Spider-Man: No Coming Home was the first film of the pandemic to hit $1 billion in worldwide box office revenue. But even as months have passed since its theatrical release, and even when it became available to buy online, the film wasn’t showing on a subscription service at all, until Friday. .

And it won’t be on one of the services that comes to mind first. The latest Spider-Man movie won’t be nearing Disney Plus anytime soon, even though actor Tom Holland’s Spider-Man appears regularly in Disney’s Marvel movies. netflix is get Sony’s movies hitting theaters this year, but No Way Home came out late last year. And HBO and HBO Max have a reputation as a go-to place for big movies after cinemas, but HBO Max is not – and will not be – streamed Spider-Man: No Coming Home.

Sony Pictures is the distributor behind No Way Home, and its deal with Starz means No Way Home is streaming there now.

Where and when is Spider-Man: No Way Home available to stream?

No Way Home began streaming on Starz on Friday.

Sony has struck a deal to have its 2021 films premiere on premium cable network Starz, where they can be viewed on its traditional channels as well as its streaming app.

Will Spider-Man: No Way Home ever be on Disney Plus?

It’s possible, but it won’t be on Disney Plus in the near future unless Disney and Sony make a new deal.

Spider-Man, as a character, derives from Marvel, but Disney’s Marvel has a complicated licensing deal with Sony for the Spider-Man characters on film. Basically, Sony is responsible for creating and distributing standalone Spider-Man universe movies, and then Disney’s Marvel can “borrow” the characters for movies in its own Marvel Cinematic Universe. That’s why Tom Holland’s Spider-Man appears in the Avengers movies.

This is also why you box stream movies on Disney Plus featuring Holland as Spider-Man – but you can not stream one of the Spider-Man specific movies there.

The same arrangement extends to the Venom movies and Morbius movie coming this year. They’re Marvel characters, but the movies are Sony-distributed movies, so they’re not headed to Disney Plus anytime soon.

You may have read about how the Spider-Man movies will be coming to Disney Plus thanks to a new deal struck last year. That’s true but it’s tricky – the deal may not apply to No Way Home.

Disney got a deal with sony in April to stream Spider-Man catalog movies as well as sony movies that hit theaters between 2022 and 2026. First of all, those 2022-2026 theatrical releases won’t be coming to Disney Plus for many, many months; they will actually be exclusively on Netflix first. But since No Way Home’s theatrical release was in 2021, that part of the deal doesn’t apply there anyway. Second, neither Sony nor Disney confirm when – or even if – No Way Home would be considered a “catalogue” film that could stream on Disney Plus.

Bottom line: If you’re holding your breath for No Way Home to air on Disney Plus, it’ll be a long time before you can expire – if ever.

Will Spider-Man: No Way Home air on HBO Max?

No, not in the foreseeable future.

HBO Max carries all Warner Bros. movies, and it’s known for aggressively securing the TV and streaming rights to top films. And HBO Max has been closely tied to the concept of same-day streaming, as it has released more movies this way than any other streaming service. It created misguided hope among moviegoers when any new movie hits theaters. Without knowing which studio is distributing this new movie, many people are wondering if it is also one of the movies available on HBO Max.

But Spider-Man is distributed by Sony, not Warner Bros., and HBO doesn’t have a deal to show Sony movies first, so No Way Home isn’t on its way to HBO Max.

Will Spider-Man: No Way Home be streaming on Netflix?

Highly unlikely. sony struck a deal with Netflix last year for all of its 2022 theatrical releases to stream on Netflix before they’re available on any other TV service or network, but No Way Home was released in 2021, before the pact took effect. The deal also included terms regarding Netflix, which also licenses “certain [Sony’s] vast library of movies,” but No Way Home is unlikely to be considered a library title anytime soon.