Streaming Media Company Plex Now Offers Canadian Viewers Premium Movie Rentals Starting at $4.99

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Movie rentals include popular movies like Joker, Dune, Everything Everywhere All at Once, La La Land, Wonka, The Hunger Games, Barbie, and The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes (HD); plus free movies, TV shows, and live TV channels.

LOS ANGELES, Calif., Sept. 4, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Plex, the global streaming service that is a one-stop shop for all things TV and movie, is now offering premium movie rentals to Canadian streamers. Plex has partnered with top studios, including Warner Bros. Discovery, Paramount, Amazon MGM Studios, Lionsgate, and VVS Films, to bring the best movies to Canadians, from award-winning hits like Everything Everywhere All at Once, Dune, Joker, The Beekeeper, and La La Land to blockbusters like Wonka, The Hunger Games, Barbie, and The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes (HD), as well as heroes of all sizes and genres, including IF and Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire.

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Browse Plex New Movie Library Find your rental device to enjoy on all your favorite platforms, including Amazon Fire TV, Apple TV, Android TV/Google TV, Roku, plus smart TVs including LG, Hisense, Samsung, Sony, and VIZIO, plus Apple and Android phones and tablets, gaming consoles, and more.

Plex is the most comprehensive entertainment platform available, and the first streaming platform to offer rentals, free ad-supported movies, TV shows, and live TV together. It also allows users to quickly find any title ever made and add it to a universal watchlist, no matter which streaming service it’s on.

In addition to premium movie rentals, Plex offers more than 300 free-to-watch, ad-supported (FAST) TV channels in Canada, nearly doubling its channel lineup since last year. Channels include The Conners, The Wicked Tuna Channel, CBC Comedy, Property Brothers Channels, Corner Gas, and CTV News.

How to Rent a Movie on Plex

Head over to Plex’s Movie Library On your smart TV, phone, tablet or computer, choose the appropriate option and follow the steps to rent it.

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Once you rent a movie, you can play it on any supported Plex player app, and it will automatically appear in “Continue Watching” on the app’s home screen. If your smart TV or device isn’t supported, use Plex app On your phone, tablet, or computer, once you rent a movie, you can watch it anywhere you have Plex installed — even on devices that don’t allow direct rentals on their platform.

Rentals start at $4.99, and new movies are added to the library daily. You can also add a selection to your Plex watchlist when you’re ready to watch them or when they become available (here or anywhere in the streaming world).

For more information, visit Rent Movies on Plex.

There’s more (a lot more): One place to find your favorite movies and TV shows, many of them for free on Plex

Besides the rental cost, Plex is a free, ad-supported streaming app for everyone, with no credit cards, subscription costs, or hidden fees.

• What’s better than free? As the place where all your media comes from, Plex offers consumers more than just new movie rentals, including plenty of free options with Access over 40,000 titles, movies and TV shows on demand. One of the biggest names in entertainment plus over 300 Live TV channels 24/7 In Canada and over 600 worldwide.
• One list for all your favorite movies and TV shows: With a free Plex account, you can keep one unified list of any movies or TV shows on any service and finally stop jumping between Netflix, Max, Amazon Prime, Paramount+, and other streaming services.
• Find out more about what you want: Select your favorite streaming services (such as Netflix and Disney+) to discover more, search faster, and get curated recommendations — all without ever leaving Plex.
• Connect with your friends: What if you could find what you wanted to watch next based on ratings and activity from people you know? Discover togetherYou can. Now, you can search for and add friends, share, comment, and more.

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About Plex
Available in over 180 countries, plex Plex solves the clutter of streaming media, making it quick and easy to find and play any movie or TV show that’s streaming online, acting as a one-stop shop for all your streaming services, including those you subscribe to. It’s also the first streaming platform to offer access to free entertainment—including tens of thousands of free titles, movies, and TV shows on demand, plus hundreds of free live TV channels. Plex has partnered with some of the biggest names in entertainment. Plex is also the only streaming service that lets users combine their personal media collections with an ever-growing library of free entertainment from third parties spanning nearly every genre, interest, and language. For more information, visit https://plex.tvHe follows @plex On Twitter, or you can find us on Facebook and Instagram.

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