Max now has 122.3 million subscribers globally, according to Warner Bros. Discovery’s first-quarter 2025 earnings report released today.
Over the past year, Warner Bros. Discovery has brought Max to countries across Latin America, the Caribbean, Asia, and Europe. It also launched Max in Australia in March, and plans to roll out the streaming service in the UK, Ireland, and Germany early next year.
The Wanted Man will see Laurie play Felix Carmichael, the “elusive and powerful head of notorious British crime syndicate ‘The Capital,” according to Apple’s press release. After going to prison, Carmichael learns he’s been betrayed, and so decides to try to escape to exact revenge.
The show comes from George Kay, who also created the Idris Elba-starring Hijack. The Wanted Man’s other stars include Thandiwe Newton, Fionn Whitehead, and Gina McKee.
Netflix’s Chief Product Officer Eunice Kim, on a call with reporters:
We’re monitoring that situation very closely, and we don’t have anything more to share at this time. But we’ll just continue to abide by the App Store policies until we hear more about how to best implement any changes going forward.
Spotify and Patreon have already made moves to take advantage of the changes required of Apple by the ruling.
For Rian Johnson, the fun of Poker Face season 2 was figuring out how to give its lie-detecting lead new relationships.
Apple just announced that it has renewed its Hollywood comedy The Studio for a second season. “We’re looking forward to taking the lived experience of making season 1 and immediately putting it into season 2, then repeating that loop for ten more seasons,” creators Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg said in a statement. The first season, meanwhile, is still ongoing; episode 8 starts streaming on Wednesday.
Long Story Short, the new animated series from BoJack Horseman creator Raphael Bob-Waksberg has a premiere date: it’ll be streaming on Netflix on August 22nd. The series follows the story of a single family, but jumps around in time, letting you “follow the Schwooper siblings from childhood to adulthood and back again.” You can get a first glimpse at it in these images.
The MCU’s new crossover tentpole is focused on trauma, bad jokes, and getting the movie franchise back on solid footing.
