• Disney delivered another gold-standard upfront at North Javits Center, with stars like Anne Hathaway and Robert Downey Jr. in tow
• Netflix leveled up in its fourth year of pitching advertisers, combining a new venue with a strong programming slate and major NFL news
• NBCUniversal stumbled with a bloated two-hour presentation that failed to recapture the energy of its blockbuster 2024 and 2025 shows
• Tom Brady stole the Fox upfront with an unscripted, improvisational moment alongside Rob Gronkowski that earned the room’s biggest laugh
• The three-day blitz also highlighted a growing VIP divide, with Amazon and others retreating behind velvet ropes while Disney and Netflix kept their executives accessible

The 2026 upfronts are done, and the verdict is in: Disney and Netflix are the ones advertisers should be excited about, while NBCUniversal had a rough week it would probably like to forget.

This year’s compressed three-day run through New York — Monday to Wednesday — gave media and streaming companies their annual shot at wooing ad buyers, and the results were as uneven as ever. Some stages crackled with energy. Others felt like they needed a serious edit. And at least one moment, courtesy of a certain Hall of Fame quarterback, was genuinely worth the price of admission.

Disney and Netflix Set the Standard

Disney stayed in its lane — and its lane happens to be the best one in the business. Back at North Javits Center, the company put on what can only be described as an end-to-end gold-standard show. News was dished, movie stars like Anne Hathaway and Robert Downey Jr. worked the stage, and the after-party was lavish enough to make a cruise ship envious. Crucially, Disney’s executives — from the CEO on down — didn’t vanish behind velvet ropes when the presentations ended. That kind of accessibility matters, and it showed.

Netflix, meanwhile, has been quietly doing the work. Now in its fourth year of pitching ad buyers, the streamer is firmly in what it calls the “walk” phase of its “crawl, walk, run” journey into the advertising business — and the walk looks increasingly confident. The newly opened Sunset Pier 94 Studios provided a genuine venue upgrade, the programming announcements landed, and the talent didn’t just show up — they showed out. Not counting the first year, which was virtual due to Covid, this was Netflix’s best-executed upfront presentation to date. Big NFL news added an extra jolt of energy to the room.

The contrast with some of the week’s other players was hard to miss. Netflix and Disney kept their doors open. Amazon, after a starry presentation at the Beacon Theatre featuring Michael B. Jordan, Chris Pratt, and Oprah Winfrey, clearly dropped most of its top brass at a more exclusive location on the way to the New York Public Library after-party — leaving Diplo and Shaboozey as the official bash’s main draws. That kind of split-tier access has always existed in this business, but it felt particularly pronounced this year.

NBCUniversal Loses the Room

Coming off back-to-back blockbuster upfronts in 2024 and 2025 — built around Wicked, Saturday Night Live‘s 50th anniversary, the Olympics, and the Super Bowl — NBCUniversal had a genuinely difficult act to follow. It did not follow it well.

The presentation ran two hours, and it felt like it. Song-and-dance numbers that should have landed with ordinarily winning talent like Bowen Yang, Matt Rogers, Tina Fey, and Jane Krakowski instead fell flat. Late-night host Seth Meyers did crush his roast set, and ad sales chief Mark Marshall delivered his customarily wry bit — this time built around the conceit of getting tattooed with brand messages — but those bright spots weren’t enough to save a bloated opener to what was already a packed week.

NBCU’s Spanish-language subsidiary Telemundo fared considerably better, throwing an energetic Rainbow Room celebration anchored by its Spanish-language rights to this summer’s World Cup. The event, which included a Peacock collaboration demo and appearances from Marshall and NBCU News Group chairman Cesar Conde, was a reminder of what upfront events can feel like when the hard sell takes a back seat to actually having a good time.

Tom Brady Steals the Fox Upfront

Fox moved to a new venue — New York City Center — and brought out a rare appearance from CEO Lachlan Murdoch. But the moment everyone will be talking about involved two former New England Patriots.

Tom Brady, now the No. 1 Fox Sports NFL analyst, has been steadily improving on air in a way that mirrors his playing career: methodical, disciplined, getting better every season. The upfront revealed something else entirely. Standing next to Erin Andrews and Rob Gronkowski as Gronk plugged an upcoming Fox holiday telecast, Brady didn’t hesitate to call an audible. When Gronkowski delivered his line — “Ho, ho, ho, the NFL is back for Christmas on Fox” — Brady flashed a sardonic smile and pounced. “Feels like he’s back at Arizona,” he cracked, referencing his ex-teammate’s notoriously hot-tub-filled college days at the University of Arizona. The room erupted.

It was the kind of loose, improvisational moment that no upfront script can manufacture — and it was the week’s single best piece of stage talent.

The Rest of the Field

Warner Bros. Discovery promised to get through its pitch in an hour. Sales co-chief Ryan Gould told the audience directly: “Put us on the clock.” They missed the target by more than 10 minutes, largely due to some vamping by Craig Ferguson and other talent. Not a disaster, but not a great look when you’ve made punctuality your selling point.

Paramount, which hasn’t put on a conventional full-tilt upfront since 2022, continued its more restrained approach. That 2022 stumble — linking CBS franchise 60 Minutes with the duration of the presentation, using the show’s stopwatch logo as a framing device — is still remembered as a cautionary tale.

Amazon and TelevisaUnivision managed to achieve something genuinely rare: they interrupted their own marketing pitches with more marketing. Amazon ran an ad-within-an-ad segment featuring Summer House alum Paige DeSorbo alongside one of the company’s own ad execs. TelevisaUnivision handed screen time to marketing executives from companies including Microsoft and Cologuard maker Exact Sciences. The meta-ness of it all was either bold or exhausting, depending on your tolerance level.

YouTube, at least, kept its obligatory chief marketing officer segment — this year featuring Coach’s Joon Silverstein — blessedly brief. Whatever aftertaste remained was immediately washed away by a rousing set from pop star Chappell Roan, which may have been the week’s most purely fun musical moment.

The Bigger Picture

Zoom out from the stage presentations and the after-parties, and the 2026 upfronts took place against a streaming landscape that’s shifting faster than the week’s PowerPoints could capture. Netflix’s ad business is on track to hit $3 billion in revenue this year, with more than 60% of new sign-ups in ad-supported markets choosing that tier. The company is now working with over 4,000 advertisers — up 70% year over year. Disney’s direct-to-consumer business, meanwhile, posted $582 million in operating income last quarter, a remarkable turnaround from the days when its streaming division was losing north of $100 million a day.

Warner Bros. Discovery, for its part, crossed 140 million global streaming subscribers in Q1 and is targeting 150 million by year’s end, with 50% of new retail subscribers opting for the ad-supported tier. The potential Paramount Skydance merger — still pending regulatory approval from the DOJ and European agencies despite an overwhelming shareholder vote in April — looms over everything, a reminder that the upfront sellers of today won’t all look the same by the time the next one rolls around.

One thing that did feel refreshingly different this year: the numbers took a back seat to the show. After years of charts and graphs elbowing out sizzle reels and trailers, the showbiz-oriented spirit of old largely prevailed. In a week that could easily have felt like a series of investor presentations with better lighting, that was a genuine relief.

Brady’s Gronkowski crack is still getting laughs in group chats. That’s the bar. More of that, please.

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• All 13 seasons and 176 episodes of the revived Doctor Who (2005–2022) are coming exclusively to AMC+ on June 11.
• The deal covers the Ninth through Thirteenth Doctors — Eccleston, Tennant, Smith, Capaldi, and Whittaker.
• The show left HBO Max in July 2025 and has been unavailable on U.S. streaming since then.
• The two Ncuti Gatwa seasons and the 60th anniversary specials remain on Disney+ only.
• AMC+ is offering a limited-time deal of $29.99 for a full year of the service through May 25.

U.S. Whovians, your wait is finally over. All 13 seasons of the beloved BBC revival of Doctor Who — 176 episodes including Christmas specials, New Year’s specials, and the iconic 50th anniversary — are coming exclusively to AMC+ starting June 11.

The deal covers the entire modern era of the show, from Christopher Eccleston’s leather-jacketed Ninth Doctor in 2005 all the way through Jodie Whittaker’s Thirteenth Doctor in 2022. That’s a lot of time travel. The series had been streaming on HBO Max until July 2025, and has been essentially homeless on U.S. streaming ever since — which, for a fandom as passionate as this one, has been a long, painful gap.

The move is something of a homecoming. BBC America — which is part of AMC Networks, the same parent company as AMC+ — was the U.S. broadcast home for Doctor Who from 2009 through the end of its run in 2022. Before that, the Sci Fi Channel (now Syfy) aired the first few seasons. So the TARDIS is, in a sense, parking itself right back where it belongs.

What’s Included — and What Isn’t

The AMC+ library covers the full run of what fans call “New Who” — the regenerating Time Lord as played by Eccleston (Nine), David Tennant (Ten), Matt Smith (Eleven), Peter Capaldi (Twelve), and Whittaker (Thirteen), along with all their companions. It also includes the specials from that era, including the massive 50th anniversary episode that brought Tennant and Smith together alongside John Hurt’s War Doctor.

What you won’t find here: the 26 seasons of the classic series from 1963 to 1989 (those will likely remain on BritBox, Pluto, and Tubi), the three 60th anniversary specials featuring Tennant’s return, or the two most recent seasons starring Ncuti Gatwa as the Doctor. Those Gatwa seasons — produced in partnership with Disney — remain exclusively on Disney+.

It’s worth knowing the current state of the show as all this unfolds. The BBC and Disney+ have parted ways on future production, though the BBC has said it remains committed to the series. A 2026 Christmas special is in the works, and there are still open questions about whether showrunner Russell T Davies will continue beyond that. The identity of the next Doctor — teased by Billie Piper’s surprise appearance following Gatwa’s regeneration at the end of last season — hasn’t been revealed yet. So the fandom has a lot to catch up on, and now a place to do it.

Why AMC+ Is Making This Move

AMC+ has been quietly building itself into a destination for exactly this kind of devoted genre fandom — it’s already home to the entire Walking Dead universe, Anne Rice’s Interview With the Vampire (now rebranded as The Vampire Lestat), Mayfair Witches, Dark Winds, and legacy titles like Mad Men, Orphan Black, and Preacher. Adding Doctor Who‘s classic modern run fits that strategy neatly.

“Doctor Who strengthens AMC+’s position as a destination for premium genre storytelling — curated franchises defined by iconic worlds, passionate fan bases and enduring cultural impact,” said Courtney Thomasma, Executive Vice President of AMC Global Media’s linear and streaming products. “We’re thrilled to welcome the Whoniverse into our home of fandoms, giving longtime fans a reason to return while inviting new audiences to discover one of television’s most beloved franchises.”

Lawrence Szabo, EVP of Content Sales for BBC Studios in North America and LatAm, signed off with a very on-brand flourish — borrowing one of the Tenth Doctor’s most famous expressions: “AMC+ has built a differentiated home for premium genre franchises and deeply engaged fandoms, making it the ideal exclusive U.S. streaming partner for these 13 seasons of Doctor Who. We’re excited to bring these adventures back to longtime U.S. fans and welcome new audiences into the Whoniverse. Allons-y!”

For anyone who’s been waiting to dive in — or revisit — AMC+ is currently offering a limited-time deal of $29.99 for a full year of the service. That offer expires May 25, so the clock is already ticking. Appropriately enough.

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• The 2026 Faces of Death remake is now available on Prime Video and other digital platforms as of May 12
• The film stars Barbie Ferreira, Dacre Montgomery, Charli xcx, and Jermaine Fowler
• It earned just $2.6 million domestically against a $7.4 million budget during its brief theatrical run
• Director Daniel Goldhaber and writer Isa Mazzei previously collaborated on Netflix’s Cam
• A Shudder streaming debut is expected to follow the PVOD window

The 2026 reimagining of Faces of Death is officially available to watch at home — and given how quickly it disappeared from theaters, that day came sooner than most expected. The horror thriller, starring Barbie Ferreira of Euphoria, hit digital platforms on May 12 and is currently available to rent for $19.99 or purchase for $24.99 on Prime Video, with Apple TV, Fandango at Home, and YouTube Movies & TV also carrying it.

It’s a quick turnaround. The film opened in 1,600 theaters on April 10, pulled in $1.6 million opening weekend for a seventh-place finish, and was already down to 1,000 venues by its second week. By week three, it was playing in just 50 theaters. Its domestic theatrical run wrapped entirely on April 30 — less than three weeks after it opened — having earned a total of $2.6 million against a $7.4 million production budget, not counting marketing costs.

What the New Faces of Death Is Actually About

This isn’t your 1978 cult oddity. The original Faces of Death was a so-called “documentary” that purported to show real footage of people dying — though Variety has confirmed those death scenes were largely staged and faked. It still became a genuine cultural phenomenon, earning $35 million worldwide and spawning seven sequels over the following two decades.

The 2026 version takes that premise and filters it through a very modern lens. Ferreira plays Margot Romero, a content moderator at a TikTok-like platform whose job is to flag and remove violent or offensive videos. When she encounters a particularly disturbing death clip, she starts to suspect the deaths being depicted are real — and that they’re being staged to recreate scenes from a movie. It’s a sharp pivot from found-footage shock doc to something that feels ripped from today’s anxiety about what we consume online and who profits from it.

The film was directed by Daniel Goldhaber and written by Isa Mazzei, the duo behind Netflix’s Cam — a 2018 psychological thriller that also grappled with identity and the dark corners of online platforms. Legendary Entertainment produced the reimagining alongside Don Murphy and Susan Montford’s Angry Films banner, with Adam Hendricks and Greg Gilreath of Divide/Conquer also producing. Rick Benattar served as executive producer and Cory Kaplan co-produced.

Murphy and Montford had actually been trying to get a new Faces of Death off the ground since 2006, with writer-director J.T. Petty attached for several years before the project was scrapped and rebuilt from scratch with Mazzei and Goldhaber at the helm.

The Cast That Came Together for This One

Beyond Ferreira, the film brought together a genuinely interesting ensemble. Dacre Montgomery, best known as Billy Hargrove in Stranger Things, co-stars alongside Jermaine Fowler, who horror fans will recognize from last year’s The Blackening. Josie Totah, who appeared in the recent Saved by the Bell revival, also has a role — and then there’s Charli xcx, the pop star turned cultural moment, making her presence felt on screen as well.

Production took place in Louisiana, and the film spent about three years from announcement to release — a long runway for something that ultimately had such a short theatrical life.

For horror fans who missed it in theaters — or who were curious but not curious enough to make the drive — the digital window is here now. And given that Faces of Death was co-produced with Shudder, the horror streaming platform seems like the natural next stop once the PVOD window closes. That’ll be the real test of whether this one finds its audience.

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• Project Hail Mary is now available to rent ($19.99) or buy ($24.99) on Prime Video, Apple TV, Fandango at Home, and other digital platforms
• The Ryan Gosling sci-fi epic has grossed $656 million worldwide, making it the second-highest-grossing film of 2026
• Amazon MGM extended the theatrical window beyond its usual 45-day window, with the film hitting digital 53 days after its March 20 release
• A free streaming release on Prime Video or MGM+ has not yet been announced, but could arrive as early as mid-June
• Physical media — 4K Blu-ray, Blu-ray, and DVD — is set for August 11, 2026

After nearly two months of dominating the box office and sending audiences back to theaters for second, third, and — for some very dedicated fans — fifth viewings, Project Hail Mary is officially available to watch at home. Ryan Gosling’s sci-fi blockbuster landed on digital platforms on May 12, 2026, and you can rent or buy it on Prime Video, Apple TV, Fandango at Home, YouTube Movies & TV, and Google Play right now.

The rental will run you $19.99 — giving you 30 days to start watching and 48 hours to finish once you press play — while a permanent digital purchase is $24.99. The film is also available in 4K UHD with Dolby Vision HDR and Atmos, so if you’ve got the setup for it, this is going to look and sound spectacular on your couch.

What Project Hail Mary Is Actually About

Directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, with a screenplay by Drew Goddard, the film is based on the bestselling 2021 novel by Andy Weir — the same author behind The Martian. Gosling plays Ryland Grace, a middle school science teacher who wakes up aboard a spacecraft called the Hail Mary with no memory of who he is or how he got there. As his memories slowly return through flashbacks, he realizes he’s the sole survivor of a crew on a suicide mission: figure out why a mysterious microorganism called astrophage is eating the sun’s energy before it kills every living thing on Earth.

He doesn’t have to do it alone. Along the way, Grace encounters Rocky — a spider-shaped alien made of rocks, voiced by James Ortiz — whose own planet is facing the same extinction-level threat. What follows is, depending on who you ask, one of the most purely joyful sci-fi films in years.

Sandra Hüller, Milana Vayntrub, Ken Leung, and Liz Kingsman also star.

On Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds a 94% critics score and a 95% audience score. The San Francisco Chronicle’s G. Allen Johnson called it “a masterpiece of a family popcorn movie, with eye-popping hand-crafted production design and outstanding creature design and puppetry work.” IGN’s Tom Jorgenson gave it 8/10, describing it as “a memorable celebration of how much we can accomplish when we work together.”

The Box Office Story Behind the Digital Release

This is Amazon MGM Studios’ biggest movie ever — full stop. Project Hail Mary has earned $656 million worldwide, split almost perfectly down the middle between domestic ($327.7 million) and international ($328 million) markets, per Box Office Mojo. It’s the second-highest-grossing film of 2026, sitting behind only The Super Mario Bros. Galaxy Movie. Against a net production budget of $200 million — before marketing — the film needed to clear $500 million to break even, according to Variety. It blew past that.

The film’s journey to your living room wasn’t entirely straightforward. In mid-April, Amazon MGM announced it was actually delaying the digital release to extend the theatrical run — an unusual move that included a one-week return to IMAX theaters. Co-director Christopher Miller was direct about the reasoning. “We announced yesterday that MGM is extending the exclusive theatrical window for Project Hail Mary, so it won’t be on streaming anytime soon,” he wrote on X. “This is a movie that needs to be seen on a big screen…make plans to see it in a theater now! Bring friends and loved ones. It’s an experience to share with others.”

That theatrical window ultimately stretched to 53 days — longer than Amazon MGM’s typical 45-day standard for bigger releases. The PVOD rollout itself is also a departure from the studio’s usual playbook, which tends to skip the rental/purchase window entirely and send films straight to Prime Video.

When Will It Hit Prime Video for Free?

No official streaming date has been announced yet. But based on how Amazon MGM has handled other titles, the expectation is that Project Hail Mary will land on Prime Video — or possibly MGM+ first — sometime in the weeks ahead. Previous Amazon MGM films like Challengers and Blink Twice debuted on MGM+ before expanding to Prime Video. Given the scale of this film’s success, though, it seems unlikely Amazon would bury its biggest movie ever on a niche subscription service. One informed prediction puts the Prime Video arrival around June 12, 2026 — though that’s speculative until the studio makes it official.

If you’re a new subscriber, both Prime Video and MGM+ currently offer free trials: 30 days for Amazon Prime, and seven days for MGM+ (which runs $7.99/month or $5.17/month annually after that).

What About Blu-ray and DVD?

Physical media fans, your date is August 11, 2026 — that’s when 4K Ultra HD, Blu-ray, and DVD copies are expected to arrive, per Blu-ray.com. A preorder isn’t live yet, but it’s worth keeping an eye on. For those who prefer to own their movies in a format that can’t be revoked, it’s worth the wait.

In the meantime, the Project Hail Mary universe keeps expanding beyond the screen — there’s already a LEGO set based on the Hail Mary ship, a Rocky plush, and a VR game on the way. There are even early whispers about franchise potential, though nothing is confirmed.

Rocky, meanwhile, is waiting for you on your couch. Jazz hands and all.

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• Five critically acclaimed films landed on Prime Video on May 1, 2026, all scoring 90% or higher on Rotten Tomatoes.
• The lineup spans six decades — from Woody Allen’s 1977 Best Picture winner to Jim Cummings’ 2020 horror-comedy.
• Hot Fuzz and Babe lead the pack on pure fun, while Dallas Buyers Club brings the prestige drama.
• Prime Video’s May 1 drop also included Goodfellas, Scarface, and Do the Right Thing — one of the biggest single-day library additions in recent memory.
• All five films are available to stream now with a Prime membership.

Prime Video quietly dropped one of its biggest single-day movie hauls of the year on May 1, adding dozens of titles to its library. But if you’re looking for a place to start — specifically, films that critics have already done the hard work of vetting — five of those new arrivals carry a Rotten Tomatoes score of 90% or higher. That’s a pretty reliable shortcut to a good night in.

The range here is genuinely impressive. You’ve got a four-time Oscar winner from 1977, a beloved talking-pig movie from 1995, a McConaughey career-defining drama, Edgar Wright’s action-comedy masterpiece, and a scrappy 2020 genre-blender that flew under most people’s radar. Something for every mood.

Annie Hall (1977) — 97% on Rotten Tomatoes

Before Woody Allen’s Annie Hall, romantic comedies were largely slapstick or polished fantasies. This film essentially rewired how cinema approaches relationships, memory, and the fourth wall. It won four Academy Awards at the 1978 ceremony — including Best Picture and Best Director — and it still holds up as one of the sharpest, most charming films ever made about why love falls apart.

Allen stars as Alvy Singer, a New York comedian looking back on his relationship with Annie Hall (Diane Keaton), an aspiring nightclub singer. The story moves freely between flashbacks, arguments, family visits, and trips, with Alvy trying — and mostly failing — to understand how things changed. Co-written with Marshall Brickman, it’s relaxed and free-flowing in a way that still feels slightly ahead of its time.

Stream Annie Hall on Prime Video now.

Babe (1995) — 98% on Rotten Tomatoes

The highest-rated film on this list, and honestly, it’s not hard to see why. Babe looks like a simple children’s movie on the surface, but it earned seven Academy Award nominations and was one of the first films to use digital mouth-replacement technology — meaning real animals appear to speak without looking like a cartoon. It’s a technical achievement wrapped in something genuinely sweet.

The story follows a young piglet won at a county fair by farmer Arthur Hoggett (James Cromwell), who gets taken in by a Border Collie named Fly (voiced by Miriam Margolyes) and slowly discovers he has an unexpected gift for herding sheep. Hugo Weaving voices Fly’s no-nonsense partner Rex. If you’ve been curious about the upcoming talking-animal film The Sheep Detectives, consider this essential homework.

Stream Babe on Prime Video now.

Dallas Buyers Club (2013) — 92% on Rotten Tomatoes

This is the film that completed Matthew McConaughey’s pivot from rom-com lead to serious dramatic actor — and it’s remembered as much for its production backstory as for the film itself. McConaughey underwent a dramatic physical transformation for the role, losing significant weight to play Ron Woodroof, a Texas electrician and rodeo rider diagnosed with HIV in the mid-1980s.

Told he has limited time to live, Woodroof begins researching treatments after struggling to access legal medication in the US. He travels internationally to obtain alternative drugs and eventually forms an underground distribution network — the Dallas Buyers Club — to get them to other patients. It’s a biographical drama that deals in heavy themes of mortality and systemic failure, but it never loses sight of the human being at its center. Jared Leto won a Supporting Actor Oscar alongside McConaughey’s lead win at the 2014 ceremony.

Stream Dallas Buyers Club on Prime Video now.

Hot Fuzz (2007) — 91% on Rotten Tomatoes

The second installment in Edgar Wright’s Three Flavours Cornetto Trilogy — sandwiched between Shaun of the Dead and The World’s End — Hot Fuzz is technically a parody of action cinema, but it functions more as a high-octane love letter to the genre. It’s one of the tightest, funniest comedies of the 21st century, and a lot of that comes down to the genuine chemistry between Simon Pegg and Nick Frost.

Pegg plays Nicholas Angel, a hyper-competent London police officer reassigned to a sleepy rural village after making his colleagues look bad. He’s partnered with Danny Butterman (Frost), an enthusiastic local cop whose entire understanding of police work comes from action movies. When a series of deaths in the village get ruled as accidents, Angel starts pulling at threads. What unravels is genuinely surprising, extremely violent, and very, very funny.

Stream Hot Fuzz on Prime Video now.

The Wolf of Snow Hollow (2020) — 90% on Rotten Tomatoes

The most under-the-radar film on this list, and maybe the most rewatchable. Written, directed by, and starring Jim Cummings, The Wolf of Snow Hollow is a genuine genre-blender — part small-town procedural, part creature feature, part character study — set in a Utah mountain town where brutal killings are occurring during full moons.

Cummings plays John, the local sheriff already buckling under personal and professional pressure, who leads the investigation while desperately trying to convince himself there’s no supernatural explanation for what’s happening. As the body count rises, the community fractures and the case spirals. A lot of the film’s comedy comes from the awkward, exhausted human interactions happening around a genuinely disturbing mystery. It arrived in 2020 without much fanfare, which means most people still haven’t seen it.

Now’s a good time to fix that.

Stream The Wolf of Snow Hollow on Prime Video now.

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• Zendaya and Robert Pattinson’s A24 film The Drama is now available to rent or buy digitally as of May 5, 2026.
• The film arrived on digital platforms just 32 days after its April 3 theatrical release — well ahead of the typical 45-day window.
• The Drama has crossed $100 million at the worldwide box office, making it only A24’s fifth film ever to hit that milestone.
• The film is expected to land on HBO Max sometime in July or September 2026, per A24’s output deal with Warner Bros. Discovery.
• You can rent for $19.99 or buy for $24.99 on Prime Video, Apple TV, and Fandango at Home.

If you missed The Drama in theaters — or you just need to watch it again now that you know what’s actually going on — Zendaya and Robert Pattinson’s buzzy A24 film is officially available to watch from your couch. As of May 5, the film is live on digital platforms including Prime Video, Apple TV, and Fandango at Home.

That’s a notably fast turnaround. Studios typically hold films for at least 45 days before releasing them digitally — The Drama made the jump in just 32. And it’s not like the film was struggling at the multiplex. According to Box Office Mojo, the film has earned $46.9 million domestically and $69.7 million internationally, crossing the $100 million worldwide mark. That makes it only the fifth film in A24’s history to hit that milestone in over a decade of operation.

What Is ‘The Drama’ Actually About?

Here’s where things get intentionally vague — and for good reason. The marketing has kept the film’s central secret tightly under wraps, and director Kristoffer Borgli wants to keep it that way. “We want the audience to go through the same experience as the characters in the movie, where they get to be surprised by something,” he told The Hollywood Reporter. “So we’re trying to hold that reveal sealed to protect the best experience watching the movie.”

What we can tell you: Zendaya plays Emma and Pattinson plays Charlie, a Boston couple in the final week before their wedding. At a food-and-wine tasting with their best friends Rachel (Alana Haim) and Mike (Mamoudou Athie), the group plays a game where everyone confesses the worst thing they’ve ever done. When Emma takes her turn, what she reveals isn’t just uncomfortable — it throws the entire relationship into question.

Borgli, best known for the 2023 Nicolas Cage film Dream Scenario, described it to THR as “a very chaotic love story” while deliberately avoiding any specific genre label. That’s fair. It’s been marketed as a romantic drama, but the reality is considerably darker and stranger. Think less Four Weddings and a Funeral, more pitch-black dramedy that will have you questioning what you just watched. The film has a 77% critics score and 78% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes, and New York Post critic Johnny Oleksinski called it “gripping, quite stressfully so” and “sometimes stomach-churning in the topical subjects it touches.”

Mashable’s Kristy Puchko put it well: “Those tired of Hollywood happy endings or whimsical romances might appreciate A24’s latest vision of the rocky road to commitment.” She praised the film’s ambiguity, its hard-hitting ending, and the performances — even while acknowledging it’s not an easy watch. Trigger warnings are worth checking before you dive in.

It’s also worth noting that this is the first of three films Zendaya and Pattinson will appear in together this year, which is a pretty remarkable run for two of the most in-demand actors working right now. The Drama has already outperformed Zendaya’s 2024 hit Challengers at the box office, so the pairing is clearly working.

How to Watch ‘The Drama’ at Home Right Now

You’ve got two options: buy it or rent it. The film is available for $24.99 to purchase or $19.99 to rent across all major digital platforms. If you go the rental route, you’ll have 30 days to start watching, and once you hit play, a 48-hour window kicks in to finish it.

You don’t need an active Amazon Prime subscription to buy or rent through Prime Video — just a free Amazon account will do. The same film is also available on Apple TV and Fandango at Home at identical pricing.

When Will ‘The Drama’ Hit HBO Max?

No official date yet, but the destination is clear. A24 renewed its multi-year output deal with Warner Bros. Discovery in January, locking in HBO Max as the exclusive Pay-1 streaming home for A24 theatrical releases in the U.S. That means The Drama will land there before it goes anywhere else.

Based on how other recent A24 releases have moved, the window is typically three to five months post-theatrical. Marty Supreme, A24’s highest-grossing film of all time, arrived on HBO Max on April 24 — nearly five months after its Christmas Day release. The Smashing Machine made the jump in just over three months. Given that The Drama opened April 3, the smart money is on a July or September 2026 streaming premiere.

HBO Max subscriptions start at $10.99 per month, though an annual plan drops that to $9.17 per month. The Disney+, Hulu, and HBO Max bundle — at $19.99 per month with ads — remains one of the better deals in streaming if you’re not already subscribed.

For now, though, the movie is right there waiting on demand. Go in as blind as possible. That’s the whole point.

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