Check out what's new to rent and own this week on the various streaming services such as cable On Demand, Amazon, iTunes, Vudu, and, of course, Netflix.
Cable On Demand: Same-day-as-disc releases, older titles and pre-theatrical exclusives for rent, priced from $3-$10, in 24- or 48-hour periods
LUV (urban drama; Common, Michael Rainey Jr.; rated R)
Erased (action thriller known as The Expatriate outside the U.S.; Aaron Eckhart, Olga Kurylenko; pretheatrical release on April 5; rated R)
The Story of Luke (comedy; Lou Taylor Pucci, Seth Green; same day as theatrical on April 5; rated PG)
Venus and Serena (sports documentary; Venus and Serena Williams; pretheatrical; rated PG-13)
Streaming/Digital Download: Rent from $4-$7 or own from $15-$20 (HD may cost more than SD)
iTunes
Same as cable On Demand to rent and/or own except for Erased, Story of Luke and Venus and Serena. Plus:
Django Unchained (Quentin Tarantino's pre-Civil War action adventure; Jamie Foxx, Christoph Waltz, Samuel L. Jackson, Leonardo DiCaprio; available now to download to own—not rent—two weeks before disc; rated R)
The Impossible (director J.A. Bayona's drama based on true story of a family surviving a tsunami; Ewan McGregor, Naomi Watts; available now to download to own—not rent—three weeks before disc; rated PG-13)
Stitches (killer-clown horror flick; Ross Noble, Tommy Knight; rated R)
Amazon
Django Unchained, The Impossible, Stitches
Vudu
Same as cable On Demand to rent and/or own except for The Story of Luke and Venus and Serena. Plus:
Django Unchained (includes bonus feature "Reimagining the Spaghetti Western: The Horses and Stunts of Django Unchained"), The Impossible, Stitches
Netflix Watch Instantly: $7.99 per month
New This Week: The Hunger Games, Lay the Favorite, Mafia, Arthur and the Invisibles and Bachelorette
Retiring Titles: The Last Exorcism, Come Undone, Adventures of a Teenage Dragonslayer, Crash (2005), The Passion of the Christ and Storm