How to watch Luck online: stream the new Apple TV Plus animated movie
From the creators of Toy Story and Cars
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Pick up a penny and all day you’ll have good luck! That’s the premise of this exclusiveApple TV PlusOriginal animated film, in which the perpetually unlucky Sam discovers a life-changing lucky coin. Featuring a top-tier voice cast and bursting with imagination, we explain below how to watch Luck online now with anAppleTV Plus subscription.
Premiere date:Friday, August 5
New episodes:every Friday at 12am midnight PT / 3am ET / 8am BST
Cast:Eva Noblezada, Simon Pegg, Jane Fonda, Whoopi Goldberg, Lil Rel Howery, Colin O’Donoghue, John Ratzenberger
Watch now:Apple TV Plus 7-day FREE trial
Luck is the second film by Skydance for Apple TV Plus as part of their auspicious partnership, and they’ve brought in the big guns for this full-length animation. Former Pixar CCO John Lasseter executive produces, with the film based on a script by Kiel Murray (Cars, Raya and the Last Dragon) and directed by Penny Holmes (Disney’s The Little Mermaid: Ariel’s Beginning).
Tony-award nominee Eva Noblezada plays Sam, a woman whose life is a long string of unfortunate events until she discovers an enchanted coin belonging to a talking Scottish cat called Bob (voiced by Hollywood funny man Simon Pegg), who accidentally leads her to the magical Land of Luck.
Multi-award winner Whoopi Goldberg stars as The Captain, Jane Fonda (Klute, Grace and Frankie) plays CEO Babe the Dragon, and Lil Ray Howery (Free Guy,Judas and the Black Messiah) is Sam’s flower shop-owning boss. Meanwhile, Toy Story actor John Ratzenberger will voice Rootie, the self-appointed mayor of Bad Luck.
Delivering gorgeous animation and an emotionally anchored story, you’d have to be pretty unlucky to miss Luck. But you don’t have to, because our guide below details how to watch Luck online from anywhere andFREE if you’re a new Apple TV Plus subscriber.
How to watch Luck online from anywhere
From the creators of Toy Story and Cars comes Luck, a magical animated adventure featuring the vocal talents of Simon Pegg, Whoopi Goldberg, and Jane Fonda. The movie will beavailable globally on Apple TV PlusfromFriday, August 5at12am PT / 3am ET.
Offering a raft of exclusive movies, documentaries and kids shows, with most offered in glorious 4K and HDR, there’s currently a 7-dayApple TV Plus free trialfor you to try it out. If you choose to continue, theApple TV Plus costthereafter works out as$4.99 / £4.99 / AU$7.99 per month.
Where is Apple TV Plus available?
Now available in over 100 countries, including the United States, the UK, mainland Europe, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and India, Apple TV Plus is Apple’s very own exclusive subscription streaming service.
You can sign up and watch Apple TV Plus content through Apple’s TV app, which is available on iPhone, iPad, Apple TV, and Mac computers, some supported third-party smart TVs fromSamsung,LGandSony. You can also getApple TV Plus on ChromecastorApple TV Plus on Roku, in addition to Fire TV devices, plus PlayStation and Xbox gaming consoles.
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Alternatively, you could also watch Apple TV Plus on a browser likeGoogleChrome.
What else should I know about Apple TV Plus?
While Apple’s answer to Netflix has a comparatively small library of films and shows to get stuck into – now over 100 and counting – what’s available is top-notch, well-produced fare with little in the way of filler.
The Morning Showwas the calling card for Apple TV Plus at launch, costing $15 million per episode and is one of thebest Apple TV showson the platform. It was complemented by the epic sci-fi drama See starring Jason Momoa, space drama For All Mankind, and period comedy Dickinson.Severanceis one of the more recent hits popular with audiences and critics.
But the service’s breakout success has been the Jason Sudeikis comedyTed Lasso. It’s earned an army of fans and an impressive amount of awards attention, netting 20 Primetime Emmy nominations back in 2021 – a record for a freshman series.
The small but great library is set to grow at a steady pace and Apple TV Plus looks to have a pretty strong-looking upcoming schedule of new exclusive content.
For example,Five Days at Memorialarrives on August 12 from Academy Award-winner John Ridley (12 Years a Slave). It’s a gripping limited series about the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and the desperate struggles of Memorial Hospital’s stranded staff and patients, starring Vera Farmiga and Scandal’s Cornelius Smith Jr.
On August 19Bad Sistersdebuts, a dark comedy series created by and starring BAFTA-winner Sharon Horgan. Featuring an excellent cast including Eve Hewson (Bridge of Spies), Claes Bang (The Square), Peaky Blinder’s Daryl McCormack, and Shameless star Anne-Marie Duff, the show finds a tight-knit group of sisters under suspicion of the murder after the death of their despicable brother-in-law.
And a new documentary not to miss isSidneyon September 23. Produced by Oprah Winfrey, the movie honors the legend that was Sidney Poitier: the trailblazing actor, filmmaker, and civil rights activist known for his searing performances in films like In the Heat of the Night. Sidney will feature interviews with fellow Hollywood stars such as Halle Berry, Denzel Washington, Robert Redford, and Harry Belafonte.
Daniel Pateman is a freelance writer, producing articles across the cultural spectrum for magazines like Aesthetica, Photomonitor, The Brooklyn Rail and This is Tomorrow. He also provides text-writing services to individual curators and artists worldwide, and has had work published internationally. His favourite film genre is horror (bring on Scream 5!) and he never tires of listening to Absolute 80s on the radio.
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