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After setting box office records over its opening weekend, Todd Phillips’ Joker continued its success on Monday. Deadline reports that the film now has the best Monday in October by pulling in $9.72 million, taking the record from Venom, which previously held the title with $9.63 million. Joker’s Monday total was also a record for September Mondays where it beat out It ($8.76 million) and the fellow R-rated comic book movie Logan ($7.2 million). The Monday total is even more impressive when you consider that it’s not a holiday (Columbus Day is next …

Warner Bros. has released a bevy of new high-resolution images from The LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part. The follow-up finds Mike Mitchell (Trolls) stepping into the director’s chair, although Phil Lord and Chris Miller are still intimately involved as the film’s writers and producers. The project wasn’t without its difficulties, as it cycled through two other directors before landing on Mitchell, and a number of writers (including Bojack Horseman’s Raphael Bob-Waksberg) took a crack at the script. In the end, Lord and Miller are the sole credited screenwriters with Matthew Fogel receiving …