Apple TV+ Adds 50-Plus Licensed Movies: ‘Jurassic World,’ ‘Titanic,’ ‘Kill Bill,’ ‘Mad Max: Fury Road,’ ‘Mean Girls’ and More Now Available to Stream
Apple TV+ has added more than 50 licensed movies included in the price of the subscription service — the streamer’s biggest collection of back-catalog studio content to date. But the third-party titles will only be available for a limited time.
Apple TV+’s lineup has mostly comprised original series, movies and specials commissioned for the platform (as well as a smattering of live MLB games). Now it has added a bouquet of older film favorites to the mix, including popular and award-winning movies like “Titanic,” “300,” “Argo,” “Black Hawk Down,” “The Bodyguard,” “Jurassic World,” “Gravity,” “Fast & Furious 6,” “Kill Bill” Volume 1 and 2, “Star Trek Into Darkness,” “The Wolf of Wall Street,” “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off,” “Mad Max: Fury Road,” the original 2004 “Mean Girls” and “Zoolander.”
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The movies are listed in a new section on the service labeled “Great Movies on Apple TV+” — however, the service notes, these are available for a “limited time.” Many of the titles are set to roll off later in March, with some available through the end of April. It doesn’t appear that Apple TV+ will be adding a regular rotation of licensed films going forward: The service added the big batch of movies for 2024 Oscars season, as a celebration of filmdom and movie stars (and to spotlight some of the actors in Apple TV+ originals).
To be clear, Apple TV+ has in fact offered some licensed titles previously on a very selective basis. For example, it included a small group of films starring Jennifer Lawrence tied to last year’s premiere of “Causeway.” In addition, Apple TV+ hosted a collection of films starring Sidney Poitier for a limited time to celebrate to the 2022 launch of the “Sidney” feature documentary.
Apple TV+ debuted in November 2019, originally priced at just $4.99 per month in the U.S. The company hiked the price for new and existing subscribers in October 2022 to $6.99 per month, then raised it a year later to $9.99 per month.
It’s worth noting that Netflix grew to its current colossal scale on the back of third-party programming, and even as it has invested more into originals it continues to offer a healthy bucket of licensed content (as do other top streaming platforms).
The addition of the licensed titles to Apple TV+ was spotted by podcaster Sigmund Judge of MacStories’ “Magic Rays of Light.”
Here’s the list of movies Apple TV+ can stream as part of their subscription — at least for now:
21 Jump Street
300
The Accountant
American Sniper
Argo
Bad Boys
Black Hawk Down
The Bodyguard
Captain Phillips
Catch Me If You Can
Con Air
Draft Day
Edge of Tomorrow
Failure to Launch
Fast & Furious 6
Fast Five
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
Fight Club
Good Burger
Gravity
Horrible Bosses
How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days
The Hurt Locker
I Am Legend
Jurassic World
Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom
Kill Bill: Volume 1
Kill Bill: Volume 2
Knocked Up
Mad Max: Fury Road
Mean Girls (2004)
Men in Black
Minority Report
No Strings Attached
The Prestige
The Proposal
Old School
Saving Private Ryan
Spider-Man
Spider-Man 2
Star Trek
Star Trek Beyond
Star Trek Into Darkness
Titanic
Training Day
Troy
Two Weeks Notice
The Wolf of Wall Street
Wyatt Earp
Zodiac
Zombieland
Zoolander
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