The new year is here so it’s time to renew that subscription to your favorite streaming service and get back to watching movies. Welcome to io9’s latest edition of the Nerd’s Watch, where we pare down the enormous lists of new films and television shows arriving on all your favorite streaming services into the sci-fi, fantasy, and horror titles we think you’ll like most. (And sometimes, just the ones that we like most.)
As always, we’re including the best new films and TV coming to Netflix, Hulu, Prime Video, Disney+, and Max—as well as Paramount+, Shudder, and Peacock, including several new releases.
Here’s what’s new to streaming in January 2025.
What’s coming to Netflix in January 2025?
January 1
- 13 Going on 30
- 3 Ninjas: Kick Back
- Apollo 13
- Bruce Almighty
- Colombiana
- Dr. Seuss’ The Cat in the Hat
- Dr. Seuss’ The Lorax
- Hotel Transylvania
- Hotel Transylvania 2
- I Know What You Did Last Summer
- Inception
- Interstellar
- Melancholia
- The Net
- Rush Hour
- Rush Hour 2
- Rush Hour 3
- Scooby-Doo
- Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed
- Spider-Man
- Spider-Man 2
- Spider-Man 3
January 3
- Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl
January 13
- The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live: Season 1
January 15
What’s coming to Hulu in January 2025?
January 1
- After Earth (2013)
- American Psycho (2000)
- The Devil’s Own (1997)
- Ender’s Game (2013)
- Heat (1995)
- Insidious (2011)
- Insidious: Chapter 2 (2013)
- Insidious: Chapter 3 (2015)
- The Intouchables (2011)
- John Wick (2014)
- John Wick: Chapter 2 (2017)
- John Wick: Chapter 3 (2019)
- Mr. Deeds (2002)
- Pacific Rim (2013)
- Paddington (2014)
- xXx (2002)
- xXx: State of the Union (2005)
January 8
January 21
What’s coming to Prime Video in January 2025?
January 1
- A Quiet Place: Day One
- Boogie Nights
- Bridesmaids (Unrated)
- Dope
- Edge of Tomorrow
- Liar Liar
- Little Nicky
- MacGruber (2010)
- Major Payne
- Mystery Men
- Rollerball (2002)
- Santa Claus: The Movie 25th Anniversary Edition
- Soul Plane
- Stomp The Yard
- Supernova
- Tag
- Ted (Unrated)
- The Blues Brothers
- The Equalizer
- The Great Outdoors
- The Grey
- The Land Before Time
- The Last Samurai
- The LEGO Movie
- The Social Network
- The Woman in Red
- xXx
- xXx: State of the Union
January 2
January 16
January 26
What’s coming to Disney+ in January 2025?
January 10
- Goosebumps: The Vanishing
January 29
- Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man
What’s coming to Max in January 2025?
January 1
- Annabelle Comes Home (2019)
- Annabelle: Creation (2017)
- Batkid Begins: The Wish Heard Around the World (2015)
- Batman: Mask of the Phantasm (1993)
- Batman: The Killing Joke (2016)
- Blue Velvet (1986)
- Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005)
- Fast & Furious (2009)
- Green Lantern (2011)
- Hot Tub Time Machine (2010)
- Hot Tub Time Machine 2 (2015)
- House at the End of the Street (2012)
- I Am Love (2009)
- It Follows (2015)
- It: Chapter Two (2019)
- Jason Bourne (2016)
- Justice League vs. Teen Titans (2016)
- Justice League: Doom (2012)
- Justice League: Throne of Atlantis (2015)
- Justice League: War (2014)
- Mad Max (1980)
- Matilda (1986)
- Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children (2016)
- Paddington (2014)
- Stephen King’s It (1990)
- Supergirl (1984)
- Superman & Lois, Season 4
- Teen Wolf (1985)
- The Addams Family 2 (2016)
- The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
- The Cable Guy (1996)
- The Conjuring 2 (2016)
- The Craft (1996)
- The Curse of La Llorona (2019)
- The Purge: Election Year (2016)
- The Usual Suspects (1995)
- The Wrong Man (1957)
- Warcraft (2016)
- Watchmen: The Complete Motion Comic (2008)
- Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971)
January 15
January 16
- Harley Quinn, Season 5
- Sesame Street, Season 55
January 17
- A Different Man (A24)
- Better Off Dead (1985)
- Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (2017)
What’s coming to Paramount+ in January 2025?
January 1
- 2 Days In The Valley
- 40 Days and 40 Nights
- A Night At The Roxbury
- A.C.O.D.
- Adventureland
- Arrival
- Barbarella
- Bounce
- Confessions Of A Dangerous Mind
- Cop Land
- Cursed
- Domestic Disturbance
- Down To You
- Downsizing
- Drillbit Taylor
- Drive Angry
- Drop Zone
- Face/Off
- Final Destination
- First Blood
- Footloose (2011)
- Halloween VIII: Resurrection
- Heaven Can Wait
- Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa
- Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa .5 Unrated
- Labyrinth
- Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult
- Nightwatch
- Paranormal Activity
- Paranormal Activity 2
- Paranormal Activity 3
- Paranormal Activity 4
- Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones
- Pet Sematary II
- Poltergeist
- Rambo III
- Rambo: First Blood Part II
- Rosemary’s Baby
- Scary Movie
- Scary Movie 2
- Searching For Bobby Fischer
- Sherlock Gnomes
- Shutter Island
- Stardust
- Tales From the Darkside: The Movie
- The Addams Family (1991)
- The Crow
- The Crow: City of Angels
- The Crow: Wicked Prayer
- The Long Kiss Goodnight
- The Manchurian Candidate
- The Naked Gun 2 1/2: The Smell of Fear
- The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!
- The Peacemaker
- The Ruins
- The Running Man
- The Spiderwick Chronicles
- The Talented Mr. Ripley
- The Three Amigos
- The Truman Show
- The Wolf of Wall Street
- Trainspotting
- Trekkies 2
- Virtuosity
- Zodiac
What’s coming to Shudder in January 2025?
January 1
- The Others
- The Wolf Man (1941)
- Irreversible
- Irreversible: The Straight Cut
- Wolfman (2010)
- Malum
- Mind Body Spirit
- Invoking Yell
- Beaten to Death
- The Thing
January 6
- Them (Ils)
- The Righteous
- Two Witches
January 10
January 13
- Curtains
- The Kindred (1987)
- Black Circle
- The Oracle (1985)
- Crocodile
January 14
January 24
January 27
January 31
What’s coming to Peacock in January 2025?
January 1
- After Earth
- Alien
- Alien vs. Predator
- Aliens
- Attack The Block
- The Bad Guys
- Battleship
- Beetlejuice
- Children of Men
- Conan The Barbarian
- The Devil’s Workshop
- Escape Plan
- Escape Plan 2: Hades
- Escape Plan: The Extractors
- Fargo (1996)
- Insidious
- Insidious: Chapter 2
- Insidious: Chapter 3
- The Interview (2014)
- The Karate Kid (2010)
- Kick Ass
- Kung Fu Panda
- Kung Fu Panda 2
- Kung Fu Panda 3
- The Last Exorcism
- Men In Black
- Men In Black II
- Men In Black 3
- Pitch Black
- Predator
- Predators
- R.I.P.D
- Real Steel
- Red Dragon
- Riddick
- The Ring
- Robin Hood
- Self/Less
- Source Code
- Step Brothers
- Twister
- The Wolf Man (1941)
- The Wolfman (2010)
- You’re Next
January 17
- Please Don’t Destroy: The Treasure Of Foggy Mountain
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