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“Thor: Ragnarok” Enjoys Thunderous Opening Weekend as Greta Gerwig’s “Lady Bird” Posts Year’s Highest Per-Screen Average
Halloween may be over, but Lionsgate hung on to 3rd and 4th place thanks to “Jigsaw” and “Tyler Perry’s Boo 2! A Madea Halloween,” which finished behind “A Bad Moms Christmas.”
Is it November yet? Marvel dropped a new trailer for Thor: Ragnarok in the middle of NFL’s opening night game between the New England Patriots and Kansas City Chiefs. 
Taika Waititi directed the comic book movie, which looks just like most Marvel movies, but with more of the filmmaker’s trademark quirky humor and a couple of nifty haircuts for our two leads.
Director Taika Waititi isn’t just bring some heightened humor to Thor: Ragnarok, he’s also brought new friends, foes, and some seriously epic fantasy. 
Credit lies with Taika Waititi, a director with a unique comic sensibility and an outside-the-box choice to direct a big-budget comic book movie if there ever was one.
Golden Globe-nominated actor Sam Neill is set to reunite with Hunt for the Wilderpeople director Taika Waititi for the upcoming Marvel pic Thor: Ragnarok in a hush-hush role.
Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige packed a lot of comic book movie goodness into its two-hour time slot at Comic-Con like a tasty burrito. Here are some of the big announcements and descriptions of the exclusive footage we saw in Hall H.
