Overview
- Obsession will arrive on Netflix on November 17, 2026 under a newly announced Universal licensing agreement that lets many Universal titles reach Netflix within eight months of their theatrical release.
- The film began at the Toronto Film Festival in 2025 and opened in U.S. theaters on May 15, 2026 before going on to earn roughly $520–523 million worldwide on an estimated $750,000 budget.
- Obsession has sustained strong home-viewing demand after its June 30 digital rental debut on Apple TV and Amazon Prime Video and, according to FlixPatrol, spent a record run on Prime Video’s top-10 rental charts.
- Director Curry Barker declined an initial Netflix offer to release the film straight to streaming and instead pursued a theatrical rollout that boosted box office returns and raised the profiles of breakout performers such as Inde Navarrette.
- The Universal–Netflix deal lets films show on Netflix for up to ten months before reverting to Peacock, a shift that could speed post-theatrical streaming windows and alter how studios and creators weigh theatrical releases against early streaming offers.