18-10-2023, 11:33 PM
(11-10-2023, 09:28 AM)W. Knight Wrote: To add to that, Max is launching in Australia in 2025, with a rough timeline of European launch before the Paris Olympics and then landing in Asia before the end of 2024. This might be a blow to Foxtel and Binge, as HBO has been in their package deal since 2016.
More on the global/European roll-out:
[*]Existing HBO Max regions (Nordics, Spain/Andorra, Portugal, Central & Eastern Europe, the Netherlands) will get the enhanced service shortly after the roll-out in Latin America, both will happen during the Spring
[*]France and Belgium will also become the first non-HBO Max territories to get the new Max service, will launch on Summer, before the Games
[*]The deal with Prime Video is being reviewed, so that WBD honors the rest of the contract with the streamer, which ends by the end of 2024
[*]Max will produce original French series (in compliance with French quotas), with a series based on the aftermath of the November 2015 Paris attacks (and loosely based on Alexandre Kaufmann's non-fiction novel La Mythomane du Bataclan) ordered, directed by Just Philippot and starring Laure Calamy
[*]WBD will continue to produce Spanish and Latin American scripted originals, and unscripted content in Europe and other territories
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