HBO Max replaces the HBO Now app, now available on iPhone and iPad
With today's update of the HBO Now app, it gets replaced with HBO Max, WarnerMedia's new streaming platform.
Unlike Netflix or Disney Plus, HBO Max comes with a significantly higher $14.99 subscription price, offering HBO content, along with original programming and newly-licensed shows such as Friends, which is no longer on Netflix in some regions. Along with Friends, HBO Max offers big name shows like South Park, Looney Tunes, Rick & Morty and The Big Bang Theory.
Additional content at launch includes The Matrix movies, DC films such as Joker and Suicide Squad, anime from Studio Ghibli, and beloved classic movies like Citizen Kane, Casablanka, The Wizard of Oz, The Goonies, and 2001: A Space Oddysey.
Exlusive HBO Max original movies and TV shows include:
Unlike Netflix or Disney Plus, HBO Max comes with a significantly higher $14.99 subscription price, offering HBO content, along with original programming and newly-licensed shows such as Friends, which is no longer on Netflix in some regions. Along with Friends, HBO Max offers big name shows like South Park, Looney Tunes, Rick & Morty and The Big Bang Theory.
Exlusive HBO Max original movies and TV shows include:
- “Dune: The Sisterhood,” an adaptation of Brian Herbert and Kevin Anderson’s book based in the world created by Frank Herbert’s book Dune, from director Denis Villeneuve
- “Tokyo Vice,” based on Jake Adelstein’s non-fiction first-hand account of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police beat starring Ansel Elgort
- “The Flight Attendant,” a one-hour thriller series based on the novel by Chris Bohjalian, which will star Kaley Cuoco, who is also executive producing alongside Greg Berlanti
- “Love Life,” a 10-episode half-hour romantic comedy anthology series starring “Pitch Perfect” star Anna Kendrick, who will also executive produce alongside Paul Feig
- “Station Eleven,” a postapocalyptic limited series based on Emily St. John Mandel’s international bestseller, adapted by Patrick Somerville and directed by Hiro Murai
- “Made for Love,” a 10-episode, half-hour, straight-to-series adaptation based on the tragicomic novel of the same name by Alissa Nutting, also from Somerville and directed by S.J. Clarkson
- “Gremlins,” an animated series from Warner Bros. Animation and Amblin Entertainment based on the original movie
- The exclusive streaming rights at launch to all 236 episodes of “Friends”
- The exclusive streaming rights at launch to all episodes of fan favorites “The Fresh Prince of Bel Air” and “Pretty Little Liars”
- The exclusive streaming home to a string of new Warner Bros.’ produced dramas for The CW beginning with the fall 2019 season, including the highly-anticipated new DC Entertainment series “Batwoman,” and “Katy Keene” (spinoff of “Riverdale”)
- New exclusive movie production deals with Greg Berlanti, one of Hollywood’s most prolific and successful producers, and Reese Witherspoon, Academy Award and Emmy Award-winning actress and producer; Berlanti will produce an initial four movies focused in the young adult space, while Witherspoon's Hello Sunshine will produce at least two films
- Stephen King’s “The Outsider,” a dark mystery starring Ben Mendelsohn, produced and directed by Jason Bateman
- “Lovecraft Country,” a unique horror series based on a novel by Matt Ruff, written and executive produced by Misha Green, and executive produced by Jordan Peele and J.J. Abrams
- “The Nevers,” Joss Whedon’s new science fiction series starring Laura Donnelly
- “The Gilded Age,” the opulent world of 1885 New York from “Downton Abbey’s” Julian Fellowes
- “Avenue 5,” high satire aboard a space-bound cruise ship from Armando Iannucci (“Veep”), starring Hugh Laurie and Josh Gad
- “The Undoing,” a psychological thriller from David E. Kelley, directed by Susanne Bier starring Nicole Kidman and Hugh Grant
- “The Plot Against America,” reimagined history based on Phillip Roth’s novel written and executive produced by David Simon and Ed Burns, starring Winona Ryder and John Turturro
- “Perry Mason,” the classic legal drama for a new generation, executive produced by Robert Downey, Jr. and Susan Downey, with Matthew Rhys in the title role
- “I Know This Much Is True,” a complex family drama starring Mark Ruffalo playing twin brothers, one of whom has schizophrenia, based on the best-selling novel by Wally Lamb, written and directed by Derek Cianfrance.
The HBO Max app is now available on Apple TV, iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch, and Android devices, including Android TV and Chromebooks, for users in the United States, while Europe and Latin America are expected to get the service next year.
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