“Moana 2”, “John Mulaney”, “Confessions of OctoMom”, “Amanda Seyfried and” Dope Thief “

Moana (Auli’i Cravalho’s voice) receives an unexpected call from her ancestors from Wayfinding from “Moana 2”, available to be transmitted on Disney+ starting Wednesday, March 12.
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“Moana 2”, the third largest box-office film in 2024, and Amanda Seyfried, playing a Patrule officer in Philadelphia who struggles with an Opioid Rampant addiction in “Long Bright River” by Peacock are some of the new TVs, movies and games. aimed at a device next to you.

Also among the streaming offers, you deserve your time, as selected by Associated Press’ Entertainment journalists: A long-lasting documentary reappear on Tom Petty, the comedian John Mulaney launches a weekly talk show on Netflix and a series of six-part, called “Confessions of OctoMom”, looks back at the turbulent life of the single mother Nady Suleman.

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• “Moana 2” was almost a series of streaming. Instead, it arrives on Disney+ on Wednesday after over $ 1 billion in worldwide ticket sales. The film, the third largest box-office hit in 2024, is established three years after the original in 2016. Moana (Auli’i Cravalho) puts again by sailing from the island of origin, this time in search of a larger community of islands in the Pacific. Dwayne Johnson, like Maui’s voice, came back. In my review, I wrote that “the warm Polynesian spirit and the feeling of adventure open by the sea is again in” Moana 2 “, but little of the humor of the original or attractive songs finds its way in this continuation, but unpleasant.”

Michelle (Millie Bobby Brown), Keats (Chris Pratt) and Dr. Amherst (Ke Huy Quan) work together in “The Electric State”.
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• Directories Anthony and Joe Russo (“Avengers: Endgame”) are again on Netflix with their adaptation to Simon Stalenhag’s illustrated novel “Electrical state”. Russos, who last released 2022 “The Gray Man” On the streaming service, bring them the flame with a large budget in a retro-phuturistic story populated by cartoon robots. Millie Bobby Brown plays the role of the teenager in search of her long-lost brother, traveling the American southwest with Keats (Chris Pratt) and his robot coter (expressed by Anthony Mackie).

• Payal Kapadia Luminous “Everything we imagine as light” Streaming begins on the criterion channel. The film, one of the most appreciated in 2024There are about three workers of the Mumbai hospital – played by Kani Kusruti, Divya Pujha and Chhaya Kadam – who face each different constriction in Mumbai Modern. When I travel to a city on the coast, “everything we imagine as light” turns into a radiant and illusory imagination of the life they could have. In her reviewThe AP film writer, Lindsey Bahr, wrote: “Like a Dream, this is a movie that washes you.”

– AP Jake Coyle movie writer

Music

• In 2022, K-Pop Girl Group They sserafim It appeared completely formed: an ambitious quintet of Z whose hooks that helped in a new wave of such groups. Their only “antifragil” seemed to suggest that a new sound was popularized: they fired from Reggaeton filtered through Rosalía As much as Tentpole much K-Pop: stacked songs, R&B, hip-hop, EDM. On Friday, they will launch a new EP, “Hot”, its title route that promises additional combinations of “rock and disco elements, which revolve around love,” their source of music in a statement said. It’s enough to get excited.

• In February 1983, “Tom Petty: Heartbreakers Beach Party” broadcast once on MTV a Documentary Lost long time that doubles as Cameron Crowe True directorial debut. Petty and Heartbreakers follow around their 1982 album “Long after dark”. The film was found and remisted, and on Tuesday it will premiere on Paramount+.

– Music writer AP Maria Sherman

The “Dope Thief”, the “Electric State” and “Long Bright River” start running this week.
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• In 2009 the world was introduced into Nadya Suleman, A single mother from six who gave birth to eight living children at one point through in a vitro fertilization. The public fascination with this nickname woman Octomom became quickly vicious and judged. Suleman had no job and was based on government assistance, so he was declared irresponsible and improper to raise 14 children. She used attention with a book agreement, tabloid offers and paid TV appearances, but in a few years she said bankruptcy, turned to pornography to earn money and was accused of well -being by California. A new six -party series has been called “Confessions of Octomom” She looked back at that turbulent time and as Suleman passed and her 14 children. Wednesday starts on life and flows on the live hulu.

• comedian John Mulaney Launches a weekly celebrity show live on Netflix, called “Everyone lives with John Mulaney” Wednesday. It is a pursuit of “John Mulaney Presents: Everybody’s in La”, a live night show during the past year, Netflix is ​​a joke comedy festival. Richard Kind returns like Sidekick. At a press event earlier this year to promote 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 won an Emmy prize in 2022 for the portrait of former Silicon Valley It Girl, Elizabeth Holmes, Stars in a new series of thriller for Peacock. In “The bright long river” Seyfried plays Mickey, a Philadelphia patrol officer in a neighborhood affected by opioid addiction. Mickey becomes determined to solve a series of crimes when her sister, who is also an addict, is missing. It is based on a novel by Liz Moore. The eight episode series is launched on Thursday.

• A different limited series for Apple TV+ called “Thief Dope” It is also established in Philadelphia against the world of drugs. Brian Tyree Henry And Wagner Moura plays the role of two friends for a long time, who poses as DEA agents and performs fake raids to get in the possession of drugs and money. It is a series of light scores until the two men target the wrong people. “Thief Dope”, produced by Ridley Scott, begins to slip on Friday, March 14th.

– Alicia Rancilio

Video games

• Video games love to make you feel like a hero, but what happens to the warriors who fail? Another, the protagonist WanderstopHe takes a job managing a quiet tea shop in a magical forest. This sounds like configuring a relaxing, “comfortable” game, such as Animal Crossing or Stardew Valley – but be warned, one of its creators is Davey Wreden, the principal behind the 2013 Stanley. For the debut launch of the Indie studio? Judging by the trailer, another can have more in her mind than creating the perfect cup. Find out what is produced on Tuesday on PlayStation 5, Xbox X/S and PC.

– Lou Kesten