Here’s the announcement with a  drawing of LEGO Luffy from One Piece creator Eiichiro Oda:

After dreaming about this for 25 years… Oda-Sensei couldn’t be more excited! ONE PIECE and LEGO are teaming up to turn dreams into reality! Prepare to set sail on some legendary adventures, Straw Hats!! pic.twitter.com/88suqs0de0

— ONE PIECE(ワンピース) Netflix (@onepiecenetflix) January 23, 2025

By the looks of it, this collaboration is a lot closer to the live-action series from Netflix, and the release is set to coincide with the return of the second season this year. Netflix’s VP of consumer products Josh Simon says, “Through every detail of the design process, we’ve worked to meticulously create a collection of playsets that will give fans new ways to live out their own epic voyages into the Grand Line one special brick at a time.”

Straw Hats, are you ready for your next adventure? Coming soon. #LEGOOnePiece pic.twitter.com/kBbGTTWDlT

— ONE PIECE(ワンピース) Netflix (@onepiecenetflix) January 23, 2025

No official looks at the sets have been made yet, but fans are already speculating what LEGO and Netflix could come up with. There are already several bootleg One Piece LEGO sets based on the anime, so maybe this time there’ll actually be an official set for Luffy’s ship the Going Merry.

Some are also hoping for a buildable Devil Fruit and maybe LEGO can make a whole series of those for fans to collect.

With the sets releasing close to the second season, maybe a lot of them depict scenes from One Piece 2, but there’s also a lot of great moments and characters from the first season that it would be a shame if they didn’t get a LEGO kit. I mean, Buggy the Clown is right there.

No release date has been set for the One Piece LEGO kits, but they are rumored to be releasing this summer. One Piece 2 is set to premiere on Netflix later this year.

Check out some of his gameplay on Mortal Kombat:

Take note, Floyd is only a secret boss character and is not actually playable. Any footage of him being playable is only done by PC gamers through mods.

The introduction of Floyd in MK1 is essentially a callback to one of the OG video game easter eggs in the original Mortal Kombat. Before, players would get hints from a green PSN named Reptile who would challenge players to find him in-game; and following the clues leads to a boss fight.

For Floyd, there are several challenges that players have to complete to be able to get a fight with Floyd, and after defeating him, they’ll be able to unlock his stage as well as color swaps for the kameos of Scorpion and Sub-Zero.

Take note, the challenges are said to vary for every player, and it does look like there are only a limited number of challenges players can do per day. No definitive list has been made to unlock the fight with Floyd, but the fans are definitely charged up and are gathering all the information they can. It’s like the old days of Mortal Kombat again.

Mortal Kombat 1 is now playable for Xbox Series X|S, PC, PS5, and Nintendo Switch.

Season 1 belongs to the Fantastic Four, but a recent leak has confirmed some incoming X-Men fan favourites that should delight fans. According to @X0X_LEAK on Twitter:

Upcoming Characters

Gambit – Duelist
Rogue – Strategist
Jubilee – Unknown pic.twitter.com/ZNxRPohL7X

— X0XLEAK (@X0X_LEAK) January 22, 2025

The same leaker also confirms that Nightcrawler is also coming to the game as a Duelist as well as Beast—but it’s not yet clear on what kind of role he’s going to play in the game (possibly a mobile tank).

So far, the current playable X-Men in the game include Storm, Magik, Wolverine, Magneto, and Psylocke. Namor is also a mutant, but he’s really just more affiliated with his own kingdom than the X-Men.

Other leaked X-Men characters that fans have yet to get a look at include Emma Frost, Jean Grey, Cyclops, Professor X, Colossus, and Deadpool. That’s not even mentioning the rest of the leaked characters including MODOK, Hit-Monkey, Blade, and Paste Pot Pete—just to name a few.

It’s not clear when NetEase plans to release these heroes, but they have said that they plan to release a new playable hero every 1.5 months. With that in mind, they probably have a couple of years of incoming content to work on; hopefully they manage to keep the game’s quality up with all the heroes expected to come in.

Then again, even League of Legends has managed to amass over 150 playable characters, and they seem to be doing fine.

Marvel Rivals is now playable for Xbox Series X|S, PS5, and PC.

Mickey 17 just got a release date, and that comes with a new look at the movie. Check this out:

The official description of the film reads:

From the Academy Award-winning writer/director of “Parasite,” Bong Joon Ho, comes his next groundbreaking cinematic experience, “Mickey 17.” The unlikely hero, Mickey Barnes (Robert Pattinson) has found himself in the extraordinary circumstance of working for an employer who demands the ultimate commitment to the job… to die, for a living.

Besides Pattinson, the movie has managed to nab a star-studded cast which includes Steven Yeun, Naomi Ackie, Toni Collette, and Mark Ruffalo.

What’s interesting is, though Bong does make the occasional English-speaking movie, he does seem to have a penchant for dystopian worlds covered in ice—just look at his work on the Chris Evans-fuelled Snowpiercer.

Either way, Mickey 17 looks fantastic, and a lot of fans are eager to watch Robert Pattinson just be in his element of playing all these different weirdoes. Sure he may have been the face of the Twilight saga at some point, but he’s slowly reinvented himself to be this auteur specialist with a knack for some very artsy, freaky projects. This should keep his fans satisfied until the release of The Batman Part II in 2027.

Watch out for Mickey 17 when it comes to cinemas on March 7.

In a recent report from analyst Matthew Ball, the high anticipation for the release of GTA VI could be used as a new precedent to have video games release at a $80-$100 price point. The idea is that GTA would set the new standard price for games, and other big studios would end up following with their releases.

One of the biggest problems with game development today is that games are now way harder to produce, yet they still come at the same $40 price range for decades; only recently did prices see a small $10 bump when games launched for the new-gen consoles like the PS5 and Xbox Series X|S.

Whereas studios could develop a hit game for a couple million dollars back in the 2000s, modern games now cost probably a hundred times more, requiring more people and developers—based on the new standard of modern video games.

Increasing the price tag could lead to a more stable industry, but the question is whether players will be able to bite that bullet in order for devs to keep making games in the future.

If anything, there are other ways for games to make money (like in-game purchases), but the rise in the price might be the most direct solution. For now, it’s not clear what Rockstar is going to do about Grand Theft Auto VI’s price point, but no doubt everyone is going to be looking at how the devs handle the release later this year.

Grand Theft Auto VI is expected to release sometime in 2025.

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Check out the trailer for Opus:

The simple tagline reads: An iconic pop star returns after decades missing.

Besides Edebiri, the movie also stars Julietter Lewis, Murray Bartlett, Amber Midthunder, Stephanie Suganami, Tony Hale, and Young Mazino.

We’ve gotten a lot of modern cult films in recent years with films like Hereditary and Kinds of Kindness, but it looks like this one is going to have its own weird twist with the Get Out nature of the trailer. It’s unclear just how weird everything is expected to get, but Malkovich can get pretty freaky depending on the project.

It’s even neat to see a puppet in the film because it could be a reference to Being John Malkovich, another weird movie about a puppeteer taking over the body of actual John Malkovich.

As far as it looks, this is the directorial debut of Mark Anthony Green whose only credit before this project was a short film. Even if that is the case, the trailer does look very impressive, and the fact that it’s managed to gather quite an impressive cast could mean that a lot of movie buffs may want to see just what Opus is going to be all about.

Catch Opus when it releases in theatres on March 14.

Check out this new featurette:

While this is supposed to be Sam’s first outing as Captain America, it does seem like the marketing has been shifting the focus to Harrison Ford playing the Red Hulk. While it is impressive that the character of Ross is going to be used on a larger scale, it’s kind of a bummer to think that Mackie is getting sidelined in his own movie.

If anything, some fans are trying to remain cautiously optimistic about the film. Sure the movie is completely different from what they set out to make, but it has been said that this one has tested better with audiences. Rogue One is considered to be a fan-favorite of the Disney Star Wars era, but even that film was plagued with reshoots and rewrites that a lot of fans consider to have actually made the movie better.

Maybe fans will just have to wait and see until February to find out if all the waiting has been worth it. I thought the characterization of Sam Wilson without Steve Rogers is still solid, and I’m eager to see him take center stage this time around.

Captain America: Brave New World hits theatres on Feb. 14.

Just like Overwatch does with the Lunar New Year, Marvel Rivals is also bringing in a new game mode, and it’s definitely NOT Lucio Ball. Check this out:

“May the golden lion’s mane guide your fortune and bring you strength this season. Join the celebration now and let the magic of the Spring Festival unfold!”

As fans have pointed out, the new game mode Clash of Dancing Lions looks just like Overwatch’s limited game mode, but there are some specific differences. Instead of playing an entire team of just one character, Dancing Lions has players pick between three people in a team; them being Black Widow, Iron Fist, and Star-Lord.

While Lucio himself is pretty mobile, the characters in Dancing Lions all have different mobile abilities like Widow and her sprint, Iron Fist and his Dragon Kick, and Star-Lord with his flight. The trick is having the players try to be a cohesive team with their different abilities—which makes it a tad more complicated than Lucio Ball.

The question is whether the rest of the player base will have fun with this mode. If anything, the skins look cool, and it should be a nice break from the usual matches.

The Spring Festival event launches for Marvel Rivals on Jan. 23. The game is now available for Xbox Series X|S, PC, and PS5.

While a second season hasn’t been officially announced, star Ravi Cabot-Conyers has hinted that there are plans for a follow-up. Here’s his IG post (via @sw_holocron):

Wim actor Ravi Cabot-Conyers posts a lovely message to SKELETON CREW fans (+ a pic of him as a baby in a Star Wars shirt)

“I hope my extraordinary crew will be back together again in the future so we can inject a little adventure and intrigue into your life once a week!” pic.twitter.com/UhCAgHbTX4

— Star Wars Holocron (@sw_holocron) January 20, 2025

This particular sentence hints at a future: “I hope my extraordinary Crew will be back together again in the future so we can inject a little adventure and intrigue into your life once a week! With love from Ravi.”

As far as Skeleton Crew goes, the series has gotten a lot of great reviews when it came out, but reports are saying that the series hasn’t been able to draw in an audience like Mandalorian. Even if that’s the case, with the show already completed, it’s possible that Disney is just waiting for Skeleton Crew to gain its audience over time. Though The Acolyte did get cancelled, there’s been nothing reported about how much Skeleton Crew cost—and it looked like it was mostly a money issue that led to Acolyte Season 2 not getting the greenlight.

So far, Skeleton Crew has managed to deliver the promise of ‘The Goonies in space’ pitch. The child cast is great, and it hits a lot of angst-y beats that are expected with these coming-of-age movies. We don’t know how they plan to move forward, but I suspect Wim and friends could be dealing with going to space college and having to say good-bye to one another.

Catch Skeleton Crew now showing on Disney+.

According to Deadline, Holland will actually play the lead of The Odyssey. No doubt this means that he’s playing the part of Ulysses/Odysseus, but seeing that this is a Nolan movie, it’s possible that the narrative would be non-linear, and Holland could be the son of Odysseus being told the story. Though Odysseus’ age is never explicitly stated, it’s expected for him to be a bit on the older side, seeing as he had lived through the Iliad by the time of the Odyssey.

Besides Holland, the movie also has a star-studded cast which includes Zendaya, Lupita Nyong’o, and Charlize Theron; the movie also brings back a lot of Nolan veterans including Anne Hathaway, Matt Damon, and Robert Pattinson.

Though Holland may not have had a hit that isn’t Spider-Man, he certainly has the chops if he’s put in the right project. He definitely stood out in Devil All the Time for Netflix, and he was also pretty likeable in that Chaos Walking movie.

With Nolan’s last movie Oppenheimer pretty sparing on the action and spectacle, The Odyssey is expected to be his return to form with a big action epic. Admittedly, Nolan hasn’t gotten too period with his movies at this point in his career, so it’s going to be very interesting to see just how he interprets the classic story with his own style and flair.

Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey is set to release in theatres on July 17, 2026.

The movie is set to come out in April, and a new trailer has been dropped:

Here’s the official description:

“One year after her sister Melanie mysteriously disappeared, Clover and her friends head into the remote valley where she vanished in search of answers. Exploring an abandoned visitor center, they find themselves stalked by a masked killer and horrifically murdered one by one…only to wake up and find themselves back at the beginning of the same evening. Trapped in the valley, they’re forced to relive the nightmare again and again – only each time the killer threat is different, each more terrifying than the last. Hope dwindling, the group soon realizes they have a limited number of deaths left, and the only way to escape is to survive until dawn.”

The original Until Dawn came from Supermassive Games and released for the PlayStation 4. The game was an interactive horror story with each decision leading to massive consequences with the butterfly effect system. Based on how the game was written, either everyone could die, or everyone could survive.

For context, here’s a look at the remastered game:

The interesting twist with the adaptation is that they’ve managed to add a Groundhog Day narrative in which the night would repeat itself—sticking to the game’s element where people can learn from past mistakes and use that to survive each night. One twist though, is that the monsters also change, and everyone has to find out how to best each creature while knowing what they do about the environment.

I’ll admit, it’s a great twist to the formula, and it should be an interesting watch for first-timers and Until Dawn fans. With Sandberg being stuck doing Shazam! the last couple of years, I’m just happy to see him back in his element.

Watch out for Until Dawn when it comes to cinemas on April 25.

Check out the gameplay reveal for Conan the Barbarian in MK1:

Here’s the official description:

Crush your enemies and see them driven before you. Conan THE Barbarian joins Mortal Kombat for early access players on January 21. May Crom help us all.

Conan will be available with the Khaos Reigns expansion, Bundle, or Kollection. Players can also buy him individually via the store.

As far as the character goes, it does look like a lot of his moves mostly consist of using the Atlantean Sword. In real life, the sword was said to have weighed 9 pounds and was said to have been pretty impractical for a weapon, but considering how huge Schwarzenegger was at the time, it would make sense for his Conan to wield such a massive weapon.

With Conan joining the game, Mortal Kombat adds another 80s icon to its roster. While some people may think Conan as a playable character is rather random, it does make sense with the meta-context that MK was supposed to be an adaptation of the 80s film Bloodsport—which explains the franchise’s connection to 80s action cinema. That’s why characters like Robocop, John Rambo, the Predator, and a Xenomorph have made it to the game.

Who knows, maybe in the next 10 years there could be a playable John Wick down the line or maybe characters from other bloody franchises like Resident Evil or Elden Ring.

Mortal Kombat 1 is now playable for PC, Xbox Series X|S, PS5, and Nintendo Switch. Conan drops on Jan. 21.

The film is set to come out this February, and we have a new creepy trailer. Check it:

Here’s the official description:

When twin brothers find a mysterious wind-up monkey, a series of outrageous deaths tear their family apart. Twenty-five years later, the monkey begins a new killing spree forcing the estranged brothers to confront the cursed toy.

Just from the trailer alone, fans can put together some Final Destination and The Omen vibes in which people are violently killed by crazy coincidences. The big hook here is that its Perkins at the helm, and he could very much set the vibe in his own unique way—which has never been done in the genre before.

As far as stars go, the movie will feature Theo James, Tatiana Maslany, Sarah Levy, and Elijah Wood. Perkins himself is also set to make an appearance in the movie (as he also has actor credits, even appearing in Jordan Peele’s Nope).

After all the buzz surrounding Longlegs, a lot of fans are excited to see just how The Monkey will turn out. While not many people knew what they were signing up for with Longlegs, maybe The Monkey will be more of a straightforward horror—especially knowing how these Stephen King stories go.

Catch The Monkey when it comes to cinemas on Feb. 21.

With Way of the Water revealing there’s a tribe of Na’vi that dwelled in the water, new reveals for Avatar: Fire and Ash have revealed even more tribes of Pandora, and fans are starting to make even more ATLA comparisons.

According to Empire, there will be more than one tribe introduced in the third Avatar movie. Besides the fire people who will be the central villains of the film, the movie will also introduce Wind Traders, a nomadic tribe that ride flying creatures and travel around the planet. Cameron explains, “They’re nomadic traders, equivalent to the camel caravans of the Spice Road back in the Middle Ages… And you know, they’re just fun. Like all Na’vi, they live in a symbiosis with their creatures.”

Evil fire people, world-trotting air people, and ocean-dwelling water people… now where have we seen that before?

Already the announcement is being flooded with Last Airbender comparisons, and it really isn’t surprising because the story of Cameron’s Avatar has always been pretty simple. If anything, it’s kind of a testament to how elegant the world-building is in Last Airbender that the people of each element are given specific traits; fire people are the villains, and the air people are free and roam the skies.

And here I thought Jake’s clan was already representing the air because the first movie referred to the Na’vi as Sky People.

Avatar: Fire and Ash is set to come to theatres on Dec. 19.

Now news has it that a Goonies revival is in the works. According to Deadline, Chris Columbus, who co-wrote The Goonies with Steven Spielberg, is currently working on a treatment for a new Goonies film. Not much details have been revealed about the project, but we do know that he’s working on it alongside a revival of the Gremlins as well.

Just like Skeleton Crew, The Goonies focuses on a group of young misfit kids who stumble ito a pirate map and go on a secret treasure hunt. What they didn’t know was the dangers that they would be facing, and all the young adult angst that was going to bubble up to the surface.

The movie was directed by Richard Donner (Superman: The Movie) and starred Sean Astin (Sam from Lord of the Rings) as the lead kid Mikey. The movie also featured Josh Brolin as Mikey’s older brother who gets wrapped along for the ride.

Other stars of the film include Jeff Cohen, Corey Feldman, Kerri Green, Martha Plimpton, and Ke Huy Quan (of Indiana Jones fame).

The movie has definitely earned a cult status and has influenced a lot of things following it. Probably the most famous example is Stranger Things, but there are hints at Goonies in projects like Shazam! Fury of the Gods and of course, Skeleton Crew.

We don’t know what a Goonies revival could be about, but knowing current trends, this could be a reboot/sequel focusing on some new kids; maybe Sean Astin or Ke Huy Quan could make an appearance?

Having it be a reunion of the kids as adults going on another adventure does feel like a big swing, but I think there could be a great emotional journey there.

A Goonies sequel hasn’t been officially announced.

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Just from the video alone, it looks like the Switch 2 is going to be a bit bigger than the original Switch. Doing away with the red and blue, Nintendo is now opting for a black look with some punk and blue highlights on certain parts of the console.

The trailer also doesn’t reveal much about the hardware, but fans are expecting this thing to be at least a little more powerful than the Switch. Though it had some great exclusives, fans thought that it was still pretty limited, and it could easily get out-powered by its fellow gen consoles like the PS4 and Xbox One. Even the Steam Deck, which is also handheld, boasted the power of a tiny gaming computer.

What we do know is that backwards compatibility will be available with the Switch 2. Take note, while some Switch 1 games can be played, a select few can’t. It probably has something to do with the Switch having third-party options, but we’ll just have to wait and see until Nintendo reveals more.

Not much is known about the Switch 2 yet, but expect more to be revealed during Nintendo Direct which takes place later this year on April 2.

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It’s not clear exactly where the series wants to go this time, but it looks like both Matt Murdoch and Wilson Fisk have moved on from their previous entanglement, with Matt dropping his Daredevil persona, and Fisk becoming the mayor of New York.

Though Daredevil and Kingpin are expected to be the central figures of this series, the show has also teased the return of Matt’s friends Foggy Nelson and Karen Paige; as well as an appearance from Frank Castle a.k.a. The Punisher.

Besides the familiar faces, Daredevil is said to be going up against a new villain in the form of the Muse. Based on street artist Banksy, the Muse is a deranged ‘artist’ who kills people and uses their blood to make his grotesque artwork—kind of like someone out of the Hannibal series.

The Daredevil: Born Again series has undergone a lot of reworks ever since they started development, but it looks like Marvel is now ready to release the series. While it was originally developed like previous miniseries like She-Hulk and Hawkeye, Born Again was said to have adapted the more traditional TV development approach, and fans should expect it to be a property that feels more like a series.

Watch out for Daredevil: Born Again when it comes to Disney+ on March 4.

Nothing much has been described about the plot of the movie besides that it focuses on the two stars of The Mandalorian series, but Star Wars News Net may have dropped some new details. According to the site, the movie could focus on Din Djarin and his adopted son going on a rescue mission for Rotta the Hutt (a.k.a. the son of Jabba the Hutt played by Jeremy Allen White from The Bear).

Funnily enough, the rescue of Rotta being a plot point would be circling back to The Clone Wars movie that released in theatres; that movie also had Rotta being rescued, but at that point, he was a baby, and his rescuers were Ahsoka Tano and Anakin Skywalker.

Besides the rescue mission plot, the site also confirms that another Clone Wars original character Embo would be coming back for the film, and this time, he’ll be voiced by Dave Filoni. Embo has shown up in several episodes of The Clone Wars and has teamed up with all-time favourites like Boba Fett, Bossk, and Asajj Ventress. He’s just another animated character making his way to live-action like Cad Bane did in Book of Boba Fett.

I’ll be honest, the Filoni projects have been mostly nostalgia bait at this point after Ahsoka, and it looks like Mando and Grogu could be going the same direction. Since we don’t have a trailer yet though, I’m willing to give Lucasfilm the benefit of the doubt. We’ll just have to wait and see when we’ll get our first look.

The Mandalorian and Grogu comes to cinemas on May 22, 2026.

Talking to Metro, game director Guangyun Chen has confirmed that NetEase Games plans to drop a new hero for Marvel Rivals every six weeks. “We’ll actually be breaking down each season into two halves,” says Chen, “The length of one season is three months. And for each half of the season, we will introduce a new hero.”

For context, the drop of Season 1 a.k.a. Eternal Night Falls saw the release of Mr. Fantastic and the Invisible Woman as playable characters. Six weeks from that launch, fans are expecting to get the release of the Human Torch and the Thing. “

Despite the vampire theme of the season, the devs decided to release the Fantastic Four instead of Blade, who has already leaked last month. Chen even said, “Our choice of heroes will be guided by the overall gameplay experience or theme that we want to create for each season.” Either Marvel forced the Fantastic Four to be introduced right away to keep synergy with the movie coming in July, or they just wanted to introduce Doctor Doom’s rival Reed Richards early into narrative.

Either way, it does look like NetEase has a wealth of incoming characters to keep their roster stacked for the year. Besides the Four, there have also been leaks for characters like Hit-Monkey, Captain Marvel, MODOK, Angela, Blade, and Emma Frost.

My fingers are still crossed we get confirmation for Gwenpool soon; because you can’t have Jeff without a playable Gwenpool.

Marvel Rivals is now available for Xbox Series X|S, PS5, and PC.

The movie pretty much has an open-ending with a lot of room for a sequel, and it looks like director Fede Alvarez already has a few ideas of where he wants to go. Talking to Empire, Alvarez says, “Rodo [Sayagues, co-writer] and I are working on that right now… We’re excited about where it can go. We’ve almost checked all of the boxes of things that I want to see [in Romulus], and brought back a lot of the things I hadn’t seen in a while. Wherever we go now, we can go into uncharted waters.”

Though we don’t have any story specifics, Alvarez is said to be very much aiming to continue the story of Cailee Spaeny’s new protagonist Rain, who is once again entering cryo-sleep, hoping to reach a more habitable planet by the end of Romulus.

While that’s a very familiar ending for any fan of the Alien franchise, Alvarez does say, “I think it’ll be so exciting to go with characters you know from this movie, to a place in the Alien franchise that we’ve never been before, and to discover things that you’ve never seen before.”

With David’s (Michael Fassbender) arc still being open-ended after Covenant, fans are hoping that Alvarez will use his next film to finally connect the two storylines and merge them into a unified arc that ends with David as the main antagonist.

While the Prometheus films weren’t perfect, David was definitely one of the standout characters, and Fassbender’s portrayal as an android was probably one of his best of all time.

Hopefully Alvarez thought the same.

No release date has been announced for a sequel to Alien: Romulus.