Followers will be capable of examine again into “White Lotus” in February, based on Warner Bros. Discovery world streaming chief JB Perrette.
The exec revealed the information Tuesday throughout a tech and media convention hosted by Wells Fargo, together with HBO‘s deliberate spring 2025 premiere for “The Final of Us” Season 2, a late 2025 launch for “Sport of Thrones” prequel “A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms,” and an anticipated 2026 debut for “Euphoria” Season 3. (Whereas Perrette stated “Knight of the Seven Kingdoms” could be coming in the summertime, Selection has discovered it’s extra probably going to be a fourth-quarter title.)
Moreover, Perrette indicated that HBO’s upcoming “Harry Potter” TV sequence, which was beforehand concentrating on a 2026 launch and is at the moment within the casting stage for its new Harry, Ron and Hermione, will as an alternative are available in 2027: “As you have a look at ’26 and into ’27, you start a 10-year journey on the ‘Harry Potter’ sequence, which we’re tremendous enthusiastic about. And I’d argue, will be the largest occasion by the point we get to that sequence.”
Perrette, the president and CEO of worldwide streaming and video games at Warner Bros. Discovery, stated that Max will start cracking down on password sharing in earnest this month with “some very early, light messaging.”
“That is an artwork and a science of attempting to determine who is definitely sharing versus who could also be truly at their trip house or on a enterprise journey, and so it’s an artwork and a science,” Perrette stated. “We are going to supply a technique to primarily add a member, beginning within the first quarter. We are going to then begin step by step as we get the information and begin determining, with some specific and implicit alerts, how good we’re at detecting. After which as we undergo ’25, you’re going to see the filters get tighter and tighter.”
Max is at the moment priced at $16.99 for its ad-free tier ($9.99 with adverts, and $20.99 for the “final” ad-free model), which Perrette says will enhance sooner or later, although he didn’t give a timeline for the following bump or how a lot it will be: “Clearly, we proceed to be a driver of value. Naturally, with Max and with HBO as a content material class and a model, we wish to be on the premium finish of the pricing. And so we wish to proceed to push value as we go as nicely.”
