Vanessa Kirby starring in a gritty movie in regards to the aspirations of residence possession, “Night Always Comes,” and Maroon 5 releasing their eighth studio album with songs that includes Lil Wayne and Blackpink’s LISA are a few of the new tv, movies, music and video games headed to a tool close to you.
Also among the many streaming choices price your time, as chosen by The Associated Press’ leisure journalists: Alicia Silverstone main a brand new TV crime drama referred to as “Irish Blood.,” the multigenerational, healthful drama “The Chicken Sisters” rolls out its second season on Hallmark and EA Sports jumps aboard the synthetic intelligence bandwagon with Madden NFL 26.
— Isaiah Saxon’s “The Legend of Ochi” (streaming Friday, Aug. 15 on HBO Max) is a handcrafted fantasy throwback looking for to conjure the type of magic as soon as present in motion pictures like “The Never Ending Story.” The A24 movie stars Helena Zengel as Yuri, a woman who runs away from the forest residence she shared together with her father (Willem Dafoe) and brother (Finn Wolfhard). She leaves with a child Ochi, a creature hunted her father. In her overview, AP Film Writer Lindsey Bahr wrote that “The Legend of Ochi” “has the feeling of a film you might have stumbled on and loved as a kid.”
— Vanessa Kirby could also be one of many standout performers of the summer time blockbuster “The Fantastic Four: First Steps,” however she additionally stars in a gritty new movie in regards to the aspirations of residence possession. In “Night Always Comes” (Thursday on Netflix), Kirby performs a girl going to excessive lengths to safe a house for her household. The film, directed by Benjamin Caron and tailored from Willy Vlautin’s best-selling novel, takes place over a single evening.
— AP Film Writer Jake Coyle
— Maroon 5 will launch their eighth studio album, “Love is Like,” on Friday, Aug. 15, through Interscope Records. Expect easy, funky pop music — just like the sultry “All Night.” Singer Adam Levine and Co. proceed their development of surprising and pleasant collaborations as nicely, with songs that includes Lil Wayne, Sexyy Red and Blackpink’s LISA. You learn that appropriately.
— Clifford Antone opened Antone’s, one of the crucial storied music venues in Austin, Texas, with an inaugural efficiency by the King of Zydeco, Clifton Chenier in 1975. In the many years since, Antone’s has turn into the stuff of mythology; a efficiency area that embraces its historical past and appears in direction of its future. On Friday, a brand new field set from New West Records seeks to rejoice Antone’s legacy with “Antone’s: 50 Years of the Blues.”
— AP Music Writer Maria Sherman
— The multigenerational, healthful drama “The Chicken Sisters” rolls out its second season on Hallmark. The collection stars Schuyler Fisk, Lea Thompson, Wendie Malick and Genevieve Angelson as relations in a small city divided over their rival fried hen companies. It’s based mostly on a novel of the identical identify. The collection streams new episodes starting Monday on Hallmark+.
— Alicia Silverstone leads the brand new crime drama referred to as “Irish Blood.” She performs Fiona, a girl who has been led to consider her father deserted her as a baby — and has carried round some heavy emotional baggage ever since. When she learns the reality is extra difficult — to not point out harmful — she heads to Ireland to research. The premiere of the six-part present drops Monday on Acorn TV.
— A brand new one for the kiddos is the Disney Jr. collection “Iron Man and his Awesome Friends,” coming to Disney+. The first 10 episodes drop Tuesday. The present follows besties and fellow geniuses, Tony Stark, Riri Williams and Amadeus Cho, who group as much as clear up issues.
— Chris Hemsworth continues his quest to dwell a more healthy, extra current, and longer life in a second season of “Limitless,” now called “Limitless: Live Better Now.” The three-part docuseries sees Hemsworth study extra about mind energy (with assist from his good friend and recording artist Ed Sheeran), danger and ache. The three episodes stream on Hulu and Disney+ starting Friday, Aug. 15.
— Alicia Rancilio
— EA Sports is leaping aboard the synthetic intelligence bandwagon with Madden NFL 26, promising “a new AI-powered machine learning system trained by real play calls and game situations over nearly a decade.” The most intriguing additions are QB DNA and Coach DNA — so, for instance, if you happen to’re taking part in the Kansas City Chiefs, you’ll see the type of strikes you’d anticipate from Patrick Mahomes and Andy Reid. As all the time, the objective is to get ever nearer to real-life soccer, with extra dynamic climate results, extra particulars from professional stadiums and the return (ultimately!) of group mascots. The cowl mannequin this season is Philadelphia Eagles working again Saquon Barkley, who’ll be prepared to start out leaping over defenders Thursday on PlayStation 5, Xbox X/S, Switch 2 and PC.
— Lou Kesten
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