“Stranger Things” Season 5 key art.
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Netflix has created a theater-finder website to show where the Stranger Things series finale is playing on the big screen.
Stranger Things Season 5, Volume 1 kicked off its fifth and final season with its first four episodes on Nov. 26. Volume 2, which contains three episodes, will be released on Netflix Dec. 25, while the series finale will be released on Netflix and in select theaters on Dec. 31.
More information about the series finale of Stranger Things was released by Netflix Tudum on Tuesday. According to Tudum, the finale and theatrical fan screenings of the final episode in the landmark sci-fi series will begin on Dec. 31 at 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT at 500 theaters across the U.S. and Canada. The runtime of the series finale will be 2 hours, 5 minutes, Tudum noted.
To help fans find out where in their area the Stranger Things finale is playing in theaters, Netflix revealed a theater-finder and ticketing website on Tuesday, which you can see by clicking here.
Netflix traditionally releases its original films that are vying for awards consideration, but generally only for a qualifying run. The streaming platform has made a pair of notable exceptions of late with wider theatrical releases for Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein and Rian Johnson’s Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery.
It is rare, however, for Netflix to show any episodes of their TV series in theaters, but Stranger Things, however, marks a big exception.
What Is ‘Stranger Things’ Season 5, Volume 1 About?
The release of Stranger Things, Season 5, Volume 1 comes more than nine years after the series debuted on Netflix in 2016,
The official summary for Stranger Things, Season 5 reads, “The fall of 1987. Hawkins is scarred by the opening of the Rifts, and our heroes are united by a single goal: find and kill Vecna. But he has vanished — his whereabouts and plans unknown. Complicating their mission, the government has placed the town under military quarantine and intensified its hunt for Eleven, forcing her back into hiding.
“As the anniversary of Will’s disappearance approaches, so does a heavy, familiar dread. The final battle is looming — and with it, a darkness more powerful and more deadly than anything they’ve faced before. To end this nightmare, they’ll need everyone — the full party — standing together, one last time.”
The ensemble cast for Season 5 of Stranger Things includes Winona Ryder (Joyce Byers), David Harbour (Jim Hopper), Millie Bobby Brown (Eleven), Finn Wolfhard (Mike Wheeler), Gaten Matarazzo (Dustin Henderson), Caleb McLaughlin (Lucas Sinclair), Noah Schnapp (Will Byers), Sadie Sink (Max Mayfield), Natalia Dyer (Nancy Wheeler), Charlie Heaton (Jonathan Byers) and Joe Keery (Steve Harrington).
The season also features Maya Hawke (Robin Buckley), Priah Ferguson (Erica Sinclair), Brett Gelman (Murray), Jamie Campbell Bower (Vecna), Cara Buono (Karen Wheeler), Amybeth McNulty (Vickie), Nell Fisher (Holly Wheeler), Jake Connelly (Derek Turnbow), Alex Breaux (Lt. Akers) and Linda Hamilton (Dr. Kay).
The first four seasons of Stranger Things and Season 5, Volume 1 are streaming on Netflix.
Source: https://www.forbes.com/sites/timlammers/2025/12/02/new-stranger-things-website-shows-which-theaters-are-playing-finale/
