When Is Mel Gibson’s Air Thriller ‘Flight Risk’ Coming To Streaming?

Flight Risk—director Mel Gibson’s air thriller starring Mark Wahlberg—is new in theaters. How soon will it be before you can stream it at home?

Rated R, Flight Risk opens in theaters nationwide on Friday. The official synopsis for the film reads, “In this high-stakes suspense thriller, Academy Award nominee Mark Wahlberg plays a pilot transporting an Air Marshal (Michelle Dockery) accompanying a fugitive (Topher Grace) to trial. As they cross the Alaskan wilderness, tensions soar and trust is tested, as not everyone on board is who they seem.”

Flight Risk marks Gibson's first film as a director since his 2016 Best Picture Oscar-nominee Hacksaw Ridge.

Right now, the only way you can see Flight Risk is in theaters, so check your local listings for showtimes.

When Flight Risk comes to the home entertainment marketplace, it will first be available on digital streaming via premium video on demand. New films on PVOD can typically be purchased anywhere from $19.99 to $29.99 or rented for a 48-hour period from $14.99 to $24.99.

PVOD titles are generally available on a variety of different entertainment platforms, including Prime Video, AppleTV and Fandango at Home.

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Flight Risk’s studio Lionsgate tends to follow a consistent release pattern when it comes to the window in-between the time one of its films opens in theaters to the time it arrives on PVOD, which is about 3 weeks to one month.

As an example, Lionsgate’s releases of The Crow and Borderlands both debuted on PVOD just under three weeks after they opened in theaters. Most recently, though, the studio’s holiday hit The Best Christmas Pageant Ever took about a month before it arrived on PVOD.

If Flight Risk follows the same three-week to one-month pattern, viewers can expect the film to arrive on PVOD anytime between Feb. 18 and Feb. 25, since new digital streaming releases tend to arrive on Tuesdays.

Where Will Mel Gibson’s ‘Flight Risk’ Stream First?

Lionsgate has a deal with the STARZ app when it comes to the studio’s releases on streaming video on demand.

Generally, it takes five to six months for a Lionsgate film to arrive on SVOD after it opens in theaters. To cite a recent example, Lionsgate’s The Crow will debut on SVOD on STARZ on Feb. 19, just shy of six months after its Aug. 23, 2024, release date.

The wait for The Best Christmas Pageant Ever to arrive on STARZ, however, is a bit shorter. The film is scheduled to arrive on SVOD on March 31, close to five months after its Nov. 10, 2024, release date in theaters.

As such, viewers can expect Flight Risk to debut on SVOD on STARZ sometime between June 27 and July 25.

Mel Gibson’s Flight Risk opens in theaters nationwide on Friday.