Paramount Plus Rings In 2026 With Can't-Miss Premieres: Every New Show and Movie Dec 29–Jan 4

Paramount+ is wrapping 2025 with a five-hour country music blowout and kicking off 2026 by dropping a ton of movies. If you were planning to hibernate through New Year’s, the service has other ideas.

New Year’s Eve: Nashville goes big (and live-only)

On Wednesday, December 31, 2025, Paramount+ is streaming 'New Year’s Eve Live: Nashville’s Big Bash' live-only at 8-10 PM ET/PT and again from 10:30 PM-1:30 AM ET/PT. It’s also airing on the CBS Television Network. The five-hour broadcast lines up performances from Jason Aldean, Lainey Wilson, and Bailey Zimmerman.

Behind the scenes, the special is executive-produced by Mary Hilliard and Robert Deaton, in partnership with Music City, Inc. If you want to watch on Paramount+, note the 'live stream only' part — this one isn’t being framed as an on-demand afterparty.

New Year’s Day: a dark thriller to start 2026

'Barron’s Cove' lands on Thursday, January 1, 2026. Garrett Hedlund stars as a father with a violent past who kidnaps the kid he believes is responsible for his own son’s death. That sparks a manhunt led by the boy’s father — who happens to be a powerful politician. Grim premise, clear hook. And no, despite the title, it’s not about a relaxing waterfront getaway.

The full drop for Dec 29, 2025 - Jan 4, 2026

The schedule window is quiet outside the New Year’s Eve special and the New Year’s Day dump, but Jan 1 is loaded with licensed films — including a few you might not expect to see on Paramount+, like 'Spider-Man: Homecoming' and 'The Martian'. Here’s everything rolling onto the service on January 1, 2026:

• Barron’s Cove
• 10 Cloverfield Lane
• 50 First Dates
• A Man Called Horse
• A.I. Artificial Intelligence
• About Adam
• About Time
• Adore
• Angels & Demons
• Babel
• Baby Driver
• Bebe's Kids
• Black Rain
• Blue Chips
• Blue Story
• Brassed Off
• Bringing Out the Dead
• Captive
• Carriers
• Changing Lanes
• Chocolate City
• City of God
• City of Men
• Clerks
• Clockstoppers
• Coach Carter
• Company Man
• Cool World
• Cop Land
• Critical Condition
• Danger Close: The Battle of Long Tan
• Dead Man Walking
• Deadlock
• Devotion
• Double Jeopardy
• Drop Zone
• Eagle Eye
• Election
• Equilibrium
• Event Horizon
• Everybody Wants Some!!
• Fighting
• Flashdance
• Footloose (1984)
• Four Rooms
• Foxfire
• Fresh
• From Dusk Till Dawn 2: Texas Blood Money
• From Dusk Till Dawn 3: The Hangman's Daughter
• Funny Face
• Grudge Match
• Hard Eight
• High Noon (1952)
• House of Yes
• I Love You, I Love You Not
• In Too Deep
• Jackass 2.5
• Jackass 3
• Jackass 3.5
• Jackass Number Two
• Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa
• Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa .5 Unrated
• Jackass: The Movie
• Jenny's Wedding
• Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius
• John Grisham's The Rainmaker
• Kate & Leopold
• Last Weekend
• Like Crazy
• Love Me If You Dare
• Major League
• Maniac
• Necessary Roughness
• O (Othello)
• Paid in Full
• Percy Vs Goliath
• Pixels
• Pixie
• Queenpins
• Rudy
• Scary Movie
• Scary Movie 3
• Scream
• Scream 2
• Scream 3
• Searching For Bobby Fischer
• Serpico
• Silence
• Sinister
• Sleeping Dogs
• Southpaw
• Spider-Man: Homecoming
• Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
• Switchback
• The Crossing Guard
• The Crow (1994)
• The Crow: City of Angels
• The Crow: Wicked Prayer
• The Crying Game
• The Da Vinci Code
• The English Patient
• The Fitzgerald Family Christmas
• The Grifters
• The Haunting
• The Hours
• The Little Prince
• The Longest Yard (1974)
• The Lookout
• The Martian
• The Other Guys
• The Soloist
• Twisted
• Under the Stadium Lights
• Undisputed
• Undisputed II: Last Man Standing
• Undisputed III: Redemption
• Villain
• Wander
• We Were Soldiers
• What Lies Beneath
• Wildcat
• Would You Rather
• Wuthering Heights (2003)
• Zero Dark Thirty
• Zodiac
• Zoolander 2

That’s the window. If you tune in on the 31st, it’s live country all night. If you log in on the 1st, it’s basically a film festival.