HBO Max is coming to Europe next month but not the UK

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.

The Flight Attendant will expand its cast for Season 2 as Cheryl Hines (Curb Your Enthusiasm), Mae Martin (Feel Good) Margaret Cho (Good on Paper) and others join as recurring, and Mo McRae (Rebel), Callie Hernandez (One of These Days)and JJ Soria (Gentefied) board the Emmy-nominated comedy as series regulars.

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.

Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVHBO Max announced that “The Sex Lives of College Girls” will debut with its first two episodes on Nov. 18 before then releasing the next three episodes of its first season on Nov.

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.

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorPocket.watch, the kids and family media company centered on creating franchises around YouTube stars, hired seasoned industry exec Xavier Kochhar as its first COO and CFO.Kochhar, who starts at Pocket.watch on Thursday, most recently was at AT&T in a corporate strategy and development role and prior to that headed strategy and biz dev for WarnerMedia’s HBO Max.

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).

Michael Schneider Variety Editor at LargeHBO’s “Mare of Easttown” was one of the bright lights for HBO this Emmy season, one reason it’s probably no surprise that HBO and HBO Max chief content officer Casey Bloys hasn’t closed the door on the idea of bringing back another season of the series created by Brad Ingelsby and starring Kate Winslet, also an exec producer on the project.“Brad and Kate and the producers are all talking to see if they think there’s a place to go,” Bloys revealed to

HBO Max will debut the first three episodes of season 2 of Love Life on Thurs. Oct. 28 with the focus shifting to a new singleton, Marcus Watkins (Emmy Award nominee, William Jackson Harper), who has just exited a years-long relationship with the woman he thought was going to be his person.

followed Darby (Anna Kendrick) through the ups and downs of her dating in New York City, the anthology rom-com series shifts focus to Marcus (William Jackson Harper) who goes through his own romantic journey in season 2.

Obviously, when it comes to the spectrum of how people feel about day-and-date releases of feature films on streaming platforms and in theaters, folks like the CEO of IMAX are going to be on the side of exclusive theatrical windows. But one of the main ways he defends this stance, in a recent interview with Puck, is by pointing out the record levels of piracy that have been seen after Warner Bros.

Matt Reeves (“Cloverfield,” “Dawn of The Planet of The Apes,” “War For The Planet of The Apes“) is starting to usher in a new era of the iconic Caped Crusader as his new Bruce Wayne, Robert Pattinson (“Tenet“), is leading “The Batman” as part of a new trilogy and Reeves is also behind the “Gotham PD” series at HBO Max that takes place before the events of the upcoming movie focusing on the city’s corrupt police force.

HBO Max first to confirm a docu-series.Campfire Studios confirmed to The Post on Friday it has been commissioned to produce a “multi-part doc series” for the streaming giant.The series “will investigate the mysterious, still-unraveling events” that started in June, when then-powerful lawyer Alex Murdaugh found his wife and 22-year-old son shot dead near their weekend hunting lodge in Islandton, the production company said.Now “national networks, Hollywood production companies and global

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.

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.

Manori Ravindran International EditorHBO Max is coming to Europe on Oct. 26, and the first launch markets will be Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland, Spain and Andorra, Variety can reveal.The next crop of 14 European countries will receive the WarnerMedia-owned streamer in 2022.