Now Streaming: Taylor Swift’s ‘1989 (Taylor’s Version),’ Emily Blunt’s Latest, and ‘Five Nights at Freddy’s’

Coming soon to your device, you can expect to see a range of exciting entertainment options, including Taylor Swift’s re-recorded album “1989 (Taylor’s Version),” a documentary by Paramount that delves into the infamous lip-syncing scandal of the duo Milli Vanilli, and the highly anticipated horror film “Five Nights at Freddy’s.” These offerings span across various mediums such as television, movies, music, and games.

Among the offerings picked by Associated Press entertainment reporters are Julian Fellowes’ “The Gilded Age,” in season two on HBO, and Hollywood’s latest attempt to dive into the opioid crisis with the glossy “Pain Hustlers,” starring Emily Blunt, Chris Evans and Andy Garcia.

NEW MOVIES IN DELIVERY

Hollywood’s latest attempt to dive into the opioid crisis is the glossy, star-studded picture “Pain Hustlers,” starring Emily Blunt, Chris Evans and Andy Garcia. Based on a New York Times article (which later became a book) by Evan Hughes. Pain Hustlers on Netflix now focuses on the pharmaceutical startup Insys Therapeutics, which engaged in criminal activities such as bribery and kickbacks and misled insurance companies. push an addictive fentanyl spray called Subsys. Blunt plays a high school dropout who gets a job at the company run by Garcia, where he excels. Directed by David Yates, “Pain Hustlers” was not generally well received by critics at its Toronto International Film Festival premiere, but Alyssa Wilkinson wrote for Vox that, while predictable, “Pain Hustlers manages to be lively and moving.”

The video game series “Five Nights at Freddy’s” is now a movie, available in both theaters and the Peacock on Friday. Blumhouse Productions’ horror picture follows a security guard (The Hunger Games’ Josh Hutcherson) who takes a job at an old family entertainment center, Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza, where animatronic mascots roam and murder after midnight. (Read AP’s zero-star review.)

Filmmaker Paul Schrader completes his unofficial Man in a Room trilogy (“First Reformed,” “The Card Counter”) on Hulu with “Master Gardener.” Joel Edgerton plays a gardener named Narvel who works on the large estate of a wealthy husband (Sigourney Weaver’s Norma). However, Narvel hides secrets under his garden pants, including tattoos and a past with body count. I wrote in my review that its ideas are many and perhaps not terribly coherent, but there is pleasure to be had in the enjoyable performances of Edgerton, Weaver and Quintessa Swindell.

PERFORMING NEW MUSIC

It was the album that cemented her transition from country pop to mainstream pop superstardom. Taylor Swift has dropped the fourth of her six albums she plans to re-record, “1989 (Taylor’s Version).” The Taylor’s Version albums, spawned by music executive Scooter Braun selling her early catalog, represent Swift’s quest to control her own songs and how they are used. Like the rest of the set, Swifties can look forward to five previously unreleased tracks from “From the Vault,” written around the time of the album’s first release in 2014, as well as fan favorite “New Romantics,” originally released as a Target exclusive.

Also on Friday: Barbra Streisand and Columbia Records release “EVERGREENS: Celebrating Six Decades on Columbia Records” and “YENTL: 40th Anniversary Deluxe Edition,” arriving just days before the release date of her highly anticipated memoir, “My Name is Barbra.” .” There are plenty of unreleased songs. Welcome to the Streisand season.

In preparation for his latest studio album, “Action Adventure,” DJ Shadow took cage digging to the next level: he bought 200 tapes on eBay, a collection recorded over the radio at a Baltimore/D.C. mixing station. area in the 1980s and explored his vinyl record collection in search of new music. (The latter is 60,000 records deep, so it’s easy to find at home.) If that doesn’t speak to the producer’s dedication to developing his craft, what could?

A new Paramount documentary about German-French R&B duo Milli Vanilli (aptly titled “Milli Vanilli”) investigates one of music’s biggest lip-syncing scandals — and suggests that Rob Pilatus and Fab Morvan’s music producers pulled the tape and knew more than they let on at the time.

NEW SERIES to stream

Apple TV has a new family-friendly animated series from Dreamworks called “CURSES!” in time for Halloween. When a centuries-old family curse turns Alex Vanderhouven to stone, his wife Sky and their two children Pandora and Russ work together to rescue him, break the spell and return the stolen items to their owners. John Krasinski is executive producer. Voice actors include Reid Scott (“Veep,” “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel”), Rhea Perlman (“Cheers”), Phylicia Rashad (“The Cosby Show”) and Robert Englund (“A Nightmare on Elm Street”). CURSES!” debuts on Friday.

Matt Bomer (“White Collar”) and Jonathan Bailey (“Bridgerton”) star as two men who meet and fall in love during the McCarthy era of the 1950s. Their love story spans cultural and political milestones in American history, including the Vietnam War protests, the 1970s era of disco, drug use and nightclubs, and the AIDS epidemic of the 1980s. The story is based on the novel by Thomas Mallon. “Fellow Travelers” debuts Friday on Paramount and Sunday on Showtime.

Julian Fellowes’ “The Gilded Age” returns for a second season on HBO. Featuring a large ensemble cast including Carrie Coon, Christine Baranski, Cynthia Nixon, Morgan Spector and Taissa Farmiga, the show is set in New York during industrialization in the late 19th century. This time of extreme wealth and also extreme poverty was known as The Gold Age, although it is often remembered more for its luxury. The Carnegies, Rockefellers, Vanderbilts and Morganis are notable family names from this period that are still relevant today. “The Gilded Age” series follows two wealthy families, one with inherited wealth and the other with new money, and domestic workers. The second season debuts Sunday on HBO and will stream on MAX.

NEW VIDEO GAMES ARE PLAYING

In 2010, bestselling author Alan Wake went on vacation to the Pacific Northwest and never returned. Turns out he’s been trapped all these years in “The Dark Place”, trying to keep his sanity and write his way out of the nightmare. Enter Saga Anderson, an FBI agent investigating a series of ritual murders that she believes are connected to a missing author. It’s the installation of Alan Wake II, Remedy Entertainment’s long-awaited sequel to the game that has become a cult favorite. If the David Lynch-meets-Stephen King vibe of the original put you off, Remedy promises to lean even deeper into the creepy. Horror returns on Friday for PlayStation 5/4, Xbox X/S and PC.