Goat’s Netflix Streaming Release Date Finally Revealed

Sony Pictures Animation’s sports comedy Goat will make its streaming debut on Netflix in the United States very soon. The release date comes a month earlier than the standard 120-day theatrical window, landing 90 days after the film opened in cinemas in February.

Sony’s Goat to hit Netflix next week

The Netflix release date for Goat is May 14, and it brings the animated feature in front of subscribers far sooner than expected (via What’s on Netflix). Under the Sony Pictures Pay-1 window agreement, films reach Netflix roughly four months after their theatrical premiere. Goat compresses that timeline significantly.

Once the Goat streaming starts, the film will remain on Netflix for 18 months before cycling to Disney and Hulu. International availability varies, as viewers in the United Kingdom and Canada face a longer wait.

Directed by Tyree Dillihay and written by Aaron Buchsbaum and Teddy Riley, Goat follows an anthropomorphic goat who discovers an extraordinary talent for basketball-like sport, roarball. The goat enters the underground streetball scene with ambitions of becoming the Greatest of All Time.

The film is a passion project for NBA star Stephen Curry, who produced through his Unanimous Media banner and also makes his feature film voice-acting debut. Sony Pictures Animation employed a blended 2D and 3D visual style for the project, a deliberate choice to capture the physical momentum and energy of street basketball.

The voice cast further includes Caleb McLaughlin, Gabrielle Union, Aaron Pierre, Nicola Coughlan, David Harbour, and Nick Kroll. Produced by Columbia Pictures, Sony Pictures Animation, Unanimous Media, and Modern Magic Productions, the film carried a reported production budget of $80 million.

At the box office, Goat outperformed expectations. It recorded a huge opening weekend for an original animated feature and became one of the first 2026 releases to cross $100 million domestically. It also set a new record as the highest-grossing basketball film of all time in the U.S., surpassing the original Space Jam.

Source: Comingsoon.net