Zendaya’s Challengers and Ryan Gosling’s The Fall Guy are two of the hit films fresh from the cinema to arrive this month on Rakuten TV, one of Europe’s leading streaming platforms that enables viewers to rent, purchase or to watch films and entertainment content for free without a subscription.
Challengers, starring one of the biggest stars in the world, Zendaya, is now available to buy and rent from £19.99 and £15.99 respectively. Tennis has never been so exciting in this feature from director Luca Guadagnino as he serves up a tangled love triangle between a former tennis star turned coach (Zendaya) and the two men competing for her attention and the next title on the ATP Challenger tour.
From 3rd June, hit action comedy The Fall Guy will be available on the platform. Starring Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt alongside Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Hannah Waddingham, The Fall Guy follows stuntman Colt Seavers (Gosling) working on his ex-girlfriend’s movie but soon finds himself involved in a conspiracy surrounding the film’s lead actor.
Also newly fresh from the cinema and available on Rakuten TV now is the highly anticipated Amy Winehouse biopic Back to Black. Marisa Abela portrays the life and music of the much-lauded singer, through her journey of adolescence to adulthood and the creation of one of the best-selling albums of our time.
Dystopian action-comedy Boy Kills World, starring Bill Skarsgard, is another early home release, available on the platform from 10th June. When his family is murdered, Boy, a deaf person with a vibrant imagination, is trained by a mysterious shaman to become an instrument of death, in this action suspense film straight from the cinema.
Also, on Rakuten TV this month new titles available to purchase and rent include dystopian thriller Civil War, family drama Butterfly Tale, British rom-com This Time Next Year and Oscar-nominated feature IO Capitano.
Celebrating Pride Month in June, Rakuten TV is launching a content collection of LGBTQI+ titles that shine a spotlight on fascinating stories which have helped shape the LGBTQI+ movement. The Pride content collection, available in Rakuten TV’s free to view advertising supported section, includes Stonewall, Scenes of a Sexual Nature, Anything, A Kid Like Jake, JT Leroy, Mapplethorpe, My Days of Mercy and Unsound. LGBTQI+ channel Revri is also available to watch for free on the platform.
Rakuten TV’s ad-supported section has also newly added more free-to-watch films, including Fantastic Mr. Fox, Upside Down, Acts of Vengeance, Life, Animated, and Martin Lawrence’s hit Big Mommas franchise, with Big Momma’s House, Big Momma’s House 2 and Big Mommas: Like Father, Like Son coming to the platform.
Over in Rakuten TV’s FAST section, viewers can keep up with election coverage on the Euronews channel, or tune into new channel Ice Pilots, which screens hit docu-series following the adventures of renegade Arctic airline Buffalo Airways, as they fly vintage warplanes across the last frontier on Earth.
Ahead of the release of Bad Boys: Ride or Die in cinemas, viewers can catch up with where it all started in the Will Smith franchise, with Bad Boys on promotional offer to buy from only £3.99.
Here’s a look at the full listings for June 2024:
TVOD | ||
Local Title | Release Date | NOTE |
Challengers | 31/05/2024 | Home Early Release – Buy from £19.99/Rent for £15.99 |
The Fall Guy | 03/06/2024 | Home Early Release – Buy from £19.99/Rent for £15.99 |
Back to Black | Live | Home Early Release – Buy from £19.99/Rent for £15.99 |
Civil War | Live | Home Early Release – Buy from £19.99/Rent for £15.99 |
Butterfly Tale | 03/06/2024 | Buy from £9.99/Rent for £4.49 |
Boy Kills World | 10/06/2024 | Home Early Release – Buy from £19.99/Rent for £15.99 |
This Time Next Year | 03/06/2024 | Buy from £9.99/Rent for £4.49 |
Drive-Away Dolls | 03/06/2024 | Buy from £13.99/Rent for £4.99 |
Io Capitano | 03/06/2024 | Buy from 9.99 Rent from 4.49 |
Food Inc. 2 | 07/06/2024 | Buy from 9.99 Rent from 4.49 |
The Prank | 10/06/2024 | Buy from 9.99 Rent from 4.49 |
Bermondsey Tales: Fall of the Roman Empire | 10/06/2024 | Buy from 9.99 Rent from 4.49 |
Darkness of Man | 10/06/2024 | Buy from 9.99 Rent from 4.49 |
Vindication Swim | 10/06/2024 | Buy from 9.99 Rent from 4.49 |
Ryuichi Sakamoto: Opus | 17/06/2024 | Buy from 9.99 Rent from 4.49 |
Made in England: The Films of Powell and Pressburger | 17/06/2024 | Buy from 9.99 Rent from 4.49 |
The Trouble with Jessica | 17/06/2024 | Buy from 9.99 Rent from 4.49 |
Jade | 17/06/2024 | Buy from 9.99 Rent from 4.49 |
AVOD | ||
Local Title | Start date | Comment |
Life, Animated | 01/06/2024 | Oscar-nominated documentary |
Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures | 01/06/2024 | Starring |
Upside Down | 01/06/2024 | Sci-Fi starring Kirsten Dunst |
Acts Of Vengeance | 01/06/2024 | Action starring Antonio Banderas |
Fantastic Mr. Fox | 01/06/2024 | Animation directed by Wes Anderson starring George Clooney |
Big Momma’s House | 20/06/2024 | Starring Martin Lawrence |
Big Momma’s House 2 | 20/06/2024 | Starring Martin Lawrence |
Big Mommas: Like Father, Like Son | 20/06/2024 | Starring Martin Lawrence |
Stonewall | 01/06/2024 | Pride Month collection |
Scenes of a Sexual Nature | 01/06/2024 | Pride Month collection |
Anything | 01/06/2024 | Pride Month collection |
A Kid Like Jake | 01/06/2024 | Pride Month collection |
JT Leroy | 01/06/2024 | Pride Month collection |
Mapplethorpe | 01/06/2024 | Pride Month collection |
My Days of Mercy | 01/06/2024 | Pride Month collection |
Unsound | 01/06/2024 | Pride Month collection |
FAST | ||
Local Title | Comment | |
Euronews | 01/05/2024 | Rolling live news, this month with Special coverage of the EU Parliament elections |
Revri | Celebrating Pride Month | |
Ice Pilots | Live | NEW CHANNEL. The hit docu-series following the adventures of renegade Arctic airline Buffalo Airways. Nail-biting challenges and intimate personal stories featuring the pilots, engineers and crew who put it all on the line flying vintage warplanes across the last frontier on Earth. |
PROMO & LIBRARY | ||
Title | Comment | |
Bad Boys | Live | Buy from £3.99, 56% off the original price. Catch up with the franchise ahead of the release of Bad Boys: Ride or Die in cinemas |
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