Jude Law’s Most Daring 2025 Film Gets a Netflix Release Date
Netflix has locked the streaming date for Eden, Jude Law’s NSFW survival thriller. The film premiered at TIFF on September 7, 2024, hit US theaters August 22, 2025, and later rolled out on PVOD.
If you skipped Jude Law's survival thriller 'Eden' in theaters — and statistically, most people did — it finally lands on Netflix just in time for holiday couch time.
When and how it rolled out
- World premiere: Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) on September 7, 2024
- US theatrical release: August 22, 2025 (distributed by Vertical Entertainment)
- PVOD: Available on multiple digital rental services after its theatrical run
- Prime Video: October 24, 2025
- Netflix: Tuesday, December 23, 2025
The pitch
Based on a true story, 'Eden' is set in the 1930s on Floreana, one of the remote Galapagos Islands. A handful of idealists show up chasing their personal version of a utopia. First to stake a claim: Dr. Friedrich Ritter and his partner Dora, who try to build a life off the grid. The quiet is short-lived once the Wittmers arrive — Heinz, his wife Margret, and their son Harry — followed by a full-blown wild card: Baroness Eloise Bosquet de Wagner, flanked by her lovers Robert and Rudolph and her Ecuadorian servant Manuel. Eloise announces she is going to build a glamorous hotel, which goes over exactly how you think with the people already trying to scrape by there. Also woven into the settlers-and-dreamers mix: Allan Hancock, whose presence only complicates the dynamics further.
Behind the camera
Ron Howard directed from a screenplay by Noah Pink; the two also co-wrote the story. Howard produced alongside Brian Grazer, Karen Lunder, Patrick Newall, and Stuart Ford. Matt Villa handled editing, and Hans Zimmer composed the score. The film was backed by Imagine Entertainment, AGC Studios, and Library Pictures International. Theatrical distribution came via Vertical Entertainment (the company behind releases like 'She Came to Me' and 'Your Monster').
Cast
Jude Law leads the ensemble, with Vanessa Kirby, Ana de Armas, Sydney Sweeney, Daniel Bruhl, and Felix Kammerer in the mix.
How it went (so far)
In theaters, 'Eden' face-planted: about $2.5 million worldwide against a $35 million net budget (and a $55 million gross budget). On Rotten Tomatoes, it sits at 57% on the Tomatometer with a 73% audience score — a split that tracks for a prickly survival story that is not exactly a mainstream crowd-pleaser but clearly found some fans.
If you missed it on Prime Video back in October or passed during the PVOD window, Netflix has it on December 23. Given the pedigree — Howard behind the camera, Zimmer on the score, and a murderer's row of movie stars — it's at least worth a look to see how this strange, sun-baked tug-of-war over paradise plays out.