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Warner Bros, in the wake of making good with Legendary on the simultaneous release of Godzilla vs. Kong in theaters and on HBO Max, will be releasing the movie on March 26 instead of May 21. It was reported last Friday that Warner Bros and financier Legendary, which owns a majority of the movie, avoided a legal…

EXCLUSIVE: Tessa Thompson is moving into production in a major way with a new production company, a first-look deal at HBO and HBO Max and exec producing two big book adaptations – Who Fears Death and The Secret Lives of Church Ladies. The Westworld star has launched Viva Maude with a two-year deal at the…

When Warner Bros. TV and CBS Studios’ $1 billion output deal with Netflix for CW content ended in 2019, the studios started shopping their CW series to streamers individually. Of the 2019 batch, WBTV’s Batwoman and Katy Keene went to sibling HBO Max, while CBS Studios announced a deal for Nancy Drew with its sibling…

HBO Max has picked up to series its drama pilot Julia, giving an eight-episode order to the project based on the life of world-renowned chef Julia Child. Starring Sarah Lancashire and David Hyde Pierce, the series from Chris Keyser (The Society, Party of Five), Lionsgate Television and 3 Arts Entertainment is…

If you are going to make a movie from scratch during a pandemic lockdown, you might as well have a little fun with it. That is exactly what director Doug Liman and screenwriter Steven Knight are doing with the irresistible stew they have concocted for Locked Down. Fortunately they have skilled stars of the caliber of…

EXCLUSIVE: HBO Max has put in development The Future, a one-hour sci-fi tech drama based on Dan Frey’s forthcoming novel The Future Is Yours, from The Batman director and Felicity co-creator Matt Reeves’ 6th & Idaho, Run co-writer-director Aneesh Chaganty and producers Natalie Qasabian and Sev Ohanian, and Warner…

AT&T as expected is phasing out its AT&T TV Now skinny bundle, announcing Tuesday that the service has merged with AT&T TV as it continues to streamline its video offerings. The company's site touted AT&T TV as "the best live and on demand experience" with no annual contract, simple pricing and no hidden fees…

Russell T Davies, the creator of Channel 4 and HBO Max’s upcoming AIDS crisis series It's A Sin, has spoken out about the importance of casting gay actors as gay characters. Starring Years & Years frontman Olly Alexander, the series is already winning rave reviews and, during a publicity blitz ahead of its January 22…

Giri/Haji creator Joe Barton is heading to Gotham to take over showrunning duties on HBO Max's The Batman. The British writer has joined the upcoming series as showrunner and exec producer following the departure of Terence Winter in November. It was understood that the Boardwalk Empire creator left the series, which…

HBO Max has acquired Spanish-language original Perfect Life (Vida Perfecta) and has committed to co-producing a second season alongside Telefónica’s local streamer Moviestar+. The WarnerMedia streamer will debut Perfect Life on January 21, following the lives of Maria, Cristina, and Esther who are in search of their…

The Sex and the City revival is officially going ahead at HBO Max. Sarah Jessica Parker and her fellow cast members Cynthia Nixon and Kristin Davis posted on social media to confirm the news, which first emerged at the end of December, with a cryptic message. HBO Max has confirmed that the 10-episode limited series…

UPDATED with video: For more than 20 years, former music industry executive Drew Dixon held onto a corrosive secret. The HBO Max documentary On the Record, directed by Kirby Dick and Amy Ziering, reveals how Dixon made the painful decision to come forward with allegations that she had been raped by her boss at Def Jam…