I mean they had quite a lot of time to negotiate. Warner should have had all this figured out with the companies. I'm waiting til the day before it launches before I decide anything.
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HBO Max launching May 27, Trailers for Original Shows out (UPDATE: Check threadmarks for films to stream at launch)
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you'll most likely be able to login to the hbo max app with your cable login
I have no plans to pick up HBO Max until they offer some 4k content.
Launch films
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Some films available at launch
WARNER BROS. CLASSICS:
CRITERION COLLECTION
TURNER FILMS
Freedom Song
Regular Show: The Movie
THIRD PARTY TITLES
www.cinemablend.com
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www.theverge.com
WARNER BROS. CLASSICS:
CRITERION COLLECTION
TURNER FILMS
Freedom Song
Regular Show: The Movie
THIRD PARTY TITLES
Coming To HBO Max: Joker And Other Movies That Will Be On HBO's New Streaming Platform
That's some high quality HBO.
www.cinemablend.com
Here are the hundreds of classic movies people can stream on HBO Max
HBO Max is getting hundreds of classic Warner Bros. movies, Turner films, and more.
www.theverge.com
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That's an incredible line up of films even without the Criterion offerings. I can't think of another 'general audience' streaming platform that has a slate of films like that.
And I love that even Turner Films chips in with two films, one of which is the Regular Show Movie.
Bless.
And I love that even Turner Films chips in with two films, one of which is the Regular Show Movie.
Bless.
The flight attendant from Kaley from Big Bang I've been end reading about that it's got my attention I can't wait to see a trailer
someoen should ask the guy who created regular show to show some special on HBO Max and yes I know he has a show called close enough also.
I want regular show back
someoen should ask the guy who created regular show to show some special on HBO Max and yes I know he has a show called close enough also.
I want regular show back
AT&T is really fucking this up. This service seems so much better than Disney plus was at lunch, yet I doubt they'll even get a quarter of the sign ups
Oh shit, is that the list not including the WB blockbuster films?
That's a good list. And holy shit, Godzilla collection.
That's a good list. And holy shit, Godzilla collection.
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yeah just classics
"Some of those movies will be Warner Bros. blockbusters, like films from the DC Universe (The Dark Knight, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, Aquaman, Shazam to name a few) or The Matrix trilogy. It's unclear how many are exclusive to HBO Max (like the Studio Ghibli collection), but The Verge has asked WarnerMedia for clarification."
So we sub to Now directly through HBO. Are they just transitioning HBO Now apps to Max, do we have to get a separate channel app and use the same log in or ...? Do we know?
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Oh fuck yeah, Lone Wolf and Cub!Some films available at launch
WARNER BROS. CLASSICS:
CRITERION COLLECTION
TURNER FILMS
Freedom Song
Regular Show: The Movie
THIRD PARTY TITLES
Here are the hundreds of classic movies people can stream on HBO Max
HBO Max is getting hundreds of classic Warner Bros. movies, Turner films, and more.
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More films!
www.cinemablend.com
Coming To HBO Max: Joker And Other Movies That Will Be On HBO's New Streaming Platform
That's some high quality HBO.
www.cinemablend.com
It's crazy seeing so many significant Fox, Disney, Universal, etc films on that list from existing licensing deals. I wonder how long before those licensing deals dry up and when they stop licensing those IPs out in order to not support their competitor's service.
I was going to say a stellar line-up of movies from rivals... especially surprising from Universal with Peacock launching in two months, but remembered a lot of these are probably pre-existing HBO deals that WB gets to leverage.
I hate that the CinemaBlend article has The Shining picture under 1980s but then it's not in the list.
That's a lot of quality content to start off. When their originals start to roll out, this service should be a beast.
It certainly is a great way to launch a service though. It'll make their service content look more diverse than what it normally would be and they can then slowly remove stuff without a lot of people realizing.
Why....Batman Forever and Batman & Robin but not the the Burton or Nolan Batman other than TDKR? So weird.
Hope I get this for free, this might be the service that i keep as my general streamer, and push Netflix as my situational pickup.
I still need to see what the video streaming quality is going to be like. They need to drastically improve it over HBO Now for me to pay 15. The fact that it won't be part of Apple Channels apparently is a huge bummer to me.
They're likely licensed out already. Whenever you wonder why something isn't available, just assume it's tied up in a pre-existing licensing deal.
Yep, just like with Disney, it'll be years before all the stuff you think should be on the service is actually on the service.
Ironically, both are currently on DC Universe... and it seems to be the competing service here
As they don't have all of the animated movies that are on the service.
I watch tv through amazon fire, so how do I get the 11.99 deal? I don't see any options through Hulu or amazon. I currently sub to hbo through amazon and pay 14.99$ a month.
edit and finally, Batman rises!
edit and finally, Batman rises!
I wouldn't hold out much hope given their standard PR response when asked about 4K support, which leads me to believe this is just a reskinned HBO NOW App, with the same streaming capabilities. No Apple or Prime channel support is enough evidence for me.
Batman Begins and TDK are both on Hulu, so I assume there's an exclusivity deal there that they need to wait to expire
This platform's already more varied and exciting than D+ is. Miyazaki + these classic titles + HBO stuff is a powerhouse.
think imma put my amzn prime on the chopping block.
Edit: jokes on me it seems. I have it until next year.
Edit: jokes on me it seems. I have it until next year.
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Honestly it's still kind of unknown. If you're billed directly through Hulu you get upgraded for free, but I can't find any information on if Hulu themselves will be hosting HBO Max content, or if it'll be like Apple where the distributor bills you for normal HBO and you use that login to access the HBO Max app. The press release from Warner gave absolutely no details.
That's the entire press release.
Before the Apple deal got confirmed as "Sign into the HBO Max app with your Apple ID" I would have said of course Hulu would be hosting it like they are right now, but now I'm less convinced.
So either way you'll get HBO Max, but it's not known where it'll be. To me this is why the lack of a deal with Amazon or Roku is so important. If it was streaming from Apple or Hulu then you could just download those apps on your Fire TV or Roku and it's no big deal, but since all those companies have made a big stink about AT&T not making a deal with them, that says to me that they want all Max content to be in their own app, with 50 different ways to log in, and not anywhere else.
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Nice, thanks for the thorough answer. The last line "(...)giving customers choice in where and how they access the offerings 10,000 hours of curated content" does kinda make it seem like it'll seamlessly feed the content into Hulu, but guess we'll see.
Who cares how much good content they have when the quality of the streams look like shit?
Welp I ended up signing up a week earlier than I wanted to, oh well. HBO Now is still pretty decent as it is now, but I can't wait for that supercharged Max upgrade.
I think HBO Max and Netflix will be a great 1-2 punch for the average adult. I'll get Disney Plus once in a while for Marvel shows. But overall I'm much more interested in the wider variety of content that I'll be getting from the other two that is also more adult focused.
I think HBO Max and Netflix will be a great 1-2 punch for the average adult. I'll get Disney Plus once in a while for Marvel shows. But overall I'm much more interested in the wider variety of content that I'll be getting from the other two that is also more adult focused.
They will most likely be what they are offering now. They already said plans for 4k content are in the future, but they wouldn't specify a date.
We'll find out soon enough.
