Spider-Man: No Way Home's first streaming service has been confirmed, and it's not Netflix or Disney+. Instead, it has been revealed that the multiverse adventure will swing its way to Starz "sometime over the next six months."

In an interview with Deadline, Starz CEO Jeffrey Hirsch was asked about the streaming platform's "role of movies versus series." While films seem to provide a big jump in viewers when they arrive on the service, they fade much quicker than TV shows do.

“Ours is a retention game, not an acquisition game,” he said. “Lining up content week to week, 52 weeks a year. Seeking to move our core audience from one show to the next.”

He continued by saying that while viewers did tend to visit Starz for the original series, the service has much more movies than it does shows. Considering that fact, Hirsch hopes films like Spider-Man: No Way Home - which will arrive on Starz "sometime over the next six months" - will invite people into Starz's home and that the original content will make them stay.

“You put the right shows and content around it so you can move customers that watch Spider-Man into one of your originals," Hirsch said.

Many have been hoping that Spider-Man: No Way Home would come to Netflix and Disney+ in the near future, especially after the deals Sony made with the streaming giants. However, their deals only covered Sony's films from 2022-2026. No Way Home, on the other hand, was released in 2021.

We know future Spider-Man films will arrive on Netflix first and then Disney+, but it is still unclear as to whether Spider-Man: No Way Home - or any of the other previous Spider-Man films for that matter - will make it to those platforms.

Jared Leto's Morbius looks to be the first film that will fall under this new deal, but it was recently delayed to April 1, 2022.

Have a tip for us? Want to discuss a possible story? Please send an email to newstips@ign.com.

Adam Bankhurst is a news writer for IGN. You can follow him on Twitter @AdamBankhurst and on Twitch.

Spider-Man: No Way Home's first streaming service has been confirmed, and it's not Netflix or Disney+. Instead, it has been revealed that the multiverse adventure will swing its way to Starz "sometime over the next six months."

In an interview with Deadline, Starz CEO Jeffrey Hirsch was asked about the streaming platform's "role of movies versus series." While films seem to provide a big jump in viewers when they arrive on the service, they fade much quicker than TV shows do.

“Ours is a retention game, not an acquisition game,” he said. “Lining up content week to week, 52 weeks a year. Seeking to move our core audience from one show to the next.”

He continued by saying that while viewers did tend to visit Starz for the original series, the service has much more movies than it does shows. Considering that fact, Hirsch hopes films like Spider-Man: No Way Home - which will arrive on Starz "sometime over the next six months" - will invite people into Starz's home and that the original content will make them stay.

“You put the right shows and content around it so you can move customers that watch Spider-Man into one of your originals," Hirsch said.

Many have been hoping that Spider-Man: No Way Home would come to Netflix and Disney+ in the near future, especially after the deals Sony made with the streaming giants. However, their deals only covered Sony's films from 2022-2026. No Way Home, on the other hand, was released in 2021.

We know future Spider-Man films will arrive on Netflix first and then Disney+, but it is still unclear as to whether Spider-Man: No Way Home - or any of the other previous Spider-Man films for that matter - will make it to those platforms.

Jared Leto's Morbius looks to be the first film that will fall under this new deal, but it was recently delayed to April 1, 2022.

Have a tip for us? Want to discuss a possible story? Please send an email to newstips@ign.com.

Adam Bankhurst is a news writer for IGN. You can follow him on Twitter @AdamBankhurst and on Twitch.

Spider-Man: No Way Home's first streaming service has been confirmed, and it's not Netflix or Disney+. Instead, it has been revealed that the multiverse adventure will swing its way to Starz "sometime over the next six months."

In an interview with Deadline, Starz CEO Jeffrey Hirsch was asked about the streaming platform's "role of movies versus series." While films seem to provide a big jump in viewers when they arrive on the service, they fade much quicker than TV shows do.

“Ours is a retention game, not an acquisition game,” he said. “Lining up content week to week, 52 weeks a year. Seeking to move our core audience from one show to the next.”

He continued by saying that while viewers did tend to visit Starz for the original series, the service has much more movies than it does shows. Considering that fact, Hirsch hopes films like Spider-Man: No Way Home - which will arrive on Starz "sometime over the next six months" - will invite people into Starz's home and that the original content will make them stay.

“You put the right shows and content around it so you can move customers that watch Spider-Man into one of your originals," Hirsch said.

Many have been hoping that Spider-Man: No Way Home would come to Netflix and Disney+ in the near future, especially after the deals Sony made with the streaming giants. However, their deals only covered Sony's films from 2022-2026. No Way Home, on the other hand, was released in 2021.

We know future Spider-Man films will arrive on Netflix first and then Disney+, but it is still unclear as to whether Spider-Man: No Way Home - or any of the other previous Spider-Man films for that matter - will make it to those platforms.

Jared Leto's Morbius looks to be the first film that will fall under this new deal, but it was recently delayed to April 1, 2022.

Have a tip for us? Want to discuss a possible story? Please send an email to newstips@ign.com.

Adam Bankhurst is a news writer for IGN. You can follow him on Twitter @AdamBankhurst and on Twitch.

Spider-Man: No Way Home's first streaming service has been confirmed, and it's not Netflix or Disney+. Instead, it has been revealed that the multiverse adventure will swing its way to Starz "sometime over the next six months."

In an interview with Deadline, Starz CEO Jeffrey Hirsch was asked about the streaming platform's "role of movies versus series." While films seem to provide a big jump in viewers when they arrive on the service, they fade much quicker than TV shows do.

“Ours is a retention game, not an acquisition game,” he said. “Lining up content week to week, 52 weeks a year. Seeking to move our core audience from one show to the next.”

He continued by saying that while viewers did tend to visit Starz for the original series, the service has much more movies than it does shows. Considering that fact, Hirsch hopes films like Spider-Man: No Way Home - which will arrive on Starz "sometime over the next six months" - will invite people into Starz's home and that the original content will make them stay.

“You put the right shows and content around it so you can move customers that watch Spider-Man into one of your originals," Hirsch said.

Many have been hoping that Spider-Man: No Way Home would come to Netflix and Disney+ in the near future, especially after the deals Sony made with the streaming giants. However, their deals only covered Sony's films from 2022-2026. No Way Home, on the other hand, was released in 2021.

We know future Spider-Man films will arrive on Netflix first and then Disney+, but it is still unclear as to whether Spider-Man: No Way Home - or any of the other previous Spider-Man films for that matter - will make it to those platforms.

Jared Leto's Morbius looks to be the first film that will fall under this new deal, but it was recently delayed to April 1, 2022.

Have a tip for us? Want to discuss a possible story? Please send an email to newstips@ign.com.

Adam Bankhurst is a news writer for IGN. You can follow him on Twitter @AdamBankhurst and on Twitch.

Spider-Man: No Way Home's first streaming service has been confirmed, and it's not Netflix or Disney+. Instead, it has been revealed that the multiverse adventure will swing its way to Starz "sometime over the next six months."

In an interview with Deadline, Starz CEO Jeffrey Hirsch was asked about the streaming platform's "role of movies versus series." While films seem to provide a big jump in viewers when they arrive on the service, they fade much quicker than TV shows do.

“Ours is a retention game, not an acquisition game,” he said. “Lining up content week to week, 52 weeks a year. Seeking to move our core audience from one show to the next.”

He continued by saying that while viewers did tend to visit Starz for the original series, the service has much more movies than it does shows. Considering that fact, Hirsch hopes films like Spider-Man: No Way Home - which will arrive on Starz "sometime over the next six months" - will invite people into Starz's home and that the original content will make them stay.

“You put the right shows and content around it so you can move customers that watch Spider-Man into one of your originals," Hirsch said.

Many have been hoping that Spider-Man: No Way Home would come to Netflix and Disney+ in the near future, especially after the deals Sony made with the streaming giants. However, their deals only covered Sony's films from 2022-2026. No Way Home, on the other hand, was released in 2021.

We know future Spider-Man films will arrive on Netflix first and then Disney+, but it is still unclear as to whether Spider-Man: No Way Home - or any of the other previous Spider-Man films for that matter - will make it to those platforms.

Jared Leto's Morbius looks to be the first film that will fall under this new deal, but it was recently delayed to April 1, 2022.

Have a tip for us? Want to discuss a possible story? Please send an email to newstips@ign.com.

Adam Bankhurst is a news writer for IGN. You can follow him on Twitter @AdamBankhurst and on Twitch.

Elden Ring's director Hidetaka Miyazaki and multiple PlayStation Studios developers have revealed their personal favorite bosses from the Dark Souls series, Demon's Souls, Bloodborne, and Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice.

While Miyazaki had previously shared that the Old Monk boss from Demon's Souls was his favorite, he discussed a bit more as to why he made that choice with PlayStation.Blog.

“If we’re talking about a boss that I’m ‘most proud of’ (to use those specific words), it would probably be the Old Monk from Demon’s Souls," Miyazaki said. "The reason being is there was a lot of pushback against that design and what we were trying to do with it. But it was something I really, really wanted to do. I wanted to get that boss concept into the game, both from a visual design perspective and gameplay perspective, including the multiplayer element.

"From both the implementation and fun factor, we got a lot of pushback, and no one believed in it at the time. But in the end, we came through, and I think it turned into an intriguing boss that the fans appreciated. With Demon’s Souls, there were a lot of mechanics throughout the development that were difficult to design. For instance, the asynchronous online features were complicated, but I think the Old Monk encompasses those tribulations and how we pushed through and made something we were proud of.”

Insomniac Games' associate community manager Thomas Hart also chose the Old Monk, saying that the revelation that he wasn't simply fighting an A.I. but an actual player was a "mind blown" moment.

You can check out all the other bosses that made the list and the developers' reasoning behind their choices in the slideshow above, including Great Grey Wolf Sif, Dragonslayer Ornstein and Executioner Smough, and Knight Artorias.

For more, check out our look at the 10 Best Dark Souls Bosses According to Fans, our hands-on preview of Elden Ring's closed network test, and why Miyazaki thinks that more players will finish this new game despite it not being easier.

Have a tip for us? Want to discuss a possible story? Please send an email to newstips@ign.com.

Adam Bankhurst is a news writer for IGN. You can follow him on Twitter @AdamBankhurst and on Twitch.

Elden Ring's director Hidetaka Miyazaki and multiple PlayStation Studios developers have revealed their personal favorite bosses from the Dark Souls series, Demon's Souls, Bloodborne, and Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice.

While Miyazaki had previously shared that the Old Monk boss from Demon's Souls was his favorite, he discussed a bit more as to why he made that choice with PlayStation.Blog.

“If we’re talking about a boss that I’m ‘most proud of’ (to use those specific words), it would probably be the Old Monk from Demon’s Souls," Miyazaki said. "The reason being is there was a lot of pushback against that design and what we were trying to do with it. But it was something I really, really wanted to do. I wanted to get that boss concept into the game, both from a visual design perspective and gameplay perspective, including the multiplayer element.

"From both the implementation and fun factor, we got a lot of pushback, and no one believed in it at the time. But in the end, we came through, and I think it turned into an intriguing boss that the fans appreciated. With Demon’s Souls, there were a lot of mechanics throughout the development that were difficult to design. For instance, the asynchronous online features were complicated, but I think the Old Monk encompasses those tribulations and how we pushed through and made something we were proud of.”

Insomniac Games' associate community manager Thomas Hart also chose the Old Monk, saying that the revelation that he wasn't simply fighting an A.I. but an actual player was a "mind blown" moment.

You can check out all the other bosses that made the list and the developers' reasoning behind their choices in the slideshow above, including Great Grey Wolf Sif, Dragonslayer Ornstein and Executioner Smough, and Knight Artorias.

For more, check out our look at the 10 Best Dark Souls Bosses According to Fans, our hands-on preview of Elden Ring's closed network test, and why Miyazaki thinks that more players will finish this new game despite it not being easier.

Have a tip for us? Want to discuss a possible story? Please send an email to newstips@ign.com.

Adam Bankhurst is a news writer for IGN. You can follow him on Twitter @AdamBankhurst and on Twitch.

Elden Ring's director Hidetaka Miyazaki and multiple PlayStation Studios developers have revealed their personal favorite bosses from the Dark Souls series, Demon's Souls, Bloodborne, and Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice.

While Miyazaki had previously shared that the Old Monk boss from Demon's Souls was his favorite, he discussed a bit more as to why he made that choice with PlayStation.Blog.

“If we’re talking about a boss that I’m ‘most proud of’ (to use those specific words), it would probably be the Old Monk from Demon’s Souls," Miyazaki said. "The reason being is there was a lot of pushback against that design and what we were trying to do with it. But it was something I really, really wanted to do. I wanted to get that boss concept into the game, both from a visual design perspective and gameplay perspective, including the multiplayer element.

"From both the implementation and fun factor, we got a lot of pushback, and no one believed in it at the time. But in the end, we came through, and I think it turned into an intriguing boss that the fans appreciated. With Demon’s Souls, there were a lot of mechanics throughout the development that were difficult to design. For instance, the asynchronous online features were complicated, but I think the Old Monk encompasses those tribulations and how we pushed through and made something we were proud of.”

Insomniac Games' associate community manager Thomas Hart also chose the Old Monk, saying that the revelation that he wasn't simply fighting an A.I. but an actual player was a "mind blown" moment.

You can check out all the other bosses that made the list and the developers' reasoning behind their choices in the slideshow above, including Great Grey Wolf Sif, Dragonslayer Ornstein and Executioner Smough, and Knight Artorias.

For more, check out our look at the 10 Best Dark Souls Bosses According to Fans, our hands-on preview of Elden Ring's closed network test, and why Miyazaki thinks that more players will finish this new game despite it not being easier.

Have a tip for us? Want to discuss a possible story? Please send an email to newstips@ign.com.

Adam Bankhurst is a news writer for IGN. You can follow him on Twitter @AdamBankhurst and on Twitch.

The release date for Disney Plus' anticipated Obi-Wan Kenobi series may have been leaked if a now-deleted tweet by a Disney exec is anything to go by.

Disney Plus executive Brandon San Giovanni referenced the potential release date in a tweet that read, "Our very own Obi-Wan wi [sic] be saying "hello, there," on Disney+... May 2022."

After publications began to pick up on the apparent leak, the tweet was deleted. San Giovanni's Twitter account is currently protected.

Some fans speculate that San Giovanni is referring to Marvel's new Obi-Wan comic, which is also releasing in May. However, The Hollywood Reporter weighed in to say that the rumors are indeed true, and that Obi-Wan Kenobi will debut in May.

It only makes sense given Obi-Wan Kenobi's potential to fall on May 4th — a date that has become a proper holiday for Star Wars fans. It would also offer some breathing room for Book of Boba Fett, which wraps up its run on February 9.

For now, we know very little of about Obi-Wan Kenobi. A brief teaser foreshadowed a secret duel with Darth Vader, but nothing else has been shown to this point. In the meantime, Disney has a large number of Star Wars shows in the pipeline, including a live-action series featuring fan-favorite Jedi Ahsoka Tano.

If you're watching Book of Boba Fett, consider reading about how Book of Boba Fett's surprise villain has deep Star Wars roots, as well as our list of every Star Wars game currently in development.

Kat Bailey is a Senior News Editor at IGN

The release date for Disney Plus' anticipated Obi-Wan Kenobi series may have been leaked if a now-deleted tweet by a Disney exec is anything to go by.

Disney Plus executive Brandon San Giovanni referenced the potential release date in a tweet that read, "Our very own Obi-Wan wi [sic] be saying "hello, there," on Disney+... May 2022."

After publications began to pick up on the apparent leak, the tweet was deleted. San Giovanni's Twitter account is currently protected.

Some fans speculate that San Giovanni is referring to Marvel's new Obi-Wan comic, which is also releasing in May. However, The Hollywood Reporter weighed in to say that the rumors are indeed true, and that Obi-Wan Kenobi will debut in May.

It only makes sense given Obi-Wan Kenobi's potential to fall on May 4th — a date that has become a proper holiday for Star Wars fans. It would also offer some breathing room for Book of Boba Fett, which wraps up its run on February 9.

For now, we know very little of about Obi-Wan Kenobi. A brief teaser foreshadowed a secret duel with Darth Vader, but nothing else has been shown to this point. In the meantime, Disney has a large number of Star Wars shows in the pipeline, including a live-action series featuring fan-favorite Jedi Ahsoka Tano.

If you're watching Book of Boba Fett, consider reading about how Book of Boba Fett's surprise villain has deep Star Wars roots, as well as our list of every Star Wars game currently in development.

Kat Bailey is a Senior News Editor at IGN