HBO Max subscribers got an early Christmas present after Warner Bros. announced it will release all its 2021 films in theaters and HBO Max simultaneously
HBO Max subscribers will soon be able to access the app through their Roku devices, thanks to a deal cut in advance of “Wonder Woman 1984” coming to the streaming service this holiday. Roku will add the HBO Max app to its devices Thursday — HBO also recently agreed to a deal with Amazon to put the app on Amazon’s Fire TV devices. HBO subscribers got an early Christmas present after Warner Bros. announced it will release all its 2021 films in theaters and HBO Max simultaneously in order to meet audiences where they are (which, given the COVID-19 pandemic, is rarely in movie theaters). Each movie will be available for one month before HBO will pull it from streaming and revert to a typical theatrical window. This follows the news that “Wonder Woman 1984” will be available at no extra cost on Christmas Day. The film, which stars Gal Gadot as the Amazonian warrior, is the biggest film so far to get rerouted to streaming amid the pandemic.
