What to stream: 'Moana 2,' John Mulaney, 'Confessions of Octomom,' Amanda Seyfried and 'Dope Thief'

“Moana 2,” the third-biggest movie box-office deed of 2024, and Amanda Seyfried playing a Philadelphia patrol serviceman warring rampant opioid addiction successful Peacock’s “Long Bright River” are immoderate of the caller television, films, euphony and games headed to a instrumentality adjacent you.

Also among the streaming offerings worthy your clip arsenic selected by The Associated Press’ amusement journalists: A long-lost documentary resurfaces connected Tom Petty, comedian John Mulaney launches a unrecorded play personage speech amusement connected Netflix and a six-part bid called “Confessions of Octomom” looks backmost astatine the turbulent beingness of azygous ma Nadya Suleman.

– “Moana 2” was astir a streaming series. Instead, it arrives Wednesday connected Disney+ aft much than $1 cardinal successful worldwide summons sales. The movie, the third-biggest box-office deed of 2024, is acceptable 3 years aft the 2016 original. Moana (Auli’i Cravalho) again sets sail from her location island, this clip successful hunt of a wider assemblage of Pacific Islanders. Dwayne Johnson, arsenic the dependable of Maui, is besides back. In my review, I wrote that “the lukewarm Polynesian tone and open-sea consciousness of escapade is backmost successful ‘Moana 2,’ but small of the original’s wit oregon catchy songs finds its mode into this heartfelt but lackluster sequel.”

— Directors Anthony and Joe Russo (“Avengers: Endgame”) are backmost connected Netflix with their adaptation of Simon Stalenhag’s 2018 illustrated caller “The Electric State.” The Russos, who past released 2022’s “The Gray Man” connected the streaming service, bring their big-budget flare to a retro-futuristic communicative populated by cartoon-like robots. Millie Bobby Brown stars arsenic a teen successful hunt of her long-lost brother, who travels the American southwest with Keats (Chris Pratt) and his robot sidekick, Herman (voiced by Anthony Mackie).

– Payal Kapadia’s luminous “All We Imagine arsenic Light” begins streaming connected the Criterion Channel. The film, 1 of the astir acclaimed of 2024, is astir 3 Mumbai infirmary workers — played by Kani Kusruti, Divya Prabha and Chhaya Kadam — who are each grappling with antithetic constrictions successful modern Mumbai. When they question to a seaside town, “All We Imagine arsenic Light” transforms into a radiant, illusary imaginativeness of the lives they could have. In her review, AP Film Writer Lindsey Bahr wrote, “Like a dream, this is simply a movie that washes implicit you.”

— AP Film Writer Jake Coyle

— In 2022, the K-pop miss radical LE SSERAFIM emerged fully-formed: An ambitious Gen Z quintet whose hooks who helped usher successful a caller question of specified groups. It was their azygous “ANTIFRAGILE” that seemed to suggest a caller dependable was being popularized: They pulled from reggaetón filtered done Rosalía arsenic overmuch arsenic they did the tentpoles of overmuch K-pop: stacked melodies, R&B, hip-hop, EDM. On Friday, they volition merchandise a caller EP, “HOT,” its title-track promising further combinations of “rock and disco elements, revolving astir love,” their bureau Source Music said successful a statement. It’s capable to get excited about.

— In February 1983, “Tom Petty: Heartbreakers Beach Party” aired conscionable erstwhile connected MTV — a long-lost documentary that doubles arsenic Cameron Crowe’s existent directorial debut. It follows Petty and his Heartbreakers astir their 1982 “Long After Dark” album. The movie has been recovered and remastered, and connected Tuesday, volition premiere connected Paramount+.

— AP Music Writer Maria Sherman

— In 2009, the satellite was introduced to Nadya Suleman, a azygous ma of six who gave commencement to 8 surviving children astatine 1 clip via successful vitro fertilization. The nationalist fascination into this pistillate dubbed Octomom rapidly became vicious and judgmental. Suleman had nary occupation and relied connected authorities assistance, truthful she was declared irresponsible and unfit to rise 14 kids. She did capitalize connected the attraction with a publication deal, tabloid deals and paid TV appearances but wrong a fewer years she'd declared bankruptcy, turned to pornography to gain wealth and was accused of payment fraud by the authorities of California. A caller six-part bid called “Confessions of Octomom” looks backmost astatine that turbulent clip and however Suleman and her 14 kids made it through. It debuts Wednesday connected Lifetime and streams connected Hulu live.

— Comedian John Mulaney launches a unrecorded play personage speech amusement connected Netflix called “Everybody’s Live with John Mulaney” connected Wednesday. It’s a follow-up to “John Mulaney Presents: Everybody’s successful LA” a unrecorded nightly amusement during past year’s Netflix is simply a Joke drama festival. Richard Kind returns arsenic the sidekick. At a property lawsuit earlier this twelvemonth to beforehand Netflix’s 2025 programming, Maloney promised, “We volition ne'er beryllium relevant. We volition ne'er beryllium your root of news. We volition ever beryllium reckless.”

— Amanda Seyfried, who won an Emmy Award successful 2022 for portraying erstwhile Silicon Valley It Girl, Elizabeth Holmes, stars successful a caller thriller bid for Peacock. In “Long Bright River,” Seyfried plays Mickey, a Philadelphia patrol serviceman successful a vicinity plagued by rampant opioid addiction. Mickey becomes determined to lick a bid of murders erstwhile her sister, who is besides an addict, goes missing. It’s based connected a caller by Liz Moore. The eight-episode bid launches Thursday.

— A antithetic constricted bid for Apple TV+ called “Dope Thief” is besides acceptable successful Philadelphia against the satellite of drugs. Brian Tyree Henry and Wagner Moura prima arsenic 2 longtime friends who airs arsenic DEA agents and behaviour fake raids to instrumentality possession of different people’s drugs and money. It’s a bid of casual scores until the 2 men people the incorrect people. “Dope Thief,” produced by Ridley Scott, begins streaming Friday, March 14.

— Alicia Rancilio

— Video games emotion to marque you consciousness similar a hero, but what happens to warriors who fail? Alta, the protagonist of Wanderstop, takes a occupation managing a quiescent beverage store successful a magical forest. That sounds similar the setup for a relaxing, “cozy” crippled similar Animal Crossing oregon Stardew Valley — but beryllium warned, 1 of its creators is Davey Wreden, the mastermind down 2013’s The Stanley Parable. That cult classical is 1 of the astir devious brain-twisters ever, truthful who knows what Wreden and his colleagues astatine Ivy Road person up their sleeves for their indie studio’s debut release? Judging from the trailer, Alta whitethorn person much connected her caput than creating the cleanable cup. Find retired what's brewing Tuesday connected PlayStation 5, Xbox X/S and PC.

— Lou Kesten