Spooky season is right around the corner, and the folks at HBO and Max intend to throw a monster mash that will impress the most jaded of every ghoul and goblin out there. But the streamer has more than just tricks and treats to dish out in October.
In addition to finally premiering the long-delayed Stephen King adaption Salem’s Lot, the streamer will debut the original series The Franchise, which takes a comedic look into the making of a big-budget superhero movie. Other notable additions to the programming slate include the A24 drama Tuesday with Julia Louis-Dreyfus and the streaming debut of MaXXXine, the final chapter in the X trilogy.
Editor’s note: This list may not be comprehensive and is subject to change by the network.
A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)
A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy’s Revenge (1985)
A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (1987)
A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master (1988)
A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child (1989)
A Return to Salem’s Lot (1987)
Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie (2016)
Contraband: Seized at Sea, Season 1 (Discovery)
Contraband: Seized at the Border, Season 5 (Discovery)
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014)
George Stevens: A Filmmaker’s Journey (1984)
Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah (1998)
Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990)
Interview with the Vampire (1994)
Kiss of the Spider Woman (1985)
Mecum Main Attractions: Monterey CA
Return of the Scarlet Pimpernel (1937)
Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011)
The Huntsman: Winter’s War (2016)
The Life and Times of Farmer Al (2024)
The Rise of Catherine the Great (1934)
Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride (2005)
Tyler Perry’s Madea’s Tough Love (2015)
Destinations of the Damned with Zak Bagans, Season 1 (Discovery)
Expedition Bigfoot, Season 5 (Discovery)
Expedition X, Season 8 (Discovery)
Gremlins: The Wild Batch, Season 2 (Max Original)
Las Bravas F.C., Season 2 (Max Original)
Salem’s Lot (2024) (Max Original)
Velma: This Halloween Needs To Be More Special! (Max Original)
Angel of Death (Szadź), Season 2-3 (Max Original)
Angel of Death (Szadź), Season 4 (Max Original)
Mini Beat Power Rockers: A Hairy Halloween (Discovery International)
Mini Beat Power Rockers: What a Monster (Discovery International)
Scariest House in America, Season 1 (HGTV)
The Franchise, Season 1 (HBO Original)
House Hunters: Amazing Water Homes, Season 1 (HGTV)
Kids Baking Championship: Scary Good (Food Network)
1000-lb Sisters, Season 6 (TLC)
Bargain Block New Orleans, Season 1 (HGTV)
Caddo Lake (2024) (Max Original)
Expedition Unknown, Season 14 (Discovery)
The Confidante (Une Amie Dévouée) (Max Original)
The Disappearance (Chyłka – Zaginięcie), Season 2-5 (Discovery International)
Love & Marriage: Detroit, Season 2 (OWN)
I Am Not A Monster: The Lois Riess Murders (HBO Original)
LOUDER: The Soundtrack of Change (Max Original)
Mecum Full Throttle: Indianapolis Fall Special 2024
My Lottery Dream Home, Season 16 (HGTV)
The Sancho Case (Caso Sancho) (Max Original)
Bering Sea Gold, Season 18 (Discovery)
Vacation House Rules, Season 5 (HGTV)
Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths Part Three (2024)
1000-lb Best Friends, Season 3 (TLC)
Sin City Tow, Season 1 (Discovery)
First-Time Buyer’s Club, Season 2 (OWN)
Impractical Jokers, Season 11 (truTV)
Chris Brown: A History of Violence (ID)
Somebody Somewhere, Season 3 (HBO Original)
Paranormal Caught on Camera, Season 8 (Travel Channel)
People Magazine Investigates, Season 8 (ID)
Supermarket Stakeout, Season 6 (Food Network)
Dark Souls Among Us (aka Senales del Mas Alla), Season 1
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?