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Elizabeth Olsen to lead HBO Max limited series Love and Death

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Fresh off her Disney+ Marvel series WandaVision, Elizabeth Olsen will star in HBO Max’s limited series Love and Death as Texas killer Candy Montgomery, who murdered her friend with an axe. The series comes from David E. Kelly (The Undoing) and director Lesli Linka Glatter (Mad Men).Love and Death is based upon the book Evidence of Love: A […]

Vincent Kartheiser to play Scarecrow in season 3 of DC’s Titans

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Dr. Jonathan Crane is coming to Titans, with Deadline reporting that Vincent Kartheiser (Mad Men, The Social Dilemma) is set to portray the classic Batman villain Scarecrow in the third season of HBO Max’s live-action DC series.As per the brief character description, Kartheiser’s Jonathan Crane is described as “an inmate at Arkham Asylum who used […]

Taika Waititi is Blackbeard in Our Flag Means Death

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Oscar-winning Jojo Rabbit director Taika Waititi has been cast as the infamous pirate Blackbeard in HBO Max’s period comedy series Our Flag Means Death. He joins Rhys Darby (Flight of the Conchords) in the series.Our Flag Means Death is “loosely based on the real-life adventures of Stede Bonnet (Darby), a well-to-do gentleman farmer from a wealthy […]

Finn Wittrock is Guy Gardner in HBO Max’s Green Lantern series

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From American Horror Story to the universe of DC Comics, Finn Wittrock is entering another wild world as The Hollywood Reporter notes that the Ratched and American Horror Story actor will play a vital role in the upcoming Green Lantern series for HBO Max. Wittrock will play Guy Gardner, one of the many Lanterns that […]

HBO Max’s Legendary offers up first look at its second season

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Reality competition shows don’t get any fiercer than Legendary. The first season of the HBO Max Original Series dazzled fans with its impressive dips, flips, and stunts. Now, season two promises to be even more over-the-top, shaping up to be quite the carry.Legendary offers a look at the ballroom scene, a sub-culture in the queer […]

Warrior renewed for third season, moving to HBO Max

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HBO’s Chief Content Officer Casey Bloys has announced that its hit martial arts crime drama series Warrior has been renewed for a third season, but will be moving from Cinemax to the HBO Max streaming service.Based on a concept and treatment by martial arts icon Bruce Lee, Warrior takes place during the brutal Tong Wars […]

WarnerMedia CEO says their movies will hit theatres before HBO Max in 2022

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Despite Godzilla vs. Kong proving to be a huge box-office smash as well as simultaneously breaking streaming records on HBO Max, WarnerMedia CEO Jason Kilar has delivered some news that will have Christopher Nolan arching his brow, as he revealed that from 2022 Warner Bros. biggest movies will debut in theatres first before winding up […]

Zack Snyder’s Justice League falls short of Wonder Woman 1984 on HBO Max

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Samba TV, a polling company who track the household viewing figures using Smart TV statistics, have revealed that Zack Snyder’s Justice League drew 1.8 million households in its first five minutes over its debut weekend, a figure that leaves it trailing Wonder Woman 1984‘s Christmas Day bow of 2.2 million.While Justice League couldn’t get the […]