The best new movies and TV shows in January 2025, and where to watch them

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 Nerd’s Watch, where we write down a huge list of new movies and TV shows coming to all your favorite streaming services in sci-fi, fantasy, and horror titles that we think you’ll love the most. (And sometimes, those are the only ones we really like.)

As always, we feature the best new movies and upcoming TV on Netflix, Hulu, Prime Video, Disney+ and Max—as well as Paramount+, Shudder, and Peacock, including the latest releases.

Here’s what’s new for January 2025.

What’s coming to Netflix in January 2025?

January 1

• 13 Continued 30
• 3 Ninjas: Kick back
• Apollo 13
• Bruce Almighty
• in Colombia
• Dr. Seuss’ The Cat in the Hat
• Dr. Seuss’ The Lorax
• Hotel Transylvania
• Hotel Transylvania 2
• I Know What You Did Last Summer
• To begin with
• A star
• Melancholia
• 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: Revenge of the Many Birds

January 13

• The Walking Dead: The Living: Season 1

January 15

What’s coming to Hulu in January 2025?

January 1

• After the World (2013)
• American Psycho (2000)
• The Devil’s Own (1997)
• Ender’s Game (2013)
• Heat (1995)
• Insidious (2011)
• Deception: Chapter 2 (2013)
• Deception: 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
• Brides (Unrated)
• Dope
• The Limit of Tomorrow
• He is a liar
• Little Nicky
• MacGruber (2010)
• Major Payne
• Mystery Men
• Rollerball (2002)
• Santa Claus: The Movie 25th Anniversary Edition
• The Plane of the Soul
• Hit the yard
• Supernova
• Mark it
• Ted (Unrated)
• The Blues Brothers
• Estimator
• The Great Outdoors
• It’s gray
• The World Before Time
• The Last Samurai
• The LEGO Movie
• Social Network
• The Red Woman
• xxx
• xXx: Union Status

January 2

January 16

January 26

What’s coming to Disney+ in January 2025?

January 10

• Goosebumps: Disappearance

January 29

• Your Friendly Neighbor Spider-Man

What’s coming to Max in January 2025?

January 1

• Annabelle Comes Home (2019)
• Annabelle: Creation (2017)
• Batkid Begins: A Desire 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)
• The Hot Tub Time Machine (2010)
• Hot Tub Time Machine 2 (2015)
• The House at the End of the Road (2012)
• I Am Love (2009)
• It Follows (2015)
• This: 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 and 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 and 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 Village
• 40 days and 40 nights
• A Night in Roxbury
• ACOD
• Adventureland
• Arrival
• Barbarella
• Bounce
• Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
• Policeman Land
• You are cursed
• Domestic Disruption
• Down to You
• Lowering
• Drillbit Taylor
• Drive Angry
• The 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
• The Labyrinth
• The Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult
• Night watch
• Unusual Work
• Unusual Work 2
• Unusual Work 3
• Irregular Work 4
• Unusual Activity: Unmarked
• Animal 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
• A star
• Tales from the Dark: The Movie
• The Addams Family (1991)
• A crow
• Raven: Home of Angels
• Crow: Bad prayer
• Long Kiss Goodnight
• The Manchurian candidate
• Naked Gun 2 1/2: The Scent of Fear
• The Naked Gun: From the Files of the Police Squad!
• The Peacemaker
• Ruins
• Running Man
• The Spiderwick Chronicles
• Mr. The Talented Ripley
• Three Amigos
• The Truman Show
• The Wolf of Wall Street
• Trainspotting
• Trekkies 2
• Beauty
• Zodiac

What’s coming to Shudder in January 2025?

January 1

• Others
• The Wolf Man (1941)
• Irreversible
• Irreversible: Sight Cut
• Wolfman (2010)
• Malum
• Spirit of the Body
• Asking for a Yell
• He was beaten to death
• Something

January 6

• Them (Ils)
• The righteous one
• Two witches

January 10

January 13

• Curtains
• The Kindred (1987)
• The Dark Circle
• The Oracle (1985)
• Crocodile

January 14

January 24

January 27

January 31st

What’s coming to Peacock in January 2025?

January 1

• After Earth
• Alien
• Alien vs. Predator
• Aliens
• Attack The Block
• They are not bad
• A warship
• Beetle juice
• Children of Men
• Conan The Barbarian
• The Devil’s Workshop
• Escape Plan
• Escape Plan 2: Hades
• Escape Plan: Extractors
• Fargo (1996)
• The hidden
• Deception: Chapter 2
• Deception: Chapter 3
• The Interview (2014)
• The Karate Kid (2010)
• Go die
• Kung Fu Panda
• Kung Fu Panda 2
• Kung Fu Panda 3
• The Last Exorcism
• Black Men
• Men in Black II
• Men in Black 3
• Pitch black
• A hunter
• Rapists
• The RIPD
• Real Steel
• The Red Dragon
• Riddick
• A ring
• Robin Hood
• Me/Slightly
• Source Code
• Step Brothers
• The Twister
• The Wolf Man (1941)
• The Wolfman (2010)
• He follows

January 17

• Please Do Not Destroy: Treasure of Misty Mountain

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