Spiral took the top spot at the box office with the lowest opening in the Saw series (but none of the others opened during a pandemic) while Those Who Wish Me Dead flopped even by pandemic standards and the other new releases just barely cracked the top 10.

Tons of options this week with four new movies in theaters including Spiral: From the Book of Saw and Those Who Wish Me Dead, which is also on HBO Max, and two new movies on Netflix.

Fast Times at Ridgemont High joins the Criterion Collection this week on DVD and Blu-Ray along with The Marksman, Justice Society: World War 2, Shrek and Saw on 4K, a Collector’s Edition of King Kong 1976, and more.

Vin Diesel is starring in a Rock Em Sock Em Robots movie, Disney and Sony sign a new massive deal, The Flash movie has begun production, a fourth Captain America movie is in development, Jim Henson is getting a biopic and more in this week’s News Shotgun.

The Saw franchise returns with Chris Rock starring in and executive producing Spiral: From the Book of Saw, where a new serial killer who seems to be taking inspiration from John Kramer is unleashing a new game of deadly traps.

Check out the 1997 cult classic Cube from director Vincenzo Natali in the latest Everything Action Theater as 6 strangers wake up in a mysterious maze of seemingly identical rooms that are constantly shifting and house deadly traps.

After the truly terrible Jigsaw, Chris Rock stepped up to produce and co-star in a “re-imagining” of the Saw franchise with this summer’s Spiral, which co-stars Samuel L. Jackson.

A ton of TV news this week thanks to the Upfronts, including cancelations and renewals, Mel Gibson is starting to possibly gather his Wild Bunch, a final Purge is coming next year, Robert Pattinson and Nicholas Hoult are battling for the Batman cowl, Chris Rock is working on a Saw spin-off and more in this week’s News Shotgun.