by Abb Jones The Reelness In a move that will drastically reshape the entertainment industry, Netflix and Warner Bros./Discovery have announced an agreement Friday under which Netflix will acquire Warner Bros., including its film and TV studios, HBO Max and HBO. The $82.7 billion deal, which is still pending regulatory approval, came after a weeks-long […]
by Abb Jones The Reelness Warner Bros. Discovery says its HBO Max and Discovery+ streaming services will be rebranded as a single streaming service in the Summer of 2023. The media giant made the announcement during the company’s second quarter earnings call Thursday, saying the blending of the two services is the only viable way […]
Jean Smart stars in this upcoming HBO Max comedy series about a middle aged stand-up comic who begrudgingly hires a feisty young comedy writer to salvage her waning career and again make her relevant. Initially, neither is excited about working with the other, each believing the other to be a hack. (Hence the title.) Smart, […]
By Abb Jones The Reelness HBO Max, the latest big league streaming service, launched overnight, packed with double the amount of TV shows and movies than its regular service, and just in time to help entertain weary Americans stuck at home through the current COVID-19 pandemic. Sorry rest of world, HBO Max’s first international expansion […]
By Abb Jones Editor-in-Chief, The Reelness Disney Plus, the service Disney is hailing as the future of its company, debuts Tuesday in the United States, Canada and the Netherlands as the latest competitor in the TV streaming wars. Disney Plus will debut a week later, November 19th, in Australia and New Zealand, with a launch […]
The increasingly crowded battlefield of video streaming platforms has just learned the name of one of its soon-to-be Goliaths, with WarnerMedia unveiling the name of its new service… HBO Max. HBO Max is scheduled to launch in the spring of 2020, with a jaw dropping 10,000 hours of content, including all 236 episodes of the […]