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On August 14, the Hallmark Channel movie Sealed With a Kiss: Wedding March 6 will debut at 9 PM.
The modest wedding plans of a celebrity (Jack Wagner) and his down-to-earth fiancée (Josie Bissett) escalate while Mick gets an enticing opportunity Olivia won’t let him refuse, putting their own big day in jeopardy.
Here is a trailer for Sealed With a Kiss: Wedding March 6:
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The new limited series Brand New Cherry Flavor will debut online on Netflix on August 13.
A filmmaker (Rosa Salazar) heads to Hollywood in the early ‘90s to make her movie but tumbles down a hallucinatory rabbit hole of sex, magic, revenge, and (oddly) kittens.
The film also stars Catherine Keener.
Here is a trailer for Brand New Cherry Flavor:
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On August 13, the box office movie Free Guy will debut online on Disney+.
In the open world video game Free City, Guy (Ryan Reynolds) is a non-player character (NPC) working as a bank teller. Thanks to a program developed by programmers Milly (Jodie Comer) and Keys (Joe Keery) inserted into the game by the publisher Antoine (Taika Waititi), Guy becomes aware of his world being a video game, and takes steps to make himself the hero, creating a race against time to save the game before the developers can shut it down.
Lil Rel Howery also stars.
Here is a trailer for Free Guy:
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The Apple TV+ movie Coda will debut online on August 13.
In Gloucester, Massachusetts, a culturally Deaf family runs a fishing business. Ruby (Emilia Jones from Locke & Key), who is 17 years old and the only hearing family member, helps her deaf parents (Troy Kotsur from The Number 23 and Oscar-winner Marlee Matlin) and brother Leo (Daniel Durant from Switched at Birth) with the business.
In high school, she joins the choir club, where she is attracted to her duet partner and finds a passion for singing. Her choirmaster (Eugenio Derbez from Dora and the Lost City of Gold) encourages her to consider music school, and she has to decide between helping her family and pursuing her goal.
The cast includes Kevin Chapman (Person of Interest) and Amy Forsyth (Channel Zero and Rise).
Here is a trailer for Coda:
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On August 13, the Disney original telefilm Spin will debut at 8 PM.
Rhea (Avantika) is an Indian-American teen who discovers her passion for creating DJ mixes that blend the rich textures of her South Asian culture and the world around her. Her life revolves around her eclectic group of friends, her after-school coding club, her family’s Indian restaurant and her tight-knit, multi-generational family. Everything changes when she falls for aspiring DJ Max, and her long-lost fervor for music is reignited.
The cast includes Anna Cathcart (To All the Boys movie franchise) and Agam Darshi (Sanctuary).
Here is a trailer for Spin:
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The Netflix feature film Beckett will debut online on August 13.
While vacationing in Greece, Beckett (John David Washington), an American tourist, becomes the target of a manhunt after a devastating accident. Forced to run for his life and desperate to reach the U.S. embassy in Athens to clear his name, tensions escalate as the authorities close in, political unrest mounts, and Beckett falls even deeper into a dangerous web of conspiracy.
The film also stars Alicia Vikander, Boyd Holbrook and Vicky Krieps.
Here is a trailer for Beckett:
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On August 11, the debut of the 11-episode animated series What If…? will air on Disney+ online.
The animated series explores what would happen if major moments from the Marvel Cinematic Universe occurred differently, featuring a voice cast that includes a host of stars who reprise their roles.
Jeffrey Wright narrates the series.
Here is a trailer for What If…?:
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The Netflix movie The Kissing Booth 3 will debut online on August 11.
The third and final movie in the streaming franchise finds Elle Evans (Joey King), as she spends the summer after her high-school graduation at a beach house with her weirdly possessive boyfriend, Noah (Jacob Elordi), and her weirdly possessive best friend, Lee (Joel Courtney), who each want to go to college with her (at Harvard and Berkeley, respectively). Elle must choose one at the risk of alienating the other.
The cast includes Maisie Richardson-Sellers (DC’s Legends of Tomorrow) and 1980’s star Molly Ringwald (Riverdale and The Secret Life of the American Teenager).
Here is a trailer for The Kissing Booth 3:
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On August 10, the FOX reboot of Fantasy Island will debut at 9 PM.
A modern take on the classic 1970’s-1980’s series is set at a luxury resort, where literally any fantasy requested by guests is fulfilled, although they rarely turn out as expected. Serving as steward of this mysterious island is Elena Roarke (Roselyn Sanchez from Devious Maids and Grand Hotel), a descendant of the iconic Mr. Roarke, who set aside her own ambitions, and the love of her life, to uphold her family’s legacy.
Ruby Okoro (Kiara Barnes from The Bold and the Beautiful), is Elena’s assistant, a young woman with an old soul who arrives on Fantasy Island with a terminal illness and is given a new lease on life there; and Javier (John Gabriel Rodriquez from Rosewood) is the head of island transportation and a jack of all trades.
Here is a trailer for Fantasy Island:
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The Hallmark Movies & Mysteries movie Sweet Revenge: A Hannah Swensen Mystery (formerly under the Murder, She Baked franchise) is set to debut at 9 PM on August 8.
As Hannah (Alison Sweeney) and Mike (Cameron Mathison) experience engaged life while balancing their busy careers, a murder at a 24-hour gym complicates their wedding planning.
Barbara Niven also stars.
Here is a trailer for Sweet Revenge: A Hannah Swensen Mystery:
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