

September also featured the TV series premieres of Scenes From a Marriage and season 3 of Doom Patrol. HBO Max also premiered Cry Macho on September 17, Clint Eastwood’s long-awaited return to directing and starring in a Western. As for “ The Batman,” when that releases in March 2022, audiences will have to check it out in theaters first.Kicking off the fall season, HBO Max added and premiered plenty of incredible movies and shows in September 2021, including the dual streaming-theatrical release of James Wan’s divisive Malignant. That means that this year, when audiences want to check out the DC film “ The Suicide Squad” when it arrives on August 6, they have the choice of either seeing it in theaters or directly at home on HBO Max.

“I think it’s very fair to say that a big, you know, let’s say a big DC movie … it’s very fair to say that that would go exclusively to theaters first and then go to somewhere like an HBO Max after it’s in theaters,” he said. Still, he said, unlike that platform, WarnerMedia has a commitment to releasing its titles in theaters again. Kilar has been CEO of WarnerMedia for less than a year, and he’s aggressively trying to build up the company to rival the likes of Netflix. With HBO Max’s launch a failure thus far, AT&T decided to sacrifice Warner Bros.’ entire 2021 slate in a desperate attempt to grab the audience’s attention.” Therefore, even though ‘Dune’ is about cinema and audiences, AT&T is about its own survival on Wall Street. “It is all about the survival of a telecom mammoth, one that is currently bearing an astronomical debt of more than $150 billion. “There is absolutely no love for cinema, nor for the audience here,” Villeneuve wrote in an essay back in December about the shift. Elijah Wood Knew There’d Be More ‘Lord of the Rings’ Movies Due to Studio’s ‘Desire to Make a Lot of Money’
