“Moana 2,” the third-biggest film box-office hit of 2024, and Amanda Seyfried taking part in a Philadelphia patrol officer combating rampant opioid habit in Peacock’s “Long Bright River” are among 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: An extended-lost documentary resurfaces on Tom Petty, comic John Mulaney launches a dwell weekly celeb discuss present on Netflix and a six-part collection known as “Confessions of Octomom” seems to be again on the turbulent lifetime of single mother Nadya Suleman.
– “Moana 2” was almost a streaming collection. Instead, it arrives Wednesday on Disney+ after greater than $1 billion in worldwide ticket gross sales. The film, the third-biggest box-office hit of 2024, is ready three years after the 2016 authentic. Moana (Auli’i Cravalho) once more units sail from her residence island, this time in quest of a wider neighborhood of Pacific Islanders. Dwayne Johnson, because the voice of Maui, can also be again. In my evaluate, I wrote that “the warm Polynesian spirit and open-sea sense of adventure is back in ‘Moana 2,’ but little of the original’s humor or catchy songs finds its way into this heartfelt but lackluster sequel.”
— Directors Anthony and Joe Russo (“Avengers: Endgame”) are again on Netflix with their adaptation of Simon Stalenhag’s 2018 illustrated novel “The Electric State.” The Russos, who final launched 2022’s “The Gray Man” on the streaming service, carry their big-budget flare to a retro-futuristic story populated by cartoon-like robots. Millie Bobby Brown stars as a youngster in quest of her long-lost brother, who travels the American southwest with Keats (Chris Pratt) and his robotic sidekick, Herman (voiced by Anthony Mackie).
– Payal Kapadia’s luminous “All We Imagine as Light” begins streaming on the Criterion Channel. The movie, one of the vital acclaimed of 2024, is about three Mumbai hospital staff — performed by Kani Kusruti, Divya Prabha and Chhaya Kadam — who’re every grappling with totally different constrictions in fashionable Mumbai. When they journey to a seaside city, “All We Imagine as Light” transforms right into a radiant, illusary creativeness of the lives they might have. In her evaluate, AP Film Writer Lindsey Bahr wrote, “Like a dream, this is a film that washes over you.”
— AP Film Writer Jake Coyle
— In 2022, the Ok-pop lady group LE SSERAFIM emerged fully-formed: An formidable Gen Z quintet whose hooks who helped usher in a brand new wave of such teams. It was their single “ANTIFRAGILE” that appeared to recommend a brand new sound was being popularized: They pulled from reggaetón filtered by means of Rosalía as a lot as they did the tentpoles of a lot Ok-pop: stacked melodies, R&B, hip-hop, EDM. On Friday, they’ll launch a brand new EP, “HOT,” its title-track promising additional mixtures of “rock and disco elements, revolving around love,” their company Source Music mentioned in an announcement. It’s sufficient to get enthusiastic about.
— In February 1983, “Tom Petty: Heartbreakers Beach Party” aired simply as soon as on MTV — a long-lost documentary that doubles as Cameron Crowe’s true directorial debut. It follows Petty and his Heartbreakers round their 1982 “Long After Dark” album. The movie has been discovered and remastered, and on Tuesday, will premiere on Paramount+.
— AP Music Writer Maria Sherman— In 2009, the world was launched to Nadya Suleman, a single mother of six who gave delivery to eight residing youngsters at one time by way of in vitro fertilization. The public fascination into this girl dubbed Octomom shortly grew to become vicious and judgmental. Suleman had no job and relied on authorities help, so she was declared irresponsible and unfit to boost 14 youngsters. She did capitalize on the eye with a e book deal, tabloid offers and paid TV appearances however inside a couple of years she’d declared chapter, turned to pornography to earn cash and was accused of welfare fraud by the state of California. A brand new six-part collection known as “Confessions of Octomom” seems to be again at that turbulent time and the way Suleman and her 14 youngsters made it by means of. It debuts Wednesday on Lifetime and streams on Hulu dwell.
— Comedian John Mulaney launches a dwell weekly celeb discuss present on Netflix known as “Everybody’s Live with John Mulaney” on Wednesday. It’s a follow-up to “John Mulaney Presents: Everybody’s in LA” a dwell nightly present throughout final yr’s Netflix is a Joke comedy pageant. Richard Kind returns because the sidekick. At a press occasion earlier this yr to advertise Netflix’s 2025 programming, Maloney promised, “We will never be relevant. We will never be your source of news. We will always be reckless.”
— Amanda Seyfried, who received an Emmy Award in 2022 for portraying former Silicon Valley It Girl, Elizabeth Holmes, stars in a brand new thriller collection for Peacock. In “Long Bright River,” Seyfried performs Mickey, a Philadelphia patrol officer in a neighborhood affected by rampant opioid habit. Mickey turns into decided to resolve a collection of murders when her sister, who can also be an addict, goes lacking. It’s primarily based on a novel by Liz Moore. The eight-episode collection launches Thursday.
— A unique restricted collection for Apple TV+ known as “Dope Thief” can also be set in Philadelphia in opposition to the world of medication. Brian Tyree Henry and Wagner Moura star as two longtime pals who pose as DEA brokers and conduct faux raids to take possession of different individuals’s medication and cash. It’s a collection of simple scores till the 2 males goal the incorrect individuals. “Dope Thief,” produced by Ridley Scott, begins streaming Friday, March 14.
— Alicia Rancilio
— Video video games like to make you’re feeling like a hero, however what occurs to warriors who fail? Alta, the protagonist of Wanderstop, takes a job managing a quiet tea store in a magical forest. That sounds just like the setup for a calming, “cozy” recreation like Animal Crossing or Stardew Valley — however be warned, one in every of its creators is Davey Wreden, the mastermind behind 2013’s The Stanley Parable. That cult traditional is among the most devious brain-twisters ever, so who is aware of what Wreden and his colleagues at Ivy Road have up their sleeves for his or her indie studio’s debut launch? Judging from the trailer, Alta might have extra on her thoughts than creating the right cup. Find out what’s brewing Tuesday on PlayStation 5, Xbox X/S and PC.
— Lou Kesten
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