If you’re struggling to make it to the cinema or you’re just trying to stay in due to the COVID-19 pandemic, you might be looking for the release date for Spider-Man No Way Home to rent online. The reality is that the timings for movie rentals is a little convoluted with different retailers and the difference between the more expensive home premier style and the regular old school online rental, but we’re going to try to unpick it all for you to give you the latest on the release date for both options.
The film sees Tom Holland returning as Peter Parker and his superhero alter ego Spider-Man, but with the events of Far From Home the whole world knows that he’s the web swinging Avenger. If that isn’t enough, a lot of them have bought into the Mysterio spin and see him as a potential bad guy with the death of Quentin Beck at the end of the last film.
AdvertisementIf you’ve seen the trailer then you know that Peter turns to Doctor Strange to make everyone forget that he’s the web guy, which goes wrong and we get a New York city full of multiverse mess. It’s a pretty exciting concept and having seen the film on the big screen it’s one you don’t want to miss, so it’s easy to see why you might be desperate to find out more about when it’s going to be available to rent online.
Home premier rental
The first opportunity to see the film on your telly box will be the home premier rental and this is usually around 45-60 days after the initial cinematic release date. If you track that forward from when Spider-Man No Way Home arrived in cinemas (15th December 2021 in the UK and 17th in North America) a good ball park would be the end of January 2022 or early February.
AdvertisementThe film has been a big hit in the cinema and we’re not anticipating Marvel or Sony to want to disrupt that too early, so it could be on the longer side of the spectrum, which would make February the most likely candidate for the initial home premier rental release date. However, the impact of the Omicron variant of the COVID-19 pandemic could well change that, which would bring things forward a little to the end of January.
Amazon Prime video seems to have cornered the market in terms of early access to cinema movies, so that will probably be one of the first places to watch No Way Home online. However, the Play Store and iTunes will be other options and we’ll update things here as details are confirmed with regards to the official release date.
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Standard rent online release date latest
AdvertisementThere’s a lot to take into account for the Spider-Man No Way Home rent online release date, because the difference between films being on at the cinema and coming out for home entertainment has changed a lot in the last few months. However, if we go on the norm for films released between July and October 2021, then we should see the film available for standard rental in March 2022.
This comes with some pretty big caveats, because everything is so turned around at the moment. For example, if we were to go on the norm prior to that then we wouldn’t see the film to rent online until April 2022, a little over a month later.
If you’re looking for some examples to go on, the No Time To Die DVD and Blu-ray release date is scheduled for the 20th December 2021 following on from its run on the big screen, which began on the 30th September 2021 in the UK. The rental will then follow a week or two after the DVD and Blu-ray, so if this is the model that Sony go with for No Way Home then March 2022 is a good estimate.
However, again, a lot of this will depend on the severity of the Omicron variant, because we’ve seen previous winters making a big dent in things for the movie industry. It doesn’t look like winter 2021/22 is going to be as badly affected as 2020/21 in terms of closed cinemas, but with the introduction of COVID passes, we’re still going to see numbers much lower than in years prior to the pandemic.
The only other thing to consider in terms of when Spider-Man No Way Home will be available to rent online is that Easter in 2022 is on the 17th April. Ordinarily, a Christmas box office would then follow with an Easter release for home entertainment, which maximises the potential for sales, so its possible that things revert to the old norm and April is the date Sony goes for.
As we mentioned earlier, we’ll update things here with more information as they’re confirmed, but the latest above should give you some ball park date ranges to aim for. The home premier will be the earliest option, so that will be the first thing to be updated in the New Year, but that’s still a long way away, so if you can make it to the cinema it’s one to catch.
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