Here's What's Leaving Netflix in July 2020

As the great streaming wars intensify, more and more licensed movies and television shows are being moved off of Netflix and replaced with content that the streaming giant owns outright (in July alone Netflix is adding almost 60 original titles). There is a season turn, turn, turn.

the-curious-case-of-benjamin-button — Image via Paramount Pictures

Weirdly, a number of the bigger titles leaving Netflix are Paramount titles. Not only is it odd that many of them were supposed to depart in June (but got a stay of execution for some reason) but Paramount and Netflix have close ties, with the streaming platform rescuing a number of Paramount titles that the studio had initially planned to release (like The Lovebirds, The Cloverfield Paradox, and, overseas, Annihilation). The Paramount titles leaving the service this month include Cloverfield, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Kiss the Girls, What Lies Beneath, Patriot Games, Minority Report and underrated erotic thriller Sliver.

Other titles are leaving and will undoubtedly be heading to their parent company’s new direct-to-consumer streaming service, with The Matrix movies moving to HBO Max, and Race to Witch Mountain, Incredibles 2, Ant-Man and the Wasp, and Solo: A Star Wars Story taking up residence on Disney+.

Maybe saddest of all is the removal of the Tremors series from Netflix. The first five films in the series (there’s definitely a sixth set in Antarctica but clearly shot in South Africa) are saying adieu on July 1. Hopefully they’ll resurface on Peacock. But until then, it might be time for one last graboid hunt.

Leaving July 1st