New this week: 'Sex and the City,' Juice Wrld and Will Smith

Here’s a postulation curated by The Associated Press’ amusement journalists of what’s arriving connected TV, streaming services and euphony platforms this week.

MOVIES

— Fresh disconnected his Oscar information Riz Ahmed teams up with “Beast” manager Michael Pearce for "Encounter,” an alien invasion/family play hitting Amazon Prime Video connected Friday. Ahmed plays an ex-Marine with a big of troubles that lone compound erstwhile helium suspects his ex-wife, with whom helium shares 2 sons, whitethorn person been infected by the extra-terrestrials. What starts arsenic a straightforward subject fabrication escapade takes connected its ain beingness arsenic a household play — a prime immoderate mightiness disagree with. And if “Encounter” isn’t for you, Ahmed’s champion actor-nominated show successful “Sound of Metal” is besides inactive disposable connected Prime.

— Sandra Bullock struck viewership golden with “Bird Box” connected Netflix and present is backmost with different precise antithetic project, “The Unforgivable,” astir a pistillate trying to reenter nine aft serving her clip successful situation for a convulsive crime. Bullock plays the ex-convict, who finds that radical aren’t rather acceptable to forgive her portion connected a hunt for her younger sister. Jon Bernthal, Vincent D’Onofrio and Viola Davis are among the starry supporting cast. “The Unforgivable” hits Netflix connected Friday.

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— Or for thing lighter and much household oriented, Netflix besides has the animated “Back to the Outback” besides arriving connected Friday. It’s a lighthearted pic astir a radical of Australia’s “deadliest creatures” looking to flight from a zoo. The starry dependable formed includes Eric Bana arsenic the zookeeper, Isla Fisher arsenic a taipan, Tim Minchin arsenic a koala, Guy Pearce arsenic a funnel web spider and Keith Urban arsenic a cane toad.

— AP Film Writer Lindsey Bahr

MUSIC

— Juice Wrld whitethorn beryllium gone but he's acold from forgotten. The Chicago rapper who died 2 years agone volition person his 2nd posthumous album, “Fighting Demons,” driblet Friday. Its archetypal azygous “Already Dead” debuted successful the Top 10 of Billboard’s Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart. The rapper besides tops Spotify’s 2021 Most Streamed Artists database astatine No. 10 successful the satellite and No. 3 successful the U.S., down lone Drake and Taylor Swift. Juice Wrld’s archetypal posthumous release, “Legends Never Die,” came retired successful July of 2020. And there's much connected him coming: A HBO documentary “Juice Wrld: Into the Abyss” debuts Dec. 16 directed by Tommy Oliver.

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— Alicia Keys doesn't person 1 medium coming retired this winter, she has two. “Keys,” retired Friday, volition beryllium a treble album, with 1 fractional titled “Originals” featuring her singing with a piano, oregon arsenic she posted, “laid backmost soft vibes.” The different half, titled “Unlocked,” volition diagnostic the aforesaid songs but with “upbeat, drums, level up vibes.” All the euphony connected the “Unlocked” information she produced with Mike Will Made-It. Keys premiered “LaLa” — 1 of the songs from the “Unlocked” fractional — astatine the 2021 MTV Video Music Awards successful September.

— AP Entertainment Writer Mark Kennedy

TELEVISION

— ABC’s 1970s and ’80s sitcom nostalgia franchise, “Live successful Front of a Studio Audience,” is backmost with reenactments of “Diff’rent Strokes” and “The Facts of Life” episodes. They’re paired successful a peculiar airing 8 p.m.-9:30 p.m. Tuesday, with star-filled casts that whitethorn bespeak Hollywood’s fondness for the shows oregon a craving for the adrenaline unreserved of signifier work. The reprise of “Diff’rent Strokes” stars John Lithgow, Kevin Hart and Damon Wayans. “The Facts of Life” features Jennifer Aniston, Gabrielle Union, Allison Tolman, Kathryn Hahn and, somehow, Jon Stewart. Ann Dowd appears successful some episodes.

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— Will Smith stars successful a real-life planetary escapade successful “Welcome to Earth,” a six-part constricted bid retired Wednesday connected Disney+. With scientists and explorers astatine his side, the histrion visits earthy wonders including an Icelandic glacier, erupting volcano and a Great Barrier Reef land that holds a peculiar allure for sharks and turtles. Produced by Oscar-nominated filmmaker Darren Aronofsky (“Black Swan”), the National Geographic bid promises a “multisensory” exploration of the planet’s wonders. Smith says helium asked the pros to instrumentality him to the ends of the Earth and was told, “Oh, we tin spell further than that.”

— If a drama sequel for grown-ups is your taste, see HBO Max’s 10-episode “And Just Like That.” It revisits friends Carrie, Miranda and Charlotte of “Sex and the City” arsenic they observe that beingness successful their 50s tin beryllium trickier than young adulthood. Sarah Jessica Parker, Cynthia Nixon and Kristin Davis are backmost arsenic the pals, on with Chris Noth, David Eigenberg and Evan Handler. (Kim Cattrall arsenic Samantha is MIA). Newcomers see Sara Ramirez, Sarita Choudhury and Nicole Ari Parker. The archetypal 2 episodes debut Thursday connected the streaming service.

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— AP Television Writer Lynn Elber

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