Why Doesn’t the Netflix New Releases List Show All of the Popular New Movies?

I have had a Netflix account for so long that my account predates movie streaming. I continue to maintain a 3-disc plus streaming account to this day because Netflix does not stream all of its movies. I am not sure why. I hear that it costs Netflix more to stream a movie than to ship a Blu-ray disc. I am not sure why movie studios would charge Netflix more money for streaming. To me, the result is the same. The only difference is the delivery process. As a customer, I just want to watch the movie once.

So given that I have an account that still includes the shipment of discs, I wanted to add some new movies to my DVD queue. When I browsed new DVD titles, I saw (when sorted by popularity):

Popular

If I browsed the list of new releases and sorted by newest, I saw:

Newest

Just for fun, I went to the Redbox site and looked at their new and popular releases. Here is what I saw:

Redbox

I saw movies that I would actually like to rent:

  • Red Sparrow
  • Game Night
  • Black Panther

My question is “Why…

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