Warner's HBO sits of a back-catalogue golden mine, including the deed bid "Friends"
HBO Max—home to taste touchstones from Batman and Harry Potter to The Sopranos and Friends—detailed the rollout of its streaming work crossed Europe connected Tuesday.
The institution utilized the lawsuit to connection a teaser of Game of Thrones prequel, "House of the Dragon", which is owed adjacent year.
It besides announced that the follow-up to "Sex and the City", which is titled "And Just Like That", volition aerial from December.
As the streaming service for WarnerMedia, HBO Max volition besides get caller Warner Bros movies 45 days aft their merchandise successful cinemas, the institution said.
That is perchance arguable since filmmakers person sometimes reacted angrily to the expanding displacement towards location viewing for caller blockbusters.
"Dune" manager Denis Villeneuve has villified Warner for choosing to merchandise his movie simultaneously successful theatres and connected HBO Max successful the US this month, saying it showed "no emotion for cinema, nor for the audience".
Scarlett Johansson is suing Disney for doing the aforesaid happening with her blockbuster "Black Widow" this summer, saying it chopped into her profits.
HBO Max launched successful the US past twelvemonth and has expanded crossed Latin America and the Caribbean.
It volition motorboat successful Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland, Spain and Andorra connected October 26.
It volition past grow to 27 European territories successful 2022.
That volition not see respective cardinal markets, including Britain, France, Germany and Italy, wherever HBO and Warner person organisation deals with section providers that person a fewer much years to run.
But the company said it plans to grow globally to scope 190 territories by 2026.
WarnerMedia owns the rights to a immense back-catalogue of films, including classics specified arsenic "Singing successful the Rain" and "The Shining" done to blockbusters specified arsenic "The Matrix" and "Justice League".
It besides has immoderate immense TV titles, including "Friends", "The Big Bang Theory" and "Two and a Half Men", which person proved perennial favourites connected streaming platforms.
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