A monthly look ahead at the pop culture events you can use to connect with your tweens and teens.
Hello October
1 Venom: Let There Be Carnage (Marvel but not MCU, Theaters)
FIFA 2022 (PC, PS5, PS4, XBX/S, XB1, Switch)
Ghostbusters: Afterlife Funko Pops (collectibles) released for pre-sale on Amazon and Earth Entertainment. The Mini-Puft figures will be everywhere soon enough. The film will be released in November.
2 Saturday Night Live Season Begins
5 BET Hip Hop Awards
We Are Not Like Them by Christine Pride and Jo Piazza (ya novel)
Mortal Kombat X (Playstation)
7 Far Cry 6 (PC, PS5, PS4, XBX/S, XB1)(Review first person shooter game from TechRadar’s Vic Hood here
8 Pokémon Celebration cards released Learn more here
Haunted Mansion (Disney+ series)
Nancy Drew (Series on The CW)
Lego Marvel Super Heroes (Switch)
10 Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Season 2 (Crunchyroll, Funimation, Hulu) anime series trailer here
11 NERF: Legends (PC, PS5, PS4, XSX/S, XB1, Switch) Trailer here
12 Chucky (USA/Syfy New Series)
BTS and Casetify do a new drop. Learn more here
13 Batwoman Season 3 (The CW)
DC Legends of Tomorrow Season 7 (The CW)
“Treat Yo Self” Day. “’Treat Yo Self’ is the one day of the year Tom Haverford and Donna Meagle treat themselves to anything and everything they want (and probably don’t need), because well, they deserve it,” according to DailyDot
15 Halloween Kills (movie in theaters)
21 Komi Can't Communicate (Netflix) anime series trailer here
“National Back To the Future” Day
23 Dune (movie in theaters and HBO Max)
24 Fortnitemares 2021 begins according to sportskeeda’s Aakrit here
25 4400 (The CW Sci-Fi Series). 4400 marginalized people who vanished without a trace throughout the past 100 years return in an instant, with no memory of what happened
26 Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy (PC, PS5, PS4, XBX/S, XB1) Trailer for third person action adventure game here
We Light Up the Sky by Lilliam Rivera (ya novel)
28 Age of Empire’s IV (PC) Trailer for real-time strategy game here
Mario Party Superstars (Switch) Trailer here
29 My Hero Academia: World Heroes' Mission (theaters) Learn more about this English-subtitled film from Bleeding Cool’s Alejandra Bodden here
31 Halloween