The Devil Wears Prada 2 leads the marquee streaming premieres
The two-decades-later sequel reuniting Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway, Emily Blunt and Stanley Tucci in the Manhattan fashion world of Runway Magazine makes its digital debut on JioHotstar on July 29, according to a Moneycontrol streaming guide published July 30. A roundup from The Associated Press, distributed the same day via the Herald-Dispatch, lists the film on Hulu and Disney+, noting that the sequel has surpassed $688 million in worldwide ticket sales and centers on Miranda Priestly facing AI-driven disruption and a possible takeover of Runway. Netflix counters with the Japanese romantic drama The Vacation Principle, starring Kanna Hashimoto and Chae Jong-hyeop, which begins streaming globally on July 31 in 18 short episodes of roughly 15 minutes each, alongside the Telugu dark comedy Rao Bahadur, headlined by Satyadev in Telugu, Hindi, Tamil, Malayalam and Kannada.
South Indian cinema drives Netflix and regional platforms
Netflix adds the Tamil sports comedy sequel Gatta Kusthi 2, starring Vishnu Vishal and Aishwarya Lekshmi, on July 31, while the Malayalam psychological survival drama Balan: The Boy, about an ex-convict mother and her young son on the run from a painful past, premieres on ZEE5 the same day, per an Economic Times roundup dated July 30. A Cinema Express list published the same day identifies ten South Indian titles streaming across the week, including Chinna Chinna Aasai on JioHotstar (Malayalam, July 28), the tech-scam dramatization Azadi 501 on Aha (Telugu, July 29), the Tamil medical drama Heart Beat season 3 on JioHotstar and the Telugu romantic comedy Second Marriage on ETV Win (both July 30). Prime Video contributes the Tamil comedy Love Oh Love on July 31, with Sun NXT adding the Malayalam title Paithalattam the same day.
Animation, superheroes and a true-crime documentary
Batman returns in Batman: Caped Crusader Season 2 on Prime Video from July 31, continuing a noir-style 1940s Gotham storyline with Joker, Riddler, Carrie Kelley and Roxy Rocket among the new-season antagonists, according to the Moneycontrol guide. SonyLIV premieres the animated The Legend of Karna on July 31, retelling the Mahabharata from Karna's perspective in a series created by Sharad Devarajan and Jeevan J. Kang, the Economic Times notes. Netflix adds the three-part documentary The Idaho College Murders: College Nightmare on July 29, revisiting the November 13, 2022 stabbing deaths of University of Idaho students Madison Mogen, Kaylee Goncalves, Ethan Chapin and Xana Kernodle.
VOD debuts expand the weekend movie options
ScreenCrush's July 29 weekend guide highlights several VOD premieres available for home viewing: the DC superhero film Supergirl, the supernatural horror Leviticus, the anime finale Demon Slayer: Kimetsu No Yaiba The Movie: Infinity Castle and the period drama The Death of Robin Hood all became available on July 28. The long-delayed M3gan spinoff Soulm8te, in which a grieving engineer turns an AI android into an obsessive, deadly robot, arrives on VOD on August 1. The Associated Press July 30 roundup adds The Super Mario Galaxy Movie, the year's first film to cross $1 billion in theaters, which lands on Peacock on Thursday, and The Drama, a Zendaya-Robert Pattinson dark comedy opening on HBO Max on Friday.
Music releases and festival livestreams round out the week
Ariana Grande's first post-Wicked full-length project, the album Petal, arrives on Friday, with lead single Hate That I Made You Love Me hinting at arpeggiated synth-driven soft pop produced with Max Martin, per the Associated Press guide. The same source flags country-rapper Shaboozey's fourth studio album The Outlaw Cherie Lee & Other Western Tales (featuring Kehlani, Gunna, Jamie Foxx, Sam Elliott and Teyana Taylor) and hard-rock veterans Five Finger Death Punch's tenth studio album Legacy, both on Friday. Lollapalooza returns to Chicago's Grant Park Thursday through Sunday with headliners including Lorde, Charli xcx, The Smashing Pumpkins, Tate McRae and The XX, and Disney+ and Hulu will livestream the festival throughout the weekend, while Peacock also picks up Diarra from Detroit Season 2 with creator-star Diarra Kilpatrick.
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