It’s not live, and it’s not from New York, but it is time for Saturday Night—aka the new movie about Saturday Night Live, which is opening in a handful of theaters this weekend.
Directed by Jason Reitman, and written by Gil Kenan, this new biographical drama tells the story of the 1975 premiere of the now-renowned live comedy sketch show, created by Lorne Michaels (who is played by Gabriel LaBelle in the movie.) The sprawling ensemble sketch show includes Rachel Sennott as Rosie Shuster, Cory Michael Smith as Chevy Chase, Ella Hunt as Gilda Radner, Dylan O’Brien as Dan Aykroyd, Emily Fairn as Laraine Newman, Matt Wood as John Belushi, Lamorne Morris as Garrett Morris, Kim Matula as Jane Curtin, Nicholas Braun as Andy Kaufman / Jim Henson, Matthew Rhys as George Carlin, Willem Dafoe as David Tebet, J. K. Simmons as Milton Berle, and so many more.
The film has received mixed reviews from critics so far, but for comedy nerds, this nostalgia catnip will be impossible to resist. Here’s everything you need to know about where to watch the Saturday Night movie, and when we expect to see Saturday Night streaming on Netflix.
Saturday Night will only be available to watch in a movie theater, when it opens in the U.S. nationwide on Friday, October 11. You can find a showing near you via Fandango. Saturday Night is not yet available to watch online or on streaming.
Saturday Night is not currently streaming on Netflix or Amazon, because the movie is being released in theaters, only. Right now, the only way to watch Saturday Night is in a movie theater. That said, because Saturday Night is a Sony movie, we do expect to see it streaming on Netflix eventually.
You will be able to purchase Saturday Night on Prime Video eventually, when the movie becomes available to buy and rent on digital, but you will not be able to stream Saturday Night on Prime Video free with a Prime subscription. If you want to watch Saturday Night 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 Netflix.
Saturday Night will likely be on Netflix sometime in early 2025. Netflix has a deal with Sony Pictures that gives the streamer the rights to the Sony movies in the “Pay 1” window, meaning the first streaming window after the film’s home media release. Other recent Sony movies, including Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire and The Garfield Movie, came to Netflix about four months after opening in theaters.
If Saturday Night follows this same release pattern, you can expect Saturday Night to stream on Netflix around February 2025, aka four months after the movie opened in theaters. In the meantime, you can go watch the movie in theaters.