{"id":156799,"date":"2025-11-27T19:29:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T19:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/156799\/"},"modified":"2025-11-27T19:29:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T19:29:09","slug":"the-8-best-new-movies-and-shows-to-stream-this-weekend-on-netflix-disney-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/156799\/","title":{"rendered":"The 8 Best New Movies and Shows to Stream This Weekend on Netflix, Disney+ and More"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week\u2019s batch of streaming premieres is dominated by the return of a certain <a class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0144901\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Netflix<\/a> hit, which is set to drop its first episodes in over three years on Wednesday. As attention-grabbing as this week\u2019s biggest premiere is, though, there are other noteworthy new shows, movies and holiday specials coming to <a class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0754095\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">HBO Max<\/a>, <a class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0721120\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Disney+<\/a> and even <a class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0804141\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the Criterion Channel<\/a> over the course of the coming days. One of 2025\u2019s most acclaimed films has officially hit the VOD market this week as well.<\/p>\n<p>So, without any further ado, here are the eight best new movies and shows you can stream this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<a class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt3881914\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Blossoms Shanghai<\/a>\u201d (Criterion Channel) \u201c<a class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt3881914\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Blossoms Shanghai<\/a>\u201d (Criterion&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This week\u2019s batch of streaming premieres is dominated by the return of a certain Netflix hit, which is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":156800,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[6946,6947,430,6948,156,434,4223,409,111,43,139,69,5436,417,437],"class_list":{"0":"post-156799","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-actors","9":"tag-actresses","10":"tag-celebrities","11":"tag-directors","12":"tag-entertainment","13":"tag-films","14":"tag-hollywood","15":"tag-movies","16":"tag-new-zealand","17":"tag-news","18":"tag-newzealand","19":"tag-nz","20":"tag-stars","21":"tag-television","22":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156799\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}