HBO Max next month (December 2020) plans to add 139 new movies including the premiere of Wonder Woman 1984, the much-anticipated sequel to the 2017 blockbuster hit, Wonder Woman.
The Gal Gadot-starring film will debut in theaters and on HBO Max on Christmas Day. Warner Media, which is owned by AT&T, which also owns HBO Max, decided last week to hold the simultaneous premiere due to the Coronavirus pandemic which has limited attendance in theaters. (AT&T is also anxious to boost HBO Max, which has lagged behind rivals Netflix and Disney+ since its launch on May 27.)
HBO Max’s new films in December will also include Let Them All Talk, a HBO original comedy film directed by Steven Soderbergh and starring Meryl Streep as a novelist who goes on an ocean voyage with some old friends (played by Candice Bergen and Dianne Wiest); Blow Up (pictured above), the 1966 classic mystery starring David Hemmings as a London fashion photographer who accidently snaps a murder (or does he?); Gladiator, the 2000 historical drama (great action scenes!) starring Russell Crowe as a Roman general who’s forced into slavery after the emperor’s son (Joaquin Phoenix) steals the throne; and an extended version of Independence Day, the farcical but fun 1996 film about an alien invasion and the somewhat unintentionally comic response from the world.
Here is the complete list of new movies coming in December 2020 to HBO Max. (Movies with HBO in parenthesis will be available on both HBO and HBO Max.)
December 1:
3 Godfathers, 1949
40 Days And 40 Nights, 2002 (HBO)
Absolute Power, 1997
The Adventures of Pinocchio, 1996
Amanpour: Sex & Love Around the World, 2018
Amistad, 1997 (HBO)
Annabelle: Creation, 2017 (HBO)
The Bay, 2012 (HBO)
The Beguiled, 2017 (HBO)
Beyond Reasonable Doubt, 2017
The Bishop’s Wife, 1947
Blow-Up, 1966
The Book Of Henry, 2017 (HBO)
Bright Young Things, 2004 (HBO)
Bundle of Joy, 1956
Chasing Life with Sanjay Gupta, 2019
Cinderella Story: If The Shoe Fits, A, 2016
Code 46, 2004 (HBO)
Comedy Knockout, 2016
Contraband, 2012 (HBO)
Crimes of the Century, 2013
The Crow, 1994 (HBO)
The Crow: City Of Angels, 1996 (HBO)
The Crow: Wicked Prayer, 2005 (HBO)
De Blanco La Patuda (aka White Is For Virgins), 2020 (HBO)
Deep Blue Sea, 1999
Demolition Man, 1993
Diary Of A Wimpy Kid: Dog Days, 2012 (HBO)
Fallen, 1998
Falling Skies, 2011
The Family Man, 2000 (HBO)
Father of the Bride, 1950
Fifty Shades Of Black, 2016 (HBO)
Final Destination, 2000
Final Destination 2, 2003
Final Destination 3, 2006
The Final Destination, 2009
Finding Jesus: Faith, Fact, Forgery, 2015
Freelancers, 2012 (HBO)
Free Willy 2: The Adventure Home, 1995
Free Willy 3: The Rescue, 1997
Free Willy: Escape from Pirate’s Cove, 2010
The Girl With All The Gifts, 2016 (HBO)
Gladiator, 2000
Gun Crazy, 1950
Harry And The Hendersons, 1987 (HBO)
Hell in the Heartland, 2019
Hero, 2004 (HBO)
The History of Comedy, 2017
Holiday Affair, 1949
Hot Fuzz, 2007 (HBO)
The Human Stain, 2003 (HBO)
It Happened on Fifth Avenue, 1947
Joe Versus the Volcano, 1990
Juice, 1992
Just My Luck, 2006 (HBO)
Kung Fu Panda 2, 2011
Laff Mobb’s Laff Tracks, 2018
The Last Samurai, 2003
La Unidad, 2020
Logan’s Run, 1976
Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, 2001
The Man Who Came to Dinner, 1942
Mars Attacks!, 1996
Meet Me in St. Louis, 1944
Michael Clayton, 2007
Misery, 1990 (HBO)
The Misery Index, 2013
My Dream is Yours, 1949
Nancy Drew, 2007
No Blade of Grass, 1970
Omega Man, The, 1971
On Moonlight Bay, 1951
Outbreak, 1995
Paid Off with Michael Torpey, 2018
Phantom Thread, 2017 (HBO)
Period of Adjustment, 1962
Pope: The Most Powerful Man In History, 2018
Project X, 2012 (Extended Version) (HBO)
The Redemption Project, 2019
Risky Business, 1983
Robots, 2005 (HBO)
Rock Of Ages, 2012 (Extended Version) (HBO)
Romance on the High Seas, 1948
Room for One More, 1952
Sanctum, 2011 (HBO)
The Sentinel, 2006 (HBO)
Sex and the City, 2008
Sex and the City 2, 2010
Shaun Of The Dead, 2004 (HBO)
The Shawshank Redemption, 1994
Shop Around the Corner, The, 1940
Snakes on a Plane, 2006
Snow White And The Huntsman, 2012 (Unrated Version) (HBO)
Something’s Killing Me, 2017
Soylent Green, 1973
SPAWN, 1997
Striptease, 1996
Susan Slept Here, 1954
Talk Show the Game Show, 2017
Tea for Two, 1950
Those Who Can’t, 2016
Three Godfathers, 1936
THX 1138, 1971
Timeline, 2003 (HBO)
Tom and Jerry: A Nutcracker Tale, 2007
Tom And Jerry: Santa’s Little Helpers, 2014
True Grit, 2010 (HBO)
Unfaithful, 2002 (HBO)
Unmasking a Killer, 2018
The Wedding Date, 2005 (HBO)
Westworld, 1973
Wrath of the Titans, 2012 (HBO)
Wrecked, 2019
Yogi Bear, 2010
Young Man with a Horn, 1949
December 4:
Bright Now: Alien Worlds, 2020
Engineering the Future, 2020
December 5:
The Photograph, 2020 (HBO)
December 8:
One Night in Bangkok, 2020
December 9:
Alabama Snake, Documentary Premiere (HBO)
December 10:
Let Them All Talk, HBO Max Original Film Premiere
December 11:
Midnight Family, 2020 (HBO)
December 18:
Hasta Que La Boda Nos Separe (aka The Wedding Unplanner), 2020 (HBO)
December 19:
Wendy, 2020 (HBO)
December 20:
I Used To Go Here, 2020 (HBO)
December 25
Wonder Woman 1984
December 26:
Independence Day (Extended Version), 1996 (HBO)
December 29:
Los Dias De La Ballena (AKA The Days of the Whale) (HBO)
December 31:
The Champ, 1979
Featured image: David Hemmings in Blow Up.