HBO Max original series picks up 15 years later, with the beloved original cast spending two months in Rivera Maya in Mexico. Three generations of Garcias sit in a beautiful room, while the family matriarch makes an announcement.
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Manori Ravindran International EditorWarner Bros. Discovery’s plans to merge streaming services HBO Max and Discovery Plus in the U.S.
is likely to be adopted overseas, and a clearer picture is emerging of what the platform will look like in key markets.Sources tell Variety that Discovery and AT&T’s WarnerMedia — which are expected to merge in the next month — plan to have one single global platform that will combine the two streaming services, as opposed to a market-by-market approach for international.Discovery CFO Gunnar Wiedenfels, who will also serve as CFO of the newly combined Warner Bros. Discovery, confirmed preparations to combine the two streamers during the Deutsche Bank Media, Internet & Telecom Conference on Monday.
This marked the first time the company has revealed its post-merger strategy for Discovery Plus and HBO Max, amid speculation that they could remain solo platforms with bundling options. Discussing the global plans for the combined company, Wiedenfels said that both companies’ “international footprints are actually quite nicely complementary.”“We’re both pretty strong in Latin America, but with different focus areas, so that’s going to be a great combination,” said Wiedenfels.
“In Europe, arguably, Discovery is more relevant and stronger in its presence with a lot of free-to-air operations in some of the key markets. WarnerMedia may have sort of a leg up in the Nordics.”Notably, the executive suggested that sports rights will be a crucial pillar for the combined service in the U.K., where an existing licensing deal between WarnerMedia and Sky means that key HBO Max entertainment content won’t be freed up for the new platform until 2025.
HBO Max original series picks up 15 years later, with the beloved original cast spending two months in Rivera Maya in Mexico. Three generations of Garcias sit in a beautiful room, while the family matriarch makes an announcement.
Can you believe it’s almost April!? HBO Max has released the full list of movies and TV shows that are debuting on the streaming service beginning on April 1.
EXCLUSIVE: Tamir Muhammad is extending and expanding his relationship with WarnerMedia. Muhammad, executive producer of HBO’s Peabody Award-winning late-night series Random Acts of Flyness, has entered exclusive first-look deals with Warner Bros. Pictures, HBO and HBO Max. The parallel pacts follow his previous multi-year overall television production and first-look feature deals, which Muhammad signed in 2018 when he launched his Populace production company. He is now extending the first-look feature deal with Warner Bros. Pictures while also adding a separate exclusive first-look TV deal with HBO and HBO Max.
HBO Max is slowly turning into the home for projects directly connected to the cinematic side of WarnerMedia. The streaming service hosts multiple feature films set in the DCEU and even two shows directly set in the world of Matt Reeves‘ “The Batman.” Now, HBO Max is setting its sights on a recent billion-dollar horror film property.
HBO Max is developing Welcome To Derry (working title) a prequel series to the It film franchise, according to sources.
The true-crime phenomenon—documentaries, movies, documentaries, series, and everything in between—has obviously hit an absolute zenith in recent years. This inexorable truth would explain why HBO Max would bother rehashing the mysterious circumstances of the death of Kathleen Peterson with their new scripted series “The Staircase” from showrunners Antonio Campos and Maggie Cohen (“American Crime Story”)—there’s still so much meat on the bone.
Jennifer Maas TV Business WriterThey’ll come for the high-wattage HBO and Warner Bros. content. They’ll stick around for Discovery’s lifestyle comfort food.That’s the formula that Warner Bros.
The phrase, “Well behaved women rarely make history,” attributed to Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and Harvard professor Lauren Thatcher Ulrich, gets bandied about a lot these days in conversations about women who push the boundaries of acceptable feminine behavior. But that particular brand of feminism, in which women are allowed to be anti-heroes in search of their ambition, rarely seems to rear its head in the slew of recent documentaries and series about women who made history in the mid-20th century.
HBO Max EMEA Boss Anthony Root has set out his team’s stall to “broaden the appeal” of the streamer “beyond the die hard Euphoria fan.”
reboot!In the season finale, Carrie (Sarah Jessica Parker), Charlotte York (Kristin Davis) and Miranda Hobbes (Cynthia Nixon) are all making big moves in their lives. Carrie decides to spread the ashes of her late husband, Mr. Big (Chris Noth), off a bridge in Paris, France, and comes back to New York City to start a new podcast, appropriately titled, and makes out with her podcast producer, Franklyn (Ivan Hernandez), in an elevator. As for Miranda, she divorces her husband, Steve Brady (David Eigenberg), and jets off to Los Angeles to be with her new romantic partner, Che Diaz (Sara Ramirez), as they start their new pilot.And as for Charlotte, she has a bat mitzvah for herself after her youngest child, Rock, refuses, and is facing menopause later than the rest of her friends.'s finale also opens a door for one leading lady to return.
HBO Max announced on Tuesday the renewal of the Sex and the City sequel series And Just Like That... for a second season.
What happens after you blow up your entire life to be with the person you love? The second season of “Starstruck” explores the question that rom-coms generally leave unanswered after their happy endings, wisely acknowledging that a big romantic gesture doesn’t erase all the obstacles present between two people getting — and staying — together. On its surface, the British import on HBO Max seems like a standard wish-fulfillment fantasy à la “Notting Hill”: a “normie” finds unlikely romance with a star.
, plus the raunchy pirate adventure, and a few Oscar-nominated films arriving on the platform. Fans of the Fox sitcom should be stoked to hear that the Jake Johnson-led is now streaming. Set in the San Fernando Valley in the 1970s, the series follows Johnson's Doug and second-wave feminist, Joyce, as they push to publish the very first erotic magazine for women.Best picture nominees , , , and will also be made available to stream on the platform in this month. HBO Max currently has two subscription tiers, an ad-supported subscription for $10/month and an ad-free plan available for $15/month.Sign Up NowFor even more streaming recommendations, make sure to check out our guides to everything that's new on Prime Video, what's new and what's leaving Hulu this month and the best TV and movies to stream this week.
HBO Max has been rolling out original series that have really sunk their teeth into audiences and one of their most popular shows, “The Flight Attendant” is coming back for a second season with star Kaley Cuoco reprising the role of Cassie Bowden. The streaming service has announced that episodes for the anticipated original show will begin airing next month and have dropped a teaser trailer (See below) revealing more shocking events are on the way in season two.
EXCLUSIVE: HBO Max and WarnerMedia Access have announced the inaugural cohort for their Animated Shorts Program, aimed at bolstering aspiring creators of adult animation programming from across the U.S. and Canada.
EXCLUSIVE: HBO sports drama Winning Time: The Rise Of The Lakers Dynasty scored more viewers in its second week, rising from its debut.
We haven’t seen any directorial work from Michael Mann in a while. The filmmaker hasn’t returned to the director’s chair since 2015’s “Blackhat.” Well, that’s about to change thanks to the HBO Max limited series, “Tokyo Vice.” As seen in the trailer, “Tokyo Vice” follows the story of an American journalist, in the late ‘90s, trying to make a name for himself in Japan.
Eventually, HBO Max and Discovery+ will come together as a single streaming offering, but the integration will “take a while,” CFO Gunnar Wiedenfels said at an investor conference today.
Jennifer Maas TV Business WriterDiscovery — which is about to become Warner Bros. Discovery within the next month, when its merger with AT&T’s WarnerMedia closes — has confirmed its plans to combine its current streaming service Discovery Plus and WarnerMedia’s HBO Max into one service, rather than offer the two platforms as a bundle.Discovery CFO Gunnar Wiedenfels, who will also serve as CFO of the newly combined Warner Bros.