‘Amazing World of Gumball’ Finale Movie and Revival Series Set at HBO Max, Cartoon Network

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EXCLUSIVE: Off the back of yesterday’s HBO Max European launch event, which featured previews of a host of new content coming to the platform, today we can reveal a first look at one of the streamer’s upcoming local originals, Lust.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterHBO Max is developing a series adaptation of the upcoming Stacy Willingham novel “A Flicker in the Dark” that hails from Emma Stone’s Fruit Tree and A24, Variety has learned exclusively.The novel is slated for publication in the U.S. in January 2022 with rights sold into 17 foreign markets to date.

WarnerMedia is launching a new program, aimed at bolstering aspiring creators of adult animation programming, the company announced today.

Jamie Lang HBO Max has revealed that it will be launching in seven additional countries in 2022: Turkey, Greece, Estonia, Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania and the Netherlands.

Manori Ravindran International EditorHBO Max has unveiled a teaser trailer for its hugely anticipated “Game of Thrones” prequel “House of the Dragon.” (Watch the clip above.)“House of the Dragon” is set 200 years prior to the events of “Game of Thrones” and tells the story of House Targaryen and the Targaryen civil war that became known as the “Dance of the Dragons.” HBO has given the series a 10-episode order, and confirmed Tuesday during a launch event for HBO Max in Europe that the show will

Naman Ramachandran “And Just Like That,” the next chapter of the “Sex and the City” franchise, will bow on HBO Max in December, it was revealed at the HBO Max Europe launch event on Tuesday.

Edi Patterson) while his plumber-father philanders elsewhere; his best friend, Nelson (Byron Bowers) often leads him astray (but always in a well-intentioned kind of way) and he’s surrounded by tone-deaf adults in his suburban New Jersey town. (Dildarian as a Garden State native.)Each roughly-half-hour episode is comprised of two vignettes; in the opener, Tom’s sketchy bassoon-playing in the Shady Oaks Elementary School band triggers a storyline encompassing his teacher music teacher, Mr.

Late last year, before the release of Warner Bros.’ “Wonder Woman 1984,” WarnerMedia announced that all of WB’s 2021 films would have a day-and-date release in theaters and on HBO Max. The news sent shockwaves through the film industry, including the filmmakers that were directly affected, as the studio failed to tell them beforehand.

HBO Max has found the mothers for the latest generation of group of little liars as Lea Salonga (Yellow Rose), Sharon Leal (Dream Girls), Carly Pope (Demonic), Elena Goode (Straight Outta Compton) and Zakiya Young (Orange is the New Black) join the Pretty Little Liars: Original Sin cast as recurring. They will appear opposite stars Chandler Kinney, Maia Reficco, Bailee Madison, Zaria, Malia Pyles, Alex Aiono, Mallory Bechtel and Eric Johnson.

HBO Max will highlight the influential legacy of comics powerhouse DC in a three-part documentary series from Oscar and Emmy-nominated director, producer and showrunner Leslie Iwerks.

Mindy Kaling has taken her rise to stardom in several different directions. Her work as an actor and writer on “The Office” led to her success with “The Mindy Project” and then the festival film “Late Night” starring herself and Emma Thompson.

One of the biggest stories of 2021 so far, in the entertainment industry, at least, is the news that AT&T was, in essence, selling off WarnerMedia and merging it with Discovery. This came after a rough several-month period for WarnerMedia, as the studio kept getting hammered for its decision to send blockbuster films straight to streaming on the same day as theatrical and just the general feeling that HBO Max has yet to fully become the Netflix competitor it positioned itself to be.

HBO Max — which contributed “Hacks” and “The Flight Attendant” — it’s once again dominating the comedy/drama space as it did back in the days of “The Larry Sanders Show” and “In Treatment.” (The latter’s reboot on HBO Max snared a 2021 Emmy nod for star Uzo Aduba — an added bonus.)The 2021 Emmys — held Sunday, Sept. 19 (8 p.m.

Generation (Genera+ion) may not continue on for a sophomore season at HBO Max, but creator Zelda Barnz said the series achieved its goal within its short-lived airtime.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefJapanese stars Ito Hideaki (“Tokkai”), Kasamatsu Sho (“Flowers and Rain”) and Yamashita Tomohisa (“The Man from Toronto”) have joined the cast as series regulars on “Tokyo Vice.” The series is backed by streaming service HBO Max, Japanese pay-TV leader Wowow and Endeavor Content.The Japanese and English-language crime drama series boasts a previously announced headline cast that includes Ansel Elgort, Ken Watanabe, Rachel Keller, Ella Rumpf and Kikuchi Rinko.The

Joe Otterson TV ReporterKrysten Ritter has signed on to the cast of the upcoming HBO Max series “Love and Death.”The series is based on the true story of Texas housewife Candy Montgomery, who murdered her friend from church, Betty Gore, with an axe in 1980.

The Sopranos creator David Chase has said he is “extremely angry” that the forthcoming prequel film The Many Saints of Newark is being premiered on HBO Max.Discussing the day-and-date format, which will see the film open in cinemas and on the streaming platform at the same time, Chase said the situation was “awful”.“I don’t think, frankly that I would’ve taken the job if I knew it was going to be a day-and-date release.

HBO Max has opted not to order a second season of the Lena Dunham-produced dramedy series Generation (official title style Genera+ion).