Paramount+ Sets Premiere for Acclaimed Doc Predators

Paramount+ today announced the premiere of Predators, the acclaimed, provocative film from Emmy and Peabody Award-winning director David Osit. The film will debut worldwide on Monday, December 8, 2025.

Deeply surprising and entirely gripping, Predators dives deep into an unnerving investigation of Dateline‘s To Catch a Predator, pulling back the curtain on the show’s complicated legacy.

Predators will be released theatrically in the UK on November 14. The film was released theatrically in over 50 markets in the US, beginning September 19th in New York at the Film Forum.

Predators had its world premiere in the US Documentary Competition at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival and internationally at CPH:DOX. The film was recently a New York Times Critics’ Pick and is Certified Fresh at 98% on Rotten Tomatoes.

Dateline‘s To Catch a Predator was a popular television show designed to hunt down child predators and lure them to a film set, where they would be interviewed and eventually arrested. Predators is a thought-provoking exploration of the fascinating rise and staggering fall of the show, and the true-crime genre it helped create.

Predators is directed, produced, edited, and filmed by David Osit, produced by Jamie Gonçalves and Kellen Quinn, and edited by Nicolás Nørgaard Staffolani. It features music by Tim Hecker.

The film is executive produced by Jennifer Ollman and co-executive produced by Arthur Bradford and Chad Beck. The film is presented by Sweet Relief Productions in association with Rosewater Pictures.

Osit is an Emmy and Peabody Award-winning director, editor, and composer. His previous film, Mayor, won a Peabody and Emmy Award, was a New York Times Critics’ Pick, and holds a 100% Certified Fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes.

David directed, produced, edited, filmed, and composed the feature documentary Thank You for Playing, which was broadcast on POV in 2016 and nominated for three Emmys, winning for Outstanding Arts & Culture Documentary. David’s feature directorial debut, Building Babel, premiered at True/False in 2012 and was featured as the series premiere of PBS‘s America Reframed in 2013.