When will ‘Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance With Somebody’ be on Netflix?

Sony’s new movie that serves as a biopic about famed singer Whitney Houston is set to hit theaters during the holiday season, and in 2023, it’s also heading to Netflix US. Here’s when we’re expecting I want to dance with someone to go to the serpentine.

Written by Anthony McCarten and directed by Kasi Lemmons, this new biopic hopes to follow in the successful footsteps of Bohemian Rhapsody Y rocket man in reviving Whitney Houston’s music career.

I want to dance with someone stars Naomi Ackie, Stanley Tucci, Ashton Sanders, Tamara Tunie, Nafessa Williams, and Clarke Peters.

The film begins its theatrical run on December 23 and was produced on a budget of $45 million. Debuted at mostly mixed reviewswith IGN saying is “yet yet another musical biopic that feels like an event checklist rather than a riveting drama.”

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When I want to dance with someone be on Netflix in the US?

Through a first-window deal that Netflix signed in 2021 and started in 2022, all of Sony Pictures’ movies make their way to Netflix (except for some of the subsidiary productions) for the 18 months that make up the first window.

This first window comes after the theatrical window has finished. That has ranged from 120 days to 156 days based on every movie that has been released so far, including movies like Unexplored, father stu, Bullet train, and others.

In this case, Netflix in the United States, the absolute first I want to dance with someone will head into service is April 22, 2023.

At the latest, the film will be available on Netflix US in June 2023.

Some of the other Sony Pictures movies coming to Netflix in 2023 include the king woman, Devotion, Y Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile.

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Will international regions get Netflix I want to dance with someone?

The likely answer is yes for most countries, although we don’t have firm dates.

Netflix India is constantly getting new movies from Sony 120 days after release, which means you’ll see the movie added around the same time as in the US in spring 2023.

Netflix Canada and the UK receive movies from Sony 2 years after their theatrical release. This also applies to regions such as Belgium, Greece, Japan, Poland, Spain, Sweden, and South Africa.

That would mean that Netflix in these regions will see I want to dance with someone added sometime in 2024/25.

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