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HBO Max is accelerating the release of the remaining episodes of Anna Kendrick’s Love Life romantic comedy anthology series, from Lionsgate TV and Paul Feig's Feigco Entertainment. Episodes 4, 5 and 6 will be available next Thursday, June 4 on the WarnerMedia streaming service. The final episodes will be added on…

Two days after the launch of HBO Max, the two lead analysts at MoffettNathanson are less than impressed. Michael Nathanson and Craig Moffett began their twice-monthly conference call for clients Friday with their early reactions to HBO Max, WarnerMedia’s long-awaited entrant in the increasingly crowded streaming…

Disney is starting to recover from COVID-19, but it won’t be able to “jam people on pricing” at its theme parks anytime soon, hurting revenue, and may opt to “kill” the theatrical run of Mulan, according to Wall Street analyst Michael Nathanson. The MoffettNathanson partner joined colleagues Craig Moffett and Nick Del…

HBO Max has snapped up the rights to Young Sheldon in the latest big streaming deal. The nascent digital platform, which launched this week, struck a deal with sister company Warner Bros. Domestic Television Distribution for all three seasons to The Big Bang Theory spin-off. This brings all of the BBT universe under…

Tony Award-winning actor Laura Benanti has spent much of her quarantine launching an online movement where she offered to be an audience for those whose musicals were cancelled. The project, #SunshineSongs, is now the inspiration for a special for nascent streaming service HBO Max. The WarnerMedia-owned service has…

Following in the digital footsteps of Quibi and Peacock, HBO Max joined the streaming wars in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic this week. The AT&T-owned entity lands in the TV landscape minus it its hugely hyped Friends reunion special and many other originals shut down because of the global health crisis. In…

The news never sleeps, but for many of those at CNN who get the news out to the world, a return to offices and bureaus may not come until next year because of the coronavirus, network boss Jeff Zucker announced Wednesday. "When you consider physical distancing requirements, we simply cannot put the same number of…

Amazon has taken aim at WarnerMedia parent AT&T for not enabling access to its just-launched subscription streaming app HBO Max via the tech giant’s Prime Video Channels platform. "With a seamless customer experience, nearly 5 million HBO streamers currently access their subscription through Amazon's Prime Video…

HBO Max has cleared one of the last remaining distribution hurdles in its streaming rollout, announcing a distribution deal with Comcast, the No. 1 U.S. cable provider. The deal makes HBO Max, which launched earlier Wednesday, available to customers of Comcast’s Xfinity X1 video package and Flex, a broadband video…

All eight Harry Potter movies are available for streaming on HBO Max, the WarnerMedia service that launched Wednesday in the U.S. Released between 2001 and 2011, the films based on J.K. Rowling’s family-friendly series of books collectively grossed $7.7 billion for Warner Bros. Like other Warner titles, they had…

HBO Max is finally throwing the “on” switch, culminating a multi-year, $4 billion journey to join the direct-to-consumer streaming wave. The service’s launch just after midnight ET on Wednesday is the last of five major streaming debuts, an unprecedented multibillion-dollar infusion that has upended traditional…

HBO Max is to air a slew of international adaptations of The Bachelor and its spin-off for the first time in the U.S. as the digital platform unveils which seasons of the dating franchise will debut at launch. The WarnerMedia-backed service, which launches May 27, will launch with over 20 seasons of The Bachelor, The B…