The End of Oak Street streams Friday on HBO Max and airs Saturday on HBO

A suburban street disappears from its neighborhood and lands somewhere dinosaurs still roam in The End of Oak Street, the science-fiction thriller starring Anne Hathaway and Ewan McGregor. The film starts streaming on HBO Max in the United States on Friday, Nov. 13. HBO’s television channel will show it Saturday, Nov. 14, at 8 p.m. Eastern, according to the HBO Max pressroom.

Where to watch this weekend

Friday is the subscription streaming debut. Saturday’s screening is a scheduled airing on HBO’s television channel. If your TV package includes HBO, the Saturday showing gives you another way to see the film. The studio announced a date for the HBO Max premiere without giving a specific U.S. release hour.

The film opened in North American theaters and IMAX in August. Warner Bros. also lists digital and disc editions on the official film site. The HBO Max debut adds it to a subscription catalog after those earlier releases. The film is rated PG-13.

The Platts and the dinosaurs

EDIT USA.The End of Oak Street official Warner Bros. trailer

Hathaway and McGregor play Denise and Greg Platt. Maisy Stella and Christian Convery play their children. The story starts in 1982, when a cosmic event sends the street and its houses to an unfamiliar place. The family has to work out how to survive there while dealing with the tensions they brought with them.

David Robert Mitchell, who made It Follows and Under the Silver Lake, wrote and directed the film. The Platts’ suburban setting gives Mitchell a familiar place to start. The studio trailer shows how abruptly that setting changes when the family steps outside and discovers what is around them.

How the cast played scenes with dinosaurs

Film editor John Axelrad described a practical problem on a production that would add creatures in postproduction. The actors needed something in front of them to react to, so performers on set carried a dinosaur head on a stick. The editing team could cut the actors’ reactions and the action before the final visual effects were finished. Axelrad said the team used temporary effects to assemble some of the dinosaur sequences early, before the rest of the edit was in place. That gave the filmmakers a version of the action they could screen while the final creatures were still being made.

Axelrad and Mitchell also worked out where to linger with the family before cutting back to the creatures. Axelrad’s earlier films include Ad Astra and The Lost City of Z. Here, the domestic scenes had to establish what the family stood to lose before a threat appeared outside the house.