EXCLUSIVE: Fabio Frey’s feature directorial debut My Dead Dad has been acquired by OneFifty for HBO Max where it will premiere on June 1st.
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Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorFor the first time, HBO Max was measured in Nielsen’s estimates for TV time spent viewing — with the Warner Bros. Discovery-owned service coming in with a 1% share for April, amid a record-breaking month for streaming.HBO Max previously was included in Nielsen’s “other streaming “category, and the measurement firm is now breaking out its market share now that it hit the 1% share threshold.Netflix took the No.
1 spot among streamers with 6.6% share of time spent viewing on TV in April, followed by YouTube (6.1%), Hulu (3.3%), Amazon Prime Video (2.5%) and Disney+ (1.7%).Overall in April, streaming saw another record-breaking month — beating the previous record set the month prior — topping 30% and its highest share of total TV viewing to date. Although overall TV viewing decreased by 2.1% from March (which Nielsen says is typical for this time of year), time spent streaming in April remained virtually identical to March.
Both broadcast and cable saw a decrease in viewing, down by 3% and 2.5%, respectively. For broadcast, there was a 14.7% decline in drama viewing and a 38.2% drop in sports viewing, according to Nielsen.
EXCLUSIVE: Fabio Frey’s feature directorial debut My Dead Dad has been acquired by OneFifty for HBO Max where it will premiere on June 1st.
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“It was a vivid and illuminating look at the life of an NFL team. This season, we are eager to build on that success and go even further with one of the most exciting teams in the NFL.
The second season of HBO Max’s unscripted spinoff series Hard Knocks in Season will feature the Arizona Cardinals and their exciting young quarterback Kyler Murray. The streamer is teaming with NFL Films for the docuseries, which will launch in November.
The first-ever Scooby-Doo preschool series is headed to HBO Max and Cartoon Network. CGI-animated adventure comedy series Scooby-Doo! And the Mystery Pups will join the Cartoonito preschool block in 2024.
“Fantastic Beasts 3” will be streaming on HBO Max next week, the streamer announced on Monday.As expected, “Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore” will be available to all HBO Max subscribers 45 days after it first hit theaters, landing on the streaming service on May 30.The third installment in the “Fantastic Beasts” franchise delves deeper into the backstory of Albus Dumbledore (Jude Law) all the while the evil Gellert Grindelwald (now played by Mads Mikkelsen in a recasting following Johnny Depp’s exit) amasses his forces. Unable to stop Grindelwald alone, Dumbledore entrusts Magizoologist Newt Scamander (Eddie Redmayne) to lead an intrepid team of wizards, witches and one brave Muggle baker on a dangerous mission, where they encounter old and new beasts and clash with Grindelwald’s growing legion of followers.
Your favorite Great Dane is coming back with all new fun and adventures in “Scooby-Doo! And the Mystery Pups,” a CGI-animated comedy series for preschoolers, HBO Max and Cartoon Network announced Monday.The series from Warner Bros. Animation and coming to Cartoonito’s preschool block on HBO Max and Cartoon Network in 2024 finds Scooby and his pals “as camp counselors who lead a “paw”-some new crew on mystery-solving adventures at sleepaway camp,” according to Warner Bros.The cast will be led by veteran “Scooby-Doo” voices Frank Welker as canine hero and Matthew Lillard as his BFF, Shaggy. “This show combines everything we love about Scooby—his humor, his loyal friendship with Shaggy, his mystery-loving spirit—all in an innovative and accessible format for preschoolers,” Amy Friedman, head of kids & family programming at Warner Bros.said.
new titles to HBO Max’s ever-changing (and formidable) roster of films. While the streaming service is parting with some notable movies in May — such as “Pride & Prejudice,” leaving May 27, and “Speed,” leaving at the end of the month — it’s more than making up for the loss with critically acclaimed additions, ranging from enduring indie fares to franchise-spanning blockbusters. Below, TheWrap highlights seven films spanning a wide variety of genres, at least one of which is sure to resonate or encourage you to go out of your cinematic comfort zone.Stephen Chbosky’s painfully accurate teen indie spawned a plethora of films dedicated to exploring high school angst and mental health, but it arguably did it best, capturing the 2010s zeitgeist with excruciating precision and dominating Tumblr discourse for years to come.
HBO Documentary Films has acquired worldwide television rights to the documentary feature “All That Breathes,” the company announced Friday. Directed by Shaunak Sen (“Cities of Sleep”), the film premiered in January at the Sundance Film Festival and was selected as the Grand Jury Prize winner in the World Cinema Documentary Competition.
KJ Apa and Isabel May will NOT be starring as The Wonder Twins after all.
Lizzo is coming to HBO Max this fall, she announced at the Warner Bros. Discovery upfront on Wednesday, while unveiling the first teaser of the film. The doc will follow the singer, songwriter, rapper, flutist and actor from her humble beginnings to her history-making career in music and culture, as she balances the challenges of stardom.“Growing up I never dreamed I’d get to experience all of the things I’ve accomplished in my life, and I’m just getting started,” Lizzo said in a statement.
Does the world of DC Films seem a little schizophrenic at times? Well, that happens when you change leadership seemingly dozens of times over a few years and or when a company is acquired by a larger parent company, as in the case of Discovery and their recent acquisition of Warner Bros. That might be the long way of saying that it sounds like another DC Comics film adaptation may have been axed.
EXCLUSIVE: The single-camera teen comedy Wild Life from Imagine Kids+Family has received a pilot order at HBO Max with rising star Izabella Alvarez (Euphoria, The Casagrandes) set as the show’s lead.
HBO Max has commissioned a six-part Spanish-language teen road trip drama, How To Screw It All Up.
Director Jean-Xavier de Lestrade won critical acclaim for his 2005 documentary “The Staircase”, chronicling the trial of novelist Michael Peterson, accused of murdering his wife in 2001.
HBO and HBO Max has officially renewed 11 fan favorite TV shows in 2022 so far!
In a further expansion of their kids and family programming slate, HBO Max and Cartoon Network are teaming on new live-action coming-of-age comedy series, Home Sweet Rome, from Emmy-nominated Hannah Montana and That’s So Raven creator Michael Poryes, for premiere in 2023.
HBO Max is expanding its kids and family programming slate with B-Loved, a ghostly romance two-part special event starring Peyton List (Cobra Kai), along with three live-action acquisitions, including all three seasons of Hank Zipzer, based on the book written by Henry Winkler and Lin Oliver, inspired by Winkler’s life.
“Hacks,” the divine comedy from creators Lucia Aniello, Paul W. Downs, and Jen Statsky.
Beloved doll and book line American Girl is getting two new live-action specials. Mattel, Inc.