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Hey Nerds! Happy Halloween! As a special treat, enjoy this new clip from Stephen King’s Doctor Sleep with a NOC-exclusive introduction from the film’s star, Kyliegh Curran! And click here to check out our review of the film! Stephen King’s Doctor Sleep hits theaters November 8, 2019!

The ninth and final film in the Star Wars episodic saga, The Rise of Skywalker, is just a few short months away, which means our merchandise cups will soon runneth over. Not that we’re complaining. What better way to celebrate 40 years of the Skywalker family legacy than with a bunch of toys that will fill the void in our heart once it’s time to say goodbye to our beloved characters forever. Of course, “no one is ever really gone” as Luke Skywalker would have us remember, and thanks to a slew of upcoming Funko products targeted to the release of The Rise of Skywalker, it’s a sentiment impossible to forget.

The most exciting product in Funko’s latest Star Wars announcement has to be the new Pop! figure of “Dark Rey,” a version of our sequel trilogy heroine spotted in recent officially released footage from the film. Cloaked in a black hood and clutching a double-bladed red lightsaber, this imagery has had us talking for the last several months and will sure to be a topic of debate until the film’s release in December. Is it a vision, or is Rey really turning to the Dark Side? This Pop! doesn’t really clear up any of our theories, but it does give us a closer look at the details on her black hood and dress—which resembles Kylo Ren’s own hood and cloak right down to the fabric. Does he get her to turn? Or maybe she comes to him in a vision or dream. Who knew that a cute little toy could reignite our imaginations like this?

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Dark Rey isn’t the only intriguing Dark Side character getting a Pop! Funko will also release the Knights of Ren as hematite chrome figurines, and gave us the first really detailed look at the costumes and weapons Kylo Ren’s acolytes will come equipped with in The Rise of Skywalker. One has a blaster, one has a scythe, one even has a club.

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Along with the Knights, you can get a new regular-sized figure of Kylo with his red-veined new helmet as well as a 10-inch glow-in-the-dark version, and a red-eyed C-3PO–another intriguing version of a familiar character spotted in recent footage. The fact that he’s being announced with all of these other Dark Side figures has us asking questions about those red eyes all over again. Is Threepio going dark, just like Rey?

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Non-chrome versions of the Knights of Ren will also be available for purchase exclusively at Hot Topic, Walmart, FYE, and GameStop; a double pack featuring the droids BB-8 and D-O will be available at Books-A-Million; and a two-pack of Kylo Ren and (Light Side) Rey will be available at Barnes and Noble. Funko will also release Mystery Minis of The Rise of Skywalker characters, with different exclusive characters found at Target, Walmart, and GameStop.

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That’s a lot of new toys to get excited about! Funko has yet to release specific dates of availability for any of these products, listing them as “coming soon” on their official blog, but we’ll certainly have our eyes peeled. Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker arrives in theaters on December 20.

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The King of Pop is STILL the king! According to Forbes, Michael Jackson once again tops the list of top-earning dead celebrities of 2019.

This is the seventh consecutive year that Jackson, with $60 million, landed on top of Forbes’ list. To determine the highest earner, Forbes calculated monies earned for the months between the fiscal year of October 2018 and October 2019. The latest entry, Ermias Joseph Asghedom, a.k.a. Nipsey Hussle, who died in March of this year, made the list at #10 with $11 million earned. Rapper Jahseh Dwayne Ricardo Onfroy, a.k.a. XXXTentacion, is the most-streamed dead celebrity in the U.S. with 5.6 billion spins.

Earnings for those who made the list are essentially flat compared to last year’s sum. Even as physical sales continue their decline, the nine musicians who made the list, including Michael Jackson, Whitney Houston, and Nipsey Hussle, generated 15.2 billion streaming spins over the past year in the U.S., up 38.5% from the prior 12 months.

“In the physical world, it would die down to the point where that stuff just wasn’t carried anymore,” says David Bakula, Nielsen’s Senior VP of Insight and Analytics. “That barrier’s been removed, and it’s just simply as long as you’re still thinking about that artist, you’re still going to go in and play it with really no friction at all.”

Forbes states, “Our annual list of the top-earning dead celebrities measures pretax income from October 1, 2018, through October 1, 2019. We compile our numbers with the help of data from Nielsen Music, IMDBPro, and interviews with industry insiders. Fees for agents, managers, and lawyers are not deducted.”

The Top-Earning Dead Celebrities Of 2019

Michael Jackson – Musician (overdose/homicide) Deceased June 25, 2009: $60 million

Elvis – Musician (heart attack) Deceased August 16, 1977: $39 million

Charles Schultz – Cartoonist (cancer) Deceased February 12, 2000: $38 million

Arnold Palmer – Golfer (heart disease) Deceased September 25, 2016: $30 million

Bob Marley – Musician (cancer) Deceased May 11, 1981: $20 million

Dr. Seuss – Author (cancer) Deceased September 24, 1991: $19 million

John Lennon – Musician (homicide) Deceased December 8, 1980: $14 million

Marilyn Monroe – Actress (overdose) Deceased August 5, 1962: $13 million

Prince – Musician (overdose) Deceased April 21, 2016: $12 million

Nipsey Hussle – Musician (homicide) Deceased March 31, 2019: $11 million

XXXTentacion – Musician (homicide) Deceased June 18, 2018: $10 million

Whitney Houston – Musician (drowning) Deceased February 11, 2012: $9.5 million

George Harrison – Musician (cancer) Deceased November 29, 2001: $9 million

A herd of goats helped save the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library from the Easy Fire on Oct. 30. (Photo Credit: Mario Tama / Getty Images)

Five hundred goats helped save the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library from the California wildfires.

Earlier this year, the library hired the animals to help clear flammable brush surrounding the property, BBC reported. Once the goats grazed on the scrub, they were able to create a fire break that slowed blazes and enabled firefighters to quell flames on Wednesday.

“We were told by one of the firefighters that they believe that fire break made their job easier,” spokesperson Melissa Giller told Reuters. “The brush only went so far, it didn’t reach the library, because the goats ate it all.”

The library, which is located outside of Los Angeles, was one of many structures threatened by the recent Easy Fire. On Wednesday, gale-force winds brought the Easy Fire closer to the library and it came less than 50 feet from a plane hangar on the site.

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Thankfully, the goats’ cleared path helped prevent damage from the incident. According to 805 Goats owner Scott Morris, the herd, which includes goats Vincent Van Goat and Selena Goatmez, like to nosh on noxious weeds that could make wildfires worse.

By Wednesday evening, the Easy Fire forced roughly 30,000 people to evacuate their homes and burned over 1,650 acres, according to officials.

“All the flames are gone, all we see are charred hillsides,” Giller added. “We feel the worst is over and the Reagan library is safe.”

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