(in theaters)

Celebrate the 40th anniversary of Ghostbusters with the latest film in the franchise, written by Jason Reitman, son of the 1984 version’s director, Ivan Reitman. A new generation of specter catchers (Carrie Coon and Paul Rudd, 55) join the original gang (Bill Murray, 73, Dan Aykroyd, 71, and Ernie Hudson, 78) at the old firehouse, to save Manhattan from a deep freeze and ectoplasmic baddies. And this time the receptionist from the first film (Annie Potts, 71) gets to don a ghostbuster costume too. But she doesn’t carry a proton pack. “Thank God!” she told Empire magazine. “They’re murderously heavy, and us OGs are getting on a bit.”

(in theaters April 12)

Alex Garland, 53, once a novelist in the literary brat pack of Martin Amis and Christopher Hitchens, became a renowned highbrow sci-fi director (Ex Machina). In this intellectual action film, the U.S. president (Parks and Recreation’s Nick Offerman, 53) faces the secession of 19 states, while a photographer (Kirsten Dunst) gets caught in urban war zones.

(in theaters April 5)

The sequels to the 1976 horror classic The Omen were hell to sit through, but hopes are high as heaven for this prequel about the world’s scariest child, since its stars include Bill Nighy, 74 (Love Actually), and Sonia Braga, 73 (Kiss of the Spider Woman), who appear to be a pair of religious figures—but does that mean they’re wholly holy?

(on Netflix April 4)

Remember Matt Damon in the 1999 hit film about the talented Tom Ripley, impostor and killer? Now see Andrew Scott, 47, who shot to fame as the “hot priest” from TV’s Fleabag, as slippery Ripley in a new series adaptation by Steven Zaillian, 71 (writer of Schindler’s List and The Irishman).

(on INSP April 11)

At 25, Teddy Roosevelt quit being a New York politician and became a cowboy in Dakota’s Badlands. Really. In this series, he faces down gunmen, barroom brawlers, horse thieves and killer grizzlies—excellent preparation for a future president.

(on PBS Masterpiece May 5)

If you liked Broadchurch or Bad Sisters, try this mystery about estranged siblings (Suranne Jones and House of the Dragon’s Eve Best, 52) who reluctantly bond while trying to figure out how their mom died on the Isle of Man. Does their mom’s eccentric American friend (Grease’s Stockard Channing, 80) know the secret?

(on Prime Video April 12)

Why watch yet another show set in a postapocalyptic world overrun with mutant creatures? We’re eager to see Justified’s Walton Goggins, 52, as a pragmatic bounty hunter called the Ghoul and Twin Peaks’ Kyle MacLachlan, 65, as Hank, the overseer of an underground vault where wealthy folks hide in comfort—until forced to explore the bizarre calamities aboveground. —Tim Appelo