What's Coming Out This Week In Theaters and On Streaming, VOD & TV: August 3 thru August 9, 2026
All the 🎥 films and 📺 shows hitting theaters and streaming this week!
August is here! And while summer has made it over that proverbial hump, don’t go thinking the slate is any less crowded. This week is packed with a surprisingly wide variety of new releases. While many of the big-ticket items, like the new Spider-Man movie and Nolan’s much-buzzed-about Homer epic, have taken up most of the attention, there’s still an interesting batch of titles arriving on both the big and small screen. There’s plenty to choose from, and if you thought this week might offer a little breathing room, think again.
Like we do every week, we’ve compiled a list of the most notable new releases arriving over the next several days. So, whether you’re looking to catch a movie in theaters this weekend or planning to watch something on streaming or television, you may be surprised by just how many options are on the table.
So, scroll down and see what catches your eye. We’re sure there’ll be something that deserves a spot on your watch list.
🎥 In Theaters This Week
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🎥 Super Troopers 3
(Fri, Aug 7th — wide release)
Broken Lizard is back for another round of questionable police work, with those lovable, boneheaded state troopers returning for more roadside mischief and spectacular incompetence. Jay Chandrasekhar once again directs and stars alongside Paul Soter, Steve Lemme, Erik Stolhanske, and Kevin Heffernan. This time, Farva’s extravagant engagement to Thorny’s sister threatens to tear the group apart, while a dangerous new drug ring gives the Troopers an even bigger mess to completely mishandle.
🎥 One Night Only
(Fri, Aug 7th — in theaters)
Sometimes it only takes one night to find a real connection. It just so happens to be the one night built for anything but commitment. Monica Barbaro stars as Allie, a hopeful romantic navigating a government-sanctioned hookup holiday in New York City, while Callum Turner plays Owen, a recently dumped pizza shop owner. Written and directed by Will Gluck (Anyone but You, Easy A), this high-concept rom-com sends Allie and Owen through missteps, detours, and late-night mayhem as the city keeps pulling them apart; proving that even on a night designed for fleeting pleasure, something real can still find a way through.
🎥 Ice Cream Man
(Fri, Aug 7th — wide release)
You scream, we all scream for ice cream... and horror maestro Eli Roth is here to make sure those screams are anything but sweet. Returning to his slasher roots, Roth delivers an off-the-wall chiller set in the seemingly peaceful town of Bayleen Bay, where a mysterious ice cream vendor (Ari Millen) serves frozen treats with horrifying consequences. When local children descend into violent madness, the adults must confront a grotesque outbreak that transforms summer nostalgia into suburban terror, making this one ice cream man worth running from... not toward.
🎥 Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma
(Fri, Aug 7th — limited release)
With a title like that, you know you’re in for something unusual. I Saw the TV Glow writer-director Jane Schoenbrun is back with another neon-soaked meta-horror head-scratcher destined for cult status. Hacks’ Hannah Einbinder stars as a rising young horror filmmaker hired to revive the cult Camp Miasma slasher franchise by bringing its original final girl, played by Gillian Anderson, back for one last encore. But this is no routine reboot, as things mutate into something far stranger... and far more psychosexual as the two women become entangled in obsession, attraction, and shared trauma.
🎥 Tony
(Fri, Aug 7th — limited release)
Before Anthony Bourdain became a culinary icon, he was merely a 19-year-old aspiring writer searching for direction. Dominic Sessa stars in Matt Johnson’s 1976-set origin story, which sends the young Tony to Provincetown for a summer job at a Cape Cod restaurant. Hired by a commanding chef (Antonio Banderas), he is pulled into the frantic, profane, and seductive world of professional kitchens, where pressure, precision, and hard work begin reshaping his own ambitions. What starts as seasonal work quickly becomes the spark that changes the course of his life.
🎥 Late Fame
(Fri, Aug 7th — limited release)
Fame has a strange way of arriving late, as Willem Dafoe stars as a forgotten New York poet whose quiet life changes when a group of young artists rediscovers his work and treats him like a newly discovered literary genius. Greta Lee and Edmund Donovan also star in filmmaker Kent Jones’s bittersweet drama about just how fleeting fame and notoriety can be—and whether recognition offers lasting fulfillment or simply reopens emotional wounds you weren’t quite ready to confront.
🎥 Olmo
(Fri, Aug 7th — limited release)
Growing up gets painfully complicated when freedom collides with family duty. Newcomer Aivan Uttapa stars as Olmo, a 14-year-old Mexican American in 1979 New Mexico who sneaks away from caring for his bedridden father (Gustavo Sánchez Parra) to attend a party with his next-door crush (Melanie Frometa). Directed by Mexican filmmaker Fernando Eimbcke (of Duck Season), this bittersweet coming-of-age comedy-drama follows one reckless night of mischief and painful consequences as Olmo discovers the home he longs to escape may be the only place where he finally begins to understand himself.
🎥 The Run
(Fri, Aug 7th — limited release)
Callan Mulvey stars as an aging smuggler attempting one final job in a post-pandemic world devastated by a global fertility crisis. When a runaway teenager and her baby become targets of ruthless criminals, the delivery turns into a brutal test of loyalty, morality, and sacrifice in this dystopian action thriller, where the most valuable cargo may also be humanity’s only hope.
🎥 Lockjaw
(Fri, Aug 7th — limited release)
Blu Hunt stars as a woman whose jaw has been wired shut since a drunk-driving accident weeks earlier. Determined to prove she can return to normal, she finds that her inability to speak clearly turns every strained friendship, awkward encounter, and bad decision into something much bigger. As resentment increasingly builds, one ordinary evening with friends spirals into a parade of falsehoods she can’t quite talk her way out of. Written and directed by Sabrina Greco, this dark comedy wonders whether silence is still golden when the truth becomes harder to swallow.
🎥 Cookie Queens
(Fri, Aug 7th — limited release)
Four young women compete to become top Girl Scout Cookie sellers in this coming-of-age documentary from director Alysa Nahmias. Looking beyond sales totals and familiar cookie-season traditions, the film explores the ambition, pressure, joy and tension the girls experience while learning that success involves far more than moving boxes.
🎥 Julian
(Fri, Aug 7th — limited release; in NY)
Love becomes a vow, then a mission. Inspired by Fleur Pierets’ book, Cato Kusters’ tender queer drama follows Fleur and Julian as their romance grows into a plan to marry in every country where two women are legally allowed to do so. Nina Meurisse and Laurence Roothooft star in a love story that transforms private devotion into a public act of visibility, defiance, and hope. Sometimes saying “I do” once is not enough.
🎥 The Last Picture Shows
(Fri, Aug 7th — limited release, in NY)
A road trip across the American West searches for the remaining small-town movie theaters and the communities working to keep them alive. Empty marquees and vacant seats become symbols of a disappearing moviegoing culture in this documentary about a time when cinema was not merely something people watched, but somewhere they went together.
🎥 Center Stage: 35th Anniversary (4K Restoration)
(Fri, Aug 7th — limited release, in NY’s Film Forum)
Stanley Kwan’s 1991 Hong Kong classic returns in a new 4K restoration for its 35th anniversary. This unconventional portrait of Chinese silent-screen icon Ruan Lingyu features an award-winning performance from Maggie Cheung as the celebrated actress whose private life, public image, and tabloid persecution begin to echo the melodramas that made her famous. Blending period recreation, archival footage, interviews, and Cheung’s personal reflections, the film transforms biography into a conversation between two actresses separated by half a century.
🎥 Tales from Earthsea: 20th Anniversary
(Sat, Aug 8th & Mon, Aug 10th — Studio Ghibli Fest, via Fathom Entertainment)
The balance of the world is cracking, and the dragons know it first. Goro Miyazaki’s anime fantasy follows Archmage Sparrowhawk and troubled prince Arren across Earthsea, where failing crops, returning dragons, and dark magic point to a realm coming apart. Based on Ursula K. Le Guin’s books and featuring the English-language voices of Timothy Dalton, Willem Dafoe, Mariska Hargitay, and Cheech Marin, this 20th anniversary screening brings the Studio Ghibli epic back to theaters.
🎥 Only Yesterday: 35th Anniversary
(Sun, Aug 9th & Tues, Aug 11th — Studio Ghibli Fest, via Fathom Entertainment)
Growing up does not mean the past stops talking. Isao Takahata’s anime drama follows Taeko, a 27-year-old Tokyo office worker whose countryside trip brings back memories of childhood, first crushes, family tensions, and the girl she used to be. With Hayao Miyazaki as general producer and Daisy Ridley, Dev Patel, and Alison Fernandez in the English-language cast, this 35th anniversary screening brings one of Studio Ghibli’s most reflective films back to the big screen.
🎦 Streaming This Week
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🎦 Big Chicken: A Fast Food Conspiracy
(Wed, Aug 5th — premiering on Netflix)
British comedian and host Mo Gilligan puts his appetite to the test with a 28-day experiment built around three fried meals a day. Traveling across the United Kingdom and United States, he traces the cultural history of fried chicken while examining the fast-food empire surrounding it, from factory farming and public health to environmental damage and racial stereotypes. What begins as a food lover’s dream soon becomes a sobering look at the true cost of what ends up in the fryer.
🎦 Billie Eilish – Hit Me Hard and Soft: The Tour
(Wed, Aug 5th — streaming on Paramount+)
Lights up... and glasses on. This electrifying concert film drops us into Billie Eilish’s sold-out global tour, where arena spectacle gets the full cinematic 3D treatment. Co-directed by Eilish and James Cameron, the experience pulls audiences onto the stage and behind the scenes, turning the show into something less watched than fully swallowed.
🎦 The Last House
(Fri, Aug 7th — premiering on Netflix)
Greta Lee and Wagner Moura star as parents trapped inside their family home with their children after an unexplained force seals every door and window. Directed by Lupin and Fast X filmmaker Louis Leterrier, this supernatural thriller follows the family as supplies run low, tensions rise, and the terrifying possibility emerges that the same phenomenon may be unfolding across the entire world.
🎦 Beast Race
(Fri, Aug 7th — premiering on Prime Video)
In near-future Rio de Janeiro, survival belongs to the fastest. When his sister is used as collateral in a deadly competition controlled by the wealthy, rebel leader Mano (Matheus Abreu) must enter a million-dollar race and survive the brutal system he has spent years fighting to destroy. Directed by Ernesto Solis, Rodrigo Pesavento, and Fernando Meirelles, this dystopian action thriller turns the city into a high-speed battleground where freedom comes with a finish line.
🎦 You, Me & Tuscany
(Fri, Aug 7th — streaming on Peacock)
A small lie sends a drifting twenty-something (The Little Mermaid’s Halle Bailey) into a sun-soaked Italian getaway when she pretends to be engaged to a stranger, only for real sparks to fly with his charming cousin (Bridgerton’s Regé-Jean Page). Produced by Will Packer, this breezy romantic comedy leans into mistaken identity and whirlwind romance, where one impulsive fib might just lead to something real.
🎦 The Yeti
(Fri, Aug 7th — streaming on Shudder)
Something out there in the wilderness... and it doesn’t like visitors. This retro 1940s-set creature feature drops Jim Cummings, Brittany Allen, Eric Nelson, William Sadler, and Corbin Bernsen into the frozen wilds of Alaska, where a rescue mission turns into a fight for survival against a towering, bloodthirsty beast lurking beyond the treeline.
🎦 The Gates
(Fri, Aug 7th — streaming on Prime Video)
A wrong turn turns deadly when three friends (Mason Gooding, Algee Smith, and Keith Powers) witness a murder inside a wealthy gated community, only to become the prime suspects as residents close ranks and decide to pin the crime on them. Trapped inside with an increasingly hostile crowd and a dangerous pastor (the late James Van Der Beek) lurking behind it all, they’re forced into a desperate fight to expose the truth and make it out alive.
🎦 The Ribbon Hero
(Sat, Aug 8th — premiering on Netflix)
Inspired by Osamu Tezuka’s Princess Knight, this anime fantasy follows Princess Sapphire after the monstrous Nergal destroys her kingdom. Haunted by the loss, she must reclaim her identity as the “Ribbon Hero” and protect her new home before history repeats itself.
🎦 Beast
(Sat, Aug 8th — streaming on STARZ)
A washed-up MMA fighter (Daniel MacPherson) is dragged back into the cage when his younger brother becomes leverage, forcing him to battle a brutal champion and a past he thought he left behind. With Russell Crowe as his hardened former trainer and Luke Hemsworth as a ruthless promoter, this gritty fight drama turns one last comeback into a fight for survival, where the cost of losing hits far beyond the final bell.
✅ On VOD This Week
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✅ Evil Dead Burn
(Tues, Aug 4th — on VOD/Digital)
Death may be permanent, but in this franchise, it’s never quiet. A grieving widow retreats to her late husband’s secluded family home with her in-laws, only to find comfort replaced by Deadite possession, family trauma, and a whole lot of spilled blood. Led by Swiss actress Souheila Yacoub and directed by French horror filmmaker Sébastien Vaniček (Infested), this new chapter drags mourning straight into demonic survival mode. Mourning the dead is hard enough... surviving them is a much bloodier problem.
✅ Couture
(Tues, Aug 4th — on VOD/Digital)
Angelina Jolie stars as an American filmmaker in Paris for Fashion Week, where runway glamour gives way to a quieter personal crisis. As she crosses paths with a rising model, a makeup artist, and a trusted creative collaborator, she confronts difficult choices, emotional baggage, and a life-changing breast cancer diagnosis. Written and directed by Alice Winocour, this French drama turns a world built on beauty and fashion into a story about vulnerability and mortality.
✅ Another World
(Tues, Aug 4th — on VOD/Digital)
Death gets complicated in this dark anime fantasy from first-time feature director Tommy Ng Kai Chung. Based on Naka Saijo’s novel Sennenki, the film follows a Soul Keeper who befriends a cursed young girl whose grief and rage threaten both the human world and the spirit realm.
✅ Lucky Strike
(Tues, Aug 4th — on VOD/Digital)
Scott Eastwood stars as a soldier trapped behind enemy lines during the Battle of the Bulge, with nothing but his instincts and a Motorola SCR-300 radio to keep him alive. Directed by Rod Lurie, this WWII survival thriller turns a single soldier’s desperate call for help into a tense battlefield fight where backup is uncertain and every transmission could be his last.
✅ LifeHack
(Tues, Aug 4th — on VOD/Digital)
A group of online friends discovers they have a knack for stealing from the ultra-rich, but targeting the wrong crypto empire turns their digital hustle into a dangerous real-world heist. Georgie Farmer, Yasmin Finney, Roman Hayeck-Green, and Steve Oram star in Ronan Corrigan’s screenlife thriller, where every click pulls the crew deeper into a scheme with consequences no firewall can stop.
✅ The Isolate Thief
(Tues, Aug 4th — on VOD/Digital)
The frontier gets a bit colder when gold enters the picture. Mackenzie Foy stars as a lone caretaker at an isolated Civil War-era Union outpost whose quiet survival routine explodes after stolen treasure lands in her hands. When outlaws led by Sean Bean secretly targets her, endurance becomes her only weapon. Co-starring Odeya Rush, Jack Kesy, and Joe Pantoliano, this Western thriller turns winter, greed, and isolation into a brutal standoff.
✅ Big Baby
(Fri, Aug 7th — on VOD/Digital)
Brandon Scott stars as a struggling screenwriter whose visions of a baby-masked murderer begin feeding his latest horror script... until the killings start happening for real. Directed by rocker-turned-horror filmmaker Spider One and executive produced by Cher and Chaz Bono, this indie slasher thriller follows a writer racing to protect those he loves as the line between creation and reality is slashed apart.
✅ The Run
(Fri, Aug 7th — on VOD/Digital)
Callan Mulvey stars as an aging smuggler attempting one final job in a post-pandemic world devastated by a global fertility crisis. When a runaway teenager and her baby become targets of ruthless criminals, the delivery turns into a brutal test of loyalty, morality, and sacrifice in this dystopian action thriller, where the most valuable cargo may also be humanity’s only hope.
📺 On TV This Week
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📺 Futurama: Season 14
(Mon, Aug 3rd — on Hulu / Disney+)
The future keeps finding new ways to get stranger. Fry, Leela, Bender and the Planet Express crew return for more badly managed intergalactic adventures involving space pirates, lab-grown meat, seductive scams and the return of Dr. Zoidberg’s lost love. The season launches with two episodes, followed by new episodes every Monday.
📺 Hard Knocks: Training Camp with the Seattle Seahawks
(Tues, Aug 4th — on HBO and HBO Max)
Are you ready for some football? HBO’s on-going sports series heads back behind the scenes as the Seattle Seahawks enter training camp with a championship to defend. The docuseries follows head coach Mike Macdonald, established players, and roster hopefuls from the meeting rooms to the practice field as the reigning champions prepare for another demanding season.
📺 Das Boot: Season 2
(Tues, Aug 4th — on MHz Choice)
The pressure of war spreads far beyond the U-boat in this eight-episode continuation of the German World War II drama. Rick Okon returns as Klaus Hoffmann, who becomes trapped inside the American system after landing in New York, while Clemens Schick, Tom Wlaschiha, Vicky Krieps, Suki Waterhouse, Vincent Kartheiser, and Rochelle Neil lead the ensemble across two continents. Espionage, resistance, and military duty converge as the conflict grows increasingly tense both on land and beneath the Atlantic.
📺 Special Ops True
(Tues, Aug 4th — on Paramount+)
Ever wondered what goes into a top-secret military operation, where the stakes are high and the risks are even higher? The world might remember the headlines, but the people inside these missions remember every second. Through firsthand testimony and previously unseen footage, this docuseries reconstructs major special-operations missions from the perspective of those who faced the danger, pressure, and split-second decisions firsthand.
📺 Ted Lasso: Season 4
(Wed, Aug 5th — on Apple TV)
Sometimes all it takes is someone willing to “believe”... especially when bringing back Apple TV’s feel-good sports comedy for another season. Jason Sudeikis returns as Ted Lasso, heading back to Richmond for his biggest challenge yet: coaching the club’s second-division women’s football team. Reunited with familiar faces and surrounded by a new roster, Ted encourages his players to take bold chances on the pitch, on one another, and on futures they cannot yet see.
📺 The Shards
(Wed, Aug 5th — on FX and Hulu / Disney+)
Ryan Murphy and author Bret Easton Ellis have teamed up, which can only mean one thing: a salacious new series about beautiful young people doing terrible things. Set in 1980s Los Angeles, this psychological thriller stars Igby Rigney as an aspiring writer who grows suspicious of a magnetic new student (Homer Gere) whose arrival coincides with a serial killer targeting teenagers across the city. Kaia Gerber, Hayes Warner, Graham Campbell, Evan Rachel Wood, and Wes Bentley round out the cast as the mystery turns privilege, attraction, jealousy, and obsession into something deadly.
📺 Sterling Point
(Wed, Aug 5th — on Prime Video)
Some family secrets don’t get dug up, they simply walk right through the door. Ella Rubin stars as Annie Jacobson, a grieving New York teenager who travels with her twin brother Connor (Keen Ruffalo) to their estranged grandfather’s Canadian island, where they discover Ramona (Amélie Hoeferle), the half-sister they never knew existed. Joined by Jay Duplass and Jeffrey Dean Morgan, this coming-of-age drama series from creator Megan Park (My Old Ass) follows the teenagers as a long-hidden inheritance reshapes their summer... and their lives forever.
📺 Star Wars: Visions Presents – The Ninth Jedi
(Wed, Aug 5th — on Disney+)
Long after the Jedi and Sith have faded into legend, the future of the Order rests with a young sabersmith’s daughter. This limited anime series, based on the Star Wars: Visions short “The Ninth Jedi,” follows Lah Kara (Kimiko Glenn) as she joins a small band of Jedi-in-training while searching for her missing father, Lah Zhima (Simu Liu), the galaxy’s only known lightsaber maker. With Jedi Hunters in close pursuit, her rescue mission becomes a larger fight to restore the Order.
📺 One Hundred Years of Solitude: Part Two
(Wed, Aug 5th — on Netflix)
Marleyda Soto and Claudio Cataño return as Úrsula Iguarán and Colonel Aureliano Buendía. The final chapter of Gabriel García Márquez’s family saga follows new generations of the Buendía family through political violence, the arrival of the railroad, and the banana company that hastens the town’s decline. Seven episodes arrive this week, followed by a feature-length grand finale at the end of the month.
📺 My Life With the Walter Boys: Season 3
(Thurs, Aug 6th — on Netflix)
Love triangles have consequences, especially when everyone lives under the same roof. Nikki Rodriguez returns as Jackie, who must confront the emotional fallout between herself, Cole (Noah LaLonde), and Alex (Ashby Gentry) after a painful revelation and a family crisis shake the Walters. With Sarah Rafferty and Marc Blucas returning as Katherine and George, relationships grow messier and new ambitions emerge as life in Silver Falls pushes Jackie toward decisions that could reshape her place within the family.
📺 Anna Pigeon
(Fri, Aug 7th — on USA Network)
Tracy Spiridakos stars as Anna Pigeon, a grieving former city slicker who rebuilds her life as a national park ranger after a devastating loss. Based on Nevada Barr’s mystery novels, the 10-episode crime drama sends Anna into breathtaking wilderness where scenic trails become crime scenes and every new case forces her to confront both hidden dangers and the past she has tried to escape.
📺 Ricky Gervais’ Alley Cats
(Fri, Aug 7th — on Netflix)
Ricky Gervais creates and stars in this six-part adult animated comedy about a gang of feral British cats navigating street life, companionship and a human world that does not want them around. Their rude and scrappy adventures turn survival into a foul-mouthed examination of loneliness, manners and the messy existential problems that make these alley cats surprisingly human.
📺 Death Inc.: Season 4 (Final Season)
(Fri, Aug 7th — on Netflix)
Spanish actor Diego Martín returns as Chemi, who appoints himself temporary director of the Torregrosa funeral home and introduces corporate reforms that quickly spiral into disaster. Meanwhile, Dámaso (Carlos Areces) schemes to claim the position he believes should be his, pushing the staff into one final round of collapsing morale, workplace blunders, and professional incompetence in the fourth and final season of this Spanish comedy.
