Every month, streaming companies add movies and TV exhibits to their libraries. Here are our picks for a few of July’s most promising new titles. (Note: Streaming companies often change schedules with out giving discover. For extra suggestions on what to stream, join our Watching newsletter here.)
New to Amazon Prime Video
‘Sausage Party: Foodtopia’ Season 1
Starts streaming: July 11
This sequel collection to the raunchy 2016 animated comedy “Sausage Party” begins within the aftermath of that movie’s climactic battle between sentient grocery store meals and the people who eat them. Seth Rogen (who additionally cocreated the franchise) returns because the voice of Frank, a sizzling canine who alongside his girlfriend/bun Brenda (Kristen Wiig) has to determine the right way to construct and lead a brand new society, for the advantage of all foodstuffs. The authentic movie’s sex-obsessed Pixar parody provides approach right here to extra of a political satire, because the well-meaning sausages attempt to forestall their pals from succumbing to anarchy or authoritarianism.
‘Betty la Fea, The Story Continues’
Starts streaming: July 19
One of the most well-liked TV collection ever produced, the Colombian telenovela “Yo soy Betty, la fea” has been tailored dozens of times, all around the world — together with within the United States as “Ugly Betty.” Now a lot of the unique’s solid members and characters return for a sequel, set over 20 years after their story started. In “The Story Continues,” Betty (Ana María Orozco) comes house to the style home the place she began her rags-to-riches rise and met her now-estranged husband, Armando (Jorge Enrique Abello). While coping with bittersweet reminiscences and a few acquainted outdated rivalries, Betty as soon as once more has to battle to be revered for her sharp thoughts and type coronary heart, in an industry that tends to worth superficiality and swagger.
Also arriving:
July 4
“Space Cadet”
July 9
“Sam Morril: You’ve Changed”
July 11
“Tyler Perry’s Divorce within the Black”
July 18
“My Spy: The Eternal City”
“Uninterrupted’s Top Class Tennis”
July 25
“Cirque du Soleil: Without a Net”
“Troppo” Season 2
New to AMC+
‘Snowpiercer’ Season 4
Starts streaming: July 21
After three seasons on TNT, the fourth and remaining season of this postapocalyptic thriller strikes to AMC, finishing the saga of a closely stratified society ripe for a revolution. Adapted from Bong Joon Ho’s 2013 movie (itself tailored from a comic book e book collection originated in 1982 by the author Jacques Lob and the illustrator Jean-Marc Rochette), “Snowpiercer” stars Daveed Diggs as Andre Layton, one of many plenty of underclass residents who as soon as had been residing in squalor on a large passenger practice, dashing throughout a ruined, ice-covered Earth. At the tip of Season 3, Layton’s band of rebels went actually off the rails to discovered a brand new democratic group; however as the brand new season begins, they understand that their outdated nemeses from the practice aren’t going to go away them alone.
Also arriving:
July 12
“Arcadian”
July 13
“Planet Earth: Mammals”
July 22
“Candice Renoir” Season 9
July 26
“Humane”
July 29
“Signora Volpe” Season 2
New to Apple TV+
‘Lady within the Lake’
Starts streaming: July 19
Based on Laura Lippman’s 2019 thriller novel, this era drama is about in Baltimore in 1966, the place two grim crimes — the separate, unrelated slayings of a younger Jewish woman and a middle-aged Black mom — change one girl’s understanding of her hometown. Natalie Portman stars as Maddie, a housewife who will get so fed up along with her chilly, demanding husband (Brett Gelman) that she abruptly strikes from their fancy suburban home to a dingy downtown house, the place she begins to pursue her childhood dream of being a newspaper reporter. Maddie’s fascination with the 2 deaths takes her to components of Baltimore she’s by no means seen earlier than and components she mistakenly thought she knew. All the whereas she’s being watched and judged by the mini-series’ narrator: the ghost of Cleo (Moses Ingram), the mom whose homicide town would fairly ignore.
‘Time Bandits’
Starts streaming: July 24
It took an all-star staff of TV comedy creators to show Terry Gilliam’s basic 1981 fantasy movie “Time Bandits” right into a tv collection. Jemaine Clement (“Flight of the Conchords”), Iain Morris (“The Inbetweeners”) and Taika Waititi (“Our Flag Means Death”) collaborate to stretch out the unique’s premise and make it extra episodic. Kal-El Tuck performs Kevin, a history-obsessed younger English boy who discovers that his bed room is a approach station for time vacationers. Lisa Kudrow performs the chief of a band of thieves, who use a stolen celestial map to assist them bounce throughout eras, looking for historic treasures to steal. The collection diverges from the movie within the particular particulars of its time-hopping, however it has an analogous tone, mixing dry humor with a toddler’s-eye view of heroes and legends.
Also arriving:
July 10
“Sunny”
July 12
“Me”
July 19
“Omnivore”
July 31
“Women in Blue”
New to Disney+
‘Descendants: The Rise of Red’
Starts streaming: July 12
The 2015 Disney Channel authentic live-action movie “Descendants” was such an enormous success for the community that it has spawned a multi-media franchise, set in a world the place the kids of well-known Disney villains attempt to forge their very own paths. “The Rise of Red” — the fourth movie within the collection — introduces some new second-generation fairy story characters, because the daughter of Cinderella and the daughter of the “Alice in Wonderland” Queen of Hearts attempt to patch up the outdated wounds between their dad and mom in time to avoid wasting their prep faculty. The mission includes some time-travel — and numerous cooperation from a bunch of different Disney heroes and archnemeses.
Also arriving:
July 1
“Attack of the Red Sea Sharks”
“Baby Sharks within the City”
“Shark Attack 360” Season 1
“Sharks Gone Viral”
“Supersized Sharks”
July 3
“Bluey Minisodes”
New to Hulu
‘Mastermind: To Think Like a Killer’
Starts streaming: July 11
This three-part docuseries covers the profession of considered one of criminology’s true heroes: Dr. Ann Burgess, a consulting psychologist for the F.B.I., who helped develop strategies for locating and catching serial rapists and murderers. The director Abby Fuller and a inventive staff of true crime veterans start “Mastermind” with considered one of Dr. Burgess’s earliest circumstances — involving the “Ski Mask Rapist,” who went on a cross-country spree within the late Nineteen Seventies and early ’80s — to indicate how tough it was for her initially to influence the legislation enforcement institution that rape is a critical crime. The documentary places a highlight on a number of of the best-known killers she helped put away (together with Ted Bundy), although the collection is simply as thinking about Dr. Burgess’s dogged dedication to understanding and supporting victims of sexual assault.
Also arriving:
July 2
“The Tunnel to Summer, the Exit of Goodbyes”
July 3
“Red Swan”
July 4
“Land of Tanabata”
July 5
“The Monk and the Gun”
July 11
“The Animal Kingdom”
July 15
“Hit-Monkey” Season 2
July 17
“UnPrisoned” Season 2
July 18
“How I Caught My Killer” Season 2
July 23
“Dress My Tour” Season 1
“Femme”
July 29
“Futurama” Season 12
July 30
“Betrayal: A Father’s Secret”
New to Max
‘Love Lies Bleeding’
Starts streaming: July 19
One of the most acclaimed movies of 2024, this steamy neo-noir stars Kristen Stewart as Lou, a New Mexico fitness center supervisor who develops a harmful attraction to a touring bodybuilder named Jackie (Katy O’Brian). The stellar solid additionally consists of Ed Harris as Lou’s no-good father Lou Sr., Jena Malone as her long-suffering sister, Beth, and Dave Franco as Beth’s obnoxious creep of a husband. The co-writer and director Rose Glass (whose earlier movie was the clever horror train “Saint Maud”) units this image within the late Eighties, evoking the pulpy thrillers of that period, like “Blood Simple” and “Body Heat.” Stewart provides a memorable efficiency as a lonely younger girl who lets her want and desperation override her morality.
Also arriving:
July 2
“Hard Knocks: Offseason With the New York Giants”
July 4
“Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire”
July 5
“King of Zanzibar”
July 10
“Quad Gods”
July 11
“MILF of Norway” Season 1
“Teen Torture Inc.”
July 13
“Faye”
July 17
“Wild Wild Space”
July 18
“The Commandant’s Shadow”
“Kite Man: Hell Yeah!”
July 24
“Charlie Hustle & the Matter of Pete Rose”
July 26
“Knox Goes Away”
New to Paramount+
‘Melissa Etheridge: I’m Not Broken’
Starts streaming: July 9
The singer-songwriter and homosexual rights advocate Melissa Etheridge has lived by some powerful times over the previous few years, together with the loss of life of a son from the consequences of opioid habit. But the two-part docuseries “Melissa Etheridge: I’m Not Broken” is simply partly concerning the musician’s personal struggles. It’s extra targeted on a particular venture she labored on lately: turning letters from 5 incarcerated ladies in her Kansas hometown into a brand new authentic track. The inmates share their very own experiences with medicine and household trauma, serving to Etheridge to course of her grief. In flip, she tries to indicate how music can heal deep wounds and let the forgotten really feel seen.
Also arriving:
July 1
“Memory”
July 10
“Kamp Koral: Spongebob’s Under Years” Season 2
July 16
“Mafia Spies”
New to Peacock
‘Those About to Die’
Starts streaming: July 18
Daniel P. Mannix’s 1958 e book “Those About to Die” launched numerous non-historians to the particulars of Roman gladiatorial fight; and it later served as an inspiration for the Oscar-winning movie “Gladiator.” Now it’s being immediately tailored into this big-budget Peacock collection, which goals to convey the decadence and violence of Ancient Rome to tv. Anthony Hopkins stars because the Emperor Vespasian, who got here to energy after years of turmoil and is attempting to safe a extra orderly succession. Iwan Rheon performs Tenax, a shrewd power-broker whose connections to the imperial household and to the highest gladiators assist him subtly management who wins and loses, each inside the sector and out. Created by the Oscar-nominated screenwriter Robert Rodat with the producer and director Roland Emmerich, “Those About to Die” places the deep connections between politics and sports activities into historic context.
Also arriving:
July 5
“Back to Black”
July 11
“The Hungry Games: Alaska’s Big Bear Challenge”
July 26
“Olympic Highlights With Kevin Hart and Kenan Thompson”
July 27
“Gold Zone”
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