Overview
- Mayday began streaming on Apple TV on Friday, September 4, 2026, and is available to subscribers on the Apple TV app.
- Critics have given the film broadly favorable reviews with an aggregate Rotten Tomatoes score around 84 percent and praise focused on Branagh’s scene‑stealing performance.
- Reviewers singled out strong action design and the leads’ chemistry while also criticizing uneven comedic beats and Ryan Reynolds’s familiar wisecrack persona.
- The film was directed by John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein, was shot in Montreal in 2024 under the working title Blackbird, and was produced by Apple Studios, Skydance and Reynolds’s Maximum Effort.
- Mayday’s immediate rise to the top of Apple TV’s charts highlights the continued reach of big‑budget, streaming‑first premieres and the platform’s ability to showcase cinematic action without a wide theatrical release.