Robert De Niro may be 81 years old, but he’s still the mafia movie king, and his latest crime thriller, The Alto Knights, opens in theaters this weekend.
Directed by Oscar-winning filmmaker Barry Levinson, and written by Oscar-nominated screenwriter Nicholas Pileggi (who co-wrote Goodfellas), The Alto Knights looks like an old-school throwback for wise guy cinephiles. De Niro stars in dual roles in the film—rival gang leaders Vito Genovese and Frank Costello—based real mob bosses in the New York City Italian mafia in the 1950s. If you just finished binging The Sopranos, this is the movie for you.
Also starring Debra Messing, Cosmo Jarvis, Kathrine Narducci, and Michael Rispoli, The Alto Knights is finally coming to theaters, more than a year after it was originally scheduled to release in February 2024. Here’s what to know about where to watch The Alto Knights movie, and when we expect to see The Alto Knights movie streaming on Max.
Right now, The Alto Knights is only available to watch in a movie theater when it opens in theaters on Friday, March 21. You can find a showing near you via Fandango. However, we do expect The Alto Knights to be on streaming eventually.
The Alto Knights 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 The Alto Knights 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.
All the new WB theatrical movies end up streaming on Max, though the wait period has varied by title. The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim, for example, was released on PVOD two weeks after opening in theaters, and began streaming on Max on February 28, a little over two months after it was released in theaters. If The Alto Knights follows a similar release pattern, you may see the movie on digital around early April 2025, and streaming on Max around late May or early June 2025.
But that’s pure speculation. The Warner Bros. home releases have varied by title. The Alto Knights is a highly anticipated release, and the studio might want to keep it in theaters for longer. In the meantime, you can always catch The Alto Knights in theaters.