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IDW's solicitations put six Star Trek comics and collections on the shelf between November 11 and December 9, from the Red Shirts finale run to a Kelvin-era trade. Here is the list with dates, creators and prices.

The organizer of the German Film & Comic Con Winter Edition lists both C-3PO's Anthony Daniels and Finn's John Boyega as guests on December 5-6 at Messe Dortmund. Here is what the organizer and Roster Con say, and what is still open.

Clayface earned a rare horror A- CinemaScore and still fell an estimated 57% in its second weekend. Put it into a nine-film ledger and it is still the third-best hold. The grade got the order right and the distance wrong.

Netflix drops a bloody steampunk Western cartoon on Tuesday and Keira Knightley's spy thriller on Thursday. Here's which one fits a work night, which one deserves your weekend, and what's actually confirmed before either premieres.

Laika's Wildwood opened almost exactly like Kubo and the Two Strings did in 2016 — same A CinemaScore, same ~$12M weekend. The audience didn't shrink. The reported budget nearly doubled.

Godzilla Minus Zero hits Japan on Godzilla Day (Nov 3) and North American theaters on Nov 6, tracking at $25–35M. The Cat in the Hat and Ramayana pile into the same week, Black Doves season 2 and Bass X Machina hit Netflix, and a documentary edged Clayface for No. 1 in last weekend's estimates.

Secret Lair's Star Trek superdrop goes on sale November 9: five drops from Strange New Worlds basics to a Klingon-language set, with a sixth to come. Here is what is in each, how the sale works and what one critic thinks of the value.

Two weeks ago, Taika Waititi told Inverse his Star Wars film is 'very iced' while he works on 'a different thing together' with writer Tony McNamara. Here is what he said, what is unclear and how the project got here.

The full conversation between Michael Shanks, David Read and Brad Wright is public. The channel's feed shows it published on Oct 31 at 17:00 UTC, roughly six hours before the site's countdown, and the site lists it at 1:34:02. The channel's description calls it Wright's first interview since the June announcement.

All 13 Star Trek films stream free on Pluto TV from November 1, and Star Trek Online players have been holding vigils for Sir Patrick Stewart with a Galaxy-class honor guard. Here is what has been reported, and what fans are asking for next.

'A Full Circle' posted a 2:55 Extra on Friday, "Michael Shanks Rediscovered This Prop from the Pilot!" The 80-minute Brad Wright interview goes free at 00:12 on Sunday, Nov 1, Prague time. Here are the facts, the numbers, and what I'm not claiming.

Sir Patrick Stewart, who played Captain Jean-Luc Picard in Star Trek: The Next Generation and Professor Xavier in the X-Men films, died on October 28 at his home in Los Angeles. He was 86. Here is what has been reported, and how the Star Trek family is remembering him.

Serienjunkies.de published an interview with Richard Dean Anderson recorded at San Diego Comic-Con Málaga, where he said he can't say where Stargate stands and that a return would depend on the people around him. He named Brad Wright as someone with whom he'd at least look at an idea. The talk took place before Variety's Oct 9 report that Jac Schaeffer is developing a new series.

At Rome's MIA Market, Roddenberry Entertainment's Trevor Roth called Star Trek's moment a crossroads after the Paramount-Warner Bros. merger, while promising 'very specific designs' for its next incarnations. Here are the quotes, and what they do and don't tell us.

Galactic Racer update 1.005, out October 22, raises online party size from 3 to 6, adds keyboard presets and bumps mid-session Tour credits to 6,000. Full key rebinding is still to come.

The podcast's site lists "Interview: Brad Wright, Co-Creator & Co-Executive Producer, Stargate SG-1, Atlantis, Universe" in early access, with a countdown to its free release on Saturday, Oct 31, at 4:12 PM PDT. That is 00:12 on Sunday in Prague. A 3:08 preview went up on the channel on Wednesday night.

Walter Koenig, the actor who played Ensign Pavel Chekov on the original Star Trek, died Sunday night at his home in North Hollywood. He was 90.

Marvel's five Rogue One anniversary one-shots wrap up with Darth Vader #1, reported for October 28 after slipping from September. Chirrut & Baze #1 arrived October 14, two months late.

The second recap on Michael Shanks' rewatch podcast went public on Oct 27, and the channel's description promises a discussion of "the climactic second hour, the controversial nude scene, and setting the stage for the newly christened unit." Here are the numbers, how they compare with the Part 1 recap, and what the site says about the next episode.

The 60th-anniversary Original Series novel by David Mack is out October 27. Here is what the publisher says it is about, and the date mix-up worth checking before you order.

DK's Star Wars: Star Pilots: A History of Space Combat, by Dr. Chris Kempshall and narrated in-universe by Wedge Antilles, is dated October 6: 416 pages, $30, built on 'unsealed New Republic archives' and veteran interviews.

'A Full Circle' put out a new Extra on Monday, "When Michael Shanks Thinks SG-1 Started Working," a six-minute clip on the channel's own site and feed. Tonight at 18:00 Prague time, per the podcast's countdown, the free release of the Part 2 recap follows. Here is what can be checked and what can't.

Star Trek Online's Tier 6 Vidiian Science Warship went on offer October 22 as a lock box prize. Here is what the announcement and the community wiki say about the ship, and why the Vidiians still matter.

The Smugglers Surrey Star Wars Weekend runs November 7-8 in Weybridge, with Guy Henry (Tarkin), Daniel Naprous (Vader in Rogue One), Valene Kane (Lyra Erso) and a long list of other guests.

You Can See Everything grew 25% on its second weekend after expanding from 855 to 2,655 theaters. Here's what tripling the screens did to the per-theater average, and how it compares with Fahrenheit 9/11's own expansion.

Three thrillers arrive on Friday, October 30: a 4-episode Swedish home-swap mystery, an 8-episode K-drama about cursed part-time jobs, and Apple TV's 10-episode Nocturne. You can binge two of them by Sunday. Nocturne runs weekly until Christmas Day. Here's the order, with a binge-now or pace-yourself call for each.

DC Studios' R-rated Clayface opened at No. 1 with an estimated $24M domestic and $43M worldwide, plus a rare A- CinemaScore for horror. On streaming, Apple TV's Nocturne, Netflix's Dead-End Job and A Couple of Lies all land Friday, October 30, right before a Saturday Halloween.

Clayface opened at No. 1 with the smallest debut of the three DCU films, and the headlines treated it like a stumble. Look at the budgets and the grades, though: a roughly $44M R-rated horror film that grossed about its production cost in three days, with an A- CinemaScore, is the DCU plan working.

IDW's Star Trek: The Last Starship wrapped its one-year mission with issue #12 on October 21. Here is what the solicitation promises for the finale, and why this twelve-issue run mattered.

Creation Entertainment has announced ST:LV 61: Trek to Vegas for August 4-8, 2027, with William Shatner as its Valedictorian speaker. Here is what is confirmed, and what is still blank.