What's Coming Out This Week In Theaters and On Streaming, VOD & TV: April 27 thru May 3, 2026
All the 🎥 films and 📺 shows hitting theaters and streaming this week!
As the calendar gets ready to flip to May and the summer movie season starts warming up, this week brings the first real wave of blockbuster-sized releases ready to make some noise. So expect the next couple of weeks to get bigger, louder, and a whole lot busier at the movies. And as always, we’re here each week to round up what’s arriving in the next few days. So whether you’re heading out to your local theater or staying in with something new to stream, we’ve got you covered.
🎦 Streaming This Week
✅ On VOD This Week
📺 On TV This Week
🎥 In Theaters This Week
🎥 The Devil Wears Prada 2
(Fri, May 1st — wide release)
Fashion never forgets, even when Miranda Priestly pretends she does. Anne Hathaway’s Andy Sachs returns to Runway as the magazine faces a shifting media landscape, forcing her back into orbit with Meryl Streep’s icy editor-in-chief and Emily Blunt’s sharp-tongued Emily Charlton. With Stanley Tucci also back as fashion director Nigel Kipling, this glossy sequel proves office politics still look better in couture.
🎥 Hokum
(Fri, May 1st — wide release)
Adam Scott has a gift for making ordinary guys feel anything but dull. In this eerie Irish horror tale, he plays a reclusive novelist who travels to the countryside to scatter his parents’ ashes, only to find himself staying at an inn steeped in witchy folklore and creeping unease. Writer-director Damian McCarthy aims to keep the dread slow, stylish, and deeply unsettling, proving some local legends are better left as hokum.
🎥 Animal Farm: A Cautionary Tale
(Fri, May 1st — wide release)
Revolution gets messy once the pigs discover the perks of power. This animated take on George Orwell’s classic fable follows a farmyard uprising that begins with dreams of equality, only to unravel into propaganda, fear, and four-legged tyranny. With Seth Rogen voicing Napoleon, Andy Serkis directing, and Nicholas Stoller writing, this darkly comic allegory proves some animals are more equal than others.
🎥 Deep Water
(Fri, May 1st — wide release)
The friendly skies turn feeding frenzy in this survival thriller starring Aaron Eckhart and Ben Kingsley as airline pilots forced to ditch their plane in the open ocean. But surviving the crash is only the first nightmare, as stranded passengers cling to wreckage while sharks circle below. Directed by Renny Harlin, this disaster thriller puts panic, pressure, and predators on the same flight plan.
🎥 One Spoon of Chocolate
(Fri, May 1st — limited release)
Street justice gets served with a grindhouse kick in this pulpy revenge thriller from RZA. Shameik Moore stars as a former soldier and ex-con who uncovers a sinister conspiracy in a town where young men keep disappearing. With Quentin Tarantino presenting and RJ Cyler, Paris Jackson, Blair Underwood, and more co-starring, this action-charged thriller brings the hammer down.
🎥 That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime The Movie: Tears of the Azure Sea
(Fri, May 1st — limited release)
Peace never lasts long in a world of monsters, magic, and uneasy treaties. When Rimuru Tempest accepts an invitation from Celestial Emperor Elmesia to visit a secluded island in Thalion, a mysterious woman named Yura turns the getaway into a fresh crisis. Inspired by Fuse’s light novel series, this vibrant anime fantasy sends diplomacy spiraling into magical trouble.
🎥 Omaha
(Fri, May 1st — limited release; expanding more cities)
Set against the 2008 financial crisis, John Magaro stars in this quiet coming-of-age drama as a worn-down father driving his daughter (Molly Belle Wright) and younger son (Wyatt Solis) across the American West, where an impending foreclosure becomes impossible to outrun. This tender family portrait finds growing up in the moment you realize home isn’t ahead... it’s already slipping away behind you.
🎥 The Last One for the Road
(Fri, May 1st — limited release)
Some comeback stories come with a lot of bad ideas and worse hangovers. Filippo Scotti and Sergio Romano star as aging small-time hustlers chasing buried riches after an old partner resurfaces with one last scheme. Directed by Francesco Sossai, this scruffy Italian road-trip caper wanders through taverns, detours, and the dusty remains of glory days gone sideways.
🎥 Two Pianos
(Fri, May 1st — limited release)
Old flames have a way of playing out of tune. François Civil stars as a globe-trotting pianist who returns to Lyon for one final performance with his demanding former teacher (Charlotte Rampling), only to be pulled back toward a volatile ex (Nadia Tereszkiewicz) who refuses to fade quietly. Writer-director Arnaud Desplechin turns this intimate French romantic drama into a chamber piece of love, loyalty, and unfinished business.
🎥 American Agitators
(Fri, May 1st — limited release)
Change doesn’t happen by accident. Narrated by Mexican-American filmmaker/activist Luis Valdez (La Bamba), this inspiring documentary traces the life and legacy of Fred Ross Sr., the pioneering community organizer whose work helped shape civil rights victories, labor movements, and generations of grassroots activism. From Dust Bowl struggles to modern organizing, the film makes a clear case that persistence can move mountains... and history.
🎥 Our Land (Nuestra Tierra)
(Fri, May 1st — limited release; in NY with other cities to follow)
A single murder trial opens the door to centuries of buried injustice. Acclaimed Argentine filmmaker Lucrecia Martel turns the killing of Indigenous activist Javier Chocobar into a searing documentary about the Chuschagasta people’s fight for land, identity, and recognition. What begins in a courtroom becomes a wider reckoning with colonial history that never really ended.
🎦 Streaming This Week
🎦 My Killer Father: The Green Hollow Murders
(Tues, Apr 28th — premiering on Paramount+)
A daughter’s shocking accusation cracks open a quiet town’s darkest secrets in this chilling true-crime documentary. As she claims her father may be responsible for multiple murders, investigators begin revisiting old suspicions, buried evidence, and a family history shaped by fear. What follows is a disturbing look at how long the truth can stay hidden when everyone is too scared to dig.
🎦 Swapped
(Fri, May 1st — premiering on Netflix)
A body-swap comedy goes full wilderness survival. Oscar-winner Michael B. Jordan lends his voice to Ollie, a tiny sea otter–like woodland creature who suddenly finds himself in the body of a regal bird, while Ted Lasso’s Juno Temple voices Ivy, now stuck navigating life in Ollie’s fur-covered form. Directed by Tangled’s Nathan Greno, this animated adventure turns natural enemies into unlikely allies, proving sometimes the only way to survive this world is to walk in someone else’s shoes... literally.
🎦 My Dearest Señorita
(Fri, May 1st — premiering on Netflix)
In 1970s Spain, a sheltered young woman’s life splits wide open after a life-changing discovery forces her beyond the conservative home that defined her. Newcomer Elisabeth MartÃnez stars as Adela, whose search for identity and freedom leads her to Madrid in this period drama from Spanish filmmaker Fernando González Molina. Some lives can’t be lived inside the boxes handed to them.
🎦 Wuthering Heights
(Fri, May 1st — streaming on HBO Max)
This torrid gothic romance centers on Jacob Elordi’s Heathcliff, a castoff raised at a desolate manor whose obsessive devotion to Margot Robbie’s Catherine Earnshaw mutates into jealousy, revenge, and generational ruin when love slips out of reach. Under filmmaker Emerald Fennell’s decadent eye and visual flair, some love stories aren’t meant to heal... they’re meant to leave scorch marks.
✅ On VOD This Week
✅ Hoppers
(Tues, Apr 28th — on VOD/Digital)
Nature finally talks back in Pixar’s eco-charged animated comedy about a teen who trades her skateboard for a mechanical tail. Piper Curda voices Mabel Tanaka, a rebellious skater who accidentally uploads her mind into a lifelike robotic beaver and discovers a forest fed up with human-made destruction. When a corporation moves to bulldoze their sanctuary, Mabel navigates ruthless pond politics to rally the animals, blending high-tech hijinks with Pixar heart and an eco-conscious bite.
✅ They Will Kill You
(Tues, Apr 28th — on VOD/Digital)
One bad job. One very bad building. Zazie Beetz stars in this grindhouse horror-action hybrid as a desperate housekeeper who discovers her employers are part of a satanic cult with a monthly sacrifice on the schedule. But when she’s next in line, this would-be victim turns the tables, using her cage-fighting skills to battle through a blood-soaked night of survival.
✅ Exit 8
(Tues, Apr 28th — on VOD/Digital)
A routine subway ride turns into an endless loop when a Japanese man (Kazunari Ninomiya) finds himself trapped in a shifting corridor where every detail feels off and every decision could be a mistake. Directed by Genki Kawamura and based on the viral game by Kotake Create, this psychological Japanese horror thriller thrives on repetition and creeping paranoia, where escape depends on noticing what doesn’t belong.
✅ Forbidden Fruits
(Tues, Apr 28th — on VOD/Digital)
In this Diablo Cody-produced darkly comic horror satire, Lili Reinhart stars as a boutique-working mall employee who secretly leads a coven of fashionable witches (Victoria Pedretti and Alexandra Shipp), where after-hours rituals blend sisterhood with a taste for revenge. But when a rebellious new hire (Lola Tung) throws their perfectly curated dynamic off balance, everything begins to unravel in ways that threaten not just their bond, but the very power holding them together.
✅ She Dances
(Tues, Apr 28th — on VOD/Digital)
Steve Zahn hits the road with his real-life daughter Audrey Zahn in this emotional family dramedy about a divorced father trying to reconnect with his teenage daughter on the way to a regional dance competition. Directed by actor Rick Gomez from a script co-written with Zahn, the film co-stars Ethan Hawke, Mackenzie Ziegler, Sonequa Martin-Green, and Rosemarie DeWitt. Sometimes the hardest road trip is the one where the real destination is forgiveness.
✅ Dust Bunny
(Tues, Apr 28th — 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.
✅ Didn’t Die
(Tues, Apr 28th — on VOD/Digital)
A podcast host tries to keep her audience alive while the actual world dies around her in this zombie-apocalypse comedy. Kiran Deol stars as Vinita, a young podcaster whose survival plans get complicated when mutating zombies, an ex-boyfriend, and an orphaned baby crash into her already collapsing life. In the end, going viral may be the least of her problems.
✅ A Magnificent Life
(Tues, Apr 28th — on VOD/Digital)
A legendary writer gets a visit from his toughest critic: himself. This animated biographical drama from acclaimed French animator Sylvain Chomet (Les Triplettes de Belleville) follows aging French author Marcel Pagnol as a mysterious encounter with his younger self sends him back through the memories that shaped his life and art.
✅ Modern Whore
(Fri, May 1st — on VOD/Digital)
Canadian writer and former sex worker Andrea Werhun steps into her own past, portraying different chapters of her journey through sex work with brazen honesty and sharp wit. Directed by Nicole Bazuin and produced by Oscar-winning filmmaker Sean Baker (Anora), this hybrid documentary blends humor, heartbreak, and performance while pushing back against familiar narratives. Each story reveals a different truth, challenging stigma, perception, and who gets to control the story.
✅ You’re Dating a Narcissist!
(Fri, May 1st — on VOD/Digital)
Marisa Tomei stars as a sharp-minded psychologist who knows a narcissist when she sees one... at least professionally. But when her daughter (Ciara Bravo) announces a sudden wedding to a suspiciously charming fiancé (Marco Pigossi), she teams up with her best friend (Sherry Cola) for a cross-country mission to stop the marriage, believing he checks every narcissistic box.
📺 On TV This Week
📺 Widow’s Bay
(Wed, Apr 29th — on Apple TV)
Tourism is tough when your town might actually be cursed. Matthew Rhys stars as a dry-witted mayor trying to turn a foggy New England island into a must-visit getaway, only for local legends to start scaring off more than bad reviews. From Katie Dippold and Hiro Murai, this darkly comic supernatural series makes small-town charm look downright hazardous.
📺 Should I Marry A Murderer?
(Wed, Apr 29th — on Netflix)
Love becomes a dangerous cover story in this true-crime docuseries about a woman who stays engaged to a man accused of murder while secretly helping investigators build a case against him. As she gathers evidence from inside the relationship, trust twists into surveillance, loyalty turns slippery, and every intimate moment carries the threat of exposure.
📺 The House of the Spirits
(Wed, Apr 29th — on Prime Video)
Family history becomes both inheritance and burden in this sweeping Spanish-language drama based on Isabel Allende’s acclaimed novel. Across generations, three women navigate love, power, secrets, and political upheaval as personal wounds become tangled with the larger forces shaping their world. It’s a multigenerational saga where the past never stays buried for long.
📺 Man on Fire
(Thurs, Apr 30th — on Netflix)
Wonder Man’s Yahya Abdul-Mateen II trades superpowers for survival mode in this gritty action thriller series, playing John Creasy, a former Special Forces operative trying to outrun his violent past. But when a teenage girl (Billie Boullet) under his protection lands in danger, redemption turns into a firefight. With director Steven Caple Jr. (Creed II, Transformers: Rise of the Beasts) setting the tone, this new take on A. J. Quinnell’s crime novel (previously brought to the screen by Tony Scott and Denzel Washington) puts one damaged protector back in the line of fire.
📺 Tales from the Crypt
(Fri, May 1st — on Shudder)
The Crypt Keeper is back from the grave, and he’s still got plenty of bad puns and worse fates to hand out. This classic ’90s horror anthology serves up standalone tales of greed, revenge, and nasty moral comeuppance, all wrapped in dark humor and macabre twists. With all seven seasons rolling out weekly, this cult favorite proves some wicked stories deserve to return for a new generation to devour.
