Move over M3gan, because there’s a new killer robot in town: Sophie Thatcher in Companion, a new horror movie opening in theaters this weekend.
Written and directed by Drew Hancock in his directorial debut, Companion stars Thatcher as a “companion robot” named Iris, who rebels against her owner, Josh (played by Jack Quaid). In her defense, he makes it easy: He brings her as his date to a remote, friend vacation trip to a cabin in the woods.
Also starring Lukas Gage, Megan Suri, Harvey Guillén and Rupert Friend, Companion promises to be a wild ride. Critics are already raving in early reviews of the film, and you don’t want to miss out.
Read on for all the information you need about where to watch the Companion movie and when we expect to see the Companion movie on streaming.
Right now, Companion is only available to watch in a movie theater when it opens in theaters on Friday, January 31. You can find a showing near you via Fandango. However, we do expect Companion to be on streaming eventually.
Companion is not streaming on Netflix and likely will not be on Netflix any time soon, due to the fact that the film is a Warner Bros. release, will have a streaming home on the Warner Bros.-owned streaming service, Max (formerly HBO Max). If you want to watch the new Companion movie at home, you’ll have to wait for the film to be available to buy or rent on digital platforms, or wait for it to stream on Max.
Companion is not yet streaming on Max. Right now, the movie is only in theaters. That said, we do expect to see Companion streaming on Max eventually—but we’re not sure when.
All the new WB theatrical movies end up streaming on Max, though the wait period has varied by title. Joker: Folie à Deux, for example, was released on PVOD three-and-a-half weeks after opening in theaters, and began streaming on Max on December 13, a little over two months after it was released in theaters. If Companion follows a similar release pattern, you may see the movie on digital around the last week of February 2025, and streaming on Max around April 2025.
But that’s pure speculation. The Warner Bros. home releases have varied by title. In the meantime, you can always catch Companion in theaters.