Fred Armisen and Samba Schutte Join HBO Max Pirate Comedy ‘Our Flag Means Death’

Gossip Girl taking another turn on the steps of the Met.HBO Max has renewed the update for a second season, it was announced Thursday.

HBO Max is set to launch in a number of countries across Europe but there are no plans for a UK platform yet.The service will be available in six countries from October 26 – Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland and Andorra – before expanding to a following 14 in 2022.Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Moldova, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, and Slovenia will all receive HBO Max next year, while there’s no news on any plans

Angelique Jackson WarnerMedia OneFifty and HBO Max have partnered to acquire the independent feature “This Is Not a War Story” from director Talia Lugacy and executive producer Rosario Dawson.Lunacy wrote, directed, edited, produced and starred in the film, which also features Sam Adegoke, Danny Ramirez, Brian Delate and Frances Fisher.

HBO Max shared its European launch plans on Wednesday, when the WarnerMedia streaming platform revealed it will launch in Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland, Spain and Andorra on Oct. 26, 2021.“This is a historic moment as HBO Max lands in Europe,” Johannes Larcher, head of HBO Max International, said in a statement accompanying Wednesday’s news.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefStreaming service HBO Max this week committed to the first steps in its European rollout and is already looking over the horizon to expansion in Asia.

EXCLUSIVE: HBO Max continues to round out the cast for the upcoming Pretty Little Liars: Original Sin as Carson Rowland (Sweet Magnolias, American Housewife), Jordan Gonzalez (The L Word: Generation Q), Ben Cook (West Side Story, The First Lady) Elias Kacavas (Euphoria) and Benton Greene (Ghost, Riverdale) join as recurring. They join stars Chandler Kinney, Maia Reficco and Bailee Madison, and series regulars Zaria, Malia Pyles, Alex Aiono, Mallory Bechtel and Eric Johnson.

EXCLUSIVE: Alex Aiono (Doogie Kamealoha, M.D., Finding ’Ohana), Mallory Bechtel (Dear Evan Hansen on Broadway, Hereditary) and Eric Johnson (Fifty Shades Trilogy, The Knick) have joined the cast of HBO Max’s Pretty Little Liars: Original Sin as series regulars. They will appear opposite stars Chandler Kinney, Maia Reficco and Bailee Madison.

HBO Max will begin its launch in the Nordics and Spain this fall, with plans to rollout in Central & Eastern Europe and Portugal next year. The news was revealed at a Series Mania Forum keynote conversation on Tuesday afternoon.

Naman Ramachandran WarnerMedia’s streamer HBO Max will launch in the Nordics and Spain this fall, followed by Central and Eastern Europe and Portugal in 2022, it was revealed at a Series Mania Forum keynote conversation on Tuesday.Delivering the keynote were Priya Dogra, president, WarnerMedia Europe, the Middle East and Africa and Asia (excluding China) and Christina Sulebakk, general manager, HBO Max EMEA.“Europe is a huge priority for us,” said Dogra. “We now have the U.S.

The Fiery Furnaces have announce their first set of tour dates in over ten years.The sibling duo made up of Eleanor and Matthew Friedberger will tour the US this autumn, with dates in New York, Chicago and Los Angeles.

HBO Max’s female-identifying talent are joining forces for their Women’s Equality Day campaign, “So She Did”.

Anyone who skipped CinemaCon this year out of fear of the pandemic in Las Vegas missed a spitfire of a luncheon chat this afternoon. Not only was Patty Jenkins smashing the theatrical day & date model, and wagging a finger at exhibition over the decline in moviegoing experience, but also Paramount Domestic Distribution Boss Chris Aronson put Marcus Theatres CEO & President Rolando Rodriguez in check over exhibitors’ ticket pricing.

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Surprise, surprise, Steven Soderbergh is making yet another project.

Yesterday, it was announced by WarnerMedia that they’d added two more cast members to their cast of “Our Flag Means Death,” a pirate comedy series at HBO Max that will be led by New Zealand comedian Rhys Darby and Taika Waititi as history’s most notorious pirate, Blackbeard.

Fred Armisen & Samba Schutte have boarded HBO Max’s pirate comedy Our Flag Means Death, joining stars Rhys Darby and Taika Waititi. The series hails from writer David Jenkins, Garrett Basch and Dan Halsted.

More Flowers of the Attic is coming to Lifetime. The network has greenlighted Flowers In The Attic: The Origin, a four-part prequel miniseries event starring Jemima Rooper (Gold Digger) and Max Irons (Condor), from Paul Sciarrotta (Jane the Virgin), Jennie Snyder Urman and Joanna Klein’s Sutton St. Productions and CBS Studios.  Flowers in the Attic: The Origin is an A+E Studios production in association with Sutton St. and CBS Studios.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterRJ Cyler has been cast in a series regular role in the upcoming Issa Rae HBO Max comedy series “Rap Sh*t,” Variety has learned.The series follows two estranged high school friends from Miami, Shawna (Aida Osman) and Mia (KaMillion), who reunite to form a rap group. Cyler will play Lamont, an aspiring music producer with a sharp ear for talent.

Search Party continues to build its stacked Season 5 cast as Kathy Griffin joins the HBO Max dark comedy in a recurring role, Deadline has confirmed.