6M domestic opening.
• Resident Evil hangs onto #2 with another $12.5M, pushing its domestic total to roughly $125M.
• Heart of the Beast stays solid at #3 with about $11M.
• Last week’s surprise champ Avengers: Endgame Encore falls to #7 with $4.4M in weekend two.

🍿 Things We Watched

• Lanterns – Episode 8: “Dirt and Stars” — SEASON FINALE
• The central mystery finally gets its answers as John Stewart’s journey comes full circle.
• The finale goes much more character-driven than cosmic, while still setting up some very interesting possibilities for John and the larger DCU.
• So…did Lanterns stick the landing?

⭐ Star Wars Chit Chat

• 🎮 Star Wars: Galactic Racer launches this week.
• The new racing game sends players back to iconic environments with landspeeders, speeder bikes, and podracers.
• 📚 Star Wars Reads returns for October, with another month-long celebration of Star Wars books and storytelling.
• 🎙️ Star Wars Celebration is looking for podcasters and fan outlets to participate in the Holonet News Stage at Celebration Los Angeles 2027.
• With Galactic Racer, Ahsoka Season 2, Starfighter, and Celebration all on the horizon, 2027 is starting to look pretty packed for Star Wars.

👻 Boo Bits

• 🦇 DC is gearing up for New York Comic Con with new panels, announcements, exclusives, and reveals.
• 🦸 Marvel is heading to NYCC too, including new looks at upcoming Marvel Television and Marvel Animation projects.
• 👻 Crystal Lake gets the NYCC spotlight with a first-look screening of the upcoming Friday the 13th prequel series.

• 😱 The Institute Season 2 drops its first trailer as the Stephen King adaptation prepares to return.

Verity conquers the box office, Lanterns wraps Season 1, Star Wars: Galactic Racer hits the track, Celebration comes calling for podcasters, and Boo Bits gets us ready for NYCC, Crystal Lake, Marvel, DC, and spooky season — Episode 531 is loaded! 🚀

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