Why Are HBO Max Original Movies Disappearing From the Streaming Platform?

When David Zaslav unveiled his $43 billion plan to merge Discovery with WarnerMedia, he promised to find $3 billion in annual cost savings. Now, after searching under couch cushions at the newly combined Warner Bros. Discovery, he appears to have found some spare change at HBO Max. The streaming service has removed a handful of original movies that were previously available exclusively to its subscribers—including the Seth Rogen time-travel comedy An American Pickle, Robert Zemeckis’s remake of The Witches starring Anne Hathaway and Octavia Spencer, and the Cole Sprouse and Lana Condor rom-com Moonshot—in what a company insider describes as… Read Full Article