Good news fanboys, Into the Spider-Verse and Aquaman are killing it in the theaters.  While it only pulled in $35.4 million, considering this was supposed to be a DVD feature when it was first planned shows just how smart of a decision it was to move it to a feature film.  The film should break the $100 million mark, even though it’s going up against Disney’s Mary Poppins Returns, Warner Bros.’ Aquaman, and Paramount’s Bumblebee is now small feat. 

Aquaman isn’t even out in the states yet, and has already pulled in $260M overseas, most notably in China.  The film has a realistic shot of passing $600 million and maybe even pass Wonder Woman’s $821.8 million performance.

Speaking of Aquaman, apparently James Wan is being viewed by Warner Bros. to be the focal point of their film universe.  Wan was first offered up The Flash but turned it down to the creative freedom of Aquaman.  Saying to the New York Times;

I realized, wow, his character resides in this crazy, big world, and I could do something very interesting with it. I look up to people like Spielberg, Cameron, Lucas, John Carpenter. I’m a fan of genre filmmaking, naturally. So I thought I could make “Aquaman” a genre film, meaning a horror monster movie. DC basically said, yes, you can make Aquaman versus sea monsters if that’s what you want.

As someone who’s a fan of the Universal Monster films, I love this.  Lets do it.

In the weirdest news I’ve ever written, Soulja Boy (DeAndre Cortez) will start his own Esports franchise featuring Fornite, Overwatch and other competitive games.  This follows the news of his SouljaGame Consule, which allows users to play classic games; though it’s been hit with some bad reviews.