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List Of HBO Max Original Programming
Max (formerly HBO Max) is an over-the-top subscription service owned and operated by Warner Bros. Discovery and run by Warner Bros. Entertainment. It distributes a number of original shows, including original series, specials, miniseries, and documentaries and films. The movies and television shows produced for Max are dubbed "Max Originals", and had this name prior to the rebranding of HBO Max to Max on May 23, 2023. HBO Max was an expanded library of programming compared to the former HBO Now, which only carried HBO programming. Max Originals are specifically made for audiences outside of the traditional baseline HBO Home Box Office (HBO) is an American pay television service, which is the flagship property of namesake parent-subsidiary Home Box Office, Inc., itself a unit owned by Warner Bros. Discovery. The overall Home Box Office business unit is based a ... brand. Original programming Drama Comedy Kids & family Animation Adult animation Kid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Max Original 2023
Max or MAX may refer to: Animals * Max (American dog) (1983–2013), at one time purported to be the world's oldest living dog * Max (British dog), the first pet dog to win the PDSA Order of Merit (animal equivalent of the OBE) * Max (gorilla) (1971–2004), a western lowland gorilla at the Johannesburg Zoo who was shot by a criminal in 1997 Brands and enterprises * Australian Max Beer * Max Hamburgers, a fast-food corporation * MAX Index, a Hungarian domestic government bond index * Max Fashion, an Indian clothing brand Computing * MAX (operating system), a Spanish-language Linux version * Max (software), a music programming language * MAX Machine * Multimedia Acceleration eXtensions, extensions for HP PA-RISC Films * Max (1994 film), ''Max'' (1994 film), a Canadian film by Charles Wilkinson * Max (2002 film), ''Max'' (2002 film), a film about Adolf Hitler * Max (2015 film), ''Max'' (2015 film), an American war drama film * Max (2024 film), ''Max'' (2024 film), an Indian Kannad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Variety (magazine)
''Variety'' is an American trade magazine owned by Penske Media Corporation. It was founded by Sime Silverman in New York City in 1905 as a weekly newspaper reporting on theater and vaudeville. In 1933, ''Daily Variety'' was launched, based in Los Angeles, to cover the film industry, motion-picture industry. ''Variety'' website features entertainment news, reviews, box office results, plus a credits database, production charts and film calendar. History Founding ''Variety'' has been published since December 16, 1905, when it was launched by Sime Silverman as a weekly periodical covering theater and vaudeville, with its headquarters in New York City. Silverman had been fired by ''The Morning Telegraph'' in 1905 for panning an act which had taken out an advert for $50. He subsequently decided to start his own publication that, he said, would "not be influenced by advertising." With a loan of $1,500 from his father-in-law, he launched ''Variety'' as publisher and editor. In additi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Political Drama
A political drama can describe a Theatre, play, film or TV program that has a politics, political component, whether reflecting the author's political opinion, or describing a politician or series of political events. Dramatists who have written political dramas include Aaron Sorkin, Robert Penn Warren, Sergei Eisenstein, Bertolt Brecht, Jean-Paul Sartre, Howard Brenton, Caryl Churchill, and Federico García Lorca. Theatre In the history of theatre, there is long tradition of performances addressing issues of current events, especially those central to society itself. The political satire performed by the comic poets at the Ancient Greek theatre, theatres had considerable influence on public opinion in the Athenian democracy. Those earlier Western dramas, arising out of the polis, or democratic city-state of Greek society, were performed in amphitheaters, central arenas used for theatrical performances, religious ceremonies and political gatherings; these dramas had a ritualistic a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Girls On The Bus
''The Girls on the Bus'' is an American political drama television series created by Amy Chozick and Julie Plec, inspired by Chozick's 2018 memoir ''Chasing Hillary''. It is produced by Berlanti Television, My So Called Company, and Warner Bros. Television Studios, and it premiered on Max on March 14, 2024. In May 2024, the series was canceled after one season. Premise ''The Girls on the Bus'' chronicles 4 female journalists who follow every move of a parade of flawed presidential candidates, while finding friendship, love, and scandal along the way. Cast Main * Melissa Benoist as Sadie McCarthy, a journalist for ''The New York Sentinel'' * Carla Gugino as Grace Gordon Greene, an experienced journalist who has been in the bus for a long time * Christina Elmore as Kimberlyn Anaya Kendrick, a reporter for a conservative network called "Liberty News Direct" * Natasha Behnam as Lola Rahaii, a Gen Z reporter who is also an influencer and activist * Brandon Scott as Malcolm Recu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Full Circle (miniseries)
''Full Circle'' is an American mystery drama miniseries created and written by Ed Solomon and directed by Steven Soderbergh for the Max streaming television service. It premiered July 13, 2023. Premise An investigation into a botched kidnapping uncovers long-held secrets connecting multiple characters and cultures in present-day New York City. Cast * Zazie Beetz as Mel Harmony * Claire Danes as Sam Browne * Timothy Olyphant as Derek Browne * Dennis Quaid as Jeff McCusker * Suzanne Savoy as Kristin McCusker * Jharrel Jerome as Aked * Gerald Jones as Louis * Sheyi Cole as Xavier * CCH Pounder as Savitri Mahabir * Jim Gaffigan as Manny Broward * Adia as Natalia * Phaldut Sharma as Garmen Harry * Lucian Zanes as Nicky * William Sadler as Gene McCusker * Happy Anderson as Joey * Kareem Savinon as Paul Tranquada * Franklin Ojeda Smith as Woulghby * Ethan Stoddard as Jared * Jay Vanderveer * Jarod Lindsey as Len * Rachel Annette Helson as Charisse * Finn (golden retriever) as Ru ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Love & Death (miniseries)
''Love & Death'' is an American biographical crime drama miniseries directed by Lesli Linka Glatter and Clark Johnson, written by David E. Kelley that premiered on April 27, 2023, on HBO Max. It stars Elizabeth Olsen, Jesse Plemons, Lily Rabe, Patrick Fugit, Krysten Ritter, Tom Pelphrey, Elizabeth Marvel, and Keir Gilchrist. The series is based on the true story of Candy Montgomery, a housewife from Wylie, Texas. It centers around Montgomery, who is living a stereotypical housewife lifestyle in the late 1970s. She has to go before a jury after an affair with her friend from church leads to a killing. The series received mainly positive reviews, praising its performances (particularly Olsen's), its cinematography and set pieces, and its take on Montgomery, finding humanity in her. On June 1, 2023, Max announced that ''Love & Death'' had become their most watched original limited series globally. At the 75th Primetime Emmy Awards, Plemons was nominated for a Outstanding ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crime Thriller Film
Crime film is a film belonging to the crime fiction genre. Films of this genre generally involve various aspects of crime and fiction. Stylistically, the genre may overlap and combine with many other genres, such as drama or gangster film, but also include comedy, and, in turn, is divided into many sub-genres, such as mystery, suspense or noir. Screenwriter and scholar Eric R. Williams identified crime film as one of eleven super-genres in his Screenwriters Taxonomy, claiming that all feature-length narrative films can be classified by these super-genres. The other ten super-genres are action, fantasy, horror, romance, science fiction, slice of life, sports, thriller, war and western. Williams identifies drama in a broader category called "film type", mystery and suspense as "macro-genres", and film noir as a "screenwriter's pathway" explaining that these categories are additive rather than exclusionary. ''Chinatown'' would be an example of a film that is a drama (film ty ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mystery Film
A mystery film is a film that revolves around the solution of a problem or a crime. It focuses on the efforts of the detective, private investigator or amateur Detective, sleuth to solve the mysterious circumstances of an issue by means of clues, investigation, and clever deduction. Mystery films include, but are not limited to, films in the genre of detective fiction. While cinema featured characters such as Sherlock Holmes in the early 1900s, several other Sherlock Holmes likes characters appeared such as Boston Blackie and Lone Wolf (character), The Lone Wolf. Several series of mystery films started in the 1930s with major studios featuring detectives like Nick and Nora Charles, Perry Mason, Nancy Drew and Charlie Chan. While original mystery film series were based on novels, by the 1940s many were sourced from comics and radio series. Towards the 1940s these series were predominantly produced as b-movies, with nearly no mystery series being developed by the 1950s. Around the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pretty Little Liars (2022 TV Series)
''Pretty Little Liars'' is an American Slasher film, slasher teen drama Mystery fiction, mystery television series created by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa and Lindsay Calhoon Bring for Max (streaming service), Max. It is the fourth television series in the Pretty Little Liars (franchise), ''Pretty Little Liars'' franchise, which is based on the Pretty Little Liars (book series), novel series written by Sara Shepard, and set within the same continuity as the previous series. The series features an ensemble cast, headed by Bailee Madison, Chandler Kinney, Zaria, Malia Pyles, and Maia Reficco. Warner Bros. announced the series' development with Aguirre-Sacasa as showrunner in September 2020. It was given a straight-to-series order by HBO Max at the end of the same month. Filming took place in New York (state), New York during the COVID-19 pandemic. It is the first series in the franchise not to be broadcast on Freeform (TV channel), ABC Family/Freeform and to be carried on a streaming tel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crime Drama
Crime film is a film belonging to the crime fiction genre. Films of this genre generally involve various aspects of crime and fiction. Stylistically, the genre may overlap and combine with many other genres, such as Drama (film and television), drama or gangster film, but also include Comedy film, comedy, and, in turn, is divided into many sub-genres, such as Mystery film, mystery, suspense or Film noir, noir. Screenwriter and scholar Eric R. Williams identified crime film as one of eleven super-genres in his Screenwriters Taxonomy, claiming that all feature-length narrative films can be classified by these super-genres. The other ten super-genres are action, fantasy, horror, romance, science fiction, slice of life, sports, thriller, war and western. Williams identifies drama in a broader category called "film type", mystery and suspense as "macro-genres", and film noir as a "screenwriter's pathway" explaining that these categories are additive rather than exclusionary. ''China ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Biographical Film
A biographical film or biopic () is a film that dramatizes the life of an actual person or group of people. Such films show the life of a historical person and the central character's real name is used. They differ from Docudrama, docudrama films and Historical drama, historical drama films in that they attempt to comprehensively tell a single person's life story or at least the most historically important years of their lives. Context Biopic scholars include George F. Custen of the College of Staten Island and Dennis P. Bingham of Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis. Custen, in ''Bio/Pics: How Hollywood Constructed Public History'' (1992), regards the genre as having died with the Studio system, Hollywood studio era, and in particular, Darryl F. Zanuck. On the other hand, Bingham's 2010 study ''Whose Lives Are They Anyway? The Biopic as Contemporary Film Genre'' shows how it perpetuates as a codified genre using many of the same tropes used in the studio era that ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Staircase (American Miniseries)
''The Staircase'' is an American biographical crime drama television miniseries created by Antonio Campos, based on the 2004 true crime docuseries of the same name created by Jean-Xavier de Lestrade. The series stars Colin Firth as Michael Peterson, a writer convicted of murdering his wife Kathleen Peterson (Toni Collette), who was found dead at the bottom of the staircase in their home. The series premiered on HBO Max on May 5, 2022. Premise Michael Peterson, a crime novelist, is accused of killing his wife Kathleen after she is found dead at the bottom of a staircase in their home. As the investigation continues, the family is thrown into a tumultuous legal battle. Meanwhile, a French documentary team takes an interest in the story. Cast and characters Main * Colin Firth as Michael Peterson, a novelist and political hopeful in Durham. His finances and personal life become the focus of the investigation and documentary. * Toni Collette as Kathleen Peterson, his second w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
