HBO Max Schedule December 11-17: New TV Shows & Movies Being Added

ABC's multi-city New Year's Eve special and new music from the K-pop act TVXQ are some of the new television, movies and music headed to a device near you.

In a shocking development, the American magazine, the New Republic has crowned X owner Elon Musk as ‘The Scoundrel of the Year'. In a long article liberally seeded with choice name-calling, the magazine charted out the actions and decisions made by the billionaire in 2023 that got his this dubious award. The New Republic said, “He proved this year that he's not just evil but deeply stupid too”. This comes after Musk made the headlines recently for posting anti-semitic comments on X, which led to multiple advertisers boycotting the platform and also using expletives during a live interview.

It’s the final days of 2023, and voices everywhere are predicting the final days of the superhero movie. Even that bastion of the mainstream, the New York Times, is getting in on the eulogies. It’s no wonder, with this year’s solid string of financial and critical flops ebbing into 2024’s low-tide lineup of a mere three “interconnected universe” movies, Deadpool 3, Madame Web, and Kraven the Hunter.

Amazon Prime Video subscribers who are DC fans will have a great gift and treat for December 25 as they will get to stream The Flash. This superhero film is based on the popular comic book character Flash and follows Barry Allen as he tries to go back in time to prevent his mother’s murder, which brings unintended consequences to his timeline and strands him in an alternate universe in 2013. Allen then enlists the help of an older Batman, played by Michael Keaton, and the Kryptonian Kara/Supergirl to return to his own timeline and also stop General Zod when he launches a full-scale Kryptonian invasion of Earth.

On December 26, viewers can catch Owen Wilson and Lake Bell’s No Escape via Showtime, an action thriller film that tells the story of an expat engineer trapped in an unidentified country in Southeast Asia with his family due to a violent uprising. This forces them to look for a safe place in a country where foreigners are executed on sight. Also starring in this film are Pierce Brosnan, Sterling Jerins, Claire Geare, Sahajak Boonthanakit, and Thanawut Ketsaro. The film is directed by John Erick Dowdle who is best known for his work on films such as As Above So Below, Quarantine, and Devil and also directed 4 episodes of the TV miniseries Waco and 2 episodes of the neo-Western crime-drama series Joe Pickett.

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For better and worse, 2023 had many surprises that gamers didn’t expect. However, one of the biggest positive surprises was the success of Mario’s animated feature film made by Illumination. The movie had been known about for years, but delays and the global pandemic made people wonder how good it would be when it came out and how well it would be received. The answers were both positive. First, the film got a mostly warm reception from fans and critics, and then the film went on to make a billion dollars. So what does Super Smash Bros have to do with its success?

Starting on December 20, viewers can start streaming the first two episodes of the first season of the highly anticipated fantasy series,. The first season of the series will be based on Rick Riordan’s first book of the series Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief, and see Percy Jackson and his friends Grover and Annabeth Chase go on a quest to retrieve Zeus’ lightning bolt and catch the real thief after Percy is falsely accused by Zeus for stealing the lightning bolt. Walker Scobell of The Adam Project will essay the role of Percy.

The latest rumors for seem to suggest that and will be appearing in the film and fans are curious if there’s any truth to the rumors. Here is all you need to know.

On December 15th, viewers can stream 2 Days in New York, a romantic comedy film directed by Julie Delpy and starring herself and Chris Rock in a story revolving around a couple, Mingus Robinson and his French girlfriend Marion, who face mayhem when Marion’s parents visit New York. The film is a sequel to 2 Days in Paris, which was also directed by Delpy.

Starting on December 12, viewers can stream Wes Anderson’s latest project, Asteroid City, a comedy-drama that revolves around the events at a 1955 Junior Stargazer convention from the perspective of multiple attendees in the form of a play. The film serves as Anderson’s homage to popular memory and mythology about extraterrestrials and UFOs witnessed in the Southwestern deserts of the United States during the postwar period of the American 20th century and features an ensemble cast that includes Tom Hanks, Jason Schwartzman, Edward Norton, Adrien Brody, Bryan Cranston, Tilda Swinton, Jeffrey Wright, Willem Dafoe, Scarlett Johansson, Margot Robbie, Steve Carrell, Jeff Goldblum, and Maya Hawke, among other cast members.

You’re probably covered when it comes to holiday cheer. Everyone’s trying to do that. How about some holiday chills? Something to make you wrap that blanket around you tighter, or maybe spill a bit of eggnog?