Though it probably wasn’t the case in reality, it seems like the Easter break dialed back the pop culture news. The past week has been a relatively quiet period of announcements, all things considered. However, a few film, series and gaming stories jumped out for us. You’ll find those below.
Series
It’s been a while (Season 1 debuted back in 2022) but Alfred Gough and Miles Millar’s Addams Family spin-off Wednesday, produced and partially directed by Tim Burton, returns to Netflix during the tail end of the Northern Hemisphere Summer. On-set pics and other pre-hype material have been drip-fed to the public for months, but now there’s an official teaser trailer too.
Jenna Ortega once more plays the stoic teenage daughter of Gomez (Luis Guzmán) and Morticia Addams (Catherine Zeta-Jones), who decides to return to Nevermore Academy, now with her younger brother Pugsley in tow. Though it would be safer for Wednesday to stay away from the outcast-filled boarding school, she has unfinished business in the form of deadly mysteries surrounding the school and nearby town of Jericho, Vermont. Some notable faces joining the cast this time around are Joanna Lumley, Steve Buscemi, Billie Piper and Thandiwe Newton.
Wednesday Season 2 will be releasing in two episode batches: Part 1 on 6 August, and Part 2 a month later on 3 September. Each Part will consist of four episodes for an eight episode S2 total. If there’s anything else you’d like to know about the series, you can likely find it here.
As a sidenote, Netflix has just dropped the full trailer for Love Death + Robots Vol. 4, following the teaser just a fortnight ago. Ten new episodes of the animated sci-fi anthology series arrive on the streamer from 15 May.
Film
After 2022’s straight-to-streaming Prey, and the trailer for upcoming animated movie Predator: Killer of Killers, audiences were no doubt keyed to believe that the next entry in the Predator film franchise was going to be another case of historical horror. Even the announced title of Predator: Badlands suggested that a human frontiersperson would face an alien out West in the 1800s.
As it turns out, Predator: Badlands is nothing like that. In fact, it’s futuristic off-world science fiction. Prey’s director Dan Trachtenberg oversees this tale of an outcast young Predator (Dimitrius Schuster-Koloamatangi) who joins forces with a young human (Elle Fanning) in his quest to defeat the ultimate adversary on a distant, especially deadly planet.
Predator: Badlands comes to cinemas, including IMAX, from 7 November.
It’s not just Final Destination following Scream’s lead. I Know What You Did Last Summer is getting in on the 90s Teen Slasher revival too. The nightmare kicks off when a new group of young adult friends cause a deadly car accident and cover it up. One year later, their actions come back to haunt them in the form of a brutal, revenge-minded killer. To survive the deadly stalking, they turn to the two survivors of a similar massacre in 1997 (played by original stars Freddie Prinze Jr. and Jennifer Love Hewitt) for help.
I Know What You Did Last Summer is back in cinemas on 18 July.
In one other small piece of movie news, Sydney Sweeney’s name has been attached to two blockbuster projects over the past week… and both of them are video game adaptations (thanks A Minecraft Movie!). The first, surprisingly, is based on a largely forgotten arcade racing game from the 80s, OutRun, with Michael Bay directing and producing; while the second draws on this year’s hot property co-op adventure Split Fiction, for Crazy Rich Asians and Wicked director John M. Chu.
Gaming
If you thought Assassin’s Creed Shadows was the only time in 2025 you’d be hunting down cruel masked figures in Feudal Japan, you’d be wrong.
Out exclusively on PlayStation 5 come 2 October is Ghost of Yōtei, the spiritual successor to Sucker Punch Productions’ Ghost of Tsushima. Set 300 years after the original game, and moving the action to Ezo (the modern day northern landmass of Hokkaido), Yōtei centres on lone mercenary Atsu, who is hunting the outlaws who killed her family 16 years earlier, and left her for dead.
Here on the PlayStation blog, where the story trailer and release date were first unveiled, you can learn more about the game and its various physical and digital editions, plus pre-order bonuses.
Xbox wasn’t being left out of the action this week either. After rumours and reported leaks, Bethesda finally officially unveiled their remake of 2006 role-playing game The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, and paired it with an immediate release. Featuring a high fantasy setting, Oblivion Remastered drops players into the vast open world of Cyrodiil, and charges them with stopping the forces of hell realm Oblivion from overtaking the land. Here’s an extended look at how the game has been overhauled, both in terms of visuals, gameplay systems and general quality of life improvements.
The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered is available now on Xbox Series X|S, Game Pass, PlayStation 5 and PC.