A follow-up TV comedy of “The Office” referred to as “The Paper” and the buddy stay motion comedy “Lilo & Stitch” 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: Mark Ruffalo starring within the new cat-and-mouse thriller “Task,” a sequel to the indie legend online game Hollow Knight arrives and David Byrne releases a brand new album, “Who Is the Sky?”
— “Friendship,” Andrew DeYoung’s auspicious debut function, makes its streaming debut Saturday, Sept. 6 on HBO Max, a day after debuting on HBO. The film tackles trendy masculinity and male loneliness with biting satire and humor, taking detours into horror and the surreal. My evaluation mentioned we see Tim Robinson at his awkward finest and Paul Rudd at his charismatic finest on this quirky have a look at bromances.
— The live-action “Lilo & Stitch,” which in simply 17 days made extra domestically than the live-action “The Little Mermaid” did in its total run, pops up on Disney+ on Wednesday. It’s the story of a 6-year-old lonely Native woman in Hawaii who befriends an alien outcast. In my evaluation, I used to be sad that the unique 2002 animated story had been swamped by bizarre temporal portals, a Jet Ski chase and an overwrought conclusion. Audiences flocked to the film, which is the 12 months’s largest hit with greater than $1 billion earned on the field workplace.
— AP Entertainment Writer Mark Kennedy
— Talking Heads frontman David Byrne is on no account slowing down. On Friday, the 73-year-old idiosyncratic artist will launch a brand new album, “Who Is the Sky?”, a group of avant-garde pop for followers of his band and past. There’s an actual pleasure right here.
— There are glam rock icons after which there may be Marc Bolan, a pioneer of the ’70s motion together with his visionary band T. Rex, a larger-than-life determine now celebrated in a brand new documentary. “AngelHeaded Hipster: The Songs of Marc Bolan & T. Rex” hits streaming on Friday, Sept. 5. Expect uncommon footage and to be overwhelmed by a robust want to buy sequined pants.
— It is that point of 12 months once more: The 2025 MTV Video Music Awards are proper across the nook. The three-hour present will broadcast stay on CBS and accessible to stream on Paramount+ on Sunday, Sept. 7 at 8 p.m. Eastern and 5 p.m. Pacific, stay from the UBS Arena simply outdoors New York City. Lady Gaga leads the nominations, so prepare for some “Mayhem.”
— AP Music Writer Maria Sherman
— “The Office” follow-up referred to as “The Paper” makes its anticipated debut on Peacock this week. On the present, the documentary crew that when filmed the employees of Dunder Mifflin paper firm in Scranton, Penn. has now begun following the employees of a small newspaper in Toledo, Ohio. To their shock, one of many accountants who works on employees is none aside from Oscar Martinez, a crossover character from ‘The Office” performed by Oscar Nunez. Domhnall Gleeson (“The Patient”) and Sabrina Impacciatore (“White Lotus” season 2) additionally star. All 10 episodes drop on Monday.
— Michael Weatherly and Cote de Pablo star in a brand new collection about their “NCIS” characters referred to as, “NCIS: Tony & Ziva,” debuting Monday on Paramount+. The present picks up 10 years after de Pablo left “NCIS” with Tony and Ziva — or Tiva as followers name them — residing in France and co-parenting their daughter. When they turn into the goal of a conspiracy, the previous brokers go on the run. This is the sixth spinoff within the “NCIS” universe and a departure from the procedural format its recognized for. “Tony & Ziva” is extra of a combined bag with motion, drama, romance and comedy.
— Mark Ruffalo and Tom Pelphrey star in a brand new cat-and-mouse thriller for HBO referred to as “Task.” Ruffalo performs an FBI agent in Pennsylvania assigned to guide a process pressure investigating violent robberies. The present is from the creator of the stellar “Mare of Easttown.” It premieres Thursday and streams on Max.
— Alicia Rancilio
— Hollow Knight, a 2D exploration recreation that got here out in 2017, has turn into an indie legend over time, promoting tens of millions of copies and touchdown on loads of best-games-ever lists. Australian studio Team Cherry introduced a sequel in 2019 — and after a protracted gestation interval, Hollow Knight: Silksong has lastly arrived. The essence stays the identical: Making your manner by a lush, vibrant panorama whereas preventing off the bugs and different nuisances that stay there. The protagonist, a princess named Hornet, is extra acrobatic than the unique hero, however the developer is promising extra of the difficult and tightly centered fight followers love. It arrives Thursday on PlayStation 5/4, Xbox X/S/One, Switch and PC.
— The builders at Bandai Namco Studios Singapore are recognized for his or her bruising work on fighters like Tekken and Soul Calibur, however their new recreation takes on a extra delicate artwork: origami. Hirogami stars a grasp of folding named Hiro who can rework into creatures like a hovering hen, a barrier-smashing armadillo and a high-jumping frog. A soundtrack that includes conventional Japanese devices creates a mellow vibe as Hiro defends his paper-crafted 3D world from “deadly digital invaders.” Know when to fold ’em beginning Wednesday on PlayStation 5 and PC.
— Lou Kesten
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