With new movie trailers and gaming updates, this week brought plenty to try and keep up with from the entertainment world. Let’s recp what you may have missed!
Final Trailer for the Y2K Movie
Kyle Mooney’s Y2K got a final trailer this week, showing off even more hilarious alternate reality fun.
On the last night of 1999, two high school juniors crash a New Years Eve party, only to find themselves fighting for their lives in this dial-up disaster comedy.
Y2K hits theaters on December 6, 2024.
First Trailer for Nutcrackers
Ben Stiller is back in the family comedy business in the first trailer for Nutcrackers, which hits Hulu on November 29, 2024.
Just as Mike (Stiller) is on the heels of closing the biggest deal of his career, he’s pulled away from his bachelor life in the big city to a farm in rural Ohio in order to take care of his recently orphaned nephews. The four rowdy boys cause trouble every which way they turn. What Mike thought was going to be a quick trip turns into an unexpected adventure. As the holidays approach, he discovers the big hearts behind the boys’ mischief. This forces him to decide between his career and being the uncle his nephews need him to be.
Monster Hunter Outlanders Revealed
TiMi and Capcom revealed a new Monster Hunter game this week designed entirely for mobile devices.
Monster Hunter Outlanders is a new, fully featured game from the iconic series, developed together by leading mobile game maker, TiMi Studio Group of Tencent Games and Capcom, the creator of this action role-playing game series that pits players against giant monsters in beautiful natural environments.
Originally released in 2004, Monster Hunter popularized giant monster co-op hunting and has grown into a big hit with players worldwide. Apart from other mobile games in the Monster Hunter series, Monster Hunter Outlanders is an Open-World Survival game set in the Monster Hunter universe.
Explore and survive unique regions of an open-world map featuring natural environments, ecosystems and monsters
Craft and build individualized gear and tools
Partake in the traditional hunting experience where you can play solo or join a hunting party of up to four
By combining these three elements, we aim to create a mobile game that allows players to enjoy the Monster Hunter experience with friends, anytime and anywhere.
No official release date has been set just yet for Monster Hunter Outlanders.
The Boy & The Octopus Released
This week brought a heartwarming new holiday short film from Disney and Taika Waititi that you can watch in its entirety right now (above).
“The story manages to connect the feelings that you get around the holidays, and the joy, the goodwill and everything, with those same emotions and those same sensibilities you get from Disney films,” said Taika Waititi. “I think they go hand in hand and it’s the perfect match – and only Disney could have made something like this…with me.”
“For generations, Disney has been an ever-present part of the holiday season all over the world, and this short builds on the enduring connection that so many families have with Disney during this special time of year,” said Asad Ayaz, Chief Brand Officer, The Walt Disney Company. “We’re thrilled to collaborate with Taika Waititi on this timeless story of childhood friendship against the backdrop of this magical season.”
First Trailer for The Amateur
This week brought Espionage/Thriller fans their first look at 20th Century Studios’ The Amateur.
Charlie Heller (Malek) is a brilliant, but deeply introverted decoder for the CIA working out of a basement office at headquarters in Langley whose life is turned upside down when his wife is killed in a London terrorist attack. When his supervisors refuse to take action, he takes matters into his own hands, embarking on a dangerous trek across the globe to track down those responsible, his intelligence serving as the ultimate weapon for eluding his pursuers and achieving his revenge. The film also stars Rachel Brosnahan, Caitríona Balfe, Jon Bernthal, Michael Stuhlbarg, Holt McCallany, Julianne Nicholson, Adrian Martinez, Danny Sapani, and Laurence Fishburne.
The Amateur hits theaters on April 11, 2025.
New Star Wars Two-Pack Toys Revealed
Hasbro kicked off their “Gift the Galaxy” campaign this week, where they’ll be revealing new Star Wars toys every Tuesday through December 17th. This week, they revealed a pair of new Black Series Two-Packs: Clone Commando & B1 Battle Droid (Training) and Dagan Gera & BX Droid (Hybrid).
Set to launch in the Spring and Summer of next year, both of these are Amazon exclusives that are currently up for pre-order!
New Clip for An Almost Christmas Story
This week, Disney+ revealed a clip for David Lowery’s upcoming holiday short, An Almost Christmas Story.
See Moon at the top of the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree in a new clip from Disney Branded Television’s “An Almost Christmas Story.” Directed by David Lowery and produced by five-time Academy Award® winner Alfonso Cuarón, this animated short is the third and final installment in Cuarón’s holiday shorts collection for Disney+. It is available beginning Friday, Nov. 15 on Disney+.
Inspired by the true events of a tiny owl rescued from the New York City’s Rockefeller Center Christmas tree in 2020, the new clip features Moon, a curious young owl who unexpectedly finds himself stuck in a Christmas tree destined for Rockefeller Plaza. He befriends a lost little girl named Luna and together they embark on a heartwarming adventure to find their way back home.
An Almost Christmas Story is available right now on Disney+.
Disney+ Offers a Look into 2025
This week, Disney+ dropped a new video to show off the various shows they have coming up in 2025. The two-minute trailer gave us our first official footage for Andor season two, a big look at Alien: Earth, and a whole lot more. The full list of titles includes:
FX’s Alien: Earth
FX’s The Bear (Season 4)
Andor (Season 2) (streaming April 22, 2025)
Chad Powers
Marvel Television’s Daredevil: Born Again (streaming March 4, 2025)
Good American Family
Goosebumps: The Vanishing (streaming January 10, 2025 on Disney+ and Hulu)
Marvel Television’s Ironheart (streaming June 24, 2025)
Paradise
Percy Jackson and the Olympians (Season 2)
Star Wars: Skeleton Crew (streaming December 3, 2024)
The Handmaid’s Tale (Season 6)
Mythic Quest Season 4 Gets a Premiere Date
Apple TV+ revealed when their comedy series, Mythic Quest, will return for it’s fourth season this week. The season kicks off with a two-episode premiere on January 29th, followed by new episodes weekly through March 26th!
Season four of “Mythic Quest” brings stars Rob McElhenney, Charlotte Nicdao, David Hornsby, Danny Pudi, Ashly Burch, Imani Hakim, Jessie Ennis and Naomi Ekperigin under the same fluorescent office lights as the reunited team at Mythic Quest confronts new challenges amongst a changing video game landscape as stars rise, egos clash, relationships bloom, and everyone tries to have a little more work work life balance.
Plus, as the upcoming fourth season of “Mythic Quest” reaches its finale, the much-anticipated anthology series, titled “Side Quest” (FKA “Mere Mortals”), will make its global debut on March 26 with all four episodes. An expansion of the “Mythic Quest” universe, “Side Quest” explores the lives of employees, players, and fans who are impacted by the game in an anthology format. The series stars Rob McElhenney, Anna Konkle, Derek Waters, William Stanford Davis, Bria Henderson, Rome Flynn, Leonard Robinson, Gary Kraus, Annamarie Kasper, Esai Morales, Shalta Grant and many more in the leading roles across each installment.
First Trailer for Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy
Renée Zellweger returns as Bridget Jones in an all new movie coming to Peacock. This week brought our first look at Mad About The Boy, and all the returning characters.
Two-time Academy Award® winner Renée Zellweger returns to the role that established a romantic-comedy heroine for the ages, a woman whose inimitable approach to life and love redefined an entire film genre.
Bridget Jones first blasted onto bookshelves in Helen Fielding’s literary phenomenon Bridget Jones’s Diary, which became a global bestseller and a blockbuster film. As a single career woman living in London, Bridget Jones not only introduced the world to her romantic adventures, but added “Singletons,” “Smug-Marrieds” and “f—wittage” into the global lexicon. Bridget’s ability to triumph despite adversity led her to finally marry top lawyer Mark Darcy and to become the mother of their baby boy. Happiness at last.
But in Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy, Bridget is alone once again, widowed four years ago, when Mark (Oscar® winner Colin Firth) was killed on a humanitarian mission in the Sudan. She’s now a single mother to 9-year-old Billy and 4-year-old Mabel, and is stuck in a state of emotional limbo, raising her children with help from her loyal friends and even her former lover, Daniel Cleaver (Hugh Grant).
Pressured by her Urban Family —Shazzer, Jude and Tom, her work colleague Miranda, her mother, and her gynecologist Dr. Rawlings (Oscar® winner Emma Thompson) — to forge a new path toward life and love, Bridget goes back to work and even tries out the dating apps, where she’s soon pursued by a dreamy and enthusiastic younger man (White Lotus’s Leo Woodall). Now juggling work, home and romance, Bridget grapples with the judgment of the perfect mums at school, worries about Billy as he struggles with the absence of his father, and engages in a series of awkward interactions with her son’s rational-to-a-fault science teacher (Oscar® nominee Chiwetel Ejiofor). The returning cast includes Oscar® winner Jim Broadbent and BAFTA winner Gemma Jones as Bridget’s parents and, as a new character, Isla Fisher (Now You See Me, The Great Gatsby) as Rebecca, Bridget’s neighbor.
Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy hits Peacock (exclusively in the US) starting February 13, 2025.
Willow Comes to 4K Ultra HD
The classic fantasy movie, Willow (not the Disney+ sequel series that has been disappeared), is finally coming to 4K Ultra HD this December, thanks to a swanky looking new steelbook release!
From legendary filmmakers George Lucas and Ron Howard comes Willow, a timeless fantasy tale where heroes come in all sizes. When Willow Ufgood (Warwick Davis) finds an abandoned baby girl, he learns she is destined to end the reign of wicked Queen Bavmorda. Willow teams up with a rogue swordsman (Val Kilmer) to protect the child against the darkness. It’s the ultimate story of good versus evil — with magic and danger.
Willow launches on 4K Ultra HD on December 10, 2024.
Ghostface Gameplay in Mortal Kombat 1: Khaos Reigns
Warner Bros. Games revealed a new Mortal Kombat 1: Khaos Reigns trailer this week, spotlighting the arrival of Scream’s Ghostface to the roster of fighters later this month.
In Mortal Kombat 1, panic has seized the realms as its citizens fear for who might be Ghostface’s next victim. The many killers who have worn the Ghostface mask all share a horrifying trait: they take joy in inflicting pain and taking lives. Armed with a menacing knife, an encyclopedic knowledge of horror films, and a psychopathic compulsion to torture, Ghostface has become an infamous symbol of terror.
Ghostface’s terrifying moveset is on full display in the new trailer, featuring the signature hunting knife to inflict pain on opponents, crawling skills for sneaky ground level attacks, and the ability to phone in a fellow Ghostface partner to help finish off victims.
Ghostface hits the MK1 roster on November 19th for Khaos Reigns expansion owners, but available for purchase on November 26th for everyone else.
Which movie or gaming news from this week were you most excited about?
