What's Coming Out This Week In Theaters and On Streaming, VOD & TV: January 12 thru January 18, 2026
All the 🎥 films and 📺 shows hitting theaters and streaming this week!
With January in full swing, and award season hitting its stride, your choices for entertainment have officially gone from “a little overwhelming” to “how are we supposed to keep up with all of this?” As some might still be catching up with awards contenders, Hollywood is churning out new releases at a faster pace, making it harder than ever to decide what actually deserves a spot at the top of your watchlist. But if you need a reminder of what’s hitting theaters and streaming this week, we’ve got you covered. Below is a list of this week’s notable new releases. Consider it a way to help narrow down your options and cut through the noise.
🎥 In Theaters This Week
🎥 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple
(Fri, Jan 16th — wide release)
Serving as the grim middle chapter of Danny Boyle and Alex Garland’s new trilogy, Ralph Fiennes returns as Dr. Ian Kelson, clinging to funeral rites and fragile ethics while forging an uneasy alliance with Samson, a towering infected who defies easy labels. Elsewhere, Spike (Alfie Williams) falls into the orbit of Sir Jimmy Crystal (Jack O’Connell), a platinum-blond cult leader whose tracksuit-clad followers look like a boy band and move like a kill squad. With director Nia DaCosta now calling the shots, this new installment reframes the apocalypse as a spiritual collapse. Where the most dangerous thing left is what people choose to believe.
🎥 Dead Man’s Wire
(Fri, Jan 16th — expands wide)
Facing foreclosure and public humiliation, Tony Kiritsis (Bill Skarsgård) ignites a nationwide spectacle when he kidnaps a mortgage broker with a shotgun wired to kill, triggering a 1977 hostage standoff that turns desperation into live television. As the media circus swells, the line between cornered criminal and unlikely folk hero starts to blur. Directed by Gus Van Sant and co-starring Al Pacino, this volatile true-crime dramatization asks how far a man can be pushed before the fuse finally burns out.
🎥 The Choral
(Fri, Jan 16th — expands wide)
A grieving Yorkshire town on the World War I home front finds a fragile sense of hope when an enigmatic German chorus master (Ralph Fiennes) arrives to revive its fading choral society. As the war drains the village of its men and spirit, music becomes an unlikely lifeline—binding civilians and wounded soldiers together in harmony, where song doubles as both solace and quiet defiance.
🎥 Charlie the Wonderdog
(Fri, Jan 16th — wide release)
An animated family adventure starring Owen Wilson as Charlie the Wonderdog, a beloved pet who discovers he has superpowers and a bigger destiny than chasing tennis balls. As he steps up to protect the people he loves, Charlie learns that true heroism isn’t about flashy powers... it’s about courage, kindness, and believing in yourself when it counts.
🎥 Night Patrol
(Fri, Jan 16th — wide release)
When a cop (Justin Long) joins the LAPD’s elite night patrol and discovers it’s a secret brotherhood of vampires, he and his rookie partner (Jermaine Fowler) are forced into a bloody alliance with local street gangsters to stop Los Angeles from plunging into total chaos after sundown.
🎥 A Private Life (Vie Privée)
(Fri, Jan 16th — limited release)
Oscar-winner Jodie Foster puts her French to work as an American psychiatrist in Paris whose carefully ordered life starts to crack when she becomes convinced a patient’s suicide was actually murder. As her fixation spirals past ethical lines and drags her ex-husband into a tangle of surveillance, paranoia, and buried guilt, Rebecca Zlotowski’s offbeat mystery thriller blends Hitchcockian tension with sly dark comedy—proving some secrets are better left on the couch.
🎥 Signing Tony Raymond
(Fri, Jan 16th — limited release)
In this college football comedy that turns the recruiting grind into a full-contact farce, Michael Mosley stars as Coach Walt McFadden, a once-promising LSU assistant on his last shot at relevance, dispatched to small-town Alabama to land the nation’s top defensive end before rival programs swoop in. Standing between him and salvation is Tony Raymond’s wildly unpredictable mother (Mira Sorvino), an unhinged gatekeeper who treats access to her son like it’s fourth-and-long with the season on the line.
🎥 All You Need Is Kill
(Fri, Jan 16th — limited release)
Think Groundhog Day with a lot more alien carnage—or better yet, Edge of Tomorrow, only closer to the original DNA that inspired it. Directed by Kenichiro Akimoto and produced by STUDIO4°C, this kinetic sci-fi anime adapts the classic novel by Hiroshi Sakurazaka into a melancholic, pulse-pounding loop of endless war, where two futuristic soldiers die, reset, and evolve again and again... because here, death isn’t the end, it’s just the restart button.
🎥 Killer Whale
(Fri, Jan 16th — limited release; also on ✅VOD)
What begins as a quiet lagoon escape meant to heal old wounds turns lethal when a killer whale claims the waters and starts picking off its human guests. Starring Virginia Gardner, Mel Jarnson, and Mitchell Hope, this taut survival thriller blends primal ocean terror with emotional fallout, proving some trauma doesn’t fade... it circles back for more.
🎥 Sound of Falling
(Fri, Jan 16th — limited release)
From writer-director Mascha Schilinski comes this singular Cannes Jury Prize winner. Starring Hanna Heckt and Lena Urzendowsky, the acclaimed German drama traces four girls across different eras—from the brink of World War I to the early 21st century—all bound by the same Altmark farmstead and the quiet weight of history lingering in its walls.
🎥 Deepfaking Sam Altman
(Fri, Jan 16th — limited release, in NY & LA)
After failing to land an interview with OpenAI founder Sam Altman, documentarian Adam Bhala Lough builds an AI stand-in for the famously elusive tech figure—and the experiment goes off the rails fast. As the digital doppelgänger embeds itself in his home, bonds with his family, and begins reshaping the film in real time, this funny, unsettling, and unexpectedly tender documentary becomes a human-scale snapshot of life alongside artificial intelligence.
🎥 Shuffle
(Fri, Jan 16th — limited release; in NY)
An unflinching look at addiction treatment fraud in America, this devastating documentary exposes a billion-dollar recovery industry where insurance scams and corporate greed routinely outweigh human lives. Directed by Benjamin Flaherty, it reveals how profit-driven abuse fuels a vicious cycle of relapse and exploitation—proof that in this clinical underworld, the house always wins, even in rehab.
🎥 The Lord of the Rings Trilogy: 25th Anniversary
(Fri, Jan 16th & Sat, Jan 17th thru Thurs, Jan 29th — re-release, via Fathom Entertainment)
Peter Jackson’s Oscar-winning The Lord of the Rings trilogy follows a humble hobbit and his unlikely fellowship on a perilous quest to destroy the One Ring and bring down the dark lord Sauron. To celebrate the saga’s 25th anniversary, the Extended Editions of all three films return to theaters this weekend via Fathom Events.
🎦 Streaming This Week
🎦 The Running Man
(Tues, Jan 13th — streaming on Paramount+)
Stephen King’s dystopian nightmare is back—and it’s moving fast. Director Edgar Wright teams with Glen Powell for a slick, sharp reboot set in a busted-out America where televised murder passes for must-see TV. Powell plays a financially strapped, desperate everyman shoved into a bloodsport ratings trap where the cameras never blink and survival is the only prize that matters, with Josh Brolin, Colman Domingo, and Lee Pace adding extra heat.
🎦 Bone Lake
(Thurs, Jan 15th — streaming on Netflix)
A romantic getaway turns into a bloody nightmare when a couple’s lakeside retreat is crashed by a mysterious pair. Seduction and suspicion quickly spiral out of control. What begins as a darkly funny, alluring encounter descends into sex, lies, and carnage as deadly secrets surface.
🎦 The Rip
(Fri, Jan 16th — premiering on Netflix)
Matt Damon and Ben Affleck reunite as veteran Miami cops who uncover a forgotten cartel stash so massive it turns brotherhood into a liability. Directed by Joe Carnahan, this pulpy crime thriller cranks the pressure as a routine bust spirals into a dangerous temptation. As Damon, Affleck, and their squad (Steven Yeun, Teyana Taylor, and Catalina Sandino Moreno) debate skimming the money or turning it in, paranoia sets in and loyalties fracture. Because when millions in unmarked bills are on the table, the real threat isn’t just the cartel closing in... it’s the partner standing beside you.
🎦 Black Phone 2
(Fri, Jan 16th — streaming on Peacock)
In this eerie follow-up from filmmaker Scott Derrickson, Ethan Hawke’s Grabber reaches out from beyond the grave, turning the afterlife into his newest hunting ground. Mason Thames and Madeleine McGraw return as siblings once again caught in his grip, where every call is a whisper from hell. Hang up if you dare... Because this line is permanently cursed!
🎦 Twinless
(Fri, Jan 16th — streaming on Hulu/Disney+)
There’s a thin line between connection and codependency in this offbeat dark comedy from writer-director James Sweeney. Dylan O’Brien stars as Roman, who loses half of himself — and maybe his grip on reality — after his twin’s death. At a grief group, he bonds with Dennis (played by Sweeney), a fellow “twinless twin,” but what begins as comfort soon turns all-consuming. When Marcie (Aisling Franciosi) enters their orbit, healing gives way to obsession as grief slides into total dependency in this Sundance Award winner.
🎦 Beast of War
(Fri, Jan 16th — streaming on Shudder)
Stranded in the vast Timor Sea after their boat is sunk in World War II, a band of Australian soldiers cling to survival on a dwindling life raft. But the ocean has more than enemy fire to fear—a massive great white shark begins circling, waiting for its next meal. From cult Aussie filmmaker Kiah Roache-Turner (Wyrmwood, Sting), this survival thriller serves up wartime peril with razor-sharp teeth.
🎦 A Big Bold Beautiful Journey
(Sat, Jan 17th — streaming on Netflix)
What if finding true love meant rewriting your past? Margot Robbie and Colin Farrell star in Kogonada’s sweeping romantic time-travel fantasy about two strangers who meet at a wedding and stumble into something cosmic. After opening a mysterious red door in the woods, Robbie and Farrell are soon pulled back through life’s pivotal regrets — missed chances, unsaid words, lingering goodbyes. Turns out the greatest love story isn’t about fate... it’s about second chances, emotional resets, and choosing differently when it finally matters.
✅ On VOD This Week
✅ Rental Family
(Tues, Jan 13th — on VOD/Digital)
This tender Tokyo-set dramedy from Japanese-American filmmaker Hikari (Netflix’s Beef) follows a washed-up American actor who lands an unusual gig “renting” himself out as a stand-in dad, husband, or friend for Japanese locals facing private struggles. Oscar-winner Brendan Fraser brings his trademark warmth to a story steeped in gentle awkwardness and cross-cultural melancholy. It’s a soulful reminder that sometimes faking connection is the first step to finding the real thing.
✅ Song Sung Blue
(Tues, Jan 13th — on VOD/Digital)
Hugh Jackman and Kate Hudson show off their pipes (and their love for Neil Diamond) as two down-on-their-luck performers who find unexpected purpose not by chasing stardom, but by putting on the best show they possibly can. Fueled by Diamond’s songbook, their unlikely partnership turns tribute into transformation as small gigs grow into something bigger and far more personal. This feel-good musical drama asks whether the stage can heal real-life wounds, or if the spotlight always comes with a cost.
✅ Dust Bunny
(Tues, Jan 13th — on VOD/Digital)
Veteran TV showrunner Bryan Fuller (Pushing Daisies, Hannibal) jumps into feature filmmaking with this dark fantasy–hitman mashup about a young girl (Sophie Sloan) who believes a monster devoured her family and turns to her mysterious assassin neighbor (Mads Mikkelsen) for help. With Sigourney Weaver & David Dastmalchian also aboard, expect twisted humor, sharp visuals, and Fuller’s signature macabre flair.
✅ The Internship
(Tues, Jan 13th — on VOD/Digital)
Move over, Jason Bourne.. ‘cuz there’s a new CIA-trained assassin in town, and she’s done taking orders. Lizzy Greene stars as a teen superspy raised inside a black-ops program known as The Internship, now leading a violent revolt against the agency that wants her erased. Directed by stuntman-turned-filmmaker James Bamford and co-starring Megan Boone, Sky Katz, and Sullivan Stapleton, this adrenaline-charged thriller suggests the CIA’s worst nightmare might be the kids it trained too well.
✅ Rebuilding
(Tues, Jan 13th — on VOD/Digital)
Hope doesn’t come easy, but Josh O’Connor makes every moment count. He journeys into the burned-out heart of America as a rancher forced into a FEMA camp after wildfires consume everything he owns. Written and directed by Max Walker-Silverman (A Love Song), this tender, quietly devastating drama finds grace amid the ashes as O’Connor rebuilds not just his home, but the fragile bonds of family and faith.
⇯ See Above: ✅Killer Whale (Fri, Jan 16; VOD/Digital)
📺 On TV This Week
📺 One Last Adventure: The Making of Stranger Things 5
(Mon, Jan 12th — on Netflix)
Fans still have one last upside to look forward to: a new making-of documentary loaded with behind-the-scenes insight. If you were on board for the finale and the final season of Stranger Things, this one’s a must. The special opens the vault on years of production, showing how the cast, crew, and creators pulled off the show’s farewell.
📺 Tell Me Lies: Season 3
(Tues, Jan 13th — on Hulu/Disney+)
The toxic carousel of Baird College spins back into motion as Lucy (Grace Van Patten) and Stephen (Jackson White) convince themselves this time will be different... it won’t. Old lies, unresolved damage, and new campus scandals quickly turn their rekindled romance into a slow-motion disaster that drags their entire circle down with it.
📺 Pole to Pole with Will Smith
(Tues, Jan 13th — on National Geographic/Disney+)
Inspired by his late mentor, Will Smith embarks on a bold 100-day global expedition for National Geographic, crossing all seven continents from Arctic ice fields to the depths of the Amazon. Guided by scientists, Smith tackles extreme challenges — skiing toward the South Pole, handling an anaconda, even milking a venomous tarantula — in the name of discovery.
📺 Hijack: Season 2
(Wed, Jan 14th — on Apple TV)
If you spot Idris Elba on public transit, it’s time to exit... immediately. Season 2 drops Elba’s cool-headed negotiator Sam Nelson into a new pressure cooker: a Berlin subway hijacking with hundreds of commuters trapped underground. Older, wiser, and far more distrusted, Sam is now viewed by authorities as a liability — or worse, a possible conspirator.
📺 Ponies
(Thurs, Jan 15th — on Peacock)
Emilia Clarke and Haley Lu Richardson star as two newly widowed women dropped into 1970s Moscow after learning their CIA husbands were killed under suspicious circumstances. Created by Susanna Fogel, this Cold War spy thriller sends them undercover as U.S. embassy secretaries — wildly untrained, dangerously underestimated, and perfectly positioned to turn invisibility into a weapon.
📺 Star Trek: Starfleet Academy
(Thurs, Jan 15th — on Paramount+)
The new year also brings a brand-new Star Trek series, set in the 32nd century — long after the eras of Captains Kirk, Picard, and Janeway. Centered on the legendary Starfleet Academy in San Francisco, the series follows a new class of cadets searching for purpose in the galaxy. Oscar winner Holly Hunter leads as Chancellor Nahla Ake, opposite Paul Giamatti’s volatile antagonist Nus Braka. With returning favorites like Tig Notaro’s engineer Jett Reno, Robert Picardo’s hologram Doctor, and Stephen Colbert as the voice of the Digital Dean of Students, class is officially in session.
📺 Agatha Christie’s Seven Dials
(Thurs, Jan 15th — on Netflix)
Mia McKenna-Bruce stars as Lady Eileen “Bundle” Brent, an aristocratic whirlwind who refuses to mind her business after a charming young man turns up dead following a lavish masquerade. One eerie clue — seven clocks staged beside the body — sends her racing into a web of secrets, suspects, and ticking danger. With a stacked cast including Helena Bonham Carter and Martin Freeman, this three-part whodunit proves classic mysteries still hit when the setup’s sharp and the suspects are plentiful.
📺 The Upshaws: The Final Season
(Thurs, Jan 15th — on Netflix)
Mike Epps, Wanda Sykes, and Kim Fields return for one last round of hard-earned laughs in the fourth and final season of their Netflix sitcom. Set in Indiana, the series follows a working-class family juggling money stress, marriage drama, and the daily grind. As Regina eyes local office and Bennie scrambles to save his struggling garage, the show closes out with the same charm it started with: bills piling up, love holding steady, and jokes landing right on time.
📺 Gangs of London: Season 3
(Thurs, Jan 15th — on AMC/AMC+)
London’s criminal underworld snaps into chaos as one bad move triggers a citywide reckoning. When Elliot (Sope Dirisu) throws in with the Dumanis, a tainted fentanyl shipment detonates alliances and ignites revenge across every faction. With the city barely functioning under a compromised mayor, grief turns feral and power grabs turn fatal.
📺 What Drives You with John Cena: Season 2
(Fri, Jan 16th — on Roku Channel)
John Cena returns for a second season of intimate conversations with celebrity friends while behind the wheel of unique vehicles. This season features a new roster of celebrity guests as they discuss their personal journeys and the passions that fuel their success.
📺 A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms
(Sun, Jan 18th — on HBO)
HBO is heading back to Westeros — but this time with a lighter touch. Inspired by George R. R. Martin’s Tales of Dunk and Egg, this new GoT prequel series trades dragons and doom for wit, warmth, and political side-eye. Set a century before the original show, the six-episode fantasy follows towering hedge knight Ser Duncan the Tall (Peter Claffey) and his sharp young squire Egg (Dexter Sol Ansell). It’s Westeros through the eyes of an actually decent man... which, historically, never ends well.
📺 The Hillside Strangler
(Sun, Jan 18th — on MGM+)
Executive produced by Eli Holzman and Aaron Saidman, this four-part investigation delves into the infamous serial murders that gripped late-1970s Los Angeles. The docuseries features unprecedented access to legendary detective Frank Salerno and, for the first time, the voice of convicted killer Kenneth Bianchi himself.
