Fagot! the Harry Potter The movies will disappear from HBO Max in August, less than three months after they were first made available on the new streaming service.
HBO Max’s parent company WarnerMedia announced Monday that all eight Harry Potter movies – 2001 Harry potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, 2002 Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, 2004 Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, 2005 Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, 2007 Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, 2009 Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, 2010 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 and 2011 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 – It will come out of HBO Max on Tuesday, August 25.
The billion-dollar film franchise starring Daniel Radcliffe as the titular wizard boy was a last-minute addition to HBO Max’s launch list when the streaming service launched on May 27. Warner Bros. Pictures originally distributed the films in theaters, but NBCUniversal bought the rights to the franchise in 2016, which reportedly forces WarnerMedia to pay a lot of money to present the films in its new broadcast. (It turns out that during the three months).
For the record: although Harry Potter Book author JK Rowling has been embroiled in controversy lately for her statements about transgender people, our sister site Variety reports that the removal of the HBO Max movies is due to “standard license terms” and has nothing to do with the controversy.
