The Sith List – Episode 534

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Your Week in Geek | October 18–26, 2026

🎬 Box Office

• 🧟 Clayface claws its way to #1! DC’s body-horror film opens with an estimated $24M domestic and $43M worldwide. Can smaller-budget comic-book movies become a bigger part of DC’s future?

• 🎥 You Can See Everything keeps getting bigger! Another $19.5M weekend brings the documentary’s domestic total to $45.1M. Nathan Fielder and Elizabeth Holmes are turning into an unlikely box-office powerhouse.

• 🌲 Wildwood arrives at #3 with approximately $11.6M, while Street Fighter falls to #4 with $8.6M — a steep 72% drop. Did the fighting-game fans all show up opening weekend?

  🍿 Things We Watched

• 🩸 Crystal Lake — continuing our watch

• How is Linda Cardellini’s Pamela Voorhees working for the crew? Is expanding the mythology making this world scarier, or do we prefer the simplicity of the original movies?

• Crew check-in: What else did everyone watch this week?

  ⭐ Star Wars Chit Chat

• 🏛️ Iraj, Les, and Randy visit the Lucas Museum! The guys share their experience, favorite exhibits, and standout moments. What impressed them most—and did it live up to expectations?

• 🏈 Darth Vader tackles Monday Night Football! ESPN’s October 26 programming is set to feature an animated Vader appearance, previewing a bigger Star Wars football crossover planned for 2027. Football and the dark side—who on this crew is the target audience?

• 🎃 Even the galaxy is getting into Halloween. StarWars.com shared a Mandalorian and Grogu-inspired Amani pumpkin project on October 26. Discussion time: what is the creepiest creature or moment in Star Wars?

• 🌊 Daisy Ridley trades space for the deep sea! She’s attached to star in and executive produce a new Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea series at Paramount+, with Akiva Goldsman writing and Matt Shakman directing. A classic sci-fi revival worth diving into?

• 🦸 James Gunn says everything doesn’t need to build toward a crossover. Discussing the DCU, Gunn points to Star Wars as an example of different stories sharing one universe. Do we want a giant master plan—or great individual movies first?

• 🔪 Crystal Lake Season 2? Ideas, yes. Renewal, not yet. In October 19 coverage, creator Brad Caleb Kane discussed a possible continuation with more of the town’s strange residents and a Twin Peaks-influenced approach. Keep this conversation spoiler-light for anyone still watching!

• 😱 Horror keeps carrying its weight. Reuters reports the genre accounts for 18.2% of the North American box office in 2026. With Halloween approaching, what makes a horror movie work for us: atmosphere, practical effects, psychological dread—or a perfectly timed jump scare?

Clayface takes the crown, Crystal Lake keeps the scares coming, Iraj, Les, and Randy visit the Lucas Museum, and Darth Vader heads to football! Add Daisy Ridley’s next adventure and some Halloween debate, and Episode 534 brings another packed Week in Geek! 🚀

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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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