Prime Video has introduced that it will likely be the brand new house for streaming Lionsgate films within the US beginning in 2026, and also will get a bunch of the studio’s 2025 movies. The films will seem on Starz first, instantly after launch, with Prime Video getting them solely in an “early window” simply after that, in accordance with Deadline.
Lionsgate makes the John Wick, The Hunger Games and The Strangers franchises, and can be the place Guy Ritchie and Paul Feig are at the moment making their films, amongst others.
The 2026 deal will embrace the subsequent Hunger Games film, The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping, and Now You See Me 3 primarily based on the deliberate launch dates. It could effectively additionally embrace the deliberate releases of Orphan 3, John Wick Chapter 5, a Highlander remake from John Wick director Chad Stahelski with Henry Cavill, and the brand new American Psycho adaptation coming from Call Me By Your Name director Luca Guadagnino.
I say “could effectively” as a result of they do not have launch dates but, and Prime Video and Lionsgate have not mentioned how lengthy this deal will final.
The deal may also embrace the choice convey a few of Lionsgate’s 2025 film slate solely to Prime Video, and the record of movies accessible for this contains the John Wick spin-off Ballerina, Saw XI, The Strangers Chapter 2 (and Chapter 3), a brand new crime thriller starring Sydney Sweeney known as Americana, and Guy Ritchie’s subsequent film In The Grey. However, it isn’t confirmed which of those films can be included.
Prime Video may also license a few of Lionsgate’s TV again catalog, which incorporates the likes of Weeds and Nurse Jackie.
A deal made only for me
As a lover of thriller films – particularly time-filler mid-tier thrillers, of the sort that may completely have as soon as starred Ashley Judd – that is going to make Prime Video fairly indispensable to me among the many finest streaming providers.
Lionsgate is among the final bastions of strong thriller films, and its record of upcoming films is full of them, from some fascinating new administrators to recognized protected arms akin to John Wick director Stahelski.
You’ve received horror thrillers, motion thrillers, crime thrillers – these are the issues I placed on within the evenings when my mind is exhausted and I do not wish to mull my choices too arduous. “Oh, the brand new Guy Ritchie film is out? Great, I can not wait to see Henry Cavill (I assume) punch somebody and say a captivating line.” (I’ve now checked, and Henry Cavill is, in truth, in it).
This deal mainly establishes Prime Video as my go-to service on these days, and the information comes simply as I’ve been beginning to get irritated with the service’s reminders in the beginning of each film that it added adverts in for my paid service that did not used to have adverts.
But the adverts have confirmed to be comparatively unintrusive, and with the assure of a gentle throw of thrillers, this undoubtedly retains me on board.
