Somehow, it’s three months into 2025, and the year is really getting started. Here are some entertainment news tidbits that dropped in March. (You can check out February’s round-up here)
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- Pokémon Go Sold to Scopely
- Russo Brothers’ Secret Wars Comic Inspirations
- John Wick Experience Now Open in Las Vegas & First-Look Photos
- Andor Season 1 Episodes Available to Watch For Free on YouTube
- Andor Scripts Won’t Release Because of AI Concerns
- Tony Gilroy Is Done with Star Wars After Andor Season 2
- Zach Cregger’s Resident Evil Movie Coming Fall 2026, Lands at Sony
- Robert Pattinson Says He’s Going to Be “A F**cking Old Batman” in The Batman—Part II
- YouTube Offering Less Expensive Premium Tier, YouTube Premium Lite
Pokémon Go (And the Rest of Niantic’s Game Division) Sold to Scopely
For loyal players of online and mobile games, change is always a bit alarming. Ultimately, players have no control over what happens to their favorite games and no way to return to play previous editions of them that they enjoyed. Today, a very large shift occurred to a beloved game. Pokémon Go, alongside “Pikmin Bloom, Monster Hunter Now, and the incredible teams working on these experiences,” has been sold from Niantic to Scopely, share the companies. While all involved promise to retain the spirit of the game, Scopely does have a history of intensely monetizing games, leaving some nervous. On the plus side, Scopely will retain the whole Niantic Games team working on Pokémon Go and other games. Only time will tell what change this will bring.
Russo Brothers Tease Avengers: Secret Wars Comic Book Inspirations
Avengers: Doomsday and Avengers: Secret Warsare on the way. But which Marvel Comics will inspire the new Avengers movies? Will it be the original Secret Wars limited series from 1984? Or Jonathan Hickman’s reboot of the Secret Wars story from 2015? As we might have expected, the answer is both, but, as always, the MCU movie will tell its own tale.
Joe Russo shared, “Well, we always create our own version of the story. So, we use the comics as loose inspiration. But, you know, I grew up on the original run. That’s something that got me into Marvel comic books. The Hickman run is also fantastic [and they’re] very different from each other in a lot of ways, so we’ll draw inspiration from both of them.”
John Wick Experience Now Open in Las Vegas and First-Look Photos Revealed
The John Wick Experience is now officially open in Las Vegas. And you can check out first-look photos of the attraction below.
A release shares about the recently opened John Wick Vegas experience:
Fans can see if they have what it takes to complete a mission in the captivating world of John Wick as part of the JOHN WICK EXPERIENCE, a new immersive attraction at AREA15, the world’s first purpose-built immersive entertainment district located minutes from the Las Vegas Strip. The 12,000-square-foot ticketed attraction includes two themed bars and a retail shop.
The JOHN WICK EXPERIENCE blends more than a dozen highly themed cinematic rooms, live interactions and interactive gameplay to create an immersive journey that transcends reality and challenges wit, skill and nerve. As guests step through the doors of the JOHN WICK EXPERIENCE, they find themselves in the fantastical underworld of John Wick, where they must navigate an all-new, high-stakes adventure.
Each group of guests will be tasked with completing a mission that plays out in unique ways with characters, mythology, and iconography inspired by the Wick universe. Visitors may rub elbows or grab a drink with John Wick Continental Las Vegas staff, assassins, crime bosses, or other curious guests like themselves within the relative safety of the JOHN WICK EXPERIENCE. Guests will be drawn into the culture, trusted with secrets, and invited into private areas of the JOHN WICK EXPERIENCE, promising an authentic and compelling action-packed experience.
Andor Season 1 Episodes Available to Watch For Free on YouTube
If you don’t have Disney+ but want to get caught up on arguably the best Star Wars show ever, Andor, before season two hits. Disney and YouTube have a solution for you, at least partially. Episodes 1-3 of Andor season one are now available to watch free on Disney+’s YouTube. Additionally, all episodes of Andor are now available on Hulu, in case that’s your streaming platform of choice.
Andor Scripts Won’t Release Because of AI Concerns
You can now watch Andor across many different platforms, but don’t expect to get your hands on any scripts. Andor creator Tony Gilroy shares that though he once promised he’d release the Andor scripts, he now will keep them close to his chest due to AI’s sneaky ways. Gilroy notes, “I wanted to do it. We put it together. It’s really cool. I’ve seen it, I loved it. AI is the reason we’re not. In the end, it would be 1,500 pages that came directly off this desk. I mean, terribly sadly, it’s just too much of an X-ray and too easily absorbed. Why help the f***ing robots any more than you can? So, it was an ego thing. It was vanity that makes you want to do it, and the downside is real. So, vanity loses.”
Tony Gilroy Is Done with Star Wars After Andor Season 2
Tony Gilroy has made some giant contributions to the Star Wars world. But will he return to the galaxy far, far away after Andor season 2? It seems like signs point to no. Gilroy revealed, returning to Star Wars is “not really part of my plan.”
He added, “I’ve been peripherally involved for 10 years and intensely involved for six years, so that’s a pretty big chunk of my life. There are other things to do. I think when it’s done, I will have left a pretty big piece of Star Wars real estate behind. I’m not feeling guilty about not chipping in.” Next up for Gilory is a movie he’d like to direct. He shares, “It’s a movie about movie music.”
Zach Cregger’s Resident Evil Movie Coming Fall 2026, Lands at Sony
Zach Cregger’s Resident Evil reboot is heading home to Sony Pictures and producer PlayStation Productions. The Resident Evil cinematic franchise has long been under Sony’s purview, but to keep it, the studio had to participate in quite the bidding war. Nevertheless, Sony prevailed and will bring us the next Resident Evil movie, which is helmed by Barbarian filmmaker Zach Cregger.
The release date for the next Resident Evil movie is September 18, 2026.
Robert Pattinson Says He’s Going to Be “A F**cking Old Batman” in The Batman—Part II
The Batman—Part II has had some delays. Rumor has it that it will begin filming soon(ish), and one person who hopes so is Robert Pattinson. He shares, “I fucking hope so,” when asked if he’ll return to Batman’s world soon, “I started out as young Batman, and I’m going to be fucking old Batman by the sequel. I’m 38, I’m old.” Oop, well, we also love an old Batman.
YouTube Offering Less Expensive Premium Tier, YouTube Premium Lite
Are all the ads on YouTube making you batty? Well, now you can take advantage of the perks of YouTube’s Premium tier, namely an ad-free experience, in a less expensive way. YouTube is now offering YouTube Premium Light. YouTube Premium Lite will cost $7.99 per month vs. $13.99 per month, the cost of premium. That’s a pretty steep reduction. YouTube Premium Lite will make “most videos” on YouTube ad-free for subscribers, including gaming, fashion, news, and beauty videos. Music content and shorts will remain full of ads, however. And YouTube Premium Lite will not allow video downloads or background play. Still, for those wanting less ads in their lives, YouTube Premium Lite seems like a good choice.
Originally published March 1, 2025.