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Home to some of the best series ever made, Max is no stranger to showcasing quality television shows. While Dune: Prophecy and House of the Dragon might be done for the time being, the streaming service has plenty of worthwhile shows scheduled for release next month. Whether viewers want to laugh or cry, they’re likely to find something on the platform.

With lots of animated shows slated for release, adults and children alike will have various options to choose from. The forthcoming series might not be everyone’s cup of tea, but for those looking for something new to explore, they’ll certainly find it on Max. No matter what curious viewers are in the mood for, the streaming platform has them covered.

'Reframed: Next Gen Narratives' (Season 1) Stream on January 1

A unique series, Reframed: Next Gen Narratives adapts six classic movies, each with a different filmmaker, and provides...

Taylor Dearden, Patrick Marron Ball, and Noah Wyle in ‘The Pitt’ (Photograph by Max/Warrick Page)

Max is kicking off the new year with the series premiere of The Pitt, a medical drama that puts ER star Noah Wyle back in scrubs and playing the chief attendant in Pittsburgh Trauma Medical Hospital’s emergency room. Max’s January 2025 lineup also includes the season five premiere of the critically acclaimed, comic book-inspired animated series Harley Quinn, and the series debut of Isadora Moon, based on the bestselling book series.

Season 23 of Real Time with Bill Maher and the premieres of A24’s The Front Room, Look Into My Eyes, and A Different Man stream on Max in January.

Max January 2025 Lineup

January 1

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Quick Links Lee Thompson Youngs Breakout Role Was on Disney Channels The Famous Jett Jackson Lee Thompson Young Starred as Cyborg in Smallville Lee Thompson Youngs Cyborg Is One of the Best Versions of the Character

The character of Cyborg, aka Victor "Vic" Stone, first appeared on Smallville in Season 5 of the show's 10-season run. Part man and machine, Cyborg premiered as a character in 1990 in DC Comics Presents #26 (by Marv Wolfman and artist George Prez). Cyborg has been portrayed by a number of different actors in the media over the years. He's appeared in both live-action and animated versions of DC Comics adaptations. When he was added to the cast of Smallville, rising star Lee Thompson Young brought his own talents to the character.

Young had first showcased his acting abilities as the lead on a Disney Channel TV show before showing up on Smallville. He also made his...

Something that comes up almost as an aside in this handsomely mounted period piece, co-written and produced by Korean auteur Park Chan-wook, is the astonishing detail that, in the 16th century, invading Japanese soldiers would saw off their victims’ noses as trophies of war. So prolific were these ad hoc amputations that there’s a shrine of sorts in Japan — the Mimizuka monument in Kyoto, Tokyo — that holds the noses of nearly 40,000 Koreans killed during that time, not to mention some 30,000 similar “souvenirs” from China.

But, surprisingly, Kim Sang-man’s drama doesn’t play that card. This isn’t a story of Korea falling victim to outside aggressors, although that is a significant part of the drama. Instead, it’s a film about the enemy within, something the Koreans would know quite a lot about — most recently with corrupt president Park Geun-hye, whose secret 60-page document blacklisting Park and...

NewFilmmakers Los Angeles announced their NewNarratives award winners for 2024. The program was started in 2021 with the goal of sporting independent filmmakers throughout a wide range of projects at any stage of production including short, feature, episodic series, documentaries, experimental works, and animation works.

The Rhulen Family Foundation provided a $20,000 cash grant in honor of the independent film producer Anthony Rhulen who worked on films like “The Butterfly Effect” among others. From this, each of the selected group of creators received a $5,000 grant.

The initiative received a diverse range of applications upwards of 250 from over 30 countries, including Australia, Bolivia, China, Cuba, India, Italy, South Africa, Venezuela and more. “It was incredible to witness such a strong commitment to the vision we and our previous recipients have crafted for this program. The overwhelming number of outstanding projects is a testament to the insightful and impactful portraits of the human experience that the...

Modern television has provided ample evidence that time does not dictate genre. The Emmys learned this the hard way, when they tried to bypass the comedy or drama debates by using runtimes to decide category placement, only to be swarmed by even more controversy during their confounding, seemingly arbitrary appeals process. Yes, it turns out half-hour shows can be dramas and hourlong shows can skew comedic. Look no further than some of TV’s buzziest, best shows: “The White Lotus”, “Succession”, and “The Bear” (let’s not start that up again).

But while time may not determine what a series is labeled, it does often weigh heavily on a series’ success. More important than shoving a show into one box or another is recognizing that many of these shows are successful because they blur the lines. “The Bear” serves up intense kitchen scenarios that can skew toward sitcom set-ups, yet...

Barbie as the Princess and the Pauper marked the first animated Barbie film to be a musical, as it featured multiple songs sung by the characters. Mattel's Barbie doll is one of the world's most popular toys, and before the live-action Barbie movie starring Margot Robbie was developed, a series of animated Barbie movies was released throughout the 2000s with Kelly Sheridan voicing almost all of the characters portrayed by Barbie (though she didn't sing the musical's songs). Barbie as the Princess and the Pauper is an adaptation of Mark Twain's novel The Prince and the Pauper, and it features characters in Mattel's Barbie universe.

While the animated movies are geared towards children, Barbie as the Princess and the Pauper received positive reviews by adult critics, and renowned comedic actor Martin Short joined the cast as Preminger, the movie's villain. As the first musical in the animated Barbie series,...

Vanessa Hudgens had to take on triple duty for the sequel to Netflix’s 2018 holiday rom-com, The Princess Switch.

The original film, based on Mark Twain’s 1881 novel The Prince and the Pauper, features Hudgens in a dual role. In the film she portrays Stacy DeNovo, a baker from Chicago who enters her business in a prestigious baking competition in the Kingdom of Belgravia, as well as Lady Margaret Delacourt, a Duchess from the land of Montenaro. Once the two women discover they look like twins, they hatch a Christmastime plan to trade places.

But if playing two characters in ...

Vanessa Hudgens had to take on triple duty for the sequel to Netflix’s 2018 holiday rom-com, The Princess Switch.

The original film, based on Mark Twain’s 1881 novel The Prince and the Pauper, features Hudgens in a dual role. In the film she portrays Stacy DeNovo, a baker from Chicago who enters her business in a prestigious baking competition in the Kingdom of Belgravia, as well as Lady Margaret Delacourt, a Duchess from the land of Montenaro. Once the two women discover they look like twins, they hatch a Christmastime plan to trade places.

But if playing two characters in ...

Ann Sullivan, a longtime animator who worked on iconic Disney films including The Little Mermaid, Pocahontas and The Lion King, has died at 91 from complications due to Covid-19, according to multiple reports.

Sullivan passed away Monday at the Motion Picture and Television Fund (Mptf) nursing facility in Woodland Hills, California, making her the third resident at that nursing facility to die from coronavirus complications.

“There are good days and bad days. This was one of the bad days,” Mptf president and CEO Bob Beitcher told Deadline.

“I expect there will be more before we get through the tunnel. We’ve...