When To Stream’s Super-Sized July 2024 Preview
Welcome to When To Stream’s first super-sized monthly preview! We’re here to give you an overview of the top streaming titles (including PVOD, Digital, and SVOD) expected in July 2024, and also give a glimpse at the films we expect to launch this month, but have not yet been announced.
For film posters, trailers, and general overviews, click on the title. As always, dates are subject to change.
Here’s what coming in July 2024:
Monday, July 1, 2024
GOD IS A BULLET (Starz)
Synopsis: Vice detective Bob Hightower finds his ex-wife murdered and daughter kidnapped by a cult. Frustrated by the botched official investigations, he quits the force and infiltrates the cult to hunt down the leader with the help of the cult’s only female victim escapee, Case Hardin.
Fun Fact: This Nick Cassavetes action thriller is over two-and-a-half hours long!
MEMORY (Paramount+ w/Showtime)
Synopsis: Sylvia is a social worker who leads a simple and structured life: her daughter, her job, her AA meetings. This is blown open when Saul follows her home from their high school reunion. Their surprise encounter will profoundly impact both of them as they open the door to the past.
Fun Fact: This comes from Ketchup Entertainment, which never fails to make us chuckle.
SNACK SHACK (MGM+)
Synopsis: Inseparable best friends AJ & Moose decide to run the local pool's snack shack after their plan to sell home-brewed beer goes down the drain. Things take a turn when they meet Brooke, an effortlessly cool lifeguard who puts their big plans, and friendship, at risk.
Fun Fact: Co-star Gabriel LaBelle, who played Steven Spielberg stand-in Sammy Fabelman in The Fabelmans, will next play another mogul: Lorne Michaels in SNL 1975.
Tuesday, July 2, 2024
FIREBRAND (VOD/Digital)
Synopsis: Katherine Parr, the sixth wife of King Henry VIII, is named regent while the tyrant battles abroad. When the king returns, increasingly ill and paranoid, Katherine finds herself fighting for her own survival.
Fun Fact: Jude Law wore a scent that smelled like "blood, fecal matter, and sweat" while performing his role of Henry VIII. "I thought it would have a great impact if I smelt awful", he said at a Cannes Film Festival press conference.
KIDNAPPED: THE ABDUCTION OF EDGARDO MORTARA (VOD/Digital)
Synopsis: The story of Edgardo Mortara, a young Jewish boy living in Bologna, Italy, who in 1858, after being secretly baptized, was forcibly taken from his family to be raised as a Christian. His parents’ struggle to free their son became part of a larger political battle that pitted the papacy against forces of democracy and Italian unification.
Fun Fact: Steven Spielberg was intending to direct a version of this story around 2016.
Wednesday, July 3, 2024
BEVERLY HILLS COP: AXEL F (Netflix)
Synopsis: Forty years after his unforgettable first case in Beverly Hills, Detroit cop Axel Foley returns to do what he does best: solve crimes and cause chaos.
Fun Fact: Will be released 30 years after Beverly Hills Cop III (1994) and 40 years after the first Beverly Hills Cop (1984).
Thursday, July 4, 2024
SPACE CADET (Prime Video)
Synopsis: Tiffany "Rex" Simpson has always dreamed of going to space, and her "doctored" application lands her in NASA's ultra-competitive astronaut training program. In over her head, can this Florida girl rely on her quick wits, moxie and determination to get through training and into the cosmos before she blows her cover?
Fun Fact: Emma Roberts’ arm is being pulled out of its socket in the poster. She’s actually in a tremendous amount of pain.
Friday, July 5, 2024
BACK TO BLACK (Peacock)
Synopsis: The extraordinary story of Amy Winehouse’s early rise to fame from her early days in Camden through the making of her groundbreaking album, Back to Black that catapulted Winehouse to global fame. Told through Amy’s eyes and inspired by her deeply personal lyrics, the film explores and embraces the many layers of the iconic artist and the tumultuous love story at the center of one of the most legendary albums of all time.
Fun Fact: Marisa Abela does her own singing in the film and trained extensively to mimic Amy Winehouse’s vocals.
THE IMAGINARY (Netflix)
Synopsis: Rudger, a made-up friend, gets separated from his best friend Amanda and must team up with lost Imaginaries to get back to her before he fades away.
Fun Fact: This film is not the Imaginary with the deadly teddy bear (is the bear deadly? We haven’t seen it yet).
THE MONK AND THE GUN (Hulu)
Synopsis: In 2006, as Bhutan prepares to hold its democratic election, Bhutanese government stages a mock election as a training exercise. In the town of Ura, an old lama instructs young monk Tashi to procure some firearms by way of preparation for the impending upheaval. Meanwhile, American visitor Ron Coleman arrives in the country to acquire for a weapons collector an antique rifle - which by chance falls into the monk's hands.
Fun Fact: From the director of the Oscar-nominated Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom.
Tuesday, July 9, 2024
THE BIKERIDERS (PVOD)
Synopsis: After a chance encounter, headstrong Kathy is drawn to Benny, member of Midwestern motorcycle club the Vandals. As the club transforms into a dangerous underworld of violence, Benny must choose between Kathy and his loyalty to the club.
Fun Fact: Director Jeff Nicholas was originally supposed to direct A Quiet Place: Day One, but left the film due to creative differences. He directed this instead.
THE EXORCISM (PVOD)
Synopsis: A troubled actor begins to unravel while shooting a supernatural horror film, leading his estranged daughter to wonder if he's slipping back into his past addictions or if there's something more sinister at play.
Fun Fact: Not a sequel to 2023’s The Pope’s Exorcist (unfortunately).
KINGDOM OF THE PLANET OF THE APES (VOD/Digital)
Synopsis: Several generations in the future following Caesar's reign, apes are now the dominant species and live harmoniously while humans have been reduced to living in the shadows. As a new tyrannical ape leader builds his empire, one young ape undertakes a harrowing journey that will cause him to question all that he has known about the past and to make choices that will define a future for apes and humans alike.
Fun Fact: The story is set about 300 years after War for the Planet of the Apes (2017).
Thursday, July 11, 2024
TYLER PERRY’S DIVORCE IN THE BLACK (Prime Video)
Synopsis: Ava, a young bank professional is devastated when her husband Dallas abandons a marriage she is determined to fight for until fate intervenes, revealing Dallas' wicked deeds that have trashed their marriage, and once upon a time sabotaged Ava's destiny to be loved by her true soulmate.
Fun Fact: We really wish this was a Madea movie. She could play Ava!
THE ANIMAL KINGDOM (Hulu)
Synopsis: In a world hit by a wave of mutations transforming humans into animals, François does everything he can to save his wife. As some of the creatures disappear into a nearby forest, he and their son Émile embark on a quest that will change their lives forever.
Fun Fact: Madea could be in this one too (as François’ wife?). Just put her in everything.
Friday, July 12, 2024
ARCADIAN (Shudder, AMC+)
Synopsis: In a near future, normal life on Earth has been decimated. Paul and his two sons, Thomas and Joseph, have been living a half-life – tranquility by day and torment by night. Every night, after the sun sets, they face the unrelenting attacks of a mysterious and violent evil. One day, when Thomas doesn't return home before sundown, Paul must leave the safety of their fortified farm to find him. A nightmarish battle ensues that forces the family to execute a desperate plan to survive.
Fun Fact: Jaeden Martell played the ‘Alt-right Nazi troll’ Jacob Thrombey in Knives Out.
THE CONVERT (VOD/Digital)
Synopsis: A lay preacher arrives at a British settlement in 1830s New Zealand. His violent past is soon drawn into question, and his faith put to the test, as he finds himself caught in the middle of a bloody war between Maori tribes.
Fun Fact: It’s been 30 years since director Lee Tamahori’s Once Were Warriors became a worldwide hit.
THE LONG GAME (Netflix)
Synopsis: In a segregated Texas, five Mexican-American teenage caddies were prohibited from playing at the country club where they worked. Against all odds, they formed their own team, built a one-hole course in the fields, and won the 1957 Texas State championship. Based on a true story.
Fun Fact: Co-lead Jay Hernandez played Thomas Magnum in the CBS Magnum P.I. reboot.
WILDCAT (VOD/Digital)
Synopsis: Can scandalous art still serve God? Does suffering precede all greatness? Can illness be a blessing? In 1950, writer Flannery O'Connor visits her mother Regina in Georgia when she is diagnosed with lupus at twenty-four years old. Struggling with the same disease that took her father’s life when she was a child and desperate to make her mark as a great writer, this crisis pitches her imagination into a feverish exploration of belief.
Fun Fact: Cooper Hoffman's second film after his acting debut in Paul Thomas Anderson's Licorice Pizza (2021).
Saturday, July 13, 2024
FAYE (Max - 8p ET)
Synopsis: Through honest reflection, complemented by insight from colleagues and friends, Faye Dunaway contextualizes her life and filmography, laying bare her struggles with mental health while confronting the double standards she was subjected to as a woman in Hollywood.
Fun Fact: Dunaway reveals her bipolar disorder diagnosis and history of alcoholism in this documentary (yes, we know, not a ‘fun’ fact).
Tuesday, July 16, 2024
THE DEAD DON’T HURT (VOD/Digital)
Synopsis: In the 1860s, fiercely independent French-Canadian Vivienne Le Coudy embarks on a journey with Danish immigrant Holger Olsen, attempting to forge a life together in the dusty town of Elk Flats, Nevada. When Holger decides to go fight for the Union in the burgeoning Civil War, Vivienne must fend for herself, which isn't easy in a town controlled by a corrupt mayor.
Fun Fact: Director/co-star Viggo Mortensen also composed the score for the film.
TAKING VENICE (VOD/Digital)
Synopsis: At the height of the Cold War, the U.S. government is determined to fight Communism with culture. The Venice Biennale, the world's most influential art exhibition, becomes a proving ground in 1964. Alice Denney, Washington insider and friend of the Kennedys, recommends Alan Solomon, an ambitious curator making waves with trailblazing art, to organize the U.S. entry. Together with Leo Castelli, a powerful New York art dealer, they embark on a daring plan to make Robert Rauschenberg the winner of the Grand Prize.
Fun Fact: In 2019, Christie's sold Rauschenberg’s silkscreen painting Buffalo II (1964) for $88.8 million, shattering the artist’s previous record.
Thursday, July 18, 2024
LAND OF BAD (Netflix)
Synopsis: When a Delta Force special ops mission goes terribly wrong, Air Force drone pilot Reaper has 48 hours to remedy what has devolved into a wild rescue operation. With no weapons and no communication other than the drone above, the ground mission suddenly becomes a full-scale battle when the team is discovered by the enemy.
Fun Fact: Despite being an American film, with an American director, American studio, and a cast of American characters, Milo Ventimiglia is the odd one out as the only American actor in the lead cast. All other actors are Australian or British.
MY SPY: THE ETERNAL CITY (Prime Video)
Synopsis: Veteran CIA operative JJ and his 14-year-old stepdaughter and protégé Sophie reunite to save the world when a high school choir tour of Italy is interrupted by a nefarious nuclear plot targeting the Vatican.
Fun Fact: Director Peter Segal is one of Adam Sandler’s go-to collaborators, having directed the actor in Anger Management, 50 First Dates, and 2005’s The Longest Yard.
Friday, July 19, 2024
FIND ME FALLING (Netflix)
Synopsis: After a failed comeback album, rock star John Allman escapes to a dreamy Mediterranean island, only to discover that his new cliffside home has an unfortunate notoriety that attracts unwanted visitors and an old flame.
Fun Fact: On April 16th, 2024, Connick Jr. and supermodel wife Jill Goodacre celebrated their 30th wedding anniversary. That must be a record for singer/model marriages, right?
LOVE LIES BLEEDING (Max)
Synopsis: Reclusive gym manager Lou falls hard for Jackie, an ambitious bodybuilder headed through town to Las Vegas in pursuit of her dream. But their love ignites violence, pulling them deep into the web of Lou’s criminal family.
Fun Fact: Ed Harris and Jena Malone, who play father and daughter in this film, also played father and daughter in 1998’s Stepmom.
A STILL SMALL VOICE (MUBI US)
Synopsis: An aspiring hospital chaplain begins a yearlong residency in spiritual care, only to discover that to successfully tend to her patients, she must look deep within herself.
Fun Fact: This film made the shortlist for the 2023 Best Documentary Feature Oscar, but was not nominated.
THELMA (VOD/Digital)
Synopsis: When 93-year-old Thelma Post gets duped by a phone scammer pretending to be her grandson, she sets out on a treacherous quest across the city to reclaim what was taken from her.
Fun Fact: This is Richard Roundtree's final film role before his passing in October 2023, 3 months before the film's world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival (again, not ‘fun’, but notable).
Tuesday, July 23, 2024
FEMME (Hulu)
Synopsis: Jules is a drag artist in London who withdraws into himself and loses his career after a horrific attack. Months later, he recognizes one of his assailants in a gay sauna and quickly realizes he has the perfect opportunity to get revenge.
Fun Fact: In the short film this feature is based on, Harris Dickinson played the George MacKay role.
Friday, July 26, 2024
HUMANE (Shudder, AMC+)
Synopsis: In the wake of an environmental collapse that has forced humanity to shed 20% of its population, a family dinner erupts into chaos when a father's plan to enlist in the government's new euthanasia program goes horribly awry.
Fun Fact: As with the Canadian films of her father David Cronenberg and brother Brandon Cronenberg, director Caitlin Cronenberg set this Canadian film in a generic North American setting with generic North American characters, instead of a definite Canadian setting with Canadian characters.
KNOX GOES AWAY (Max)
Synopsis: A contract killer, after being diagnosed with a fast-moving form of dementia, is presented with the opportunity to redeem himself by saving the life of his estranged adult son. But to do so, he must race against the police closing in on him as well as the ticking clock of his own rapidly deteriorating mind.
Fun Fact: This is the fourth film where Al Pacino appeared with an actor who has played Batman. Michael Keaton here, Val Kilmer in Heat (1995), Ben Affleck in Gigli (2003) and George Clooney in Ocean's Thirteen (2007). That is more of a ‘dumb’ fact than ‘fun’ fact.
SLEEPING DOGS (Hulu)
Synopsis: Roy Freeman, an ex-homicide detective with a fractured memory, is forced to revisit a case he can't remember. As a man's life hangs in the balance on death row, Freeman must piece together the brutal evidence from a decade-old murder investigation, uncovering a sinister web of buried secrets and betrayals linking to his past. With only instincts to trust, he faces a chilling truth - sometimes, it's best to let sleeping dogs lie.
Fun Fact: Russell Crowe reunites with Gladiator co-star Tommy Flanagan, who played Cicero in the 2000 Best Picture winner.
Monday, July 29, 2024
CHALLENGERS (MGM+)
Synopsis: Tennis player turned coach Tashi has taken her husband, Art, and transformed him into a world-famous Grand Slam champion. To jolt him out of his recent losing streak, she signs him up for a "Challenger" event — close to the lowest level of pro tournament — where he finds himself standing across the net from his former best friend and Tashi's former boyfriend.
Fun Fact: The New Rochelle Umpire is played by Darnell Appling, an assistant to Zendaya. To prepare for his role, Appling took professional umpire lessons.
In case you missed them, here are links to various streaming services’ July 2024 announced schedules:
Here’s a snapshot of the full July 2024 schedule:
And finally, here are the titles not yet announced that we think might still begin streaming in July 2024:
