It may be October, but Max is still acting like it’s blockbuster season. While past hits like The Last of Us are still available for consumption, Max is set to welcome a few fan-favorite films, as well as the streaming debut of one of summer’s standout hits.
Max’s October 2023 schedule includes the returns of The Gilded Age and Our Flag Means Death for their second seasons. In addition, the cult DC comics superhero show Doom Patrol emerges from its slumber with its final batch of episodes. Finally, this month marks the home premiere of the Jason Statham action movie Meg 2: The Trench. Max in October is the place for you if you like all kinds of content.
Editor’s note: This list may not be comprehensive and is subject to change by the network.
The Adventures of Pinocchio (1996)
The Amazing Panda Adventure (1995)
Celeste and Jesse Forever (2012)
The Curse of Frankenstein (1957)
Dracula Has Risen from the Grave (1969)
Evil Lives Here: The Killer Speaks, Season 1 (ID)
Freddy’s Dead: The Final Nightmare (1991)
Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay (2008)
If Beale Street Could Talk (2018)
In the Kitchen with Abner and Amanda, Season 2 (Magnolia Network)
Jack Osbourne’s Night of Terror, Season 1 (Travel Channel)
Journey 2: The Mysterious Island (2012)
Leatherface: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre III (1990)
The Legend of Bagger Vance (2000)
Looney Tunes: Back In Action (2003)
Meg 2: The Trench (2023) *Starting 9/29
The Neverending Story II: The Next Chapter (1991)
An Officer and a Gentleman (1982)
The Phantom of The Opera (2004)
Ranch to Table, Season 4 (Magnolia Network)
The Ringleader: The Case of the Bling Ring (HBO)
Stephen King’s Cat’s Eye (1985)
Teen Titans Go!: Welcome To Halloween, Season 8 (Cartoon Network)
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003)
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning (2006)
Tom and Jerry: The Movie (1993)
Tom and Jerry: A Nutcracker Tale (2007)
Tom and Jerry: Santa’s Little Helpers (2014)
Valerie’s Home Cooking Season 14 (Food Network)
Whose Line Is It Anyway?, Season 10 (The CW)
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971)
Bering Sea Gold, Season 11B (Discovery Channel)
Ghost Adventures: Devil Island, Special (Discovery Channel)
Mysteries of the Abandoned: Hidden America, Season 2 (Science Channel)
BattleBots, Season 7B (Discovery Channel)
Oscar’s Handmade Halloween (Max Original)
Our Flag Means Death, Season 2 (Max Original)
90 Day Fiancé Pillow Talk: Before The 90 Days, Season 6 (TLC)
Bugs Bunny Builders: Hard Hat Time: Haunted Garage (Cartoon Network)
Deane’s Dynasty (Max Original)
HGTV Urban Oasis Special (HGTV)
Jessica’s Big Little World, Season 1 (Cartoon Network)
Makeover by Monday, Season 2 (Magnolia Network)
90 Day Fiancé, Season 10 (TLC)
Last Stop Larrimah (2023) (HBO)
Teen Titans Go!: Haunted Tank, Season 8 (Cartoon Network)
The Matthew Shepard Story: An American Hate Crime (ID)
Street Outlaws vs. The World (Discovery Channel)
Ghost Adventures, Season 20C (Discovery Channel)
Doom Patrol, Season 4 (Max Original)
Frankelda’s Book of Spooks (Max Original)
Symon’s Dinners Cooking Out, Season 5 (Food Network)
Naked and Afraid, Season 9C (Discovery Channel)
Wardens of the North (Animal Planet)
Peter & the Wolf (2023) (Max Original)
Teenage Kiss: The Future Is Dead (Max Original)
Beach Cottage Chronicles, Season 3 (Magnolia Network)
Cabin Chronicles: Renovation (Magnolia Network)
First Time Fixer, Season 5 (Magnolia Network)
Justice League: Warworld (2023)
Restoration Road With Clint Harp, Season 4 (Magnolia Network)
Supermarket Stakeout, Season 5 (Food Network)
Bargain Mansions, Season 5 (Magnolia Network)
Strange Evidence, Season 7 (Science Channel)
The Murder Tapes, Season 6A (ID)
The Haunted Museum, Season 2 (Travel Channel)
Diary of an Old Home, Season 3 (Magnolia Network)
Adult Swim Smalls, Season 5 (Adult Swim)
Mecha Builders (Cartoon Network)
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?