Awkwafina plays a struggling actor whose winning lottery ticket has her on the run for her life in “Jackpot!’ this week on Prime Video and the fourth season of “Emily in Paris” drops Thursday on Netflix. Also on Netflix this week: The tearjerker documentary “Daughters,” which follows four young girls as they prepare to reunite with their incarcerated fathers for a dance party in jail the Halle Berry-Mark Wahlberg movie “The Union,” an action comedy about a construction worker who gets entangled in the world of espionage by an old girlfriend. “Jackpot!” It’s always worth paying attention when Paul Feig (“Spy,” “The Heat,” “Bridesmaids”) makes a comedy.
In “Jackpot!,” coming to Prime Video on Thursday, Awkwafina plays a struggling actor whose winning lottery ticket has her on the run for her life. In this near-future California, residents compete to kill the winner before sundown in order to claim the winnings for themselves. One person who is on her side, and willing to help, is John Cena.
Feig told Entertainment Weekly that it’s the “Jackie Chan movie I always wished I could make.” DETAILS ‘Daughters’ The tear-jerker documentary “Daughters,” streaming on Netflix this week, follows four young girls as they prepare to reunite with their incarcerated fathers for a dance in a Washington, D.C.
, jail. Co-directed by Angela Patton and Natalie Rae, the film took over eight years to make as the directors earned the trust of the mothers, the daughters and the incarcerated men. “We really want to show the impact on families and daughters from this system and incarcerated fathers and bring more awareness around the importance around touch visits and family connection,” Rae told AP earlier this year at the Sundance Film Festival, where it won several awards.
DETAILS ‘The Union’ Also coming to Netflix on Thursday is the Halle Berry and Mark Wahlberg movie “The Union,” an action comedy about a construction worker who gets entangled in the world of espionage by an old girlfriend from high school. The synopsis teases: “Knowing he’s the right man for the job, she recruits Mike on a dangerous intelligence mission in Europe that thrusts them back together into a world of spies and high-speed car chases, with sparks flying along the way.” DETAILS ‘Immaculate’ Finally, the Sydney Sweeney nun thriller “Immaculate” makes its Hulu debut on Friday, Aug.
16. Sweeney produced and also stars as a young American nun, Cecilia, who’s decided to join an Italian convent where she’s to help tend to older, dying nuns. The prettiness of the new surroundings is just a front, of course, and she starts to discover some sinister happenings within the ancient walls.
The Associated Press wrote that it’s “a great showcase for Sweeney’s range (she gets to go from somewhat meek to primal scream) and is full of interesting visuals, beautiful costumes and accomplished makeup work showing all manner of bloody, mangled faces and limbs. But it’s also a movie that does not seem as sure of itself or the point it’s trying to make.” DETAILS ‘The Tyrant’ Hulu is out with a new original Korean drama called “The Tyrant.
” Rogue government scientists create a deadly virus to put South Korea on the same power level as the U.S. and other countries with nuclear arms.
The four-part series premieres Wednesday. DETAILS ‘The Challenge’ MTV’s long-running competition show “The Challenge” began as a spinoff of the “Real World” and “Road Rules,” and is still charging full steam ahead with season 40. Debuting this week, “The Challenge 40: Battle of the Eras,” has 40 contestants from the show’s history, including mainstays Johnny Bananas and Chris “CT” Tamburello.
Episodes air on MTV and will also stream on Paramount+. DETAILS ‘ Emily in Paris’ — Guess what? Emily is still in Paris! Part 1 of the Lily Collins- led romance, workplace comedy’s fourth season drops Thursday on Netflix. And rumor has it in the new season of “Emily in Paris,” the star also visits Rome.
DETAILS ‘Bel-Air’ The Fresh Prince is on summer break in season three of “Bel-Air,” Peacock’s updated, more dramatic version of the series that once starred Will Smith. Jabari Banks now plays the teen from West Philly. “Bel-Air” returns to Peacock on Thursday, Aug.
15. The parallels between Smith and Banks seem tailor-made for Hollywood. Like Smith, Banks is from West Philadelphia.
He’s also a musician working on his own EP. DETAILS ‘Drag Race’ Twelve fan favorite “Drag Race” contestants from around the world compete on “RuPaul’s Drag Race Global All Stars” debuting Friday, Aug. 16 on Paramount+.
The prize: $200,000 and a spot in the coveted Drag Race Hall of Fame. DETAILS ‘Chimp Crazy ‘ Eric Goode, the director of Netflix’s “Tiger King,” has a new docuseries about the private ownership of chimps. At the center is an exotic animal broker named Tonia Haddix who calls herself “The Dolly Parton of Chimps,” and raises chimpanzees as her children.
“Chimp Crazy” debuts Sunday, Aug. 18 on HBO and will be available to stream on Max. DETAILS ‘OceanXplorers’ James Cameron dives back into the ocean with his new six-part National Geographic series called “OceanXplorers.
” Cameron teamed with BBC Studios and the nonprofit research organization OceanX to explore remote parts of the ocean. They used a 285-foot research vessel called OceanXplorer to get there. The docuseries premieres Sunday, Aug.
18 on National Geographic and streams next day on Disney+ and Hulu. DETAILS.
