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‘Harry Potter,’ ‘It’ Prequel ‘Welcome to Derry’ and Other Warner Bros. Tentpole Series to Be Branded as HBO Originals Instead of Max (EXCLUSIVE)
HBO and Max boss Casey Bloys is moving Max’s tentpole Warner Bros. IP series like 'Welcome to Derry' and the Harry Potter show to under the HBO brand.
Bloys stops short of giving a budget mandate to the difference between HBO and Max shows, but clearly there is — and one might hover in at around the $15 million per episode threshold. One other tweak: Now that shows like “Harry Potter” and “Lanterns” will be branded for HBO, they’re now guaranteed to run on the linear network in addition to Max. That guarantees a larger volume of programming for the network in 2025 — and Bloys is looking at keeping both Sunday and Thursday as original series nights for the channel.
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