Zootopia 2, Anaconda, Greenland 2, and everything new to stream this weekend

Snakes are slithering onto streaming this weekend. Zootopia 2 smashed box office records when it opened Thanksgiving weekend and the Zootopia Police Department is chasing a pit viper onto VOD this weekend. Tom Gormican blends snake-related jump scares and meta humor in Anaconda, his remake of the 1997 cult classic, which is also available to rent.

The 1984 Christmas slasher Silent Night, Deadly Night also gets a remake, with a bad Santa violently crashing a “white power Christmas” party. And the end of the world was just the beginning in Greenland 2: Migration, where Gerald Butler and his family look for safety after a meteor strike.

Here’s a rundown of the most notable new releases on streaming and VOD, including the biggest, best, and most popular new movies you can watch at home right now.

New on AMC Plus

Muzzle: City of Wolves

• Genre: Crime thriller
• Run time: 1h 30m
• Director: John Stalberg Jr.
• Cast: Aaron Eckhart, Tanya van Graan

After taking down the cartel responsible for killing his partner in John Stalberg Jr.’s 2023 thriller Muzzle, Jake Rosser (Aaron Eckhart) just wants to live a quiet life with his wife, kid, and dog. But when they’re targeted by a brutal cartel, Jake and his new canine partner wage war against drug traffickers and corrupt officials.

New on Hulu

Tin Soldier

• Genre: Action thriller
• Run time: 1h 26m
• Director: Brad Furman
• Cast: Scott Eastwood, John Leguizamo, Nora Arnezeder

A former soldier (Scott Eastwood) looking for purpose joins a cult led by the Bokushi (Jamie Foxx) but then flees, leaving behind his wife. Years later, he’s given a chance to rescue her when he’s recruited by a government agent (Robert De Niro) hoping that some inside knowledge can help take the dangerous organization down.

New on Prime Video

The Wrecking Crew

• Genre: Buddy cop
• Run time: 2h 2m
• Director: Ángel Manuel Soto
• Cast: Jason Momoa, Dave Bautista, Claes Bang

Navy SEAL James Hale (Dave Bautista) and his cop half-brother Jonny (Jason Momoa) team up in Hawaii to investigate their father’s death. They uncover a conspiracy that pits them against the Yakuza in a silly action comedy packed with explosions, chase scenes, and shootouts.

New on Starz

The Strangers: Chapter 2

• Genre: Horror
• Run time: 1h 38m
• Director: Renny Harlin
• Cast: Madelaine Petsch, Gabriel Basso, Ema Horvath

The second film in a planned trilogy follows The Strangers: Chapter 1 survivor Maya Lucas (Madelaine Petsch) as she continues to be pursued by sadistic masked killers. Unable to get the authorities to take the threat seriously, Maya can’t figure out who to trust as the killers try to finish their massacre.

New to rent

7 Keys

• Genre: Erotic thriller
• Run time: 1h 34m
• Director: Joy Wilkinson
• Cast: Emma McDonald, Billy Postlethwaite, Amit Shah

Stood up by her date, single mom Lena (Emma McDonald) forms a connection with Daniel (Billy Postlethwaite), which gets even more intense when she discovers he kept the key to every place he’s lived. They decide to take a tour of London, sneaking into homes, having sex, and learning about each other.

Anaconda

• Genre: Action comedy
• Run time: 1h 39
• Director: Tom Gormican
• Cast: Jack Black, Paul Rudd, Steve Zahn

A meta reboot of the unlikely franchise about a giant killer snake follows a group of longtime friends who decide to pursue their childhood dream of remaking their favorite film, Anaconda. When they travel to the Amazon Rainforest, they find an all too real reptilian star, but also get some help from Anaconda star Ice Cube.

Greenland 2: Migration

• Genre: Post-apocalyptic
• Run time: 1h 38m
• Director: Ric Roman Waugh
• Cast: Gerard Butler, Morena Baccarin, Roman Griffin Davis

Five years after a comet destroyed most of Earth, the Garrity family has to leave the safety of their Greenland bunker and find a new home. As they travel through a changed world in search of clean air and water, they face a gauntlet of threats including radiation storms, fireballs, rickety rope bridges, and hostile survivors.

Grizzly Night

• Genre: Survival thriller
• Run time: 1h 27m
• Director: Burke Doeren
• Cast: Brec Bassinger, Jack Griffo, Charles Esten

Based on the real 1967 grizzly bear attacks in Glacier National Park, the film follows a new park ranger responding to an unprecedented pair of animal attacks. Caring for a group of panicked campers, she tries to get everyone out of the dark woods before they’re killed by giant predators.

The Secret Agent

• Genre: Political thriller
• Run time: 2h 41m
• Director: Kleber Mendonça Filho
• Cast: Wagner Moura, Carlos Francisco, Tânia Maria

A technology researcher has to flee from hitmen employed by the Brazilian military dictatorship during the 1977 carnival holiday in this Oscar-nominated neo-noir. While he tries to escape political prosecution, he winds up having to confront his past and getting entangled with members of an underground resistance group.

Silent Night, Deadly Night

• Genre: Slasher
• Run time: 1h 36m
• Director: Mike P. Nelson
• Cast: Rohan Campbell, Ruby Modine, David Lawrence Brown

Mike P. Nelson’s remake of the 1984 holiday slasher follows Billy (Rohan Campbell), a serial killer who dresses as Santa to slay people who are “naughty” to protect those who are “nice.” His annual murder spree – timed to the advent calendar – leads him to Nazi Christmas party where he unleashes some festive carnage.

From our review:

Silent Night, Deadly Night takes the material seriously without any suffocating fealty to its low-rent aesthetics. It also defines itself mostly on those terms — as a corrective that views its killer with maximum sympathy, rather than the exploitative cruelty that defines the original. Non-fans of that one, like me, will probably have a good time. But anyone heading to the new horror movie from Cineverse, distributors of the Christmas-horror gnarliness of Terrifier 3, hoping for some throwback controversy will find a movie that errs on the side of nice, rather than naughty.

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• Genre: Black comedy thriller
• Run time: 1h 25m
• Director: Jason Biggs
• Cast: Jason Biggs, Meaghan Rath, Anna Konkle

Desperate to save his marriage, Kevin (Jason Biggs) hires a man to pose as a home invader during a romantic getaway so that he can play the hero. But the plan goes awry when his wife kills the invader, forcing Kevin to cover up the crime as the police investigate, and making him realize how little he knows about the woman he married.

Zootopia 2

• Genre: Buddy cop comedy
• Run time: 1h 48m
• Director: Jared Bush and Byron Howard
• Cast: Ginnifer Goodwin, Jason Bateman, Ke Huy Quan

When Gary De’Snake (Ke Huy Quan) crashes the Zootopia centennial celebration and steals a historic book, the mismatched Zootopia Police Department partners Judy Hopps (Ginnifer Goodwin) and Nick Wilde (Jason Bateman) work to chase them down. But the case puts them against powerful interests, who want to ensure secrets about the city’s past stay buried.

From our review:

Discrimination still very much exists within the multi-species animal city of Zootopia, and the duo of Hopps and Wilde are still fighting it. But returning directors Jared Bush and Byron Howard once again blend the high-concept political messaging about embracing diversity with a blitz of visual gags, pop-culture references, and endearingly silly characters that ensure Zootopia 2 never feels too preachy. The film moves at a breakneck pace, driven by several major chase scenes and a flood of jokes that come so fast that even if one doesn’t land, there’s something else to laugh at a moment later.