The Recap: Entertainment News for the Week of February 23 to March 1st

Another busy week in the world of entertainment with a host of news across film and gaming. Here’s everything you may have missed.

Final ‘A Minecraft Movie’ Trailer

Welcome to the world of Minecraft, where creativity doesn’t just help you craft, it’s essential to one’s survival! Four misfits—Garrett “The Garbage Man” Garrison (Momoa), Henry (Hansen), Natalie (Myers) and Dawn (Brooks)—find themselves struggling with ordinary problems when they are suddenly pulled through a mysterious portal into the Overworld: a bizarre, cubic wonderland that thrives on imagination. To get back home, they’ll have to master this world (and protect it from evil things like Piglins and Zombies, too) while embarking on a magical quest with an unexpected, expert crafter, Steve (Black). Together, their adventure will challenge all five to be bold and to reconnect with the qualities that make each of them uniquely creative…the very skills they need to thrive back in the real world.

A Minecraft Movie hits theaters on April 4, 2025.

New ‘Death of a Unicorn’ Trailer

Death of a Unicorn hits theaters on March 28, 2025.

First Trailer for ‘The Surfer’ Starring Nicolas Cage

In the psychological thriller directed by Lorcan Finnegan, a man returns to the idyllic beach of his childhood to surf with his son. But his desire to hit the waves is thwarted by a group of locals whose mantra is “don’t live here, don’t surf here.” Humiliated and angry, the man is drawn into a conflict that keeps rising in concert with the punishing heat of the summer and pushes him to his breaking point.

The Surfer hits theaters on May 2, 2025.

NACON Connect Returns

NACON announced their next ‘NACON Connect’ event will stream on March 6th (at 7PM CET/ 10AM PST), where they will show off new games and updates.

First Trailer for Prime Video’s ‘Holland’

In this wildly unpredictable thriller, Nicole Kidman is the meticulous Nancy Vandergroot, a teacher and homemaker whose picture-perfect life with her community pillar husband (Matthew Macfadyen) and son (Jude Hill) in tulip-filled Holland, Michigan tumbles into a twisted tale. Nancy and her friendly colleague (Gael García Bernal) become suspicious of a secret, only to discover nothing in their lives is what it seems.

Holland hits Prime Video on March 27, 2025.

‘Terminator 2D – NO FATE’ Announcement Trailer

Play as Sarah Connor and the T-800 through a variety of thrilling missions as they take on the T-1000 and try to put a stop to Skynet’s plans before the human race is annihilated. Lead the Resistance as John Connor in the future, fighting on the front lines as mankind’s only hope in the War Against the Machines. In this unique story blending iconic scenes from ‘Terminator 2: Judgment Day’ with original scenarios and multiple endings, humanity’s fate is yours to decide.

Terminator 2D: NO FATE hits PlayStation 4|5, Xbox Consoles, Nintendo Switch, and PCs on September 5, 2025.

First Trailer for ‘Another Simple Favor’

Stephanie Smothers (Anna Kendrick) and Emily Nelson (Blake Lively) reunite on the beautiful island of Capri, Italy, for Emily’s extravagant wedding to a rich Italian businessman. Along with the glamorous guests, expect murder and betrayal to RSVP for a wedding with more twists and turns than the road from the Marina Grande to the Capri town square.

Another Simple Favor hits Prime Video on May 1, 2025.

New Star Wars Black Series Figures Revealed

During this week’s Hasbro Pulse Fanstream, the toy company revealed a handful of new Star Wars Black Series figures featuring characters from The Mandalorian Season 3, Andor Season 2, and some gorgeous Revenge of the Sith 20th Anniversary figures.

The ROTS figures, recreating the original packaging will be available pre-order exclusively at Walmart on March 13th at 10 AM ET as part of Walmart Collector Con. They’ll then be on shelves in time for this year’s Star Wars Day (May 4th). Pre-orders for the others go live on March 5th at 1 PM ET and set to arrive this Summer.

First Trailer for ‘Law & Order: Organized Crime’ Season 5

The hit drama series Law & Order: Organized Crime moves to Peacock for its fifth season.

Reprising the role he originated on Law & Order: SVU, Christopher Meloni stars as Det. Elliot Stabler, who returned to New York after a decade abroad to rebuild his life following a devastating personal loss. As lead detective in Sgt. Ayanna Bell’s (Danielle Moné Truitt) Organized Crime Control Bureau, he works to dismantle New York’s most vicious and violent illegal enterprises while fending off dangers that often follow him home.

 

Helping to expose the dark and complex criminal world of their targets are undercover expert Bobby Reyes (Rick Gonzalez) and tech genius Jet Slootmaekers (Ainsley Seiger). While on assignment, Stabler leans on his brother Randall (Dean Norris) to keep the Stabler family safe and thriving.

 

Season five explores the dangerous worlds of cross-border smuggling, high-tech domestic terrorism and a crime family intent on repaying Stabler for the injury he did them in Rome. As his worlds collide, Stabler will put everything on the line to protect the vulnerable and fight for justice.

Law & Order: Organized Crime premieres exclusively on Peacock with two episodes on April 17, 2025.

Jordan Maison
Jordan Maisonhttp://www.reeloutreach.com
Editor-in-Chief: Writer and cartoonist who went to college for post-production, he now applies his love of drawing, movie analysis, filmmaking, video games, and martial arts into writing.

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