''The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power'' returning for its second season and Adam Sandler's first comedy special since 2018 are some of the new television, films, music and games headed to a device near you.
Also among the streaming offerings worth your time as selected by The Associated Press' entertainment journalists: John Legend offers his first-ever children's album, season four of ''Only Murders in the Building'' shifts to Los Angeles and DJ and dance producer Zedd is back with an album after nearly a decade.
NEW MOVIES TO STREAM
— "The Fall Guy'' is finally coming to Peacock, where it will be streaming starting Friday, alongside an ''extended cut'' version. It might not have reached the blockbuster heights the studio dreamed about during its theatrical run, but it's pure delight: A comedy, action, romance that soars thanks to the charisma of its stars. Based on the 1980s Lee Majors television series (he gets a cameo), the film features Ryan Gosling as a stunt man, Emily Blunt as his director and dream girl, Aaron Taylor-Johnson as an egotistical movie star and ''Ted Lasso's'' Hannah Waddingham as a Diet Coke slurping producer.
— Ishana Night Shyamalan's thriller, ''The Watchers,'' in which Dakota Fanning plays an artist stranded in western Ireland where mysterious creatures lurk and stalk in the night, begins streaming on MAX on Friday.
— Emma Stone gives a performance (and interpretive dance) worth watching in '' Kinds of Kindness,'' her latest collaboration with Yorgos Lanthimos fresh on the heels of her Oscar-winning turn in ''Poor Things." The film, streaming on Hulu on Friday, is a triptych with a big ensemble cast including Willem Dafoe, Jesse Plemons (who won a prize for his performance at Cannes), Hong Chau, Margaret Qualley, Mamoudou Athie and Joe Alwyn. Jocelyn Noveck, in her AP review, described it as ''a meditation on our free will and the ways we willingly forfeit it to others — in the workplace, at home, and in religion.'' Noveck wrote that the ''Stone-Lanthimos pairing… is continuing to nurture an aspect of Stone's talents that increasingly sets her apart: Her fearlessness and the obvious joy she derives from it.''
— Somehow the Yorgos Lanthimos film is not the most eccentric new streaming offering this week. That title goes to '' Sasquatch Sunset,'' Nathan and David Zellner's experimental film about a family of sasquatches just living their lives. Starring an essentially unrecognizable Jesse Eisenberg and Riley Keough (in addition to Nathan Zellner), this Sundance curiosity begins streaming on Paramount+ on Monday. In his review for the AP, Mark Kennedy wrote that it is ''a bewildering 90-minute, narrator-less and wordless experiment that's as audacious as it is infuriating. It's not clear if everyone was high making it or we should be while watching it.''
— AP Film Writer Lindsey Bahr