Bombshell leaves Netflix on 10 September and turns up on Prime Video the very same day
Margot Robbie’s Bombshell is set to bid Netflix farewell and reappear on a major streamer, giving you another shot at the award-winning drama.
Time to reshuffle your watchlist: Bombshell—that all-star newsroom scandal film with Margot Robbie, Charlize Theron, and Nicole Kidman—is packing its bags and heading off Netflix. If you still haven’t seen it (or just fancy a rewatch), don’t panic. There’s already concrete news on where it’s streaming next, and it’s not some obscure platform no one has heard of.
Bombshell begins streaming on Prime Video from 10 September 2026, taking over the very same day it leaves Netflix.
Where Bombshell’s Off To
So here’s the deal: after a decent stint on Netflix, Bombshell is landing on Prime Video, offering yet another way for latecomers or repeat viewers to get stuck into one of the more infamous chapters in American broadcast history. The handover happens on 10 September 2026, with no streaming hiatus in between. No need for detective work or VPN trickery—just a straight platform swap.
The Plot (If You Missed the Outrage)
Bombshell retells the still very raw saga inside Fox News during the 2016 U.S. presidential circus. Everything unravels after Gretchen Carlson (played by Nicole Kidman) slaps Fox News chief Roger Ailes (John Lithgow caked in prosthetics) with a sexual harassment lawsuit. The fallout exposes all sorts of rot beneath Fox’s slick on-air exterior.
Suddenly, other women across the newsroom—most publicly, star anchor Megyn Kelly (Charlize Theron doing arguably scarily good makeup work)—decide to step forward with their own stories. All this is happening while Kelly is already making headlines herself, going up against Donald Trump over his less-than-enlightened remarks about women. Add to the mix Kayla Pospisil, played by Margot Robbie, an ambitious up-and-coming producer who finds herself caught up in the chaos, and you’ve got a drama stuffed to the gills with topical issues and big names.
- Charlize Theron as Megyn Kelly
- Nicole Kidman as Gretchen Carlson
- Margot Robbie as Kayla Pospisil
- John Lithgow as Roger Ailes
- Kate McKinnon as Jess Carr
Critical Reception & Awards
Despite the massive cast, critical opinion was a touch lukewarm. The film nabbed a 67% critics score on Rotten Tomatoes based on 350 reviews, which won’t set the world alight but isn’t a disaster either. Audiences seemed far more enthusiastic, with an 84% audience score—so it clearly struck a chord outside the press circle.
As TheIndependentCritic.com put it, in a rather brutal summing up,
It is a film that aims deeper than it ever digs and it doesn't begin to rise up to the level of its immensely talented cast.
Yet, industry types did give it a nod, with Bombshell picking up nominations at the Academy Awards, BAFTA, and Producers Guild, amongst others. So even if it didn’t reinvent the ripped-from-the-headlines biopic, it absolutely made its mark—thanks, in no small part, to who was in front of the camera.