The live-action remake of the animated movie “How to Train Your Dragon” and a two-part, five-hour documentary on Billy Joel 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 value your time, as chosen by The Associated Press’ leisure journalists: The long-delayed third album from rapper Roddy Ricch, “The Summer I Turned Pretty” returns for its third and ultimate season and two arcade favorites — Donkey Kong and Pac-Man — get reinvented for avid gamers.
— Movie theaters are crowded sufficient this summer time that one current box-office hit is already coming to houses. Universal Pictures’ “How to Train Your Dragon” hits premium video on demand on Tuesday, simply 31 days after it debuted in cinemas. The live-action remake of the DreamWorks Animation dragon story has surpassed $500 million in international ticket gross sales. In her evaluation, AP Film Writer Lindsey Bahr raved: “Unlike so many live-action remakes of animated films, it also doesn’t feel superfluous, or, worse, like a poor imitation of its predecessor.”
— Billy Joel lately canceled his summer time tour after being identified with a mind dysfunction. But “Piano Man” followers can nonetheless get their Joel repair in “Billy Joel: And So It Goes,” a two-part, five-hour documentary. The first half will arrive on HBO and HBO Max on Friday, July 18, with the second half following on July 25. Directors Susan Lacy and Jessica Levin cowl Joel’s life and profession, with interviews with Joel, his household, his ex-wives and musicians together with Bruce Springsteen and Paul McCartney.
— Petra Costa’s “Apocalypse in the Tropics” (Netflix, Monday) paperwork the rise of the far proper in Brazil. Costa’s follow-up to her Oscar-nominated “The Edge of Democracy” digs into the function of the evangelical motion in bringing former president Jair Bolsonaro to energy. Bolsonaro is at the moment standing trial for an alleged coup try in 2023, a trial that U.S. President Donald Trump has known as a “witch hunt.”
— AP Film Writer Jake Coyle
— Delayed from February, rapper Roddy Ricch returns along with his third album on Friday, July 18, “The Navy Album.” The Compton rapper, who appeared on Kendrick Lamar’s “GNX,” has put out a number of singles from the brand new assortment, together with “Survivor’s Remorse” and “Lonely Road.” The latter options Terrace Martin and was launched with a video of him cruising by the town seeing angels and the lyrics: “Roddy rap like the rent due/Roddy tell ’em the whole truth.”
— Alex Warren’s “Ordinary” has been in all places in 2025; it’s a giant, inoffensive ballad with loosely spiritual themes, meticulously designed to the pull at heartstrings. And it succeeds, due partly to the truth that Warren sings in a faux-British accent. On Friday, July 18, he’ll launch his debut full-length on Atlantic Records, “You’ll Be Alright, Kid.” Expect much more soul and get the tissues prepared.
— Fresh off a sizzling new monitor for the summer time blockbuster “F1” soundtrack, Puerto Rican rapper and singer Myke Towers will launch a brand new album, “ISLAND BOYZ,” on Friday, July 18. It’s simply what the center needs throughout these sizzling months — really feel good reggaeton, city pop and Latin entice.
— AP Music Writer Maria Sherman
— Are you Team Jellyfish or Team Bonrad? If you haven’t any concept what which means, you most likely don’t watch “The Summer I Turned Pretty.” The present returns for its third and ultimate season on Wednesday on Prime Video. It’s a few younger girl named Belly (Lola Tung) who’s torn between two brothers, Jeremiah and Conrad, performed by Gavin Casalegno and Christopher Briney. The collection is predicated on a trilogy of books by Jenny Han.
— In the second season of Prime Video’s “Surf Girls” collection, cameras observe 5 up-and-coming feminine surfers who journey the globe to compete within the Challenger Series. “Surf Girls: International” focuses on each new and returning surfers that have been featured in Season 1. A objective is to highlight ladies in a sport that has typically been skewed by sexism. All 5 episodes drop Thursday. Reese Witherspoon is an government producer.
— In the movies “The Dry” and “Force of Nature: The Dry 2,” Eric Bana performed a federal agent investigating murders in his native Australia. In the brand new Netflix collection “Untamed,” Bana performs a U.S. legislation enforcement officer investigating the mysterious demise of a girl at Yosemite National Park. Sam Neill, Rosemarie DeWitt, and Wilson Bethel additionally star. It premieres Thursday.
— Alicia Rancilio
— For a man who began off as a villain, Donkey Kong has confirmed to be considered one of Nintendo’s most versatile heroes, doing every little thing from driving to enjoying drums to (severely) instructing math. Donkey Kong Bananza focuses on what he does greatest: punching issues. Someone has stolen his bananas, so it’s as much as DK to smash his manner by the Underground World in pursuit of the culprits. It’s the primary 3D journey for the large lug in a very long time, and Nintendo has stated it comes from the identical staff that developed the bestselling Super Mario Odyssey. Start swinging Thursday on Switch 2.
— Another arcade favourite — Pac-Man — returns in Shadow Labyrinth, though writer Bandai Namco has radically altered the pellet-chomper. Here, you play as Swordsman No. 8, an explorer who’s accompanied by a mysterious yellow orb named Puck. As you traverse the 2D alien world, it’s possible you’ll be reminded of a unique basic: 1986’s Metroid. There are some ranges that look extra like Pac-Man mazes, although, and you’ll nonetheless hunt and be hunted by ghosts — which are actually known as “G-Hosts.” It’s a bizarre and edgy method to the legend, and it arrives Thursday on PlayStation 5, Xbox X/S, Switch and PC.
— Lou Kesten
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