The Best New Movies and TV Streaming in August 2024

Summer is almost over, which means only so much time to catch up on your streaming. 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 the best of what’s streaming in August 2024.

What’s coming to Netflix in August 2024?

What’s available on Netflix on August 1?

Bride of Chucky

Child’s Play 2

Child’s Play 3

Cult of Chucky

Curse of Chucky

Dr. Seuss’ The Cat in the Hat

Dr. Seuss’ The Lorax

Godzilla Minus One/Minus Color

Jack Reacher

Jack Reacher: Never Go Back

Monster House

Mr. Deeds

The Next Karate Kid

Not Another Teen Movie

RED

RED 2

Seed of Chucky

Tarot

World War Z

What’s available on Netflix on August 2?

Rebel Moon — Part One: Director’s Cut

Rebel Moon — Part Two: Director’s Cut 

Saving Bikini Bottom: The Sandy Cheeks Movie 

What’s available on Netflix on August 6?

Reminiscence

What’s available on Netflix on August 8?

The Emoji Movie

The Umbrella Academy: Season 4 

What’s available on Netflix on August 16?

Pearl

What’s available on Netflix on August 19?

A Discovery of Witches: Seasons 1-3

Anne Rice’s Mayfair Witches: Season 1

Dark Winds: Seasons 1-2

Fear the Walking Dead: Seasons 1-8

Interview with the Vampire: Season 1

Into the Badlands: Seasons 1-3

Migration

Preacher: Seasons 1-4

The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon: Season 1

UnREAL: Seasons 1-4

What’s available on Netflix on August 29?

Kaos

Terminator Zero

What’s available on Netflix on August 30?

The Deliverance

What’s coming to Prime Video in August 2024

What’s available on Prime on August 1?

Batman: Caped Crusader (2024)

The Crow (1994)

Dante’s Peak (1997)

Darkman (1990)

Death Becomes Her (1992)

Face/Off (1997)

Ghost (1990)

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012)

The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (2014)

The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (2013)

Howard The Duck (1986)

Invaders from Mars (1953)

Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)

Jacob’s Ladder (1990)

Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (2001)

Looper (2012)

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)

The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)

The Losers (2010)

Monster Trucks (2017)

MouseHunt (1997)

Passengers (2016)

The Poughkeepsie Tapes (2007)

Psycho (1960)

Pulp Fiction (1994)

Road to Perdition (2002)

Southland Tales (2007)

Stardust (2007)

Superman II (1981)

Superman III (1983)

Superman IV: The Quest For Peace (1987)

Superman Returns (2006)

Superman (1978)

21 Jump Street (2012)

22 Jump Street (2014)

The War of The Worlds (2005)

The Warriors (1979)

Troll (1986)

Troll 2 (1990)

What Lies Beneath (2000)

What’s available on Prime on August 13?

Night Swim (2024)

What’s available on Prime on August 15?

Paddington (2015)

What’s available on Prime on August 24?

10 Cloverfield Lane (2016)

What’s available on Prime on August 29?

The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power S2 (2024)

What’s coming to Hulu in August 2004?

What’s available on Hulu on August 1?

The Beach (2000)

Eragon (2006)

Flubber (1997)

Garfield (2004)

Garfield: A Tail Of Two Kitties (2006)

In Time (2011)

John Carter (2012)

The Mask of Zorro (1998)

Muppets from Space (1999)

Night at the Museum (2006)

Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian (2009)

Night At The Museum: Secret Of The Tomb (2014)

Race To Witch Mountain (2009)

Robots (2005)

Tron: Legacy (2010)

What’s available on Hulu on August 2?

Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes (2024)

What’s available on Hulu on August 3?

Suitable Flesh (2023)

What’s available on Hulu on August 27?

Chaos Walking (2021)

What’s coming to Disney+ in August 2024?

What’s available on Disney+ on August 2?

Star Wars: Young Jedi Adventures (Shorts) – Season 2

What’s available on Disney+ on August 14?

Star Wars: Young Jedi Adventures – Season 2

What’s coming to Max in August 2024?

What’s available on Max on August 1?

Amelie (2001)

Beetlejuice (1988)

Hercules (2014)

How to Train Your Dragon (2010)

Rio (2011)

Sherlock Holmes (2009)

Taken (2009)

Where the Wild Things Are (2009)

What’s available on Max on August 16?

Rick and Morty: The Anime (Adult Swim)

What’s available on Max on August 18?

The Legend of Tarzan (2016)

What’s available on Max on August 19?

The Official DC Podcast (2024)

What’s coming to Paramount+ in August 2024?

What’s available on Paramount+ on August 1?

Aeon Flux

Barbarella

Cujo

Face/Off

The Faculty

Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties

Garfield: The Movie

Hardcore Henry

Invasion of the Body Snatchers

Jacob’s Ladder

Jay And Silent Bob Strike Back

The Little Rascals

Monster Trucks

The Net

Pulp Fiction

Season of the Witch

Shaft (2000)

Shaft (2019)

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990)

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze (1991)

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III (1993)

The Time Machine

The War of the Worlds (1953)

The Warriors

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen

Unforgettable

Zodiac

What’s available on Paramount+ on August 12?

Cabin Fever

What’s coming to Shudder in August 2024?

What’s available on Shudder on August 1?

Dawn of the Dead (2004)

The Dead Mother

Faces of Death

In the Mouth of Madness

Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)

Wes Craven’s New Nightmare

What’s available on Shudder on August 2?

Divinity

What’s available on Shudder on August 5?

Luz

What’s available on Shudder on August 6?

Dancing Village: The Curse Begins

What’s available on Shudder on August 19?

The Deeper You Dig

What’s available on Shudder on August 23?

Hell Hole

What’s available on Shudder on August 27?

Horror’s Greatest

What’s coming to Peacock in August 2024?

What’s available on Peacock on August 1?

Battleship

Bee Movie

Beethoven (’92)

Beethoven’s 2nd

Blair Witch

The Blair Witch Project

The Book of Eli

Book of Shadows: The Blair Witch 2

Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Casino

Clueless

Doom

Exodus: Gods and Kings

F9: The Fast Saga

Faster

Field of Dreams

The Heat

Hesher

The Hulk

Kindergarten Cop

King Richard

Lucy

Mean Girls

Moonrise Kingdom

Old

The Other Guys

Over the Hedge

Push

Puss in Boots

R.I.P.D.

Self/Less

Shazam!

Shrek

Space Jam

Waterworld

Zodiac

What’s available on Peacock on August 9?

Renfield

What’s available on Peacock on August 12?

2 Fast 2 Furious

Fast & Furious

Fast & Furious 6

The Fast and The Furious

The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift

Fast Five

The Fate of the Furious

Furious 7

What’s available on Peacock on August 16?

Polite Society

What’s available on Peacock on August 21?

The 355

What’s available on Peacock on August 23?

The Killer (2024)

What’s available on Peacock on August 30?

The Fall Guy 

The Fall Guy: The Extended Cut 

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