What’s New on Disney+ in January 2026

2026. It sounds like the future, doesn’t it? But it’s not. It’s now.

Here’s what’s coming to Disney+ in January 2026: Marvel kicks off the year with its first live-action series, Wonder Man, starring Yahya Abdul-Mateen II as the classic Avenger. You can also enjoy a new season of Percy Jackson and the Olympians, fresh episodes of Hey A.J!, and more of the kids’ show Spidey and his Amazing Friends. Plus, all four Indiana Jones movies – including Kingdom of the Crystal Skull – will be available to stream.

Here’s a look at what new movies and shows are coming to Disney+ and Hulu in January. If you have subscriptions to both services, you can watch Hulu content directly through Disney+.

Okay, so Disney+ is really going all-in on adventure this week! They’ve dropped the entire Indiana Jones saga – Raiders of the Lost Ark, Temple of Doom, Last Crusade, and even Kingdom of the Crystal Skull – all available for streaming. If you’re in the UK and looking for something a bit different, Hulu has the second season of Red Eye ready to go. It’s a solid week for both classic thrills and newer suspense, depending on your mood.

Here’s what’s new on streaming for Friday, January 2nd:

Disney+: The Big Year
Disney+ & Hulu: Cheetahs Up Close with Bertie Gregory – New series premiere
Disney+: Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children*

Saturday, January 3
• Hulu: Tell Me Lies (Season 3) (Hulu Original) – Premiere

Sunday, January 4
• Disney+: Incredible Northern Vets (Season 2) – Premiere – All Episodes Streaming

Here’s what’s new on streaming for Monday, January 5th: On Hulu, you can catch the premiere of Best Medicine (originally from Fox). Also, a new episode of the Hulu Original I AM BOXER is available on both Disney+ and Hulu.

Here’s what’s new on streaming for Wednesday, January 7th:

Hulu: Watch the premiere of Bruce Springsteen: Nebraska Live (2025).
Disney+ & Hulu: A new episode of the Hulu Original series Made in Korea is available.
Disney+ & Hulu: A new episode of the Disney+ Original series Percy Jackson and the Olympians (Season 2) is now streaming.
Hulu: Season 8 of The Rookie (originally on ABC) premieres today.
Hulu: Season 4 of Will Trent (originally on ABC) also premieres today.

Thursday, January 8
• Hulu: The Masked Singer (Season 14) (Fox) – Premiere

Here’s what’s new on streaming for Friday, January 9th:

Disney+ & Hulu: The Tale of Silyan is premiering.
Hulu: Season 2 of the Hulu Original series, A Thousand Blows, is now available.
Disney+: Season 5 of Theme Song Takeover* has premiered.

Here’s what’s new on Disney+ on Saturday, January 10th: Season 1 of The Artful Dodger (originally from Hulu), and new episodes of Marvel’s Spidey and his Amazing Friends Season 4.

Here’s what’s new on Disney+ and Hulu for Monday, January 12th: New episodes of I AM BOXER, Made in Korea, and Percy Jackson and the Olympians are available. Plus, the premiere of Hey A.J. and all episodes of Pole to Pole with Will Smith are now streaming.

Thursday, January 15
• Hulu: Fear Factor: House of Fear (Fox) – Premiere

Here’s what’s new on streaming for Friday, January 16th:

Disney+: All episodes of the Agent P, Under C shorts are now available.
Hulu: Season 4 of Animal Control (from Fox) premieres today.
Hulu: The new movie Twinless* (released in 2025) is now streaming.

On Saturday, January 17th, Disney+ will release new seasons of America’s Funniest Home Videos and new episodes of Phineas and Ferb Season 5.

Monday, January 18
• Disney+: Playdate with Winnie the Pooh: Shorts (Season 3) – Premiere

Here’s what’s new on streaming for Tuesday, January 19th: on Hulu, the original series Hoops, Hopes & Dreams premieres, and a new episode of the Hulu Original I AM BOXER is available on both Disney+ and Hulu.

Here’s what’s new on streaming this week:

Wednesday, January 21st:
Disney+ & Hulu: A new episode of Percy Jackson and the Olympians (Season 2) is available.
Hulu: The premiere of FX’s The Beauty begins at 9 PM Eastern Time, with three episodes.

Thursday, January 22nd:
Disney+: Venom: Let There Be Carnage is now streaming.
Hulu: Watch Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire (2024).

Friday, January 23
• Disney+: Minnie’s Bow-Toons: Pet Hotel – New Episodes

On Monday, January 26th, new content will be available on Disney+ and Hulu. Hulu will release a new episode of the original series I AM BOXER, and will also premiere Memory of a Killer from Fox.

Here’s what’s new on streaming for Tuesday, January 27th:

Hulu: Season 9 of American Idol (originally aired on ABC) and Season 2 of Extracted (originally aired on Fox) both premiere today.
Disney+: All episodes of the Disney+ Original series Wonder Man are now available, starting at 6pm Pacific Time.
Hulu: The 2024 film Wicked Little Letters* is also available.

Wednesday, January 28
• Disney+: Disney Jr. Ariel – The Little Mermaid (Season 2) – Premiere

On Friday, January 30th, new content arrives on streaming services: Season 5 of Next Level Chef premieres on Hulu, and all episodes of Pupstruction Construction become available on Disney+.

The Worst Movies of 2025

12. Kinda Pregnant

Amy Schumer plays a wildly inappropriate New York City teacher who shocks everyone with her behavior – from wearing pajamas to class and cursing at students, to telling inappropriate stories and even setting books on fire. It’s hard to believe she wouldn’t face consequences for even a fraction of this! This outlandishness sets the tone for the movie, Kinda Pregnant. Schumer’s character becomes jealous when her best friend (played by Jillian Bell, who isn’t given much to do) gets pregnant, so she pretends to be pregnant herself, enjoying the attention. She even resorts to stuffing things like balloons under her clothes to maintain the charade, and surprisingly, no one seems to notice! Will Forte provides a few funny moments as her oblivious boyfriend, and the movie does showcase New York City nicely. However, it’s frustrating that the film chose this absurd route instead of being a genuinely funny and relatable story about a woman dealing with her feelings about her friend’s pregnancy – like, why resort to hiding a rotisserie chicken under her dress?

11. Snow White

Disney cleverly disguised the fact that Snow White is a musical, so I was completely surprised when the characters suddenly started singing during the movie with my daughter. Surprisingly, the music was actually one of the strongest parts of this live-action remake, and I even found Gal Gadot to be a compellingly wicked Evil Queen. However, the CGI versions of the Seven Dwarfs were incredibly strange and unsettling—Dopey, in particular, looked like a bizarre combination of Alfred E. Neuman and a stereotypical ‘Chad.’ These awkward character designs, along with attempts to make Snow White a more proactive hero (even though she still falls asleep for a long time in the third act, as the story requires), ultimately held back what could have been a visually and aurally pleasing film.

10. Him

The movie had a promising concept – a funny and scary look at how obsessed America is with football – but it didn’t deliver. While it touched on American culture, it never went very deep, and the plot was completely predictable. It follows an injured player, Tyriq Withers, who gets a chance to replace a star quarterback, Marlon Wayans, but at a terrible cost. Director Justin Tipping created a creepy atmosphere with an isolated, shadowy setting, and Jordan Peele was a producer, but the film lacked meaningful insights. By the time it tried to shock the audience with a dramatic ending, I was bored with the repetitive story and struggling to stay patient.

9. Opus

A24, known for its quality horror films, missed the mark with this one. It follows a young magazine journalist (Ayo Edebiri from The Bear) who gets an exclusive invite to a reclusive 90s pop star’s (John Malkovich, who feels miscast) album launch party. He lives on a large estate surrounded by people who excessively flatter him.

The film attempts to explore the dangers of cult-like devotion, a theme that’s been tackled many times before in movies like Midsommar, Hereditary, The Master, and The Menu. Opus doesn’t offer any fresh perspectives, and even a bizarre dinner scene—where the pop star’s followers share a single roll of film piece by piece—feels uninspired. Ultimately, watching Opus after so many similar films leaves you feeling like you’re just picking through leftovers.

8. Love Hurts

Honestly, one of the biggest letdowns of the year was definitely Love Hurts. It really stalled the momentum Ke Huy Quan had going after his amazing comeback. Thankfully, he bounced back later in the year with a fun voice role in Zootopia 2, but Love Hurts… oof. It wasn’t Quan’s fault at all. He really gave it his all playing a retired hitman pulled back into the game to protect the woman he loves. Poor Ariana DeBose, though – her post-Oscar career hasn’t quite taken off the way Quan’s did. He’s totally believable as an action hero underdog, but the movie itself? A complete disaster. It felt seriously cut down – barely 80 minutes long, credits included! The script just doesn’t bother to explain why these two characters, played by Quan and DeBose, would ever fall for each other. They have completely different personalities, goals, and, let’s be real, there’s a huge age gap – DeBose is almost 20 years younger than Quan! It just didn’t work.

7. Fountain of Youth

Despite featuring a fantastic cast – including stars like John Krasinski and Natalie Portman, and directed by Guy Ritchie – the movie Fountain of Youth feels surprisingly empty. It’s visually impressive, but ultimately boring and predictable, almost as if it wasn’t meant to truly capture your attention. The film centers on estranged siblings, played by Krasinski and Portman, who team up to find the legendary Fountain of Youth. However, the story feels like a bland combination of adventure films like Indiana Jones and Uncharted, resembling a particularly dull travel commercial. It feels designed for viewers who are simply looking for something to watch to get their money’s worth from an existing streaming subscription, rather than a film that will genuinely captivate them.

6. The Electric State

Honestly, all the talk about Netflix spending $320 million on this movie from the Russo brothers felt like a lot from the start, and now I think they really overspent. Even if it had cost half that, I’d still say it wasn’t worth it. Visually, The Electric State is just… underwhelming. The character designs are so bland and generic, and the whole thing feels really drab and boring. It follows a young woman, Millie Bobby Brown, traveling across a robot-filled wasteland to find her brother, and Chris Pratt tags along, basically playing the same tired action hero he always does—complete with a truly bizarre haircut. The story itself, based on a book I haven’t read, doesn’t really make sense, but I could have overlooked that if the movie was at least visually exciting. Unfortunately, it’s just not.

5. Bride Hard

Imagine Die Hard mixed with Bridesmaids, but much less funny. That’s Bride Hard, a low-budget action comedy starring Rebel Wilson as a secret agent who’s basically a female John McClane. However, unlike the relatable, ordinary cop in Die Hard, Wilson’s character is an incredibly skilled fighter who can take on an army in heels and a dress. This means the movie lacks suspense – you’ll mostly watch her fight the same few stuntmen repeatedly for an hour and 25 minutes. It’s hard to say who had a tougher time with this film: Wilson, who isn’t convincing as an action hero, or director Simon West, who’s good at action (he directed Con Air!), but has never directed a comedy before – and still hasn’t after this movie.

4. Hurry Up Tomorrow

We all imagine the life of a famous musician is full of excitement and glamour. But in the film Hurry Up Tomorrow, The Weeknd (Abel Tesfaye) plays a deeply unhappy version of himself. The movie portrays his life as a cycle of infrequent concerts, unfulfilling parties with his manager (played by a rather flat Barry Keoghan), and scenes of him simply crying in front of a mirror. This, along with a storyline about an obsessive fan (Jenna Ortega) who kidnaps him, makes up the entire, drawn-out plot. If being a musician is tough, Tesfaye might find being a movie critic even harder.

3. Star Trek: Section 31

While I’ve seen all the Star Trek movies, I haven’t watched every single episode of the TV shows. However, Star Trek: Section 31 is easily the worst of everything I’ve seen. It looks cheap, the writing is poor, and the action is chaotic. More importantly, it mistakenly focuses on spaceships and gadgets as the core of Star Trek, when what made the show great was its hopeful outlook and thoughtful exploration of ideas. Why watch a Star Trek that’s just as mindless as any other sci-fi?

Star Trek used to be a trailblazer, inspiring other franchises with its unique characters, stories, and visuals. But Section 31 – which feels like a low-budget copy of Guardians of the Galaxy – proves those days are gone.

2. Popeye’s Revenge

A troubling trend in independent film is the surge of low-budget horror movies based on public domain characters. A prime example is Popeye’s Revenge, one of several 2025 exploitation films loosely inspired by the classic sailor. The movie follows a group of young adults who vacation at a remote cabin where a boy with unusually large arms drowned years before. The new owners intend to create a haunted house attraction on the property, which is already genuinely haunted by the resurrected boy – now wielding an anchor and using his immense strength to kill. The entire production is incredibly cheap, from the acting to the sets and locations. It seems most of the budget went to a fog machine, which is used excessively throughout the film – even featuring a scene where a character watches a weather report predicting seven days of “FOG.” Beyond the connection to Popeye, the movie heavily borrows from franchises like Friday the 13th and A Nightmare on Elm Street, potentially opening the creators up to copyright issues. The filmmakers would be wise to hope that ghosts aren’t real, as the spirit of E.C. Segar might haunt them for ruining his iconic character.

1. War of the Worlds

Honestly, watching the new War of the Worlds felt like stumbling onto a really poorly made movie filmed during lockdown. It was like they just grabbed whoever was available – imagine Ice Cube and Eva Longoria casually saving the world from their living rooms! But the worst part? It felt like a two-hour Amazon ad. Seriously, the whole fate of humanity depended on a guy hacking for Homeland Security and delivering something crucial with an Amazon drone! They even stopped the action to tell us about Amazon’s Prime Air service – it was so blatant! It’s just…bad. Like, shockingly bad. It’s hard to even call it a movie, and I think it’s easily the worst film I’ve seen all year.

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