Now that the new year is here, it’s time to renew your subscription to your favorite streaming service and get back to watching movies. Welcome to the latest edition of io9’s Nerd’s Watch. Here, we narrow down the huge list of new movies and TV shows on your favorite streaming service to the sci-fi, fantasy, and horror titles we think you’ll like the most. (In some cases, you may just use the one you like the most.)
As always, we’re including the best new movies and TV coming to Netflix. Hulu, prime videoDisney+, and max—Paramount+, Shudder, and Peacock, as well as several new releases.
Here’s what’s new in streaming in January 2025:
What’s coming to Netflix in January 2025?
January 1st
- 13 in progress 30
- 3 Ninja: Kickback
- Apollo 13
- blues almighty
- colombiana
- Dr. Seuss’s “The Cat in the Hat”
- Dr. Seuss’s “The Lorax”
- Hotel Transylvania
- Hotel Transylvania 2
- I know what you did last summer
- inception
- interstellar
- melancholia
- net
- rush hour
- rush hour 2
- rush hour 3
- scooby doo
- Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed
- spiderman
- spiderman 2
- spiderman 3
January 3rd
- Wallace and Gromit: Revenge of the Most Foul
January 13th
- The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live: Season 1
January 15th

What’s coming to Hulu in January 2025?
January 1st
- After Earth (2013)
- American Psycho (2000)
- Devil’s Own (1997)
- Ender’s Game (2013)
- Heat (1995)
- Insidious (2011)
- Insidious: Chapter 2 (2013)
- Insidious: Chapter 3 (2015)
- Intouchable (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 8th
January 21st

What’s coming to Prime Video in January 2025?
January 1st
- A Quiet Place: Day 1
- 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)
- blues brothers
- equalizer
- great outdoors
- The Gray
- land before time
- last samurai
- lego movie
- social network
- woman in red clothes
- xXx
- xXx: State of the Union
January 2nd
January 16th
January 26th

What’s coming to Disney+ in January 2025?
January 10th
- Goosebumps: The Vanishing
January 29th
- your friendly neighborhood spiderman

What will happen to Max in January 2025?
January 1st
- Annabelle Comes Back (2019)
- Annabelle Creation (2017)
- Batkid Begins: A Wish Heard Around the World (2015)
- Batman: Mask of Phantasm (1993)
- Batman: The Killing Joke (2016)
- Blue Velvet (1986)
- Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005)
- Fast and Furious (2009)
- Green Lantern (2011)
- Hot Tub Time Machine (2010)
- Hot Tub Time Machine 2 (2015)
- The House at the End of the Alley (2012)
- I Am Love (2009)
- It Follows (2015)
- It: Chapter 2 (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 That (1990)
- Supergirl (1984)
- Superman & Lois, season 4
- Teen Wolf (1985)
- The Addams Family 2 (2016)
- The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
- 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 15th
January 16th
- harley quinn, season 5
- sesame street, season 55
January 17th
- Another man (A24)
- Better Off Dead (1985)
- Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (2017)

What’s coming to Paramount+ in January 2025?
January 1st
- 2 days in the valley
- 40 days and 40 nights
- roxbury night
- accord
- adventure land
- arrival
- barbarella
- bounce
- confession of a dangerous heart
- cop land
- cursed
- Domestic commotion
- Down to You
- downsizing
- drill bit taylor
- drive angry
- drop zone
- face/off
- final destination
- first blood
- Footloose (2011)
- Halloween VIII: Resurrection
- heaven will wait
- Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa
- Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa .5 Unrated
- labyrinth
- Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult
- night watchman
- paranormal phenomenon
- paranormal activity 2
- paranormal activity 3
- paranormal activity 4
- Paranormal Activity: The Marked
- Pet Cemetery II
- poltergeist
- Rambo III
- Rambo First Blood Part II
- rosemary baby
- scary movie
- scary movie 2
- looking for bobby fischer
- sherlock gnome
- shutter island
- stardust
- Tales from the Darkside: The Movie
- The Addams Family (1991)
- Crow
- The Crow: City of Angels
- The Crow: Evil Prayer
- long kiss good night
- Manchurian Candidate
- The Naked Gun 2 1/2: The Smell of Fear
- The Naked Gun: From the Police Squad Files!
- peace maker
- ruins
- running man
- spiderwick chronicles
- The talented Mr. Ripley
- three amigos
- truman show
- wolf of wall street
- trainspotting
- trekkies 2
- virtuosity
- zodiac

What will happen to Shudder in January 2025?
January 1st
- others
- Wolf Man (1941)
- irreversible
- Irreversible: straight cut
- Wolfman (2010)
- Malm
- mind body spirit
- evoke an ale
- beaten to death
- The Thing
January 6th
- They (ils)
- righteous person
- two witches
January 10th
January 13th
- curtain
- Kindred (1987)
- black circle
- Oracle (1985)
- crocodile
January 14th
January 24th
January 27th
January 31st

What will happen to Peacock in January 2025?
January 1st
- after earth
- alien
- alien vs predator
- alien
- attack the block
- bad guys
- battleship
- beetle juice
- human children
- conan the barbarian
- devil’s workshop
- escape plan
- Escape Plan 2: Hades
- Escape Plan: Extractors
- Fargo (1996)
- cunning
- Insidious: Chapter 2
- Insidious: Chapter 3
- The Interview (2014)
- 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
- predator
- RIPD
- real steel
- red dragon
- Riddick
- ring
- robin hood
- self/less than
- source code
- step brothers
- twister
- Wolf Man (1941)
- Wolfman (2010)
- you’re next
January 17th
- Don’t Destroy: Treasure of the Mist Mountain
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