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HBO Max features a mix of classic films, new series, and returning titles. Recent coverage highlights the platform's shifting library, including the departure of several iconic movies and the resurgence of others ahead of key dates.
Lanterns closes out its eight-episode first season Sunday without an official HBO renewal, though showrunner Chris Mundy says a Season 2 writers' room has been running for six weeks and James Gunn has confirmed it was a season, not series, finale.
The new Skydance streaming strategy keeps both HBO Max and Paramount+ as distinct brands, likely bundled together. But the Paramount+ app remains unstable across devices — a major hurdle for any unified experience.
Lanterns is the new global king of HBO Max — and it’s not even close. The sci-fi mystery series, a True Detective spin-off set in the DC Universe, has surged to No. 1 across all territories in its second month of release, according to Nielsen data from October 2026.
The Bikeriders, Tom Hardy's 2024 motorcycle gang drama, is suddenly a top global title on HBO Max, riding the popularity of his crime series MobLand after underperforming at theaters on release.
Netflix’s La Bola Negra lands at Middleburg Film Festival as Friday’s Spotlight — with Guitarricadelafuente set to accept an award and pitch his song ‘La Nieve’ to the world.
Guitarricadelafuente, the musician who rose from PlayStation recordings to Oscar-buzz status, is set to receive the SCAD Discovery Award for his breakout role in La Bola Negra. The film, already a festival darling, opens in select theatres October 16 before streaming on Netflix December 2.
The Last Samurai, Tom Cruise's 2003 box office disappointment at home, is reportedly seeing a streaming resurgence on HBO Max, with critics pointing to Ken Watanabe's Oscar-nominated turn as the film's real engine.
October brings Florence Pugh's East of Eden to Netflix, a legal drama from Sienna Miller and Dominic West to HBO Max, and Paul Bettany's VisionQuest closing out Disney+'s WandaVision trilogy, alongside dozens of catalogue titles across all three platforms.
HBO Max has announced a collaboration with Spanish directors Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi to develop a mystery series set in the isolated Tor community, famed for its lingering unsolved killings and recent documentary attention.
The latest HBO Max offering, Dune, fuses the ruthless court drama of Game of Thrones with the expansive space mythos of Star Wars, delivering a fresh take on classic sci‑fi storytelling.
Taylor Sheridan's acclaimed film Hell or High Water, praised for its tight script and stark visuals, has joined HBO Max's library, offering viewers a chance to revisit the modern western classic.
Evil Dead Burn streams exclusively on HBO Max from October 2, followed by a linear cable premiere on October 3 paired with screenings of Evil Dead and Evil Dead Rise.
Fuze, the Theo James-led heist thriller set around an unexploded WWII bomb in London, has quietly become a streaming fixture, crossing 100 days on Apple TV's top 10 and cracking HBO Max's charts.
George A. Romero's 1968 zombie classic Night of the Living Dead exits HBO Max on September 30, days after Quentin Tarantino called the film's ending 'blown away'-worthy on Eli Roth's horror show.
Two years after leaving theaters, M. Night Shyamalan's Trap is charting in the VOD top 10 across several countries and still cycling through HBO Max's most-watched list, powered partly by Josh Hartnett's career resurgence.
HBO Max has given a straight-to-series order to Greg Berlanti's How To Survive Without Me, a fifteen-episode family drama starring Ray Romano, Kaley Cuoco, Joshua Jackson and Rita Wilson, modelled on The Pitt's release strategy.
A reunion documentary marking Band of Brothers' 25th anniversary is trending high on HBO Max, part of a wider run of WWII content, from theatrical releases to a 20-episode History Channel series, doing well this year.
Apple TV finished Monday's Emmys with 28 wins, more than HBO Max and Netflix combined with second place, powered by a record-breaking sweep for freshman comedy Widow's Bay and a strong night for Pluribus.
Jean Smart won Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series for Hacks' fifth and final season, her eighth Emmy overall, tying the record held by Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Cloris Leachman.
Barbarian, the 2022 thriller that made an Airbnb basement genuinely terrifying, is leaving HBO Max on September 30. Director Zach Cregger follows it up with Resident Evil on September 18.
HBO's Lanterns series has turned into a two-week chart-topper, and the fallout is dragging Ryan Reynolds' widely panned 2011 Green Lantern film back into America's top ten most-watched titles on HBO Max.