What Is HBO Max? Everything You Need to Know (2024)

Subscribers through Apple, Google Play, YouTube TV, and Hulu will receive HBO Max for free as well.

But WarnerMedia has not yet closed deals with the nation’s biggest digital providers, Roku and Amazon. Those services account for nearly 70% of the streaming media player market, according to data released last year. That means those who receive HBO through Amazon or Roku will need to sign up for HBO Max separately, regardless of their current HBO subscription.

If I subscribe to HBO through Comcast and Xfinity, do I have HBO Max?

Yes. In a deal announced on Wednesday after HBO Max launched, Warner Media and Comcast reached an agreement to allow HBO customers who subscribe through Comcast-owned Xfinity to have access to HBO Max at no additional cost.

How do I sign up for HBO Max?

For those who don’t already have HBO or HBO Now subscriptions and still want the HBO Max service, sign-ups are available now at the HBO Max website.

How much does HBO Max cost?

A subscription to HBO Max costs $14.99 per month, but WarnerMedia offered the service for $11.99 per month if users preordered before May 27.

How does HBO Max compare to Netflix and Amazon?

HBO Max is a subscription streaming service from WarnerMedia that combines original content, decades of Warner Bros. films and television shows, and programming from WarnerMedia-owned networks like CNN, TNT, and TBS. Unlike Netflix in its current iteration and, to a lesser extent, Amazon Prime Video, HBO Max is relying on that library of content to lure in subscribers—more like Disney+. While plans are in place to grow the roster of original content on HBO Max over time, its current lineup of originals pales in comparison to that of Netflix (which has hit shows like Stranger Things and Oscar-nominated movies like The Irishman as part of its stable) or Amazon Prime Video (which pairs series like Fleabag with indie-minded films such as Manchester by the Sea).

What movies are on HBO Max?

So many movies. In addition to everything available right now on HBO, HBO Max subscribers will have access to classic films like Casablanca and The Wizard of Oz, superhero blockbusters like Joker and Wonder Woman, and ’80s faves such as Gremlins and An Officer and a Gentleman.

What TV shows are on HBO Max?

HBO classics such as Game of Thrones, The Sopranos, The Wire, and Sex and the City will be joined by full seasons of The Big Bang Theory, South Park, Doctor Who, The O.C., and The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. For kids, HBO Max will have episodes of Sesame Street, including a new HBO Max original talk show hosted by Elmo called The Not Too Late Talk Show.

Is Friends on HBO Max?

Yes, it is. Unfortunately, a planned cast reunion featuring Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, David Schwimmer, Matthew Perry, and Matt LeBlanc that was set to debut at launch was delayed because of the coronavirus pandemic.

What Studio Ghibli movies are on HBO Max?

For the first time ever in the United States, films from the classic animation house Studio Ghibli are available to stream. HBO Max has 21 titles, including Oscar winner Spirited Away as well as Howl’s Moving Castle, The Tale of the Princess Kaguya, My Neighbor Totoro, Princess Mononoke, Ponyo, and Kiki’s Delivery Service.

What’s the best movie on HBO Max?

Let’s go with the obvious: For 50 years—until 2012—Orson Welles’s Citizen Kane topped the Sight & Sound list of best films ever made. (For the 2012 edition of the list, which is released every 10 years, Vertigo took the top spot; Citizen Kane fell to number two.) A classic tale of American greed and the emptiness that results from the pursuit of success at all costs, Citizen Kane is often hailed as a turning point for filmmaking and the reference point for generations of legendary directors. As such, it might be a good place for HBO Max subscribers to start. After that, well, there’s always the Snyder Cut.