10 New Movies to Watch This Weekend on Netflix, HBO Max, and Hulu (September 4-6)
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Streaming platforms have refreshed their weekend line-ups for 4–6 September, with "The Mandalorian and Grogu" now available on Disney Plus and a reboot of the "Scary Movie" franchise arriving on Paramount Plus, alongside a run of other new titles across services. The additions give viewers home-streaming alternatives after a cinema weekend dominated by releases such as "Coyote vs Acme" and "Onslaught", spanning major franchise instalments through to smaller horror and thriller titles.
"The Mandalorian and Grogu", following its May cinema run, continues the Star Wars saga with Din Djarin (Pedro Pascal) and Grogu working as bounty hunters for the New Republic under Colonel Ward, played by Sigourney Weaver. "Scary Movie" (2026) reunites the original cast, including Cindy, Brenda, Ray and Shorty, more than a decade after "Scary Movie 5". Other new arrivals include a Gal Gadot-led kidnapping thriller, horror titles "Dark Hollow" and "Parasomnia", comedy "The Wrong Girls", a Charli XCX-led drama called "Erupcja", the UK evacuation thriller "Fuze", a Cold War-set spy film "Mayday", and a sci-fi feature about contact with extraterrestrial life.
- "The Mandalorian and Grogu" now streaming on Disney Plus
- "Scary Movie" (2026) reboot lands on Paramount Plus
- Several other new horror, thriller and comedy titles also released
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Streaming platforms typically refresh their catalogues each week, adding new films alongside their existing libraries of shows and movies. This means viewers on services such as Netflix, Disney Plus, HBO Max, Hulu and Paramount Plus regularly get a mix of major studio releases that have already had cinema runs, alongside smaller independent films going straight to streaming. Weekly "what's new" round-ups like this one are simply a guide to help subscribers find fresh viewing options across these different platforms.
Two of the more notable arrivals fit into this pattern. "The Mandalorian and Grogu" is a continuation of the long-running Star Wars franchise, following bounty hunter Din Djarin and his companion Grogu, and reaches streaming after playing in cinemas earlier in the year. "Scary Movie" is a long-running horror-comedy spoof series that pokes fun at other horror films, and this instalment brings back cast members from earlier entries after a lengthy gap since the last one.
Beyond these two, the round-up includes a broader spread of smaller titles across genres, including thrillers, horror films and dramas from various platforms. These are generally lower-profile releases aimed at giving streaming subscribers variety, rather than major cultural events in their own right, and are being reported together simply as a snapshot of what is newly available to watch that weekend.
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This weekend's streaming line-up (4–6 September) brings a mix of big franchise names and smaller genre fare to services including Disney+, Paramount+ and Netflix, alongside a new theatrical release still doing battle at the box office. The headline arrival is The Mandalorian and Grogu, which lands on Disney+ following its cinema run in May, while a rebooted Scary Movie also begins streaming on Paramount+ more than a decade after the last instalment in the spoof franchise.
The Mandalorian and Grogu picks up after the events of The Mandalorian's third season and Ahsoka, though the film is designed to be accessible without that background, opening with a simple title card rather than a Star Wars-style scroll. Din Djarin, voiced by Pedro Pascal, and his companion Grogu are now working as bounty hunters for the New Republic, taking orders from Sigourney Weaver's Colonel Ward as they hunt down Imperial holdouts. Scary Movie, meanwhile, reunites the franchise's original cast for a new instalment aimed squarely at nostalgic millennial viewers, with returning characters Cindy, Brenda, Ray and Shorty pitted against a new Ghostface-style killer.
Beyond these two headline titles, coverage of the weekend's offerings diverges. One roundup highlights a clutch of smaller genre films: a thriller starring Gal Gadot as a London lawyer whose son is kidnapped, forcing her through a city-wide chase to meet the abductor's demands; a comedy called The Wrong Girls, about two friends who mistakenly take an experimental drug and go on the run from its creators; a horror film, Dark Hollow, set in an Appalachian town where a mining accident unleashes a monster that a mother must fend off to protect her family; and Erupcja, described as pop star Charli XCX's biggest acting role to date, following a Polish holiday that her boyfriend hopes will end in a proposal. Another report instead concentrates on Netflix specifically, pointing viewers towards Smile 2, Parker Finn's sequel in which the grinning-demon curse targets a pop star (Naomi Scott) grappling with fame, and towards the documentary Teenage Wasteland (previously titled Middletown), which revisits a group of students and their teacher who uncovered a real conspiracy while making a school film in the early 1990s and reunited three decades on; the documentary premiered at Sundance in 2025 and holds a 100% score on Rotten Tomatoes.
The outlets also differ in how much attention they give to the cinema box office rather than streaming. One account notes that the historical crime thriller By Any Means, starring Yahya Abdul-Mateen II as an FBI agent partnered with a mafia informant played by Mark Wahlberg, is opening in theatres this weekend but is expected to struggle to unseat the dominant Spider-Man: Brand New Day. It also includes a lighter, spoiler-style feature ranking which classic horror villain — among Jason, Michael Myers, Freddy Krueger, Pennywise and Chucky — a reader might realistically outwit, a piece of seasonal content tied to the approach of autumn and Halloween that has no equivalent in the other report's more straightforwardly streaming-focused list.
Where outlets differ
Source 1 casts a wider net across platforms (Disney+, Paramount+ and unspecified services) and leads with The Mandalorian and Grogu and the Scary Movie reboot, plus several smaller genre titles (a Gal Gadot thriller, The Wrong Girls, Dark Hollow, Erupcja) not mentioned by Source 2.
Source 2 focuses specifically on US Netflix titles (Smile 2, Teenage Wasteland) and does not mention The Mandalorian and Grogu or the new Scary Movie at all.
Only Source 2 covers the theatrical box office, framing the new release By Any Means against the ongoing dominance of Spider-Man: Brand New Day, and includes an unrelated 'which horror villain could you beat' seasonal feature — content entirely absent from Source 1.
Source 1's write-up is cut off before detailing Erupcja fully, so some plot information for that title is incomplete.
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