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WHAT’S NEW ON PRIME “Night Sky” - Season 1
Fall into an adventure like no other with the new Prime original series “Night Sky,” premiering on the platform Friday, May 20. Years ago, ordinary American couple Irene (Sissy Spacek, “Homecoming”) and Frank York (J.K. Simmons, “Being the Ricardos,” 2021) discovered a strange chamber buried deep in their backyard, which, incredibly and inexplicably, leads to a strange, deserted planet. They’ve kept their secret planet a secret all to themselves in the years since, until an enigmatic young man named Jude (Chai Hansen, “The 100”) shows them that the hidden chamber and the impossible planet within are so much more than they could have ever imagined. A coproduction between Amazon Studios and Legendary Television, “Night Sky” is created by Holden Miller (“The Nightly Show With Larry Wilmore”) and directed by Shari Springer Berman (“Things Heard & Seen,” 2021), Jessica Lowrey (“Heels”), Robert Pulcini (“American Splendor,” 2003) and Juan José Campanella (“Law & Order: Special Victims Unit”). The series also stars Kiah Mckirnan (“Mayor of Easttown”), Adam Bartley (“Longmire”), Cass Buggé (“Disengaged”), Piotr Adamczyk (“For All Mankind”), Ian Owens (“Shrill”), Lily Cardone (“Bernie the Dolphin,” 2018) and Lowrey Brown (“Hillbilly Elegy,” 2020).
WHAT’S NEW ON DISNEY+ “Chip ‘n Dale: Rescue Rangers” (2022)
A fan-favorite cartoon is back, 33 years after its original series premiere, when the new hybrid live-action/computeranimated film “Chip ‘n Dale: Rescue Rangers” premieres Friday, May 20, on Disney+. A reboot action comedy for the whole family, “Rescue Rangers” follows iconic cartoon chipmunk brothers Chip (voiced by John Mulaney, “Big Mouth”) and Dale (voiced by Andy Samberg, “Brooklyn Nine-nine”), still living amongst the cartoons and humans in modern-day Los Angeles. Now three decades since the first iteration of “Rescue Rangers” was canceled, Chip has given in to an average life as an insurance salesman, while Dale desperately tries to cling to his glory days. When a former castmate of theirs disappears, Chip and Dale must repair their broken ties and don their “Rescue Rangers” detective personas once more to save their friend’s life. Based on the original series by Tad Stones (“Darkwing Duck”), “Chip ‘n Dale: Rescue Rangers” is directed by Akiva Schaffer (“Pop Star: Never Stop Never Stopping,” 2016) and features a screenplay by Dan Gregor and Doug Mand (both of “How I Met Your Mother”). The film also stars Seth Rogen (“Pam and Tommy”), Will Arnett (“Arrested Development”), J.K. Simmons (“Being the Ricardos,” 2021), Eric Bana (“Dirty John”), Dennis Haysbert (“24”), Kiki Layne (“If Beale Street Could Talk,” 2018), Keegan-michael Key (“Schmigadoon!”), Tress Macneille (“The Simpsons”) and Tim Robinson (“I Think You Should Leave”).
WHAT’S NEW ON HULU “Sundown” (2021)
Experience a sordid family tale with the 2021 drama film “Sundown,” available to stream on Hulu as of Tuesday, May 17. Neil (Tim Roth, “The Hateful Eight,” 2015) and his sister Alice Bennett (Charlotte Gainsbourg, “Melancholia,” 2011), the heads of a wealthy family, are enjoying a vacation in Mexico with Alice’s children, Colin (Samuel Bottomley, “Ghost Stories,” 2017) and Alexa (Albertine Kotting Mcmillan, “A Very British Scandal”), when their trip is cut short by a family emergency. While everyone rushes to return home, Neil pretends to lose his passport and stays to enjoy Mexico for a few days longer. But, what he hopes to be a few days of peace and quiet turns into a suspenseful situation that threatens to tear his family apart when Alice returns to confront him and for abandoning her. Directed and written by Mexico’s Michel Franco (“New Order,” 2020), “Sundown” also stars Iazua Larios (“Ricochet,” 2020), Henry Goodman (“The New Pope”), James Tarpey (“The World’s End,” 2013) and Mónica Del Carmen (“Babel,” 2006).