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HBO Max to be renamed Max in a bid for a bigger streaming audience

LOS ANGELES — Warner Bros. Discovery has stripped "HBO" from its streaming service name, which now will simply be called Max, signaling a new era for the company's streaming ambitions.

Los Angeles Times

Warner Bros. Discovery Officially Bows Max, Its Combined Streaming Service

Launch set for May 23 with prices unchanged

Broadcasting & Cable

Warner Bros. Discovery called out for scrapping Latino programs, cutting CNN jobs after merger

Four Democrats in Congress have asked the U.S. Department of Justice to review the Warner Bros. Discovery merger, alleging the deal is responsible for "hollowing out an iconic American studio."

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Warner Bros. 'Near Deal' on 'Harry Potter' Streaming Series for Max (Report)

The Bloomberg report jibes with WBD management's publicly declared fondness for established, beaten-into-the-ground franchises

Broadcasting & Cable

CNN Pivots to the Political Center, but No One Is Around to Watch

Under John Malone’s mandate, Warner Disco chief David Zaslav hired a morning show producer to reorient a cable news channel deemed too woke by the far right. But a year into Chris Licht’s term, the audience has gone to sleep

Broadcasting & Cable

CNN preaches patience as ratings tank during turnaround

CNN's leaders are preaching patience as viewers have been abandoning the network during its attempted turnaround

The Independent UK

Warner Bros. Discovery Chief David Zaslav's Pay Dropped to Just $39.3 Million in 2022

Downsized figure comes after stock options pushed the CEO's compensation to over $246 million in 2021

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Will 'The Last of Us’ Be the Last of HBO’s Great Run? (Bloom)

Warner Bros. Discovery keeps hacking at its farm system, but can it keep finding enough big-league creative talent to take the big swings executives say they plan to keep taking?

Broadcasting & Cable

'Dune: The Sisterhood' Exits May Spell Trouble for HBO's Dune-iverse

'Chernobyl' executive producer Johan Renck has exited the prequel project, as has lead actress Shirley Henderson.

Inverse

Michael Hiltzik: While workers struggled during the pandemic, CEO pay went up, up, up

If the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley and the lyricists Gus Kahn and Raymond B. Egan could come back from the grave, they might seek out and thank Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav for validating their line about how "the rich get rich and the poor get poorer."

Los Angeles Times

New 'Lord of the Rings' films in the works as Warner Bros. gears up to rival Disney's MCU in a 'year of building'

Warner Bros. and Embracer Group inked a deal to develop multiple feature films based on the works of J.R.R. Tolkien.

Fortune

New 'Lord of the Rings' Films Announced by Warner Bros

Multiple new "Lord of the Rings" films are on the way from Warner Bros, the Hollywood studio behind Peter Jackson's blockbuster Oscar-winning trilogy said Thursday. David Zaslav, CEO of parent group Warner Bros.

Asharq Al-Awsat

‘Multiple’ new Lord of the Rings movies announced by Warner Bros

‘The vast, complex and dazzling universe dreamed up by JRR Tolkien remains largely unexplored on film,’ studio heads say

The Independent UK

New Lord of the Rings films in the works at Warner Bros

Announcement comes 20 years after Peter Jackson’s trilogy was released and amid a scramble for franchises at Warner Bros Discovery

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Apple's Cook and Amazon’s Jassy are among the most overpaid CEOs, study finds, but a media boss bested them with $232 million in ‘excess’ pay

Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav was the most overpaid CEO with the largest "excess pay" component, according to analysis by a shareholder advocacy.

Tribune News Service

Commentary: ‘The Last of Us’ shows it pays to take gaming seriously

To measure the place of video games in the pop-culture zeitgeist, consider that Gen Z is more familiar with "Fortnite" than "Friends." The medium’s cultural reach is now at its peak, driven by the critical and commercial acclaim being heaped on the HBO TV hit "The Last of Us."

Fortune

DC Studios head says ‘Batgirl’ was ‘not releasable’ and says management made the right decision by axing the completed film that cost $90 million

The shelved Batgirl movie may never see the light of day, but the decision to cancel the film may not have come down to its quality.

The Independent UK

‘I saw the movie’: DC Studios boss Peter Safran shares blunt verdict on ‘unreleasable’ Batgirl film

Boss revealed why ‘Batgirl’ will never see light of day

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Patty Jenkins pushes back on those 'Wonder Woman 3' reports: 'I never walked away'

Filmmaker Patty Jenkins has broken her silence on Warner Bros.' recent decision to scrap "Wonder Woman 3" and allegations that she departed the project.

Los Angeles Times

HBO Max returns to Prime Video as Warner Bros. Discovery searches for revenue

HBO Max is back on Amazon Prime Video in the U.S., a little more than a year after its departure.

Inverse

'Batgirl' directors reveal a glimmer of hope for their canceled DC movie

Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah aren’t done with the DCU just yet.

The Guardian - AU

The battle for Australia’s Home of HBO – and why too many streaming services could squeeze out Foxtel and Stan

We may live in an era of peak TV, but as more global giants arrive the content options dwindle for local streamers

Inverse

DC could finally beat Marvel by stealing a trick from the MCU — if Warner’s CEO doesn’t get in the way

James Gunn could have some Terrific plans up his sleeves.

Inverse

You need to watch the most underrated cyberpunk thriller on Amazon Prime ASAP

"What is your humanity worth?"

Los Angeles Times

Disney+ keeps growing fast. But streaming loses $1.5 billion

LOS ANGELES — Disney+ is still growing fast as the streaming service takes the Walt Disney Co. into the future of entertainment. But the effort to stay dominant in the age of Netflix is costing the Burbank giant in a big way.

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