Are Any Shows Leaving Apple TV This Month?

Summary Apple TV+ shifts from original content to licensed movies temporarily in March 2024, surprising subscribers.

Movies like Mad Max: Fury Road and Star Trek are set to leave Apple TV+ by the end of April 2024.

Saving Private Ryan, Fight Club, and other popular films are also leaving Apple TV+, adding to the April exodus.

Originally launched in 2019, Apple TV+ positioned itself as a unique offering among the wealth of streaming services because it doesn't rely on content from other studios. While Netflix, Hulu, Max, and Prime Video have a plethora of licensed content that fans know from theaters and various studios, Apple TV+ mostly specializes in original content made specifically for its streaming service, with award-winning original movies and shows like Ted Lasso and Severance. As such, Apple TV+ tends to see less turnover thanks to its original content, these properties remaining a constant for subscribers of the service.

However, Apple TV+ surprised subscribers in March 2024, when the service added over 50 licensed movies, which is a rarity that seldom happens. Apple TV+ did release several new originals, including the comedy series Palm Royale and the Apple-produced movie Napoleon. However, it also added several popular movies for a limited time. Films like Men in Black, Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, and Kill Bill lasted for less than a month on Apple TV+, leaving at the end of March. The remaining licensed movies leave the service at the end of April 2024, with Apple TV+ not adding any more non-originals after this seemingly one-time offer in March.

Related The 25 Best TV Shows On Apple TV+ Right Now (March 2024) From comedies including Ted Lasso and Mythic Quest to dramas including Severance, there are many great TV shows available to binge-watch on Apple TV+.

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Mad Max: Fury Road

With a brand-new Mad Max movie coming out in 2024 called Furiosa, fans have one more month to watch the fourth installment in the franchise, Mad Max: Fury Road on Apple TV+ before it leaves at the end of April 2024. It is a soft reboot of the original movies, with Tom Hardy taking on the role of Mad Max Rockatansky. However, the real breakout character here is Charlize Theron's Furiosa, who fights alongside Max against the mutants and terrorists in the post-apocalyptic wasteland.

The movie was a huge success and eclipsed even the beloved original entries in the franchise. It brought in a franchise-high $380.4 million at the box office and even earned 10 nominations at the Academy Awards, winning six of them. Before the prequel to Mad Max: Fury Road, with Anya-Taylor Joy playing a younger Furiosa, arrives in theaters, Apple TV+ has given subscribers two months to see the movie that introduced her to the world, but that will end on April 30.

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Related Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga - Release Date, Cast, Story, Trailer & Everything We Know Director George Miller has confirmed the development of a Mad Max prequel centering around Furiosa, and here’s everything that we know about the film.

The Prestige

While Christopher Nolan was making his Dark Knight Trilogy of Batman movies, he took a break in the middle of them to make something more personal. That was the 2006 release, The Prestige, which he made with his Batman actor Christian Bale and Hugh Jackman, who himself played a superhero in Wolverine. However, this movie was as far from a superhero release as Nolan could get, as he put them in a psychological thriller in London in the 1890s.

The Prestige was a critical success and earned two Oscar nominations for its art direction and cinematography.

The Prestige is about two magicians who were former partners who became fierce rivals. When a trick by Alfred (Bale) accidentally results in the death of Robert's (Jackman) wife Julia (Scarlet Johansson), Robert sets out on an elaborate scheme to get revenge. The movie relies on a strong sci-fi idea and brings in a real-life historical figure, Nikola Tesla (David Bowie), to be part of the story. The Prestige was a critical success and earned two Oscar nominations for its art direction and cinematography.

Star Trek

In 2009, JJ Abrams took over the Star Trek franchise and relaunched it from the start, with a young cast of actors playing the Starship Enterprise crew at the start of their journey to the edges of the galaxy. This resulted in a movie that seemed to please both fans of the original franchise and younger fans who wanted something new with the older franchise. While there were complaints about continuity errors between the old and new movies and shows, this was fixed by setting it in the Kelvin timeline - an alternate universe.

This also helped the franchise bring in the original Spock in Leonard Nimoy in the sequel and create a new version of Khan in the third movie. Apple TV+ didn't just license the original Abrams' Star Trek for its limited run on the streaming service, but it brought in all three of his movies, with Star Trek Beyond and Star Trek Into Darkness also included. All three of the Star Trek movies remain on Apple TV+ until April 30.

Three Star Trek movies leave Apple TV+ in April 2024, including Star Trek Into Darkness and Star Trek Beyond.

Saving Private Ryan

Steven Spielberg created one of the best war movies of all time when he brought Saving Private Ryan to the big screen in 1998. The movie follows a group of soldiers led by Captain John Miller (Tom Hanks) as they search for Private James Ryan, who is the last surviving son after his brothers are all killed in action. The movie explains that when all the siblings die in battle, the final surviving son is returned home to his family and discharged honorably from the war effort.

There are several war series on Apple TV+, including the recently released Masters of th Air.

The movie was a huge success and the cast included a who's-who of acting talent, from Matt Damon and Vin Diesel to Tom Sizemore, Edward Burns, and Giovanni Ribisi. Saving Private Ryan also cleaned up at the Academy Awards, with 11 Oscar nominations, including winning Best Director for Spielberg. Controversially, it lost Best Picture to Shakespeare in Love. There are several war series on Apple TV+, including the recently released Masters of the Air, but Saving Private Ryan remains the movie that all others strive to match.

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Fight Club

David Fincher released Fight Club in 1999, based on the novel of the same name by Chuck Palahniuk. The movie stars Edward Norton as the unnamed narrator who meets an enigmatic man named Tyler Durden (Brad Pitt) who challenges him to change his life. The film is a dizzying adventure story of a man who starts a fight club to release his tensions and feel alive, only to watch it grow into a rebellious organization bent on terrorist acts that would bring down the capitalist society the world remains trapped in.

Related Fight Club Ending Explained (In Detail) Fight Club ends with one of cinema's most iconic twists, but even decades later, there's more to the somewhat ambiguous ending than meets the eye.

The movie was only a small success when released, making $101 million at the box office on a $63 million budget (via Box Office Mojo), but became a cult classic after it reached home video. Fight Club remains a beloved counterculture movie over 20 years after its release and Apple TV+ brought it to its streaming service for a limited two-month engagement. However, subscribers only have one more month to watch it there before it leaves the service on April 30.

Mad Max: Fury Road Where to Watch *Availability in US stream

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buy Not available Not available Not available Mad Max: Fury Road is the fourth film in George Miller's long-running sci-fi franchise, with Tom Hardy starring as Max Rockstansky, a vagabond who lives on the road in an apocalyptic wasteland. When Max comes across a cult group that keeps its people in fear and under control with a monopoly on water and other crucial supplies, he joins up with Imperator Furiosa, a warrior woman leading a rebellion against the cult's leader, Immortan Joe. Director George Miller Release Date May 14, 2015 Studio(s) Village Roadshow Pictures , RatPac-Dune Entertainment , Kennedy Miller Mitchell Distributor(s) Warner Bros. Pictures Writers George Miller , Brendan McCarthy , Nick Lathouris Cast Tom Hardy , Charlize Theron , Nicholas Hoult , Zoe Kravitz , Hugh Keays-Byrne , Riley Keough , Courtney Eaton , Abbey Lee , Rosie Huntington-Whiteley Runtime 120 Minutes

The Prestige Where to Watch *Availability in US stream

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buy Not available Not available Not available Written and directed by Christopher Nolan, The Prestige follows the lives of two stage magicians in Victorian London. Once colleagues, Robert Angier and Alfred Borden become hated rivals after a tragedy involving Angier's wife tears them apart. The two magicians each go on to have their own lives and careers while competing to see who can pull off a seemingly impossible teleportation trick. Hugh Jackman and Christian Bale star as Angier and Borden. Director Christopher Nolan Studio(s) Warner Bros. Pictures Writers Jonathan Nolan , Christopher Nolan Cast Hugh Jackman , Michael Caine , Christian Bale Scarlett Johansson , Piper Perabo Runtime 130 minutes

Star Trek (2009) Where to Watch *Availability in US stream

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buy Not available Not available Not available J.J. Abrams' 2009 movie Star Trek rebooted the iconic sci-fi franchise in a totally new timeline. When a Romulan ship travels back in time and alters the past, the lives of James T. Kirk (Chris Pine), Spock (Zachary Quinto), and the future crew of the USS Enterprise are drastically changed. In this new timeline, the Romulan Nero (Eric Bana) sets out for revenge on Spock, setting off a chain of events that reshape the entire universe. Director J.J. Abrams Release Date May 7, 2009 Studio(s) Paramount Pictures Writers Roberto Orci , Alex Kurtzman Cast Chris Pine , Zoe Saldana , Zachary Quinto , Simon Pegg Runtime 127 Minutes

Saving Private Ryan Where to Watch *Availability in US stream

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buy Not available Not available Not available Tom Hanks stars as Captain John Miller in Steven Spielberg's 1998 WWII film. Saving Private Ryan tells the story of Miller's command of a company of soldiers who risk their lives in an attempt to extricate Private James Ryan from the fighting in Europe, in order to spare his family from losing all of their sons after Ryan's brothers are killed in the war. Matt Damon, Edward Burns, and Tom Sizemore also star. Director Steven Spielberg Release Date July 24, 1998 Studio(s) DreamWorks Distribution Writers Robert Rodat Cast Tom Sizemore , adam goldberg , Vin Diesel Tom Hanks , Edward Burns , Matt Damon Runtime 169 minutes