Some Great News About Obsession’s Digital Streaming Release Date

InnovationGamingSome Great News About Obsession’s Digital Streaming Release DateByPaul Tassi,Senior Contributor.Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. News and opinion about video games, television, movies and the internet.Follow AuthorJun 01, 2026, 10:55am EDT--:-- / --:--This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more.This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more.ObsessionBlumhouseThere’s news about when Obsession will be available on digital streaming platforms, for purchase or rental, after its theatrical run. Early reports said it would be tomorrow, June 2, but now fans will have to wait longer. Potentially a lot longer.To that I say, good. This is good news.When is the Obsession digital streaming release date?NBCU has removed Obsession from the digital release schedule, and it does not yet have a new date. It is good news to me that Blumhouse very clearly understands that moving Obsession to digital this early would be an enormous mistake, and yes, I do believe people should drag themselves to theaters to see it instead of watching on their couches. Obsession is one half of a wild box-office story over the past few weeks; the other is the absolutely enormous success of Backrooms this weekend, which earned over $100 million globally and broke all sorts of records.Obsession, too, is breaking records, and even more impressive ones. For the third weekend in a row, Obsession increased its box office earnings by another significant percentage, even competing with the aforementioned Backrooms in the same genre space, and the second week of the first Star Wars movie in seven years, The Mandalorian and Grogu, which is shoved down to an embarrassing third place.Obsession/The Mandalorian and GroguBlumhouse, DisneyMORE FOR YOULower-budget, lower-earning horror movies do have a habit of sprinting to digital rather quickly, especially in the Blumhouse family. But higher-earning movies can extend to a month in theaters, and the more...