April 2026 is the year's most loaded single month across streaming and theatrical combined. Five major simultaneous stories compete for audience attention: The Boys ends its run. One Piece begins its most anticipated arc. IU arrives on Disney+. The Super Mario Galaxy Movie opens in theaters. And Bollywood stages its biggest April in years with Bhooth Bangla and Battle of Galwan. Here is everything, organized so you can navigate it.
April 1: Super Mario Galaxy Movie
The Super Mario Bros. Movie sequel opens April 1 — drawing from the beloved Wii Galaxy title with its space-and-gravity visual identity. The 2023 original earned $574 million globally and became the highest-grossing video game adaptation in history. The sequel arrives with even higher expectations and a theatrical positioning (April family release, minimal competition) that should give it room to run. Universal's Peacock pipeline means the streaming arrival follows approximately 90 days after theatrical opening — mid-to-late July for streaming audiences.
April 5: One Piece Elbaph Arc Begins
One Piece — Elbaph Arc
The most anticipated story arc in One Piece's 25-year history begins on April 5 — available on Netflix and Crunchyroll globally.
Netflix / CrunchyrollApril 6-8: Star Wars Maul and The Boys Season 5
The Boys Season 5
The final season of Prime Video's superhero satire premieres April 8 — weekly episodes through May 20. This is how The Boys ends.
Prime VideoStar Wars: Maul — Shadow Lord arrives on Disney+ on April 6, expanding the Star Wars canon with a story following Darth Maul's survival after The Phantom Menace. The Boys Season 5 premieres April 8 on Prime Video with weekly Wednesday episodes through May 20 — twelve years after the comic series was announced as a television adaptation, showrunner Eric Kripke brings this to its designed conclusion.
April 13 Onwards: Disney+ Perfect Crown and The Drama
Perfect Crown (Disney+, mid-April) is the month's most anticipated K-drama premiere — IU and Byeon Woo-seok in the alternate-history Korean monarchy drama that represents Disney+'s biggest Korean investment to date. Our dedicated post (April 13) covers this in full. The Drama (A24, Zendaya + Robert Pattinson) arrives in theaters mid-to-late April — an anti-romantic-comedy from the studio that redefined what prestige genre filmmaking looks like. Michael (Antoine Fuqua's Michael Jackson biopic with Jaafar Jackson) also opens in theaters during the third week of April.
Indian Cinema's Biggest April in Years
Bhooth Bangla (April 2, Akshay Kumar) and Battle of Galwan (April 17, Salman Khan) make April 2026 the most competitive Bollywood theatrical month since Eid 2023. Bhooth Bangla positions Kumar in his commercial sweet spot — horror comedy — while Battle of Galwan places Salman Khan in the military action genre that has performed reliably for the actor's core audience. Both films will reach Prime Video India within their standard streaming windows. The Indian OTT April calendar also receives Dhurandhar 2's streaming premiere on Prime Video India — making April a genuinely stacked month for Indian content on streaming.
April 2026 does not offer the luxury of watching everything. Prioritize what matters most to you — and use fivo.to to track when everything else reaches streaming.