HBO Max Sets Official Launch Date

variety.com:

By Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor WarnerMedia has set the start date for HBO Max: It’s slated to barrel into the streaming wars on May 27.

The subscription-streaming package, with some 10,000 hours of content out of the gate, will debut May 27 in the U.S., priced at $14.95 monthly (the same as HBO Now).

That’s according to ads that WarnerMedia began running online Tuesday morning. HBO Max — with the tagline “Where HBO meets so much more” — will include all the programming from HBO; a slate of new original series; third-party licensed content like “Friends,” “The Big Bang Theory,” “South Park” and all Studio Ghibli films; and movies from Warner Bros., New Line and DC like “Joker,” “Suicide Squad” and “The Wizard of Oz.” In addition, HBO