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01 · HBO MAX

Melania Rea

Stefano Mordini's four-part true-crime drama casts Maria Esposito as the young mother killed in the woods above Ascoli and Daniele Rienzo as…

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02 · HBO MAX

Skydance distribution chief Ray Hopkins pairs a WBD and

A memo names HBO veteran Sarah Bergman and Paramount’s Mickey Carter co-EVPs of distribution; four executives from each legacy company are leaving

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03 · HBO MAX

Anaesthesia

Leszek Lichota plays Dawid Łazarz, a brilliant, rule-bending neurosurgeon who loses his big-city post after a failed operation and lands in a…

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04 · HBO MAX

Bass X Machina

Bass X Machina, Netflix's adult animated steampunk western from LeSean Thomas and Studio Mir, turns Bass Reeves, the real Black deputy U.S…

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05 · HBO MAX

The Gilded Age Season 4

Julian Fellowes's period drama returns with Agnes van Rhijn staking her family's name on a dinner for President Grover Cleveland, played by…

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06 · HBO MAX

House of the Dragon director Greg Yaitanes puts White

FilmNation's genre label Infrared takes State of Emergency, a Boston dispatch-room catastrophe thriller written by Arcane's Nick Luddington, to AFM

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07 · HBO MAX

Venom

Andy Serkis's 90-minute sequel (2021) trades the first film's tonal wobble for consistent, disposable chaos

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