You'll need to sign up for a $5-a-month or a $10-a-month premium tier if you want to watch Halloween Kills or any of Peacock's other paywalled programming. Peacock is owned by Comcast's NBCUniversal, and Universal Pictures is the distributor of Halloween Kills. Halloween Kills is one of the few theatrical films streaming now while it's in theaters, over on Peacock. What about other movies in theaters now? Is Halloween Kills, No Time to Die, Shang-Chi or anything else streaming? It'll be in theaters exclusively for at least 45 days after its Friday release in cinemas.Įventually, Eternals will stream on Disney Plus, but it doesn't have a confirmed streaming release date yet, and Disney isn't likely to set one for a while.
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Eternals - the star-packed Marvel movie that's next up in the superhero franchise - isn't available to stream, not on HBO Max, Disney Plus or anywhere else. Spencer is being distributed in the US by the companies Neon and Topic Studios, and it's being released exclusively in theaters Friday. Can I stream Spencer on HBO Max (or anywhere)? Without knowing the studio distributing that new flick, lots of people get curious about whether it's one of the movies available on HBO Max too. The strategy has created some misguided hope among moviegoers when any new movie hits theaters. Kong, In the Heights and Space Jam: A New Legacy earlier this year, as well as The Matrix 4 coming up.īut it also means movies from any other studio won't be on Max the same day. studios at no extra charge the same day they hit the big screen during 2021. HBO Max made waves last year when it announced that it would stream new, theatrically released movies from Warner Bros. (See below for more details about what movies are and aren't streaming, and where.)
That's how Halloween Kills came to be available to stream last month when it hit cinemas. Occasionally, other studios follow the HBO Max playbook and drop a film into cineplexes and onto a streaming service at the same time.
isn't releasing anything new in theaters this weekend. film, qualifying it to stream on HBO Max. That's because the only movies HBO Max streams while they're still in theaters are Warner Bros. But no new movies hitting theaters this weekend are destined for HBO Max - that means Spencer, the biopic with Kristen Stewart portraying Princess Diana, isn't available to stream there, nor is Marvel's Eternals. And HBO Max is still streaming Dune, the big-budget, star-packed remake of the sci-fi classic. HBO Max, in particular, has become synonymous with the practice. This year has seen an unprecedented number of new theatrical movies being released on streaming services the same day they hit cinemas.