While not quite up to the level of the first Hobbit movie, The Desolation of Smaug still had an excellent $73.7 million opening while the Madea series hit it’s low point with A Madea Christmas.

Catching Fire and Frozen had massive, record breaking Thanksgiving weekends while the rest of the new releases bombed over the five day weekend.

This week on the podcast, Zach, Chris and Joe talk about Thor 2, terrible 90’s Marvel comics, the second death of Futurama, old school sleuthing with Dr. No, 80’s movies that should never be remade and much more.

This week the crew of Zach, Brian, Chris and Joe talk about the epic pairing of Steven Seagal and Steve Austin, the dark past of Wonder Woman, the convoluted plot of Safe, new TV and much more.

A bunch of news coming out of Comic Con, lots of video game related projects, Marvel and DC’s continuing cinematic battle and much more in this week’s News Shotgun.

This week in the News Shotgun we find out about another Disney ride becoming a movie, a couple of classic literary works getting Sci Fi remakes, Michael Bay’s next movie and more.