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The second season of Power Book III: Raising Kanan, a prequel spin-off series from 50 Cent’s Power franchise, premieres Sunday (Aug. 14) on Starz.

In season 2, Raquel “Raq” Thomas (Patina Miller) is done “vying for street corners” in South Jamaica Queens and looks toward the Garden State for new opportunities.

Meanwhile, Raq must earn her son, Kanan’s (Mekai Curtis), trust back. After shooting Detective Marvin Howard and getting out of Queens, Kanan returns to find Howard (who is secretly his father) still alive.

The season 2 cast includes Joey Bada$$, London Brown, Malcolm M. Mays, Shanley Caswell, Hailey Kilgore, Omar Epps, Hailey Kilgore, Letoya Luckett, Shanley Caswell and Antonio Ortiz.

How to Watch ‘Power Book III: Raising Kanan’ Online

Power Book III: Raising Kanan will drop exclusively on the Starz app at midnight on Sunday (Aug. 14). The series will air on the Starz channel at 9 p.m. ET.

If you don’t have Starz, there are a few ways to subscribe and stream the show without cable. For example, subscribers can join Starz for just $5 for the first three months to watch new episodes of Raising Kanan as soon as they premiere on the app (rather than waiting for the primetime TV broadcast). The subscription comes with Unlimited HD streaming, unlimited downloads and subscribers can watch from up to four devices at the same time.

You can also subscribe to Starz through Prime Video and stream for free for the first week. DirecTV Stream offers three months of free Starz, HBO Max, Epix, Showtime, Cinemax with its Choice package (currently on sale for $69.99 a month) in addition to a free trial for five days.

Other binge-worthy Starz originals include P-Valley, Outlander, Gaslit, BMF, Evil By Design, High Town, Blindspotting, Becoming Elizabeth, Men in Kilts, Seduced, Party Down, The Gloaming, Confronting a Serial Killer, Run the World, Shining Vale, Heels, The White Queen, The Serpent Queen, Power Book II: Ghost and Power Book IV: Force, the newest edition to the Power franchise.

Natalia Dyer may be most famous these days for her role as Nancy Wheeler in Netflix’s Stranger Things, but on Thursday night, she looked back on her very first role alongside Miley Cyrus in Hannah Montana: The Movie.

The opportunity came as the actress was growing up in Nashville, she explained on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.

“It wasn’t a huge film town at the time and then, this sort of major production was rolling through,” she told Jimmy Fallon and guest host Megan Thee Stallion of the 2009 movie based on Cyrus’ Disney Channel series. “It was a big deal. Everyone was very excited.

“They had these two British, like, twin roles that they decided to cast locally and somehow I, yeah,” she added about her role as Hannah Montana superfan Clarissa Granger, i.e. the daughter of villainous tabloid reporter Oswald Granger, who spends the movie on a mission to uncover the pop star’s true identity.

The photo above is of Dyer as a 14-year-old at the 2009 red-carpet premiere of the film.

Also in the interview, Meg interrogated Dyer about Stranger Things as a superfan of the show, asking, “Do you miss Barb?,” referring to Nancy’s best friend played by Shannon Purser who was tragically killed in the first season by Demogorgons. “Bring Barb back, hashtag that!”

“I’m never allowed to forget about Barb,” Dyer replies. “I get it! It’s part of Nancy’s arc. It definitely drives her forward. Has she completely dealt with it? I don’t know, but we have not forgotten about Barb.”

This season, Dyer’s Stranger Things character is partially responsible for the massive resurgence of Kate Bush‘s “Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God).” After soundtracking a key scene involving Nancy in the supernatural drama’s fourth season, the 1985 single has become one of the biggest radio hits of the year and topped all kinds of charts around the world, including both the Billboard Global 200 and Billboard Global Excl. U.S. chart, the Official U.K. Singles Chart and more.

Watch Dyer’s full chat with Fallon and Megan Thee Stallion below.

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Most Billboard readers have at least a rough idea of the top albums and songs of each year but may be less familiar with the top box-office hits from each year. Fortunately, boxofficemojo.com has that information for each year dating back to 1977.

So what do we learn scrolling through the list of top-grossing films for each year since Jimmy Carter became president and Elvis Presley died? One thing that comes across loud and clear is the degree to which sequels and franchises have come to dominate the marketplace. Just four of the year-end box-office champs were films that were not part of franchises (or did not spark a franchise or a reboot of some kind). Those four films that stand alone are E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Ghost and Titanic.

Star Wars is the top franchise on this recap, with six installments that have been the year’s top-grossing film. Batman is runner-up, with four installments that finished first for the year. Spider-Man is third, with three installments that yielded the year’s top box-office hit.

James Cameron and George Lucas are tied as the only directors who each directed three films that took the year-end crown. Tim Burton, Sam Raimi, Tony Scott, Steven Spielberg, Andrew Stanton and Robert Zemeckis are tied for second place, each having directed two year-end champs.

John Williams is far and away the top film scorer. The legendary composer scored 10 films that took the year-end box-office crown. Danny Elfman and Alan Silvestri have each scored films that finished first four times. (Hans Zimmer will join them if Top Gun: Maverick, on which he teamed with Harold Faltermeyer and Lady Gaga to provide the music, finishes first for the year.)

Lucas and Williams are the only director/composer team to collaborate on three year-end box-office champs. Six other such teams have collaborated on two year-end champs: Spielberg and Williams; Zemeckis and Silvestri; Scott and Faltermeyer; Cameron and James Horner; Burton and Elfman; and Stanton and Thomas Newman.

Top Gun: Maverick is far out front for 2022 to date, with a domestic (U.S. and Canada) gross of more than $664 million. But it’s too early to crown Maverick as the year’s top-grossing film. Sequels to two other films that were the year’s top box-office hit, Avatar and Black Panther, are due later this year. Black Panther: Wakanda Forever is scheduled for release on Nov. 11. Avatar: The Way of Water is due Dec. 16. If you think that’s too late for a film to have a realistic chance of taking the box-office crown by Dec. 31, just remember last year, when a film that was released on Dec. 17 (Spider Man: No Way Home) grossed enough in the last two weeks of the year to finish No. 1 for the year.

Let’s scroll back through the films that had the most success at the domestic box office (that’s the U.S. and Canada) in each calendar year since 1977, when Annie debuted on Broadway, Laverne & Shirley was the top TV show and Fleetwood Mac’s Rumours dominated the Billboard 200.