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Plex Is Making Itself Impossible to Ignore as a Go-To Streaming Service

CES may be all about gadgets, but this year’s event is jam-packed with news from streaming services looking to muscle their way into the fray. Plex is one of them. The media management tool and streaming service has drummed up a fair amount of hype during the electronics trade show this year for a suite…

Tech News Catie Keck

HBO Max Is Moving Forward With Another Try at Adapting Snow Crash

If you ask any random fan off the street how to get into cyberpunk or science fiction influenced by cyberpunk, there’s a solid chance they’re going to tell you to read Snow Crash. Neal Stephenson’s 1992 classic is a massively influential cyber dystopian work that prefigured a lot of what modern cyberpunk pastiche fiction would…

io9 Julie Muncy

Warner Bros. Still Has No Interest in the Snyder Cut, a Thing We Do Not Need

Despite the fact that the future of Warner Bros. and DC’s big-budget, live-action cinematic universe actually looks pretty bright—with Wonder Woman 1984, Birds of Prey, and James Gunn’s The Suicide Squad—a vocal contingent of fans can’t let the past go and are still harping on about Zack Snyder’s Justice League director’s cut. A thing that…

Movies Charles Pulliam-Moore

HBO Max’s Dune: The Sisterhood Series Has Lost Its Showrunner

HBO Max is still months away from its launch date, but one of the streaming service’s marquee shows—Dune: The Sisterhood, a female-focused spin-off of the 2020 Dune feature film—is already experiencing a shake-up behind the scenes. Dune’s guiding hand, Denis Villeneuve, is still involved and is still set to direct the pilot for Dune: The…

io9 Cheryl Eddy

Green Lantern and Strange Adventures TV Shows Are Coming to HBO Max

HBO Max just put on a fancy ring and created some shows no one was expecting. The company revealed at its HBO Max event on Tuesday it’s moving forward with a Green Lantern show. Yes, the popular DC Comics hero once played by Ryan Reynolds and forever on the “maybe” list of upcoming DC movies.…

Books & Comics Germain Lussier

A Second Season of gen:LOCK Will Debut on HBO Max

What started on Rooster Teeth is about to go to the max. HBO Max, to be exact. gen:LOCK, the Michael B. Jordan voiced and produced anime series, has just been picked up for a second season and the episodes will premiere on the new Warner Bros. streaming service, HBO Max. The episodes will find their…

io9 Germain Lussier

Adventure Time Is Coming Back With a 4-Part Miniseries…on HBO Max

It’s time to dance until your noodle arms fall off: Adventure Time is coming back! HBO Max has announced it’s reviving the Cartoon Network show with a series of four one-hour specials, one year after the acclaimed animated series ended. According to a press release, the specials—under the shared name Adventure Time: Distant Lands—will tell…

io9 Beth Elderkin

HBO Has Cast Mackenzie Davis and Himesh Patel in Station Eleven Adaptation

Station Eleven is a bestselling novel about how we preserve culture after the end. Now, it’s coming to HBO Max, and it’s got some great leads. As reported by Deadline, Emily St. John Mandel’s novel is being adapted into a ten-episode HBO Max series by Patrick Somerville (Maniac) and Paramount TV. Which sounds great, but…

io9 Julie Muncy

Wow! Studio Ghibli Movies Will Stream on the Upcoming HBO Max

The streaming rights to the works of Studio Ghibli have long been a complicated and arcane thing. It has seemed like an impossibility to have anything even remotely near a complete archive of the beloved animation house’s work available to stream. We’re in the age of the streaming wars, however, and the impossible is possible…for…

Movies James Whitbrook

You Can Hardly Count How Much Sesame Street Is Coming to HBO Max

Can the Count count to over 5,000? He’ll have to, if he wants to keep track of just how much Sesame Street will soon be on HBO Max. Sesame Workshop, which controls Sesame Street and its other brands, just signed a five year deal with the upcoming Warner Bros.-centric streaming service, which will kick in…

io9 Germain Lussier

DMZ Is Coming to HBO Max Courtesy of Ava DuVernay

Warner Bros. is digging deeper into its DC properties and bringing another popular comic book to life. The company has ordered a pilot for DMZ, based on the 2005 Vertigo title by Brian Wood and Riccardo Burchielli, for its upcoming streaming service HBO Max. And it’s recruited one of its feature film directors to help…

io9 Germain Lussier

The Boondocks Will Return on HBO Max

It’s only taken a few months but the highly-anticipated return of The Boondocks has found its home. HBO Max, the upcoming Warner Bros.-driven streaming service, has ordered “two reimagined seasons” of the show, for a total of 24 episodes. It’ll launch in the fall of 2020 with a 50-minutes special and, as a bonus, all…

io9 Germain Lussier

Why

Forget The Office, Friends, or even goddamn Seinfeld. Apparently, the highest-valued television show in the history of the world is a humorless screed about a bunch of neeeeeeeeeeerds. CBS’ The Big Bang Theory is back with what might be the most-expensive streaming deal of all time. Just when I thought I was free. According to…

Television Beth Elderkin

Doom Patrol‘s Showrunner Drops Hints of What to Expect in Season 2

In its first season, Doom Patrol did the important work of proving how much fun cape shows could be having if only they stopped taking themselves so seriously and leaned into the ridiculousness of their source material. From the sound of things, the series isn’t about to let up on the weirdness in season two—which…

io9 Charles Pulliam-Moore

Witchy 1990s Classic Practical Magic May Get a Prequel Series at HBO Max

Is that the sound of midnight margaritas you hear? Or is that a recently-deceased (for the second time) evil ex-boyfriend creaking in the garden? It could be both: HBO Max has ordered a pilot for a potential series that would be a prequel to the dark and dreamy 1998 witch-family saga Practical Magic. As Halloween…

io9 Cheryl Eddy

The Age of Media Corporation Mega-Mergers Is Robbing Us of Bolder, Fresher Storytelling

Disney isn’t just the first studio to have five pictures cross a billion dollars at the box office in a single year and it isn’t just the biggest film studio right now. It’s the biggest film studio in the history of Hollywood. While investors are likely very pleased with this fact, the company’s series of…

io9 Alex Cranz

Superman’s Homeworld Is Dead, Again: Krypton and Lobo Spinoff Canceled at Syfy

One way or another, Superman’s home is probably doomed by the end of Krypton’s second season. Deadline reports that Syfy has decided to scrap its zany Superman prequel series Krypton, set in a scenario where DC’s cosmic adventurer Adam Strange is sent to the youthful days of Kal-El’s grandpa, Seg-El, in the hopes of preserving…

Books & Comics James Whitbrook

DC Comics’ Top Brass Discuss What Happened to the Imprints and Mad Magazine

DC Comics has been having an interesting go of things for the past few months. It underwent a massive restructuring, made controversial inroads with its new Black Label imprint, and then surprised everyone when it suddenly brought some of its older, more popular imprints like Vertigo and DC Zoom to an end. According to publisher…

Books & Comics Charles Pulliam-Moore

HBO Max Is Bringing a TARDIS-Load of Doctor Who With It

Well, if you’re kicking off a new streaming service in an age when everyone and their mother has a streaming service, offering plenty of adventures in Time and Space is a nice way to sweeten the pot. Warner Bros. has announced its (thankfully plus-less) upcoming streaming platform HBO Max will become the exclusive home to…

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Doom Patrol Season 2 Will Stream on HBO Max and DC Universe

What the Doom Patrol panel at this year’s San Diego Comic-Con lacked in the way of footage from the show’s upcoming second season, it made up for with an interesting bit of news. It might be easier for people to get into the series in coming months courtesy of Warner Bros.’ newest streaming endeavor HBO.…

Books & Comics Charles Pulliam-Moore

Plex Is Making Itself Impossible to Ignore as a Go-To Streaming Service

HBO Max Is Moving Forward With Another Try at Adapting Snow Crash

Warner Bros. Still Has No Interest in the Snyder Cut, a Thing We Do Not Need

HBO Max’s Dune: The Sisterhood Series Has Lost Its Showrunner

Green Lantern and Strange Adventures TV Shows Are Coming to HBO Max

A Second Season of gen:LOCK Will Debut on HBO Max

Adventure Time Is Coming Back With a 4-Part Miniseries…on HBO Max

HBO Has Cast Mackenzie Davis and Himesh Patel in Station Eleven Adaptation

Wow! Studio Ghibli Movies Will Stream on the Upcoming HBO Max

You Can Hardly Count How Much Sesame Street Is Coming to HBO Max

DMZ Is Coming to HBO Max Courtesy of Ava DuVernay

The Boondocks Will Return on HBO Max

Why

Doom Patrol‘s Showrunner Drops Hints of What to Expect in Season 2

Witchy 1990s Classic Practical Magic May Get a Prequel Series at HBO Max

The Age of Media Corporation Mega-Mergers Is Robbing Us of Bolder, Fresher Storytelling

Superman’s Homeworld Is Dead, Again: Krypton and Lobo Spinoff Canceled at Syfy

DC Comics’ Top Brass Discuss What Happened to the Imprints and Mad Magazine

HBO Max Is Bringing a TARDIS-Load of Doctor Who With It

Doom Patrol Season 2 Will Stream on HBO Max and DC Universe

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