Paramount Plus Hits 36 Million Subscribers, Promises One Original Movie A Week In 2022

The Paramount+ streaming service has seen quite a bit of growth since its rebranding from CBS All Access earlier this year. Paramount+ reached 35.9 million subscribers by the end of the first quarter of 2021, up six million from the end of 2020.

During a ViacomCBS investor call, the company revealed the numbers for Paramount+ in Q1, which ended on March 31. Interestingly enough, CBS All Access rebranded itself as Paramount+ on March 4, so subscriber numbers will undoubtedly continue to grow by the end of Q2.

Following the success of Paramount+'s release of The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run, it was announced during the investor call that the streaming service will launch one original movie a week in 2022. However, there is a bit of a caveat to that. This will also include movies that hit the service after the 45-day theatrical window. Films like A Quiet Place: Part 2, Mission Impossible 7, No Time To Die arriving on Paramount+ 45 days after they've premiered in theaters would be included in this "one original movie a week."

MI7 will be one of these movies, as it's currently set to arrive on May 27, 2022. Paramount does have some big movies on the horizon for 2022, like the next Scream movie, Sonic the Hedgehog 2, Paranormal Activity 7, and a reported Quiet Place spinoff.

In the upcoming months, Paramount+ will see an influx of movies arriving either straight to the service or after the 45-day window. This includes A Quiet Place: Part 2, which should hit Paramount+ on July 12, No Time To Die on November 22, and the Mark Wahlberg's sci-fi movie Infinite--which won't have a theatrical release--some time in June.