The 2024 festive season has come and gone, nevertheless it wasn’t utterly devoid of entertainment-based information. Certainly, the vacations did not cease the world’s largest studios from releasing trailers for new films and TV exhibits, or making different notable bulletins forward of New Yr’s Day.
We lined a few these reveals over the break, with Creature Commandos confirmed to be returning for a second season and Apple TV Plus being free to look at this weekend (January 4 and 5) chief amongst them. There have been a lot extra we did not get to, although, so listed here are six different huge leisure information tales you could have missed in the course of the so-called most fantastic time of the 12 months.
Marvel comes out swinging with Your Pleasant Neighborhood Spider-Man’s first trailer
After a largely profitable 2024, Marvel can be hoping for an additional stellar 12 months in 2025. The comedian big endured a torrid time all through 2023, so the Disney subsidiary may have been delighted with final 12 months’s varied success tales, such because the multi-billion dollar-making Deadpool and Wolverine.
The Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) can be going all-out to duplicate these wins this 12 months, too, beginning with Your Pleasant Neighborhood Spider-Man (YFNSM). An animated Marvel Section 5 collection that’ll debut on Disney Plus on January 29, it reimagines the enduring webslinger’s origins story, subsequent superhero adventures, and the way he marries the latter together with his high-school research. With its fashionable tackle Peter Parker and his wallcrawling alias, plus its comic-like, cel-shaded animation, YFNSM will purpose to get 2025 off to a *ahem* spectacular begin for Marvel.
The Batman Half 2 has been delayed – once more
The primary of two huge DC Comics new tales that broke over the festive season, Batman followers have been left disillusioned by the revelation that The Batman Half 2‘s launch date had been pushed again as soon as extra.
Per Deadline, the highly-anticipated sequel, which was initially delayed from October 2025 to October 2026 simply 10 months in the past, has seen its launch postponed by one other 12 months. It’s going to now land in theaters on October 1, 2027. Defending the delay, DC Studios co-chief James Gunn stated (through Threads) that co-writer and director Matt Reeves wasn’t pleased with the film’s script, therefore the choice to maneuver its launch once more.
Jason Momoa joins the Supergirl: Lady of Tomorrow solid as Lobo
If that Batman information was a supply of disappointment, this Supergirl: Lady of Tomorrow announcement wasn’t. Earlier than 2024 ended, Deadline claimed Jason Momoa had been solid as Lobo within the forthcoming DC Cinematic Universe (DCU) movie, with Gunn and Momoa later confirming Deadline’s report was true on social media.
An immortal mercenary who’s additionally the only survivor of an alien race often called the Czarnian, Lobo would be the second DC character that Momoa has performed. He beforehand performed Aquaman within the now defunct DC Prolonged Universe (DCEU), portraying the Atlantean superhero in two solo films and the DCEU’s Justice League flick. He’ll star reverse Home of the Dragon alumnus Millie Alcock, who’ll play the titular Kryptonian within the DCU Chapter One challenge and Supergirl‘s first big-screen journey for over 40 years.
The Night time Agent season 2 will get an explosive first trailer forward of its January 23 premiere
The Night time Agent season 2 will not be solely one among Netflix’s first huge releases of the 12 months, but in addition one among our most anticipated TV exhibits of 2025. The debuting of its thrilling first trailer over the 2024 vacation season, then, has solely added to our pleasure forward of its January 23 launch.
Launched publicly throughout Netflix‘s NFL on Christmas occasion, one of many finest Netflix exhibits‘ newest teasers places Gabriel Basso’s Peter Sutherland on the coronary heart of one other conspiracy-laced plot. With The Night time Agent‘s first season raking in tens of millions of views, we might be amazed if its sophomore chapter does not do likewise.
Netflix confirms Cobra Kai season 6 half 3 will arrive in mid-February
It is virtually time for the dojo doorways to shut for the final time. The third and last a part of Cobra Kai season 6, which is the hit collection’ last installment, will arrive on Netflix on February 13. Half 3 will comprise the final 5 episodes of not solely this season, but in addition the motion comedy-drama as an entire.
Nonetheless, whereas this’ll mark the tip of The Karate Child‘s pseudo-TV sequel, it is not the tip for everybody concerned within the present. Ralph Macchio is ready to reprise his position as Danny LaRusso within the Karate Child: Legends movie, which arrives in theaters this Could. Cobra Kai‘s showrunners even have concepts for potential spin-offs of the favored present, too. Hey, the saying ‘Cobra Kai By no means Dies!’ is not only for present, you recognize.
Zero Day’s first trailer places Robert de Niro’s ex-US President on the middle of a political conspiracy thriller
Netflix went all-out within the advertising stakes over the Christmas interval. Certainly, as evidenced by the primary trailer for upcoming TV authentic Zero Day, its pre-2025 bulletins weren’t reserved for massively profitable exhibits that we will not wait to return to our screens.
So, what’s Zero Day about? For one, it will star legendary actor Robert de Niro, who makes the leap to the small display for the very first time. He’ll play an ex-US president who’s tasked with unraveling a mass conspiracy within the wake of a devastating cyber assault that threatens the center of American democracy and sociopolitics. With a behind-the-scenes crew comprising veterans from hit collection together with Homeland and Narcos amongst others, Zero Day may very well be one other early 2025 hit for the world’s finest streaming service when it is launched on February 20.