What's Coming Out This Week In Theaters and On Streaming, VOD & TV: July 27 thru August 2, 2026
All the 🎥 films and 📺 shows hitting theaters and streaming this week!
July might be drawing to a close, but the summer movie season still has a few surprises left before it winds down. After weeks of major hits and unexpected duds, the box office is clearing the way for another big franchise comeback. Marvel and Sony are hoping to turn Spider-Man into their next major summer hit, and while this week’s movie slate has been thinned out for the friendly neighborhood wall-crawler, the TV landscape is once again crowded with plenty of promising options.
As always, we’ve rounded up the week’s major releases across theaters, streaming, VOD, and television into one handy lineup to help you plan your viewing week. Skim through and add something to your watchlist. We’re sure there’s something here worth checking out, whether on the big screen or at home.
🎦 Streaming This Week
✅ On VOD This Week
📺 On TV This Week
🎥 In Theaters This Week
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🎥 WHAM! 10 Days In China
(Tues, July 28th — limited release)
WHAM!’s landmark 1985 trip to China becomes a pop spectacle and cultural time capsule in Mike Christie’s retrospective documentary. Newly restored, digitized, and never-before-seen footage revisits the Beijing and Guangzhou concerts that made George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley the first Western pop act to perform in the country. Firsthand interviews add perspective to the cultural collision and political weight surrounding two young stars who suddenly found themselves performing on a much larger world stage.
🎥 Above & Below
(Wed, July 29th — limited release)
There is a shark below, armed criminals above, and very little oxygen in between. Laura Marano and Antonio Banderas star in this ocean thriller about a dream diving vacation hijacked by criminals who force a group of friends beneath the surface. Staying underwater means suffocation, but coming up places them directly in the path of their captors. With a circling predator making either choice potentially fatal, survival depends on deciding which danger to face.
🎥 Spider-Man: Brand New Day
(Fri, July 31st — wide release)
Peter Parker saved the world, but no one remembers he exists. Tom Holland returns as a more isolated, street-level Spider-Man, living anonymously in New York without MJ (Zendaya), Ned (Jacob Batalon), the Avengers, or high-tech backup. Destin Daniel Cretton directs as Michael Mando’s Scorpion reenters the picture, Jon Bernthal’s Punisher makes his big-screen debut, and Mark Ruffalo returns as Bruce Banner. The neighborhood may be smaller this time, but a possible mutation—and an apparent clash with the Hulk and a new mysterious foe (Sadie Sink)—suggest Peter’s problems are not.
🎥 I Want Your Sex
(Fri, July 31st — wide release)
Desire comes with rules. Elliot is about to learn what happens when he stops understanding them. Cooper Hoffman stars as a fresh-faced young man whose dream job with Erika Tracy, a celebrated artist and sexual provocateur played by Olivia Wilde, becomes an invitation to serve as her muse. Drawn into her seductive world of fantasy, power, and BDSM, Elliot discovers how quickly pleasure can become dangerous when the rules of consent and control begin to change. Charli XCX, Daveed Diggs, Margaret Cho, and Johnny Knoxville round out Gregg Araki’s kinky erotic comedy thriller.
🎥 The Gentleman Thief
(Fri, July 31st — limited release)
Retirement refuses to stick for master thief Mason Goddard. John Travolta returns for the third installment following Cash Out and High Rollers, with Mason lured back into action to steal a priceless painting, only to discover that a ruthless kingpin has turned the assignment into a deadly trap. Lukas Haas and Quavo return alongside Sam Asghari and DJ Khaled as one final impossible score demands every trick Mason has left.
🎥 The Samurai and the Prisoner
(Fri, July 31st — limited release)
Inside a besieged castle, rebellion gives way to suspicion, betrayal, and murder. Masahiro Motoki plays Lord Murashige Araki, whose conflict with Bando Shingo’s Nobunaga Oda turns his own court into a deadly contest of trust. His most unlikely ally is Masaki Suda’s Kanbei Kuroda, a brilliant strategist imprisoned in the dungeon. Kiyoshi Kurosawa directs this shadowy historical thriller, transforming the samurai genre into a feudal murder mystery where political survival may depend on solving the crimes within the castle walls.
🎥 Jimmy
(Fri, July 31st — limited release; in NY)
Before James Baldwin could build a new life abroad, he had to step beyond the world he knew. Benny O. Arthur stars as the young writer, whose search for freedom and artistic purpose carries him from 1948 New York into the landscapes of Istanbul and the streets of Paris. Blurring past and present, writer-director Yashaddai Owens’ debut feature follows Baldwin’s early experiences overseas as he navigates identity, belonging, and what it means to find his place in the world.
🎥 Boyhood: 12th Anniversary
(Fri, July 31st — re-release; special screening)
12 years after its original release, Richard Linklater’s classic coming-of-age drama returns to theaters this weekend for a special anniversary screening. Ellar Coltrane stars as Mason, a Texas boy navigating divorce, new homes, family dinners, first loves, and the ordinary moments that shape a life. Filmed with the same cast from 2002 to 2013, the film follows Mason from childhood to college alongside Ethan Hawke, Patricia Arquette, and Lorelei Linklater, capturing how children grow up, and how entire families change with them.
🎥 Welcome II the Terrordome: 4K Restoration
(Fri, July 31st — in select theaters; re-release)
A new 4K restoration brings Ngozi Onwurah’s 1995 dystopian satire back to theaters through Janus Films. Set in a near-future Britain where Black residents have been confined to a segregated slum, the film turns the death of a young boy into the flashpoint for years of grief, anger, and systemic violence. Its collision of science fiction, political fury, and Afrofuturist imagery returns more than three decades later as both a landmark and a warning.
🎥 Hell’s Highway: The True Story of Highway Safety Films
(Fri, July 31st — limited release; restoration)
Driver’s education once came with mangled wreckage and fresh corpses. For generations, learning road safety meant watching death in full color. Filmmaker and restorationist Bret Wood revisits notorious 1950s classroom shock films like Signal 30, tracing their rise as educational tools. Featuring restored footage and interviews with creators, this documentary examines a safety campaign that scared teenagers straight... and haunted them long after the projector stopped.
