It’s only the end of March, but Max has been killing it in 2024. The last season of Curb Your Enthusiasm has been pretty, pretty, pre-tay good so far, and returning shows like True Detective: Night Country and Tokyo Vice, the Michael Mann-produced series starring Ansel Elgort and Ken Watanabe, have been rock-solid entertainment.
April promises even more quality content at a reasonable price. Recent 2024 Oscar-winner Robert Downey Jr. makes his limited series debut with The Sympathizer, while the controversial Holocaust movie The Zone of Interest makes its streaming debut at the beginning of the month. A little less serious is Conan O’Brien Must Go, a new travel series starring everyone’s favorite red-haired ex-Simpsons writer. There are more of them than you think!
Editor’s note: This list may not be comprehensive and is subject to change by the network.
Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (2004)
Bruce Lee: The Man and the Legend (1973)
Cane Toads: The Conquest (2010)
Frozen in Design (Special) (HGTV)
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (2001)
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone: Magical Movie Mode (2001)
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002)
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004)
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005)
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007)
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009)
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (2010)
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (2011)
Lonesome Luke, Messenger (1917)
Once Upon a Time in China (1991)
Once Upon a Time in China (1992)
Once Upon a Time in China III (1993)
Scott Pilgrim vs. The World (2010)
The Spongebob Squarepants Movie (2004)
This is Not a Burial, It’s a Resurrection (2019)
Wes Craven Presents: They (2002)
Moonshiners, Season 13 (Discovery Channel)
Ghost Adventures: House Calls, Season 2 (Discovery Channel)
Divided Youth (Da Ponte Pra La) (Max Original International)
Alex Edelman: Just For Us (HBO Original)
Metalocalypse: Army of the Doomstar (2023)
Best Bite in Town, Season 1 (Food Network)
Brandy Hellville & The Cult of Fast Fashion (HBO Original)
Mud Madness (Discovery Channel)
Teen Titans Go! To the Movies (2018) (Cartoon Network)
Massacre of the Mormons (Max Original International)
Jessica’s Big Little World, Season 1C (Cartoon Network)
24 In 24: Last Chef Standing (Food Network)
90 Day Pillow Talk: The Single Life, Season 4 (TLC)
An American Bombing: The Road to April 19th (HBO Original)
Conan O’Brien Must Go (Max Original)
Be My Guest with Ina Garten, Season 4 (Food Network)
The Jinx – Part Two (HBO Original)
90 Day Fiancé: Love in Paradise, Season 4 (TLC)
Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths – Part One (2024)
Restoration Road with Clint Harp, Season 5 (Magnolia)
Ugliest House in America, Season 5 (HGTV)
Farmhouse Fixer, Season 3 (HGTV)
Roadkill Garage, Season 9 (MotorTrend)
Vegas: The Story of Sin City (CNN)
United States of Scandal with Jake Tapper (CNN)
We’re Here, Season 4 (HBO Original)
China just gave Hollywood a cautionary tale about AI filmmaking. Sanxingdui: Future Past, billed as the country's first fully AI-generated movie, hit theaters on October 23 and bombed at the box office.
According to Futurism, the film's reported $1.5 million production budget landed on more than 10,000 screens. Yet it pulled in only about $181,000, averaging roughly $20 per screen, making the budget difficult to recover.
Some of the best shots in Grok Imagine’s AI-made Odyssey don’t contain actors. Ancient landscapes stretch into the distance. Close-ups of grimy hands suggest people who have touched something rougher than a keyboard. For a few seconds, the illusion holds.
https://twitter.com/imagine/status/2113712964419063911
YouTube videos could soon look better without eating quite so much data, right? Thankfully, the platform plans to introduce a new video format called AV2 on its web player in early 2027, promising more efficient streaming and potentially fewer playback hiccups on slower internet connections. The big headline is a roughly 30% improvement in compression efficiency over AV1, YouTube's existing video format. That doesn't guarantee every video will use 30% less data, but it could make streaming a little easier on both internet connections and data allowances.
What is AV2, and why should viewers care?