Vanessa Kirby starring in a gritty movie in regards to the aspirations of dwelling 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.
Additionally among the many streaming choices value your time, as chosen by The Related Press’ leisure journalists: Alicia Silverstone main a brand new TV crime drama known as “Irish Blood.,” the multigenerational, healthful drama “The Chicken Sisters” rolls out its second season on Hallmark and EA Sports activities jumps aboard the substitute intelligence bandwagon with Madden NFL 26.
New films to stream from Aug. 11-17
— Isaiah Saxon’s “The Legend of Ochi” (streaming Friday on HBO Max) is a handcrafted fantasy throwback searching for to conjure the form of magic as soon as present in films like “The Never Ending Story.” The A24 movie stars Helena Zengel as Yuri, a woman who runs away from the forest dwelling she shared along with her father (Willem Dafoe) and brother (Finn Wolfhard). She leaves with a child Ochi, a creature hunted her father. In her overview, AP Movie Author 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 dwelling 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 night time.
— AP Movie Author Jake Coyle
New music to stream from Aug. 11-17
— Maroon 5 will launch their eighth studio album, “Love is Like,” on Friday by way of Interscope Information. Count on clean, funky pop music — just like the sultry “All Night.” Singer Adam Levine and Co. proceed their pattern of surprising and pleasant collaborations as effectively, with songs that includes Lil Wayne, Sexyy Pink and Blackpink’s LISA. You learn that appropriately.
— Clifford Antone opened Antone’s, some of the storied music venues in Austin, Texas, with an inaugural efficiency by the King of Zydeco, Clifton Chenier in 1975. Within the many years since, Antone’s has develop into the stuff of mythology; a efficiency area that embraces its historical past and appears in the direction of its future. A brand new field set out Friday from New West Information seeks to rejoice Antone’s legacy with “Antone’s: 50 Years of the Blues.”
— AP Music Author Maria Sherman
New sequence to stream from Aug. 11-17
— The multigenerational, healthful drama “The Hen Sisters” rolls out its second season on Hallmark. The sequence stars Schuyler Fisk, Lea Thompson, Wendie Malick and Genevieve Angelson as members of the family in a small city divided over their rival fried rooster companies. It is based mostly on a novel of the identical title. The sequence streams new episodes starting Monday on Hallmark+.
— Alicia Silverstone leads the brand new crime drama known 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 sophisticated — to not point out harmful — she heads to Eire to analyze. The premiere of the six-part present drops Monday on Acorn TV.
— A brand new one for the kiddos is the Disney Jr. sequence “Iron Man and his Awesome Friends,” coming to Disney+. The primary 10 episodes drop Tuesday. The present follows besties and fellow geniuses, Tony Stark, Riri Williams and Amadeus Cho, who workforce as much as resolve issues.
— Chris Hemsworth continues his quest to reside 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 be taught extra about mind energy (with assist from his pal and recording artist Ed Sheeran), danger and ache. The three episodes stream on Hulu and Disney+ starting Friday.
— Alicia Rancilio
New video video games to play from Aug. 11-17
— EA Sports activities is leaping aboard the substitute 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.” Essentially the most intriguing additions are QB DNA and Coach DNA — so, for instance, if you happen to’re taking part in the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs, you’ll see the form of strikes you’d anticipate from Patrick Mahomes and Andy Reid. As at all times, 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 workforce mascots. The quilt mannequin this season is Philadelphia Eagles operating again Saquon Barkley, who’ll be prepared to begin leaping over defenders Thursday on PlayStation 5, Xbox X/S, Change 2 and PC.
— Lou Kesten
