WarnerMedia CEO Jason Kilar has confirmed that Warner Bros. Pictures will produce ten films for next year that will come exclusively to HBO Max. This is to further increase the number of subscribers to the service.
Speaking to financial analysts, the studio said it still wants to release blockbusters in theaters, as they believe some films, such as the successful Godzilla vs. Kong, especially intended for the cinema.
That said, the increasingly shorter period between bios and home releases is slowly becoming the new normal. Andy Forssell, the head of WarnerMedia Direct-to-Consumer, said experiments with these periods will continue in 2022.
Forssell also said that HBO Max owes much of its success to the Warner Bros. films that could be streamed on the same day of theatrical release via HBO Max and that many people are stuck with this exclusive content.
Growing success
The films are one of the big successes of this year Mortal Kombat, Zack Snyder’s Justice League, Those Who Wish Me Dead on The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It. Of series Mare of Easttown on Hacks are also very popular.
HBO now claims to have about 67.5 million members for HBO and HBO Max, 47 million of which are Americans. By the end of this year, the service expects to have between 70 and 73 million members. By comparison, Netflix now has 209 million members, 66 million of which are American.
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