HBO Max is losing all eight ‘Harry Potter’ movies next month

[Jacob Siegal]

• HBO Max had hundreds of movies available at launch in May, but the biggest surprise of all was that all eight Harry Potter movies were streaming on day one.
• Unfortunately, the celebration was short-lived, as HBO has announced that all eight movies will be leaving the service on August 25th.
• You can check all of the HBO Max arrivals and departures for August 2020 below.

Many streaming services focus on building up vast libraries of original content and collecting as many buzzworthy TV shows as possible to keep subscribers coming back month after month. HBO Max, on the other hand, had every HBO original movie and series available to subscribers at launch, but the rather pricey subscription service had something else that no other service could match: An unbeatable selection of classic films.

When HBO Max went live on May 27th, the amount of content available was almost overwhelming. Not only were there hundreds of movies available right away and lined up to hit the service in June, but many of them were genuine blockbusters, from the DC Extended Universe to the Studio Ghibli archive to the Hobbit trilogy. The biggest surprise of all was the addition of all eight Harry Potter movies, but just as quickly as they arrived, they're already on the way out, as HBO announced on Monday that the entire Harry Potter series will be removed on August 25th.

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