HBO Max is already saying goodbye one of its biggest franchises.
06.08.2020 - 18:15 / variety.com
Daniel D'Addario Chief TV CriticThe 2020 election has strangely felt both more and less present a part of life than it’d have seemed likely on January 1: It’s more with us because of the heightened tensions stoked by our president, with his supporters and detractors feeling a sense of urgency about how they’ll vote, and it’s less with us because of everything else.
It can be easy to forget this is an election year when thinking about all the other things that make 2020 itself — a somewhat
.HBO Max is already saying goodbye one of its biggest franchises.
Denise Petski Senior Managing EditorHBO Max has unveiled the full cast for Equal, its upcoming four-part docuseries chronicling landmark events and the forgotten heroes of the LGBTQ+ movement, from Greg Berlanti’s Berlanti Productions, Jim Parsons and That’s Wonderful Productions, Scout Productions, Jon Jashni (Lost in Space) and Warner Horizon Unscripted Television.Samira Wiley, Cheyenne Jackson, Anthony Rapp, Sara Gilbert, Shannon Purser, Heather Matarazzo, Jamie Clayton, Isis King, Gale
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Anthony D'Alessandro Editorial Director/Box Office EditorFollowing a barrage of criticism that he lobbed against Justice League replacement director Joss Whedon, actor Ray Fisher made an appearance on the DC Fandome panel today for Zack Snyder’s upcoming HBO Max director’s cut of the movie, with a question from a fan: What character is Snyder excited to fully flesh out in his version of the movie next year?“The characters that I’m excited to fully flesh out? Of course it’s Cyborg.
Selena Gomez may be quarantined at home, where she’s been learning to cook on the HBO Max series,, but that doesn’t mean she’s isolated from her friends. On the latest episode of the at-home cooking show, Taylor Swift makes a virtual appearance as the two besties FaceTime each other. On episode four, chef and food personality Roy Choi is Gomez’s guest mentor, who virtually teaches the singer how to make Korean barbecue Texas breakfast tacos.
In modern American society, the threat of lawsuit looms over everything. Did you get into a car accident? Then you might get sued.
Daniel D'Addario Chief TV CriticThe case of NXIVM, the Albany, N.Y.-based “self-help group” whose bizarre and seemingly cult-like aspects have been covered widely — merges a sort of enormity of evil with the prosaic in ways that can make it hard to connect with at first. What was done to aspirants within the group, who allege having been starved as well as held down and scarred with a cauterizing pen in order to be marked as slaves, represents perhaps the height of inhumanity.
Mel Brooks film kicks off not with its opening sequence, but rather an introduction by University of Chicago professor and TCM host Jacqueline Stewart.The intro, in which the “Silent Sunday Nights” host provides social context to the 1974 Cleavon Little-Gene Wilder comedy, is similar to the disclaimer in front of “Gone with the Wind.”“This movie is an overt and audacious spoof on classic Westerns,” Stewart says in the newly added intro.
Blazing Saddles is currently streaming on HBO Max, along with a new introduction that automatically plays before the Mel Brooks classic begins. It is unclear exactly when the intro was added to the 1974 comedy classic starring the lateCleavon Little and the late Gene Wilder, but it was sometime after the film premiered on the streaming service in July.
HBO Max had added an advisory warning to yet another film rife with outdated racist themes.
Selena Gomez is inviting fans into her kitchen as part of her delightful at-home cooking series,.
Daniel D'Addario Chief TV CriticAdmitting to how much one doesn’t know, in an era bent on proving our incompetence, is humbling enough for most of us. But it seems especially difficult for celebrities.
Here’s an interesting one with a semi-interesting story. Like Netflix back in the day, HBO Max has to fill its content coffers and one way the streaming service is doing that—just like Netflix and Amazon did originally—is license previously made content and repackage it as something relatively new.
Nellie Andreeva Co-Editor-in-Chief, TVWarnerMedia CEO Jason Kilar shook up the top ranks at the AT&T-owned media company today, consolidating all film, TV and streaming content under Warner Bros.’ Ann Sarnoff. The sweeping restructuring includes expanded responsibilities for HBO Max’s Andy Forssell and HBO’s Casey Bloys and the exit of top WarnerMedia/HBO Max executives Bob Greenblatt, Kevin Reilly and Keith Cocozza.Like with any major consolidation, there will be a ripple effect.
Elaine Low Senior TV WriterWarnerMedia sprung the news Friday of a major internal reshuffling, which translated to the departures of WarnerMedia Entertainment chairman Bob Greenblatt and HBO Max chief content officer Kevin Reilly, and the elevations of Warner Bros. chief Ann Sarnoff and HBO programming guru Casey Bloys.
Who needs to read books for creative inspiration anymore? That’s so 20th century. We’re in 2020 now and if we need inspiration for a new TV series, you have to look at Twitter, obviously.
Daniel D'Addario Chief TV Critic“Lovecraft Country,” a new drama on HBO, begins with a scene of degradation; soldier Atticus Freeman (Jonathan Majors) emerges from a foxhole to see a winged, tentacled creature flying overhead. Another fantastical monster is destroyed by Jackie Robinson, then reconstitutes itself to devour the pathbreaking baseball player when Atticus wakes up from this dream in the back seat of a segregated bus.
Daniel D'Addario Chief TV Critic“Star Trek: Lower Decks,” the latest series in the franchise kicked off by Gene Roddenberry in 1966, doesn’t take place on the Enterprise, or the Voyager, or any of the similarly inspiringly-named ships in the fleet. This animated show depicts the comings and goings of the support staff on the U.S.S.
In the ever-growing Streaming Wars, where platforms aim to destroy each other for the coveted subscriber dollars, content is the ammunition. If you have lots of ammo and a few big guns, you can do a lot of damage.
Opinions of Ridley Scott’s “Prometheus” normally fall into one of two camps. The first camp, which is the seeming majority of people, despise the film and don’t even acknowledge the project’s connection to the “Alien” franchise.