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Movie nights & lineups

A movie night is a plan: a time, the people you pick, and one title or a lineup of up to eight, back to back. When the time comes, the first title opens as a Watch Together session for everyone who said yes.

Plan one

  1. Open a movie or an episode and click the calendar button (Plan a movie date).
  2. Pick who it's with. Only your connections come up, and your partner is picked by default if you have one.
  3. Choose the day and time, and add a note if you like ("popcorn at 8 🍿").
  4. For a double feature, click Add another title after it. Already have a night planned? Or add it to puts this title at the end of that one.

Everyone you picked gets an invite in their own time zone and can accept or decline. The night shows on everyone's home screen.

The timeline

Open a night with Lineup, on its card on the home screen (or on the Coming Up entry it was planned from). The timeline shows:

  • Each title with its start and end in your time and in everyone else's.
  • The break after each title: 10 minutes unless you change it, from no break up to two hours.
  • Whether each title has downloaded ("Downloaded by 2 of 3", "Downloaded by everyone ✓").
  • When the night should wrap up: Done around 1:40 AM.

Each title starts when the one before ends, plus a few minutes for the end cards and the break. The times are live: if a movie starts late, runs long or you take an intermission, the rest moves along and everyone gets the new times.

Whoever planned the night can drag titles to reorder them, add or remove titles and change a break, then Save lineup. Titles that already played stay where they are. A one-title date becomes a lineup with Make it a movie night.

On the night

  • At the start time the first title opens as a Watch Together session. The lobby waits until everyone's copy is ready, as usual.
  • When a title ends, a banner says Next up: Night Ferry in 10:00. The next one starts by itself when the break is over, or right away when anyone taps Start now.
  • A night nobody comes back to within six hours ends on its own.
  • After a movie watched together, a small Share note offers a picture of the night ("Movie night with Maya · Letters to California · 2 h 04 m"). Add the poster if you like, then save it or copy it. It's made on your computer and nothing is uploaded.

Downloads ahead of time

As soon as a night is planned (or changed), every title goes into each person's downloads, in lineup order. If someone's computer is short of space, or their connection wouldn't finish a title in time, the timeline shows a warning with who and why.

Plan a release from Coming Up

On a Coming Up entry, Watch it together plans a night for something that isn't out yet: pick the people, then on release day at a time, or another day and time. If the title isn't in the library, it can also send a request for it. The night waits for the title, downloads it for everyone once it arrives, and Coming Up shows who you're watching it with.