17 Best Movies New to Streaming in February: ‘French Dispatch,’ ‘Nightmare Alley’ and More

 has a unique spin on the theme, and you can see for yourself by streaming the action-packed comedy. follows a non-playable character (or NPC) and his quest for survival and more. The film stars Ryan Reynolds, and it's now streaming on Disney+ and HBO Max.The film also earned itself an Oscar nomination for Best Visual Effects.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorNielsen is poised to release another batch of new data about TV viewers as it battles with TV networks over which yardstick will be paramount in the industry’s coming upfront marketplace.The media measurement giant is expected as soon as Wednesday to announce it will issue streaming data from connected TV sets, according to two people familiar with the matter. The information, Nielsen is expected to tell clients, will give advertisers, media buyers and media companies more information in their efforts to understand how audiences are behaving across a range of different screens.

Every Tuesday, discriminating viewers are confronted with a flurry of choices: new releases on disc and on-demand, vintage and original movies on any number of streaming platforms, catalog titles making a splash on Blu-ray or 4K. This twice-monthly column sifts through all of those choices to pluck out the movies most worth your time, no matter how you’re watching.

Here’s a collection curated by The Associated Press’ entertainment journalists of what’s arriving on TV, streaming services and music platforms this week.MOVIES— The Ryan Reynolds action comedy “Free Guy,” one of the few big-budget original movies to come out in theaters last year, arrives Wednesday on Disney+. And in Shawn Levy's genially self-aware film, which racked up $331 million at the box office, originality is very much at the heart of a story about a nonplayer videogame character (Reynolds) who breaks free of his coding.

Danger at every turn! The Hallmark Movies & Mysteries channel has won over fans with its variety of thrilling franchises over the years — and the list just keeps getting longer.

There’s so much Spongebob Squarepants coming to us!

“As we’ve known with Nickelodeon’s long-standing success, the kids and family audience is incredibly loyal, and we see that on Paramount+ as well, with kids and family ranking as one of the strongest genres on the service in terms of both engagement and subscriber acquisition,” said Robbins. “So as they stay for our shows and look for even more of them, we’re doubling down on giving them what they want by expanding the universes of the characters they love the best.”

Anna Tingley If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Variety may receive an affiliate commission.When it comes to watching international content, VPNs are a must. Streamers such as Netflix have region-specific catalogues, that can make it difficult to access specific titles depending on where you are in the world.

Rebecca Rubin Film and Media Reporter“Spider-Man: No Way Home” has officially unseated director James Cameron’s 2009 science-fiction epic “Avatar” to become the third-highest grossing domestic release in history.After weeks of speculation over whether or not Peter Parker had the legs to bump the people of Pandora from bronze, “Spider-Man: No Way Home” collected the remaining $1 million on Monday to push “Avatar” — and its mighty $760.5 million at the North American box office — to fourth place in the record books.Sony’s latest Spidey adventure, a culmination to Tom Holland’s web-slinging trilogy, has grossed a stunning $760.9 million at the domestic box office since launching exclusively in theaters in December. Those ticket sales are three times as much as the next highest-grossing movie of the pandemic era, which is Disney and Marvel’s “Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings” with $224 million.

Every year sees an onslaught of new superhero movies, usually from Marvel, and in the old days 20th Century Fox and their Mutant world. But now, as leadership seems to finally figured out what they are doing at DC Films, Warner Bros.

Emma Stone portrays the Disney villain from during her younger years in the movie, which is now streaming for free on Disney+ and is also available to watch on Amazon for $4. «As we know, Cruella de Vil is pretty villainous. In this film, we get to see how she became the villain we know today,» Stone shared in an ET exclusive behind-the-scenes look at the film earlier this month.

Every Tuesday, discriminating viewers are confronted with a flurry of choices: new releases on disc and on-demand, vintage and original movies on any number of streaming platforms, catalog titles making a splash on Blu-ray or 4K. This biweekly column sifts through all of those choices to pluck out the movies most worth your time, no matter how you’re watching.

The Searchlight Pictures noir drama Nightmare Alley is a Best Picture nominee, one of four noms for the film that stars Bradley Cooper, Cate Blanchett, Rooney Mara and an ensemble that includes Willem Dafoe, Ron Perlman, Toni Collette, David Strathairn, Richard Jenkins, Colt McCallany, Clifton Collins Jr, began its theatrical run as a color film, but now an atmospheric black and white version is in theaters. This is the first film del Toro has directed since The Shape of Water, which won him Oscars for Best Picture and Best Director. Before that, he was nominated twice for Pan’s Labyrinth. He wrote Nightmare Alley with Kim Morgan, adapting the William Lindsay Gresham novel.

Lily James and Sebastian Stan star in «the greatest love story ever sold» — aka Hulu’s hot new series,. The miniseries recounts the total real-life rollercoaster that star Pamela Anderson and Mötley Crüe drummer Tommy Lee experienced after their sex tape was leaked. The plot of plays out across eight episodes, from the events leading up to the sex tape being leaked, to the chaotic, media-frenzied aftermath.

And just like that, the Sex and the City cast is spilling all! After ten highly anticipated episodes of HBO Max’s And Just Like That, Carrie Bradshaw and her SATC cohorts have ushered in a new era of their New York-based lives as postmenopausal women — and are reflecting on season 1.

Lily James and Sebastian Stan star in «the greatest love story ever sold» — aka Hulu’s hotly anticipated new series,. The miniseries recounts the total real-life rollercoaster that star Pamela Anderson and Mötley Crüe drummer Tommy Lee experienced after their sex tape was leaked. The plot of will play out across eight episodes, from the events leading up to the sex tape being leaked, to the chaotic, media-frenzied aftermath.

10 titles shortlisted in the Oscar category of Best Makeup and Hairstyling. Wigs of various lengths and colors were worn by main cast members Bradley Cooper (in selected scenes), Richard Jenkins, Mary Steenburgen and Toni Collette, in addition to dozens of background actors.Cate Blanchett, who nabbed a Screen Actors Guild nomination for her supporting performance, brought in her personal hair stylist. “Guillermo referenced Lauren Bacall for Cate’s hair and her stylist did a fantastic job,” said Furey.

Madonna's son is seriously showing off in the latest video posted to the songstress' Instagram. The Like a Virgin singer showed off her son and his multiple talents in a new video taken from their stunning home.MORE: Madonna causes a stir in lacy lingerie in revealing new photosDavid Banda, 16, was adopted by Madonna from Malawi in 2006 when he was 13-months-old.

Sigh. We were oh-so close to spotting Kanye West stomping around in snow boots on Main Street. But just a few weeks before the Sundance Film Festival was scheduled to kick off in Park City, Utah, plans got scrapped because of you-know-what. Long gone are the days of celebrities popping into random screenings — fun fact: I once caught James Franco dozing off during a documentary about Scientology — and rationalizing a meal of popcorn and diet Coke for breakfast and chatting to strangers on the local bus about the cool new movie you saw.