HBO Max is the latest streaming service to add TikTok-like short-form video to its platform to help users find something to watch. The service is also launching an experimental AI-powered conversational search experience, Warner Bros. announced Tuesday. HBO Max, like other streaming platforms, is rethinking content discovery as large libraries make it harder for viewers
Warner Bros. Discovery has acquired the revenge thriller “Kill Jackie,” starring Catherine Zeta-Jones, for HBO Max in Spain, Portugal, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland, Iceland, France and Belgium. The deal covers two of HBO’s most established streaming markets, the Nordics and Spain, where SVOD services HBO Nordics and HBO Spain launched in 2012 and 2016 and
HBO Max veteran Pia Barlow has been hired as Amazon MGM Studios’ new director of original series marketing. In her new role, which Barlow will begin on August 3, the executive will oversee all marketing efforts for Prime Video’s global and US original series. Barlow will report directly to Sue Kroll, global head of marketing
Paramount Skydance’s proposed acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery has hit a roadblock after a judge temporarily halted the deal in response to a lawsuit filed by a coalition of 12 state attorneys general who argue the merger would harm competition. U.S. District Judge Araceli Martínez-Olguín issued a 14-day pause Monday after hearing arguments from both
Adriano Goldman, director of photography for HBO’s “Harry Potter” series, said in a recent interview with Andre Pilli that the show’s filming conditions have been “brutal” because the camera crew must work around the young cast’s strict shooting schedules. “You have to shoot very fast, and the faster you shoot, the more you compromise on
SPOILER ALERT: This interview contains spoilers for episode 4 of “Life, Larry, and the Pursuit of Unhappiness: A Almost History of America,” now streaming on HBO Max. Larry David uses history as a weapon to mock his former friend Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on his HBO comedy show “Life, Larry and the Pursuit of Unhappiness.”