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HBO Max Adds All 8 'Harry Potter' Movies at Launch

Plus “Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald”

27 May 2020, 20:16 by Jennifer Maas

HBO Max launched Wednesday with hundreds of titles and one big surprise for “Harry Potter” fans: all eight films from the beloved franchise, plus “Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald,” are available for streaming on the WarnerMedia-owned platform.

As of Tuesday, the “Harry Potter” franchise was not among the offerings HBO Max was going to have available at Day 1 — but that wasn’t for lack of trying.

WarnerMedia had been in talks with NBCUniversal, which acquired the exclusive on-air and digital rights for the “Potter” films in 2016 as part of a deal that was supposed to run from July 2018 through April 2025, to reach an agreement to make the movies available on HBO Max.

More to come…