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Warner Brothers is giving a boost to it's new HBO Max streaming service by releasing seventeen big budget films simultaneously in theaters and on HBO Max, the new films will be available to stream for only 1 month, after that you will have to go to the theater or wait 90 days for the film to return to HBO Max or a Blu-ray release.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/03/business/media/warner-brothers-movies-hbo-max.html?action=click&module=RelatedLinks&pgtype=Article

List of all 17 films: https://www.pocket-lint.com/tv/news/warner/154903-hbo-max-movies-warner-bros-release-date-2021-how-to-stream

Mortal Kombat: 15 January 2021
A new Mortal Kombat film will see all your favorite characters from the classic fighting game come to the big screen again. Jessica McNamee will star as Sonya Blade.

Little Things: 29 January 2021
Best Actor Award winners Denzel Washington and Rami Malek star as an aging sheriff and young detective who team up to stop a serial killer.

Judas and The Black Messiah: January 2021
This film tells the story of Fred Hampton (played by Daniel Kaluuya), who rose to become chairman of The Black Panthers at age 21. We will also see William O’Neal (played Lakeith Stanfield) who informed on him for the CIA.



Tom and Jerry: 5 March 2021
The animated cat and mouse will make their feature film return in 2021. Colin Jost and Chloe Grace Moretz are set to star alongside the cartoons.

The Many Saints of Newark: 12 March 2021
This prequel to the HBO hit series The Sopranos will see the son of the late James Gandolfini, Michael Gandolfini, take on the role of Tony Soprano, which his father made famous.

Reminiscence: 16 April 2021
Hugh Jackman will star as a man who lets people re-live their past memories, but a new client’s memories show that the woman he has fallen in love with might not be who she seems. 

Godzilla vs Kong: 21 May 2021
The fourth film in Legendary Pictures MonsterVerse will see the two big guys, Godzilla and King Kong, square off as helpless humans can only watch. The film will also see Millie Bobby Brown and Kyle Chandler return as their characters from Godzilla: King of the Monsters.

The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It: 4 June 2021
The eighth film in The Conjuring Universe will see Vera Farmiga and Patrick Wilson return as experts of the paranormal, Lorraine and Ed Warren. The film will see them help a man accused of murder, and, of course, he claims he was possessed.

In The Heights: 18 June 2021
Before Lin Manuel Miranda wrote Hamilton, he penned this musical about summertime in New York City’s Washington Heights.

Space Jam: A New Legacy: 16 July 2021
Lebron James is taking time away from his busy schedule of winning NBA titles to help out the Looney Toons in the sequel to the 90s kid classic.



The Suicide Squad: 6 August 2021
Guardians of the Galaxy's director, James Gunn, took his talents to the DC Extended Universe for this Suicide Squad sequel, which will see Margot Robbie return as Harley Quinn.

Dune: 21 October 2021
Originally scheduled to be released in 2020, the hotly anticipated adaptation of the sci-fi epic, originally written by Frank Herbert, will also debut on HBO Max. It will see Timothee Chalamet star as Paul Atreides.

King Richard: 19 November 2021
King Richard will see Will Smith star as Richard Williams, the father of tennis champions Venus and Serena Williams.



The Matrix 4: 22 December 2021
Keanu Reeves will return as Neo in the fourth entry of The Matrix. Lana Wachowski, who directed the first film in the series, will also return.

Those Who Wish Me Dead: ? 2021
Based on the best-selling novel, this film will follow a teen boy (Finn Little) who witnessed a murder as he tries to avoid the two killers in a wild fire.

Malignant: ? 2021
Not much is known about this new film from director James Wan, other than it’s a horror film. Considering Wan’s history includes films like Saw, Insidious, and The Conjuring, any horror fans should be excited about this project.



Cry Macho: ? 2021
Clint Eastwood will direct and star in this film about an aging horse trainer who plans to kidnap a young boy from Mexico and bring him to his father in the US for $50,000.

[Big Red Machine]

Wayne, how do the studios make money with a plan like that?

[WGH]

Wayne, how do the studios make money with a plan like that?

Volume! And pricing. HBO Max no longer has a free trial, $14.95 a month for a subscription although you can cancel anytime but with all the first run movies arriving more than once a month nobody is going to cancel. It's going to take a long time to vaccinate 331 million people (twice) in order to get theaters to fully open again. Studios typically keep 80 percent of premium on-demand revenue, while ticket sales from theatrical releases are split roughly 50-50 between studios and theaters. If HBO Max can get close to Netflix's subscriber level they will have made a golden goose.

"AT&T, which owns WarnerMedia, also has made it clear that Mr. Kilar’s top priority is building HBO Max into a full-fledged competitor to Netflix, which has 73 million subscribers in the United States and almost 200 million worldwide. HBO subscribers hit a record 38 million at the end of September, but only about 8.6 million subscribers had activated HBO Max."

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Wonder Woman 1984 streaming on HBO Max December 25th

I know what I'll be watching on Christmas day.