2024-03-23 18:23:28
Also in the Czech Republic, on May 21, the HBO Max video library will be transformed into a new service called Max. It was announced by Warner Bros. Discovery, which this year will present The Penguin, a new miniseries from the Batman world starring Colin Farrell, on the platform. On Friday, she published the first full-length trailer.
The Penguin series will be released by the Max video library at the end of the year. | Video: Max
In the expected news from the underworld of the fictional city of Gotham, 47-year-old Colin Farrell will reprise his role as the gangster Oswald Chesterfield Cobblepot aka Penguin from last year’s Batman movie. The Penguin takes place immediately after the events of this film and shows the hero’s rise in the criminal hierarchy, Variety.com writes. According to him, the series has eight episodes and will premiere at the end of the year.
The Max streaming service will start operating in the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Spain and Portugal on May 21, with France, Poland and the Netherlands joining in the next wave. This will happen not long before the start of the Summer Olympics in Paris, which will last from July 26 to August 11. Users will be able to watch them live in the Max video library, which will offer “every moment of them”, the company promises.
“The Paris Olympics will be included in all subscription plans, so the biggest sporting event in the world will be available to all our customers,” Warner Bros. said. Discovery. From sports events, the service will offer broadcasts of all four Grand Slam tournaments, i.e. the Australian Open, French Open, Wimbledon and US Open, cycling races from the Giro d’Italia to the Tour de France, or perhaps the 24 Hours of Le Mans endurance race of sports prototypes and GT cars.
The second season of the fantasy series Dragonborn, which takes place in the world of Game of Thrones, should be among the most attractive items this year. The eight-part novel will premiere on Max on June 17.
Subscribers get access to most of HBO’s series and movies to date, from crime classics like The Sopranos to Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings movies to the superhero world of DC Comics. In addition to the existing offer, the production of the originally cable channel Discovery and sports broadcasts from the Eurosport service will be added.
The prices of individual subscription types for each country are yet to be published by the operators. Existing accounts from HBO Max will be automatically transferred to Max, according to Thursday’s e-mail also sent to Czech subscribers.
Warner Bros. Discovery first launched the Max video library last May in the US, Latin America and the Caribbean. The existing HBO Max service has existed since May 2020, when Americans first started using it in the current interface and under this name. For a long time, Czechs and Slovaks were dependent on the older HBO GO platform, which was only replaced by HBO Max in 2022. After two years, another change is now coming.
In the Czech Republic, among the most well-known, paid video libraries Netflix, Disney+, Amazon Prime Video, Skyshowtime, Apple TV+ and the local Voyo with Prime+ also currently operate.