HBO Max - AT&T & WarnerMedia's Streaming Service - May 2020

[Qalbert]

HBO Max’s The Flight Attendant is boarding early—the series premiere is streaming for free right now on the service, a week before its official debut.

[Gwynplaine]

HBOMax is supposedly in talks to pick up the canceled Venture Bros. I hope they can continue the series because I love the show even though I acknowledge the last few seasons have been hit-and-miss while taking fucking ages to finish.

[6souls]

https://twitter.com/HBOMaxPR/status/1328337067684847616

And the downside

CNBC: In a concession to WarnerMedia, Amazon will remove HBO from Amazon Channels next year.
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/11/20/amaz...next-year.html

That means in 2021, HBO will be removed from Amazon's Prime service. The move is because AT&T/WarnerMedia wants full control over user data. There is also talk of a cheaper ad-supported subscription coming after this move.

[Outlaw]

Because the show Primal is coming to HBOMax Toonami is doing a marathon of season 1 tonight. Sometime during the block they will have a QR code for a free trial. I'm not sure how it's different than a regular trial.

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[Dantrag]

HBO Max’s The Flight Attendant is boarding early—the series premiere is streaming for free right now on the service, a week before its official debut.

Been an interesting show so far.

[bori]

The Undoing is a great show with the finale coming tonight. Only 6 episodes, so a quick one.

[Vil]

Yeah, The Undoing is quite good. Looking forward to tonight.

For HBO Max specific, I watched the Fresh Prince reunion the other day, and I'm not usually one for these sorts of things, but I really liked seeing these people back together. It's wild to me that the show ended 25 years ago, and Will Smith and Janet Hubert together!

[Qalbert]

oh fuck oh shit it's happening
https://www.polygon.com/2020/12/3/22...movies-hbo-max

On Thursday, the Warner Bros. Pictures Group announced that the company’s current films slated for 2021 will arrive via a new hybrid release model. Based on the broad announcement, movies slated for the upcoming year — like Godzilla vs. King Kong, The Suicide Squad, In the Heights, Space Jam: A New Legacy, The Matrix 4, and Dune — will all hit theaters worldwide while also receiving a simultaneous one-month streaming run exclusively on HBO Max. In November, Warner Bros. announced a similar strategy for Wonder Woman 1984.

Warner Bros. said in a news release that the hybrid model is a “strategic response” to the impact of the ongoing global pandemic, primarily in the United States. And like the current plans for Wonder Woman 1984, following the one-month HBO Max access period in the U.S., “each film will leave the platform and continue theatrically in the U.S. and international territories, with all customary distribution windows applying to the title.”

[Salodin]

Oh shit finally, free HQ versions of new releases!

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[Insanecyclone]

https://twitter.com/hbomax/status/1334568284771864576

[Krandor]

Goddamn, they really going for the throat now

[synistar]

It's p much a feature film subscription plan at this point. WB wants their money now. And get some bonus double dip for those who see it in theaters when they open back up in the back half of 2021.

[Odesseiron]

Yeah when my friend sent me this link I was like noooooo way is that real.

Then I saw the news posts everywhere. That's absolutely crazy. I guess they want to kill the theater industry. I could also see a price hike coming somewhere along the way.

[synistar]

There is no doubt the studios get more money out of theaters. They can't afford to keep these films in the can for another year and not produce revenue out of them. I will probably double dip on some films because I don't have a home theater setup.

[Xno Kappa]

So I’m understanding this correctly? This is straight up you have access to the film with HBO Max, and it’s not some Disney+ pay $30 for Mulan type scheme?

Cuz man lets fucking go otherwise lol.

[Salodin]

Have they even specified? Serious doubt that they're gonna stream it at normal sub cost.

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[Xno Kappa]

Have they even specified? Serious doubt that they're gonna stream it at normal sub cost.

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https://twitter.com/hbomax/status/13...803878913?s=20

[synistar]

It's confirmed. And since HBO is part of the WarnerMedia umbrella, it's their way to leverage their films to get long term subscribers now.

https://twitter.com/wbpictures/statu...72038753669120

https://twitter.com/WonderWomanFilm/...76274239107075

[Odesseiron]

This strikes me as a power move. Almost as if saying "Okay Disney, your move."

Disney tried to release a summer "blockbuster" through different means at $29.99 which didn't make them much money at all. If WB does something like 1 large movie per month, it'll give people more incentive to stay increasing their long term as other posters have said, which is a pretty good strategy looking at it from a consumer level.

There's 0 way people would pay $19.99-$29.99 per new release movie. But get them at $14.99/mo with all the other content? Absolutely.

[Krandor]

Their currently announced schedule is generally around a movie a month, with a few still pending dates sometime in 2021

* January 29, 2021 The Little Things
* March 5, 2021 Tom & Jerry
* March 12, 2021 The Many Saints of Newark
* April 16, 2021 Reminiscence
* May 21, 2021 Godzilla vs. Kong
* June 4, 2021 The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It
* June 18, 2021 In the Heights
* July 16, 2021 Space Jam: A New Legacy
* August 6, 2021 The Suicide Squad
* October 1, 2021 Dune
* November 5, 2021 Elvis
* November 19, 2021 King Richard
* December 22, 2021 The Matrix 4 ; Sherlock Holmes 3