How to Watch the Menu Online: the Complete 2026 Streaming and Device Guide
By Alexander Ross
To understand why The Menu lives on specific platforms, look at the distribution pacts signed during the acquisition era of 20th Century Fox by the Walt Disney Company. Before the acquisition closed, 20th Century Studios and Searchlight Pictures operated under a longstanding domestic distribution deal with WarnerMedia (now Warner Bros. Discovery), granting HBO first-window pay television and streaming rights.
To avoid contractual gridlock, Disney and Warner Bros. Discovery renegotiated that catalog access to share domestic streaming windows. As a result, Searchlight releases from the 2022, 2023 slate landed simultaneously on HBO's digital service, now rebranded as Max, and Disney’s adult-skewing platform, Hulu. In the United States, subscribers on either service can pull up the film directly without extra fees. However, windowing arrangements mean the title occasionally shifts priority between the two apps depending on seasonal promotional rotations.
Alexander Ross has covered the video game industry for a decade, writing deep dives on game design, esports tournaments, VR developments, and gaming culture.
