You Have to Rent ‘Conclave’ Today, Because Streaming Is Messier Than Ever

Curious what happens to the powerfulness vacuum astatine the apical of the Catholic Church erstwhile the pope dies?

The 2024 Oscar-winning movie Conclave deals with that nonstop scenario. If you’re looking for a dramatized mentation of what the Catholic Church volition beryllium doing successful aftermath of Pope Francis’ decease astatine 88, you’d beryllium hard pressed to find 1 much current. Just 1 problem: Due to the frustrating and fluid quality of contented licensing, you can’t really watercourse it via immoderate subscription work close now.

The movie, which stars Ralph Fiennes, Stanley Tucci, and John Lithgow arsenic cardinals each hiding soiled secrets portion vying to beryllium pope, was disposable to watercourse connected Peacock until precise recently. Thanks to a woody betwixt Universal and Amazon Prime Video, though, the rubric is moving to Prime video—a modulation that was successful advancement close arsenic quality of Pope Francis’ passing came retired connected Monday. Currently, you tin rent the movie for betwixt $6 and $20 connected Prime, oregon you tin hold until 3 americium Eastern clip connected Tuesday to ticker it connected the work for escaped if you’re a Prime member.

The deal, signed successful 2021, means that pursuing their theatrical releases, Universal Filmed Entertainment Group movies caput to Peacock for 4 months earlier switching to Prime Video for 10 months, past migrating backmost to Peacock for the past 4 months of the “Pay-One” window—the play that follows a theatre release. WIRED has reached retired to Amazon to corroborate Conclave volition watercourse starting Tuesday and volition update this station if we person a response.

Meanwhile, Bluesky, X, and TikTok are overflowing with bits astir the movie—including jokes astir however Pope Francis died soon aft gathering US vice president JD Vance—and however a real-life conclave could work.