HBO Max Titles (Second Wave) Release Dates Announced

The HBO Max streaming service will be available in two weeks, and it has already some new titles announced. Back in late-April, The Not-Too-Late Show with Elmo, Looney Tunes Cartoons, and Anna Kendrick’s Love Life had been announced to be on the service upon launch on May 27th.

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The second wave of content has been announced, as per the Warner Media Group Press Room. Here is what we know so far:

June 18th

• Karma

The synopsis for the series is as follows:

‘Karma’ takes sixteen contestants, ranging in age from 12 to 15, completely off the grid, away from parents and the normal comforts of home, to solve puzzles and overcome physical challenges, with the laws of karma setting the rules. This adventure competition series, led by YouTube host Michelle Khare, will test the mental and physical stamina of its young contestants as they unravel how their social actions impact their success in the game. Focus, giving, humility, growth, connection, change, and patience are the path to becoming the “Karma Champion.” But more importantly, the players learn one of life’s most profound lessons: “What you give out, you get back.”

June 25th

• Adventure Time: Distant Lands — the cult classic cartoon will bring new stories and will consist of four hour-long specials, the first of which will focus on little robot character BMO and will premiere on this June date. The series and the Distant Lands specials have been produced by Cartoon Network Studios.

‘ADVENTURE TIME: DISTANT LANDS – BMO’ will release June 25 on HBO Max. pic.twitter.com/RcFS8oWMk3

— DiscussingFilm (@DiscussingFilm) May 13, 2020

• Doom Patrol — the DC Comics series will return on both the HBO Max and the DC Universe streaming services.

Here comes the DOOM! #DoomPatrol season 2 is coming to #HBOMax on 6/25. pic.twitter.com/CwJ1LTWB5o

— Doom Patrol (@DCDoomPatrol) May 13, 2020

The Season 2 synopsis is as follows:

DC’s strangest group of heroes — Cliff Steele aka Robotman (Brendan Fraser), Larry Trainor aka Negative Man (Matt Bomer), Rita Farr aka Elasti-Woman (April Bowlby), Jane aka Crazy Jane (Diane Guerrero), and Victor Stone aka Cyborg (Joivan Wade) — are back again to save the world. That is, if they can find a way to grow up…both figuratively and literally. Following the defeat of Mr. Nobody, the members of the Doom Patrol now find themselves mini-sized and stranded on Cliff’s toy race car track. Here they begin to deal with their feelings of betrayal by Niles Caulder aka The Chief (Timothy Dalton), while confronting their own personal baggage. And as each member faces the challenge of growing beyond their own past traumatic experiences, they must come together to embrace and protect the newest member of the family: Dorothy Spinner (Abigail Shapiro), Niles’ daughter, whose powers remain a mysterious but real threat to bringing on the end of the world.

• Esme & Roy — an animated series from the producers of Sesame Street whose focus audience is preschoolers.

• Search Party Season 3

The series is “a comedy thriller about a group of privileged, self-absorbed twenty-somethings whose search for a long-lost missing friend leads them down a dark and shocking path of no return.” The first two seasons will release upon launch of the streaming service, with the third on this June 25th.

The synopsis for Season 3 is as follows:

[‘Search Party’ Season 3] finds the gang swept up in the trial of the century after Dory (Alia Shawkat) and Drew (John Reynolds) are charged for the semi-accidental murder of a private investigator. As Elliott (John Early) and Portia (Meredith Hagner) grapple with whether or not to testify as witnesses, the friends are pitted against each other and thrust into the national spotlight. Dory’s sanity begins to fracture, and it becomes increasingly clear that the group may not have brunch together again for quite some time.

July 9th

• Close Enough

From Regular Show creator JG Quintel comes Comes Enough, produced by Cartoon Network Studios.

A surreal animated comedy about a married couple, their five-year-old daughter, and their two divorced best friends/roommates all living together on the east side of Los Angeles. They’re navigating that transitional time in your 30s when life is about growing up, but not growing old. It’s about juggling work, kids, and pursuing your dreams, while avoiding time-traveling snails, stripper clowns, and murderous mannequins. Their life may not be ideal but for now, it’s close enough.

• Expecting Amy

A three-part documentary centering on comedian Amy Schumer.

July 16th

• The House of Ho

A docuseries about a Vietnamese immigrant couple in the United States who rose to wealth and power while bringing in the drama.

July 23rd

• Tig n’ Seek

A Cartoon Network Studios production.

From creator Myke Chilian, Tig n’ Seek follows an upbeat and eccentric 8-year-old boy named Tiggy and his cat, Gweeseek. Tiggy not only works at the Department of Lost and Found, finding lost items all throughout Wee-Gee City, he lives there too! Though he tries to help his friends whenever he can, his over-eagerness and neurotic quirks often lead to chaos in the Department. Tiggy’s partner and best friend is his cat, Gweeseek. She’s a graceful, friendly kitty who appears to be a normal cat, but is also capable of inventing extraordinary gadgets to help her friends in times of need. Join Tig n’ Seek as they navigate the wacky day-to-day dilemmas of working at the Department of Lost and Found.

July 30th

• The Dog House

A reality television series documenting the human-dog relationship experience.

• Frayed

Set in 1989, this comedy follows the journey of Sammy Cooper, a fabulously wealthy London housewife who is forced to return to her hometown in Newcastle, Australia. In coming home, Sammy must revisit her past and the events that led her to flee as a teenager years ago.

August 6th

• An American Pickle

Seth Rogen’s ‘AN AMERICAN PICKLE’ will release August 6 on HBO Max. pic.twitter.com/wkb3eMsu3C

— DiscussingFilm (@DiscussingFilm) May 13, 2020

Directed by Brandon Trost (Crank: High Voltage, Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance, This is the End, Neighbors, The Interview, and The Disaster Artist), the comedy film features Seth Rogen in dual leading roles. Rogen produces along with Evan Goldberg, Simon Rich, Alexandria McAtee, and James Weaver.

Based on Simon Rich’s 2013 New Yorker novella, An American Pickle stars Seth Rogen as Herschel Greenbaum, a struggling laborer who immigrates to America in 1920 with dreams of building a better life for his beloved family. One day, while working at his factory job, he falls into a vat of pickles and is brined for 100 years. The brine preserves him perfectly and when he emerges in present day Brooklyn, he finds that he hasn’t aged a day. But when he seeks out his family, he is troubled to learn that his only surviving relative is his great-grandson Ben Greenbaum (also played by Rogen), a mild-mannered computer coder whom Herschel can’t even begin to understand.

Original titles from the HBO channel will also release on HBO Max streaming service. As of now, the titles are as follows:

• I May Destroy You (available June 7th)
• Perry Mason (available June 21st)
• I’ll Be Gone in the Dark (available June 28th)
• Room 104 (available July 24th)
• Lovecraft Country (available August 2020)

According to DiscussingFilm, films and television series under Warner Brothers will be available upon launch.

New movie launch titles for HBO Max include ‘Blade Runner: The Final Cut’, ‘Citizen Kane’, ‘Godzilla’, ‘Gone with the Wind’, ‘V for Vendetta’, the original ‘Alien’ franchise, ‘Die Hard’ ‘Jaws’, ‘Friday the 13th’, the ‘A Nightmare on Elm Street’ franchise among many more. pic.twitter.com/w1X2nNt2AI

— DiscussingFilm (@DiscussingFilm) May 13, 2020

Adult Swim’s ‘ROBOT CHICKEN’ and the first 4 seasons of ‘IMPRACTICAL JOKERS’ will be available on HBO Max at launch. pic.twitter.com/A6ikAZNLGf

— DiscussingFilm (@DiscussingFilm) May 13, 2020

The rest of these titles are listed on the PressRoom website for HBO Max and Warner Media Group.

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HBO Max and the first of its titles will launch on May 27th.

Source: HBO Max PressRoom via Twitter, and Warner Media Group PressRoom