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Premieres for your week. Routes through a franchise. Context to choose without spoilers.
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A weekly premiere selection, split into films and series: dates by country, where to watch each title and franchise context, without spoilers.
Read the full selectionAn editorial selection. Each date applies to the countries named in the guide.
A GOOD PLACE TO START
Watch orderA first route into Dune distinguishes Denis Villeneuve’s version from other adaptations without making the entire book series compulsory homework.
VIEWING ROUTES
Compare routes and keep continuities clear before you start.
Two continuities to keep separate: the original series and Galactica 1980, or the reimagining that begins with the 2003 miniseries. See where Razor, The Plan, Caprica and Blood & Chrome fit.
Explore the routeChoose a way into Star Wars: the nine numbered films, selected stories that expand them, and the adventures of Din Djarin and Grogu. Compare release order with broad story chronology, with notes at the overlaps.
Explore the routeReviewed title guides to understand the starting point and decide what comes next.
After their son is kidnapped, a Los Angeles mayoral candidate and his wife race to assemble a ransom as secrets between them begin to surface. Every decision tests their marriage, public image, and moral compass.
Explore the titleYoung and ambitious race car Lightning McQueen is stranded in Radiator Springs while traveling to a major competition. Time with Doc, Mater, Sally, and the rest of the town forces him to rethink what winning, friendship, and belonging to a community really mean.
Explore the titleResident Evil (2026), directed by Zach Cregger, follows Bryan, a medical courier played by Austin Abrams. A working night becomes a struggle to survive as the world around him falls into chaos. This entry covers that new franchise story, rather than the 2002 film or a rerelease of the cycle led by Alice.
Explore the titleAbbott Elementary is a workplace comedy about a Philadelphia public school and the people trying to keep it going with limited resources. Creator Quinta Brunson plays Janine Teagues. The teachers share a commitment to their pupils without always sharing the same methods, ideas or patience for dealing with the school’s leadership.
Explore the titleAfter learning that every choice can open a different reality, a family tries to stay together as the multiverse brings new consequences. Season two expands the conflict without losing its emotional core.
Explore the titleLupin follows Assane Diop, a contemporary man who uses the literary adventures of Arsène Lupin as inspiration for disguises, deceptions and elaborate plans. Omar Sy plays a protagonist whose story begins with an injustice against his father. One useful point of interest is the distance between what other people think they are seeing and what Assane is trying to achieve.
Explore the titleSpecific stories, context and starting points.
How to begin in Hawkins, maintain your progress and join a Stranger Things conversation without starting with summaries of its endings.
Start The Bear with season 1 and follow its five seasons in order. Here is where to place the Gary special and what to expect from its kitchen, workplace and family story, without spoilers.
Watch the 2022 film before The Penguin’s eight episodes. Follow Matt Reeves’ Gotham without mixing it with Christopher Nolan’s trilogy or other DC continuities.
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