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As the months blow by and the likelihood of quarantine hopefully receding soon into the rear-view as April nears, there’s still plenty of compelling content popping up along each streaming service. While April is not exactly bursting with tons and tons of new stuff, what there will be on offer on Disney+ in April 2021 is pretty formidable and worth making a point of catching.

The Falcon and The Winter Soldier has only just started, so it’s hard to believe its six episodes will already wrap things up for the next MCU series in April. The series airs new episodes each Friday, and then coming to a close with an April 23 finale. On April 30, Marvel Studios: Assembled, the new documentary series of specials that goes behind the scenes of Marvel Cinematic Universe television shows and movies, will air an episode that peeks behind the curtain on The Falcon and The Winter Soldier.

For something completely different, Disney+ is rolling out more content to help soothe your jangled and stressed nerves. On April 16, Earth Moods offers an “escape from the cacophony of everyday life” with “a visual and soundscape experience [taking] viewers on the ultimate retreat–transporting them to a vast array of colorful and calming corners of the world.” Set to visuals of blue glaciers, arid deserts, and lush rainforests, an impressive soundtrack boasting collaborations with Snoop Dogg, David Bowie, and Massive Attack’s Neil Davidge is sure to help you catch your breath and a bit of a break–for whatever the reason you might need it.

If some chill-out content is really your speed, National Geographic’s Secrets of the Whales will be a nice sedative. Airing April 22, the special was filmed over three years across 24 locations, and “plunges viewers deep within the epicenter of whale culture.” Even if you’re not in the mood for something educational, all that whale song is sure to help you relax.

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Below, you’ll find everything coming to Disney+ for the month of April, while you patiently wait for the release of Falcon and Winter Soldier, which lands on March 18.

New to Disney+ for April 2021

Friday, April 2

• Disney Secrets of Sulphur Springs: No Time Like the Present (S1)
• Disney Walk the Prank (S1)
• Disney Walk the Prank (S2)
• Disney Walk the Prank (S3)
• Higglytown Heroes (S1)
• Higglytown Heroes (S2)
• The Island at the Top of the World
• Third Man on the Mountain
• The Last Ice
• Made in a Day (S1)
• Secrets of the Zoo (S4)
• Sharks of the Bermuda Triangle
• The Falcon and The Winter Soldier
• The Mighty Ducks: Game Changers
• The Big Year
• Night at the Museum
• Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian
• Caravan of Courage
• Ewoks: The Battle for Endor
• Star Wars: Clone Wars – Volume I
• Star Wars: Clone Wars – Volume II
• Star Wars: Ewoks (S1)
• Star Wars: Ewoks (S2)
• The Story of the Faithful Wookiee

Friday, April 9

• Disney Future-Worm!
• Disney Kick Buttowki: Suburban Daredevil (S1)
• Disney Kick Buttowki: Suburban Daredevil (S2)
• Disney Secrets of Sulphur Springs: Time After Time (S1 Finale)
• The Falcon and The Winter Soldier
• Man of the House
• Mark Twain and Me
• Squanto: A Warrior’s Tale
• Cesar Millan: The Real Story

Friday, April 16

• Big Shot
• Earth Moods
• The Falcon and The Winter Soldier
• Treasure Buddies
• White Fang 2: Myth of the White Wolf
• National Geographic: Earth Moods Volume I
• Primal Survivor (S5)
• The Kid Who Would Be King
• RIO

Thursday, April 22

• Secrets of the Whales

Friday, April 23

• Disney Junior Puppy Dog Pals (S3)
• Disney Liv and Maddie (S1)
• Disney Liv and Maddie (S2)
• Disney Liv and Maddie (S3)
• Disney Liv and Maddie : Cali Style (S4)
• Disney My Music Story: Sukimaswitch
• Being the Queen
• Baby’s Day Out
• Big Shot
• The Falcon and The Winter Soldier
• The Mighty Ducks: Game Changers

Friday, April 30

• Adventures in Wonderland
• Big Shot
• Disney Ducktales (S3)
• Disney Junior Mira
• Marvel Studios: Assembled
• The Mighty Ducks: Game Changers
• Oklahoma!

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Deals on Nintendo hardware don’t come around too often, but right now there’s a pretty sweet promotion on the Nintendo Switch Lite. GameStop and Amazon are both offering $20 gift cards with the purchase of the handheld-only console at retail price. It’s unclear when the promotions end, but since Amazon is matching GameStop’s deal, both will likely end at the same time.

$200 with free $20 gift card

GameStop will simply give you a $20 store gift card with your Switch Lite, while Amazon will deposit a $20 promotional credit to your account within seven days of purchase. Amazon promotional credit automatically applies to your next order from the site. If you purchase at Amazon, you’ll also get a free seven-day Nintendo Switch Online trial. Prime members can get free one- or two-day shipping, and GameStop has free standard shipping arriving as soon as this weekend.

All four color options–turquoise, coral, yellow, and gray–are available at both retailers with the promotion. As the younger sibling of the family, the Switch Lite is an impressive iteration on Nintendo’s popular console. The handheld-only device has a 5.5-inch touchscreen, fairly solid battery life, and a great one-piece design that includes something the Switch doesn’t: a traditional D-pad.

The Switch Lite is particularly great for those who travel a lot and for kids. If you’re picking up a Switch Lite, make sure to take a peek at our roundup of the best Switch games for kids. And if your house is already home to multiple Switch consoles, you should consider the Nintendo Switch Online family membership, which grants access to online features and classic games for up to eight users.

Anomalies are back for Fortnite Season 6 and this time solving their puzzles will grant players new costumes for Agent Jones, the level 1 Battle Pass reward. These Anomalies will continue throughout the season as players unlock new Battle Pass levels at their own pace, but we’ve got the details for the first one for you right here.

You’ll unlock the Lazy Lake Anomaly puzzle when you get to Battle Pass level 14, which also happens to be when you unlock Lara Croft. With her comes this Anomaly puzzle, so head into Battle Royale or Team Rumble and drop into Lazy Lake.

The specific house you’re aiming for is shown below. It’s a blue house on the north side of the named location, sitting next to an odd-shaped yellow house to the right of the lake itself.

Here’s what it will look like on street level.

Head inside the front door and right away you should notice a glimmering butterfly is hovering above the dining table. It will quickly move downstairs into the basement level and disappear into a teddy bear sitting in a chair.

Smash the wall in front of the bear to reveal a secret room housing a peculiar glass display table adorned with empty jewel slots. This is your Anomaly puzzle.

To solve it, you’ll need to activate each jewel in the correct order. Approach each slot and use the interact button–don’t worry, it’s quite forgiving if you mess up. You’ll know when you’ve inserted a jewel correctly because it will stay in place. If it disappears, you’ll want to start over until you insert the four jewels in the correct order.

We’ve tested the puzzle a few times and the solution doesn’t seem to change. Here’s the right order to insert the jewels by color:

• Red
• Purple
• Blue
• Green

Once you’ve done it correctly, the Anomaly will reappear in the center of the display. Interact with it once more to complete the challenge and earn Agent Jones a stylish, albeit tattered, suit to wear in later rounds.

We’ll have plenty more Anomaly puzzle solutions to share as we encounter them over the coming days.

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Judd Apatow is one of the filmmakers who is currently putting together a film about the pandemic, and now the veteran director and producer has rounded out the cast for his own movie, The Bubble.

The Bubble tells a meta-story about a group of actors who are trying to complete a big-budget Hollywood movie during the pandemic while living together in a hotel. Joining the cast for this movie are Rob Delaney (who also recently joined Mission: Impossible 7 and 8), Vir Das, Galen Hopper, Samson Kayo, Nick Kocher, Guz Khan, Ross Lee, Harry Trevaldwyn, and Danielle Vitalis. All of this casting information came from Deadline.

They join the previously announced cast that includes Fred Armisen, David Duchovny, Keegan-Michael Key, Karen Gillan, Maria Bakalova, Pedro Pascal, and Peter Serafinowicz. Apatow’s daughter, Iris, is also in The Bubble, as well as actress Leslie Mann, who is married to Apatow.

Apatow co-wrote the script for The Bubble with Pam Brady and he’s set to direct it.

According to a previous report, the movie is inspired in part by what happened in real life with Jurassic World: Dominion, as Laura Dern, Sam Neill, Jeff Goldblum, Chris Pratt, and Bryce Dallas Howard became stuck in the UK as they filmed the newest Jurassic World movie.

The Bubble is slated to premiere on Netflix, and it marks the veteran’s first movie for the streaming service.

Apatow is known for directing the comedies The 40-Year-Old Virgin, Knocked Up, This Is 40, and Trainwreck. His most recent film was The King of Staten Island starring SNL’s Pete Davidson. Apatow is also known for his producing work, as he produced films such as The Cable Guy, Anchorman, Superbad, Forgetting Sarah Marshall, and Pineapple Express.

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Peacock has announced a 10-episode order for Poker Face, a new hour-long mystery series from Rian Johnson (Knives Out, Star Wars: The Last Jedi). Poker Face will be Johnson’s first television series.

Given Johnson’s financial and critical success with the 2019 whodunit Knives Out, and the director’s pre-COVID stated intentions of developing a follow-up that would have Daniel Craig’s detective Benoit Blanc solving another murder, it’s not a shock to learn Johnson is feeling inspired by the genre. Beyond Johnson’s involvement, all that’s known so far is that Natasha Lyonne (Russian Doll, Orange is the New Black) will star.

“I’m very excited to dig into the type of fun, character driven, case-of-the-week mystery goodness I grew up watching. It’s my happy place,” said Johnson in a release. “Having Natasha as a partner in crime is a dream, and we’ve found the perfect home at Peacock.”

Lyonne will co-executive produce along with Maya Rudolph (Saturday Night Live) and Danielle Renfrew Behren (Kurt Cobain: Montage Of Heck). And speaking of mysteries, it was also recently announced that Lyonne’s Netflix series Russian Doll has cast Schitt’s Creek’s Annie Murphy for Season 2–though still no word on what story that season will tell, whether it will connect with the recursive Season 1, or even what role Murphy will portray.

No release date or timelines for Poker Face’s production have yet been disclosed.

Following its debut trailer, Disney has now published a “sneak peek” video for its upcoming 101 Dalmations spin-off, Cruella, which stars Emma Stone as the evil and fashionable villain.

Set in the 1970s London, Cruella tells the origin story of the Disney villain, picking up when she was a creative and inspired young fashion designer named Estella. Her creations catch the eye of the Baroness von Hellman (Emma Thompson) and things go badly, which is when Estella becomes Cruella.

Cruella is directed by I Tonya’s Craig Gillespie and includes Glenn Close–who played Cruella in the live-action 101 Dalmatians movies–as an executive producer. Costumes are obviously very important for Cruella, and Disney hired Oscar-winning costume designer Jenny Beavan (Mad Max: Fury Road) to work on Cruella.

The film also features Mark Strong (Kingsman), Paul Walter Hauser (I, Tonya), Emily Beecham (Outside the Wire), Joel Fry (Yesterday), and more. The script was written by Dana Fox and Tony McNamara, and Aline Brosh McKenna, Kelly Marcel, and Steve Zissis.

Cruella is slated to arrive in May, but we don’t know yet if it will be in theaters or on Disney+, or potentially both.

Blumhouse Productions has announced a slate of new, original horror movies for premium TV network Epix. The company will make eight standalone films, with the first expected to premiere in December 2021.

Blumhouse boss Jason Blum will executively produce the movies. The first release will be titled A House on the Bayou and is set to start production in the spring. It will be written and directed by Alex McAulay, and will focus on a family who experience scary things when they take a vacation to the Louisiana bayou. The other seven movies will arrive on Epix in 2022.

In a statement, Epix president Michael Wright said, “Blumhouse’s track record of producing high-quality, audience-favorite films have made them a driving force in the horror genre renaissance, and have been top-notch partners for Epix.”

These new movies are Blumhouse’s latest venture into making standalone movies for television. Last year the company produced a series of films for Amazon, collectively titled Welcome to the Blumhouse. Prior to that, Blumhouse made two seasons of the Hulu anthology series Into the Dark. In addition, the company has produced the true crime docuseries Fall River, which will premiere on Epix in May.

As for Blumhouse’s movie output, The Forever Purge is currently set for a July release, having been delayed from last year. Halloween Kills arrives in October, and the company is also producing the next Paranormal Activity movie, which will be released by Paramount+ in 2022.

After a series of protracted delays and uncertainties due to the world grappling with the coronavirus, the Demon Slayer: Mugen Train movie is finally making its way to North American theaters on April 23 in English dub and subtitled forms. As of last July, when word was roughly expected to come out about the film’s theatrical fate, theaters were acquiescing and closing for an indeterminate period of time.

But according to a release, confidence in moviegoing has returned to the extent that tickets will be available to pre-order starting April 9 via this website, which as of this writing isn’t yet online but will be in the near future. In addition to choosing between sub or dub tickets, fans can also opt for 4DX and IMAX experiences. Check out the trailer below to get a sense of what that experience might be like, on a screen much, much larger than your phone or computer.

Mugen Train follows the events of Demon Slayer’s final episode, in which Tanjiro Kamado and company follow Flame Hashira Kyojuro Rengoku to investigate a mysterious series of disappearances occurring on a train. One of the Twelve Kizuki’s, Enmu, is also aboard the train and things quickly take a turn for the worst.

Fans will additionally be able to pre-order the film on Apple TV, the Microsoft Store, and the PlayStation Store starting April 26. After the theatrical window, fans will be able to watch the film on streaming popular platforms on June 22.