What's Coming Out This Week In Theaters and On Streaming, VOD & TV: January 5 thru January 11, 2026
All the 🎥 films and 📺 shows hitting theaters and streaming this week!
Now that we’ve survived the holidays in one piece, we can slowly ease back into some sense of normalcy, at least in our choices of entertainment. Movie and TV studios also seem to be getting things back on track, as a flood of new high-profile releases begins to roll out this week. So, if you need a reminder of what will be hitting theaters and streaming in the days ahead, look no further than this post, as we’ve listed everything you need to know.
🎥 In Theaters This Week
🎥 Greenland 2: Migration
(Fri, Jan 9th — wide release)
With the world no longer ending in one loud bang but slowly grinding itself into uninhabitable instability, Gerard Butler’s John Garrity is back—this time leading his family out of the crumbling Greenland bunkers in search of a rumored refuge in France. Also starring Morena Baccarin and Roman Griffin Davis, this survival sequel turns a ravaged Europe into a relentless endurance test where every mile forward demands sacrifice, resilience, and choices that may cost more than staying behind.
🎥 Primate
(Fri, Jan 9th — wide release)
After being raised like one of the family, a pet chimp named Ben snaps and turns predator, hunting the humans who once loved and trusted him in this tense nature-vs-nurture horror thriller. Trapped on a remote Hawaiian property, friends and relatives (Johnny Sequoyah, Jessica Alexander, and Oscar-winner Troy Kotsur) are forced into a brutal fight for survival against an enemy who knows their habits, their weaknesses… and exactly how to use them.
🎥 Is This Thing On?
(Fri, Jan 9th — expands)
Sometimes rock bottom comes with a microphone. This tender, quietly funny dramedy follows a newly divorced man (Will Arnett) who stumbles into stand-up comedy and discovers that bombing onstage can hurt just as much as the collapse of his marriage to Laura Dern. With Bradley Cooper directing and co-starring, this midlife comedy understands that not every joke lands, but the truth usually does.
🎥 The Chronology of Water
(Fri, Jan 9th — expands)
This memory-soaked drama turns Lidia Yuknavitch’s memoir into a crashing fever dream, with Kristen Stewart making her feature directorial debut and steering the story through fractured, nonlinear waves of a life tortured by both the present and the past. Imogen Poots plays a former Olympic swimmer caught in the undertow of trauma and addiction, perpetually pulled back toward a childhood she can’t quite escape.
🎥 Dead Man’s Wire
(Fri, Jan 9th — limited release; in select theaters)
Facing foreclosure and public humiliation, 1970s Indiana man Tony Kiritsis (Bill Skarsgård) rigs a shotgun to a mortgage broker (Dacre Montgomery) and ignites a nerve-shredding standoff that captures the nation’s attention. Directed by Oscar winner Gus Van Sant and co-starring Colman Domingo and Al Pacino, this true-story hostage thriller explores desperation, media spectacle, and how outrage can rapidly recast a criminal as a folk hero—especially when the grievance hits close to home.
🎥 All That’s Left of You
(Fri, Jan 9th — limited release)
Written and directed by Palestinian-American actress/filmmaker Cherien Dabis, this sweeping Palestinian family saga spans 75 years, following generations shaped by love, resilience, and an unbreakable sense of identity amid constant political upheaval. Produced by Mark Ruffalo and selected as Jordan’s official Oscar submission, the film stays grounded in intimate human moments, examining what families carry forward, what history erases, and what stubbornly endures.
🎥 I Was a Stranger
(Fri, Jan 9th — limited release)
Written and directed by Brandt Andersen, this ripped-from-the-headlines human drama plunges intersecting lives into a moral storm on the Mediterranean, where survival leaves no room for clean choices. Omar Sy stars as a father-turned-smuggler risking everything to save his son, alongside Yasmine Al Massri as a Syrian doctor on the run and Constantine Markoulakis as a coast guard captain torn between duty and conscience. As their paths collide, empathy and desperation blur the line between right and wrong.
🎥 Sleepwalker
(Fri, Jan 9th — limited release; also on ✅VOD)
This twisted psychological–supernatural chiller stars Scream’s Hayden Panettiere as a grief-stricken artist whose nighttime wanderings begin to unlock horrors she can’t escape—awake or asleep. Pulled into fractured visions, buried secrets, and the lingering presence of a husband who’s comatose but far from gone, her reality starts to bend in terrifying ways. The message is clear: some nightmares don’t wait for you to close your eyes.
🎥 Oscar Shaw
(Fri, Jan 9th — limited release; also on ✅VOD)
Michael Jai White stars in this gritty crime thriller as a retired detective haunted by loss who’s pulled back into the streets on a brutal quest for vengeance that threatens to consume what little he has left.
🎥 Young Mothers
(Fri, Jan 9th — limited release; in select theaters)
Set inside a shelter for vulnerable women, this intimate French drama follows four expectant mothers navigating love, fear, and survival at the edge of adulthood. With unflinching compassion, the film from acclaimed Belgian filmmakers Luc Dardenne and Jean-Pierre Dardenne traces these young mothers’ fight to claim agency, redefine family, and imagine a future different from the past they inherited.
🎥 OBEX
(Fri, Jan 9th — limited release; in select theaters)
Set in 1987, this black-and-white fever dream follows a reclusive gamer (Albert Birney) whose new computer obsession traps him inside a glitchy analog nightmare where reality pixelates and paranoia takes over. In this haunting ode to early tech and late-night horror, this lo-fi indie rewires ‘80s nostalgia into a haunting reflection on isolation in the digital age.
🎥 Magellan
(Fri, Jan 9th — limited release; in NY & LA)
Gael García Bernal leads this sweeping, punishing seafaring epic as Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan, whose quest to cross the Pacific spirals into obsession, madness, and mutiny amid the brutal realities of the Malay Archipelago. Directed by Lav Diaz, the film strips conquest of its romance, confronting the devastating human cost of chasing glory—and arrives as the Philippines’ official Oscar submission for Best International Feature Film.
🎥 Holding Liat
(Fri, Jan 9th — limited release; in NY)
Produced by filmmaker Darren Aronofsky under his Protozoa Pictures banner, this harrowing documentary offers a real-time, deeply intimate portrait of a family trapped in the terrifying aftermath of the October 7th attacks. Directed by Brandon Kramer, it follows the parents of Liat Beinin Atzili as they fight for her release, capturing the crushing mix of fear, rage, love, and political fracture that defines the unbearable wait to bring a loved one home.
🎦 Streaming This Week
🎦 Tron: Ares
(Wed, Jan 7th — streaming on Disney+)
This neon-soaked sequel drags Tron into the age of A.I., with Jared Leto suiting up as Ares—a self-aware program crossing into our world—while Greta Lee gives chase, Jeff Bridges returns as Kevin Flynn, and a pounding Nine Inch Nails score fuels a haunting question about what happens when the code starts dreaming of freedom.
🎦 Good Night, and Good Luck: Live from Broadway
(Wed, Jan 7th — streaming on Netflix)
George Clooney stars as legendary 1950s broadcaster Edward R. Murrow in the Tony-nominated Broadway sensation that revisits the moment when journalism stared down fear and refused to blink. This electrifying live stage adaptation of Clooney’s 2005 film of the same name turns the newsroom into a moral battlefield for America’s conscience.
🎦 People We Meet on Vacation
(Fri, Jan 9th — premiering on Netflix)
Adapted from the bestselling novel by Emily Henry, this friends-to-lovers romance tracks opposites Poppy and Alex (Emily Bader and Tom Blyth) as years of shared vacations and buried feelings finally spill into the open. As emotional walls crack, the film wonders whether timing—or fear—has been the only thing keeping two best friends from admitting what’s been obvious all along.
🎦 Chain Reactions
(Fri, Jan 9th — streaming on Shudder)
Fifty years after The Texas Chain Saw Massacre rewrote the rules of horror, this new documentary turns the blade on Tobe Hooper’s classic to explore its lasting shockwaves. With commentary from Stephen King, Patton Oswalt, Karyn Kusama, Takashi Miike, and more, this doc dissects how a low-budget nightmare became a global touchstone of terror. Some films fade... yet, this one still cuts to the bone.
✅ On VOD This Week
✅ Predator: Badlands
(Tues, Jan 6th — on VOD/Digital)
From Dan Trachtenberg, the filmmaker behind Prey, comes a savage new spin on the Predator saga—told from the hunter’s point of view. Stranded on a brutal alien world, a young Predator warrior (Dimitrius Schuster-Koloamatangi) is forced into an uneasy alliance with an injured Weyland-Yutani synth (Elle Fanning), only to discover that the hunt has turned into something far more dangerous when outside interests enter the arena... and survival stops playing by the rules.
✅ Not Without Hope
(Tues, Jan 6th — on VOD/Digital)
Inspired by the 2009 boating tragedy involving NFL players Marquis Cooper and Corey Smith, this gripping survival drama follows four friends stranded at sea after their boat capsizes off the coast of Mexico, with Zachary Levi, Josh Duhamel, and JoBeth Williams anchoring director Joe Carnahan’s tale of endurance and loss.
✅ Hallow Road
(Tues, Jan 6th — on VOD/Digital)
Rosamund Pike and Matthew Rhys star in director Babak Anvari’s tense real-time thriller about parents racing to save their daughter after a midnight call from a lonely road takes a chilling turn. Fear, guilt, and the supernatural collide in one long drive to hell.
✅ Peter Hujar’s Day
(Tues, Jan 6th — on VOD/Digital)
Set over a single afternoon in 1974, this intimate, talk-driven drama turns conversation itself into a quiet act of revelation. From acclaimed filmmaker Ira Sachs, Ben Whishaw and Rebecca Hall slip into the skins of photographer Peter Hujar and writer Linda Rosenkrantz, as casual chatter slowly gives way to confessions, memory, and creative truth. What unfolds is a hauntingly simple portrait of art, time, and the fragile electricity of human connection.
✅ Zodiac Killer Project
(Tues, Jan 6th — on VOD/Digital)
What began as a search for the Zodiac Killer becomes a meta investigation into our fascination with murder, myth, and the mechanics of storytelling itself. Through haunting imagery and sharp self-reflection, filmmaker Charlie Shackleton turns a failed true crime film into a provocative study of the genre... and why we can’t look away.
⇯ See Above: ✅ Sleepwalker (Fri, Jan 9; VOD/Digital)
⇯ See Above: ✅ Oscar Shaw (Fri, Jan 9; VOD/Digital)
📺 On TV This Week
📺 Best Medicine
(Tues, Jan 6th — on FOX/Hulu)
A brilliant but blood-averse big-city doctor (Josh Charles) is exiled to a tiny fishing village, where his life-saving diagnoses clash with small-town sensibilities—and his razor-sharp bedside manner proves harder to cure than anything on the chart in this fish-out-of-water medical comedy series.
📺 The Rookie: Season 8
(Tues, Jan 6th — on ABC/Hulu)
Same badge, bigger battlefield! Nathan Fillion returns as Officer John Nolan, taking his LAPD instincts international on a high-stakes undercover mission where the threats are global and duty doesn’t stop at the city limits.
📺 Finding Your Roots: Season 12
(Tues, Jan 6th — on PBS)
Henry Louis Gates Jr. returns to guide celebrities through jaw-dropping journeys into their family trees, where buried secrets, hard truths, and moments of resilience transform personal history into something deeply, unexpectedly alive in this new season of the hit PBS series.
📺 Unlocked: A Jail Experiment: Season 2
(Wed, Jan 7th — on Netflix)
What happens when inmates run the jail? This provocative reality docuseries flips the power structure to test accountability, trust, and reform—challenging everything we think we know about incarceration and authority.
📺 The Pitt: Season 2
(Thurs, Jan 8th — on HBO MAX)
Noah Wyle returns as worn-down senior physician Dr. Michael “Robby” Robinavitch in Season 2 of this Emmy-winning medical series, unfolding across a single Fourth of July shift at a Pittsburgh trauma center that pushes doctors and nurses to their absolute limits. As the ER braces for its most punishing day of the year—and Robby prepares for a long-overdue sabbatical—old wounds resurface, leadership tensions flare, and every split-second decision carries life-or-death weight in a system stretched dangerously thin.
📺 His & Hers
(Thurs, Jan 8th — on Netflix)
This dual-perspective murder mystery limited series pits a former news anchor (Tessa Thompson) against her ex-husband, the lead detective on the case (Jon Bernthal), after a killing in a small Georgia town drags their shared past back into the spotlight. As the story splinters into his version and hers, old wounds reopen, motives blur, and the most dangerous secret may be the truth neither of them can afford to tell.
📺 The Hunting Party: Season 2
(Thurs, Jan 8th — on NBC/Peacock)
Melissa Roxburgh returns as former profiler Bex, pulled back into the field when a wave of escaped serial killers ignites a nationwide manhunt tied to something far bigger. As the hunt intensifies, each case drags her deeper into a conspiracy where secrets multiply, danger escalates, and survival is never a given.
📺 The Traitors: Season 4
(Thurs, Jan 8th — on Peacock)
Brand new contestants enter a psychological game of deception and elimination hosted by Alan Cumming, where alliances are fragile, traitors lurk in plain sight, and manipulation is the surest path to survival as players race to build the prize money... or stab their way to it.
📺 Girl Taken
(Thurs, Jan 8th — on Paramount+)
In this limited mystery series based on Hollie Overton’s best-seller Baby Doll, a young woman (Tallulah Evans) returns home after escaping five years of captivity by a local schoolteacher (Alfie Allen), forcing her town to confront its own buried guilt. As secrets surface and blame ripples outward, the series asks whether surviving is easier than healing—and who’s really responsible when everyone looked away.
📺 A Thousand Blows: Season 2
(Fri, Jan 9th — on Hulu/Disney+)
Power is earned with blood in London’s 1880s bare-knuckle underworld, where Jamaican street fighter Hezekiah (Malachi Kirby) claws his way up the ranks under the control of sharp-witted thief Mary Carr (Emmy-winner Erin Doherty) and her notorious Forty Elephants gang. As rivalries ignite and street war brews, reigning crime lord and boxing champion Sugar Goodson (Emmy-winner Stephen Graham) watches his empire crack, proving that in this world, every punch redraws the balance of power.
📺 Coldwater
(Fri, Jan 9th — on Paramount+ with Showtime)
Sometimes small towns hide the darkest secrets, and this tense limited series proves it the hard way. When a grieving father (Andrew Lincoln) moves his family—including his wary wife (Eve Myles)—to a quiet Scottish village, a friendship with an unstable local (Ewen Bremner) ignites paranoia, buried violence, and a slow-burning descent where fear spreads faster than the truth.
📺 Tehran: Season 3
(Fri, Jan 9th — on Paramount+ with Showtime)
Hunted by Iranian forces and her own former allies, Mossad hacker Tamar Rabinyan (Niv Sultan) is forced to rebuild her identity while navigating Tehran’s shadowy underworld as geopolitical tensions hit a boiling point. With a looming catastrophe threatening to ignite disaster and Hugh Laurie entering the fray, survival means trusting no one in a city where every alliance could be a trap.
📺 The Night Manager: Season 2
(Sun, Jan 11th — on Prime Video)
Tom Hiddleston returns as undercover MI6 operative Jonathan Pine, assuming a dangerous new alias to infiltrate the inner circle of Colombian power broker Teddy Dos Santos (Diego Calva) as he sinks deeper into a globe-spanning arms network that threatens to erase who he really is. Camila Morrone co-stars, with Olivia Colman guest starring as spymaster Angela Burr in this long-awaited sequel to the Emmy-winning mini-series based on John le Carré’s espionage novel.
📺 Industry: Season 4
(Sun, Jan 11th — on HBO MAX)
Season 4 of the critically beloved financial series returns as shifting power dynamics, dangerous alliances, and fresh blood push London’s financial elite into even more volatile territory. As rising financial sharks Harper Stern and Yasmin Kara-Hanani (Myha’la and Marisa Abela) chase success built on fragile deals, new executives, lovers, and rivals (including Max Minghella and Kit Harington) redraw the balance of power, proving that at Pierpoint London every move is a calculated risk and no one walks away clean.
📺 Primal: Season 3
(Sun, Jan 11th — on Adult Swim/HBO MAX)
Genndy Tartakovsky’s Emmy-winning animated series returns, transforming violence and savagery into pure, wordless wonder where instinct and survival are the only laws that matter. In Season 3, Spear presses deeper into an unforgiving prehistoric world that grows more brutal by the step, where death is no longer a looming threat but a constant presence.
