HBO Max will end 2021 on a decidedly early-’00s note, with the return of two iconic franchises: “The Matrix” and “Sex and the City.”
“The Matrix: Resurrections” (Dec. 22) will be the last Warner Bros. movie to premiere on AT&T’s
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HBO Max the same day it hits theaters — a pandemic experiment that will not continue in 2022. Nearly two decades since the the trilogy concluded (or so we thought), “Resurrections” brings back Keanu Reeves and Carrie-Ann Moss for a new chapter in the mind-bending (and mind-blowing) sci-fi movie series. It’ll stream for 31 days, but only for Max subscribers who are on the ad-free tier.
The “Sex and the City” gang (minus Kim Cattrall’s Samantha) will reunite for “And Just Like That…” (Dec. 9), as Carrie (Sarah Jessica Parker), Miranda (Cynthia Nixon) and Charlotte (Kristin Davis) — now in their 50s — navigate their ever-complicated lives and friendships. The 10-episode revival will debut with two episodes on the 9th, with new episodes every following Thursday.
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Max also has “Landscapers” (Dec. 6), a limited series starring Olivia Colman and David Thewlis as a seemingly ordinary British couple who happen to have dead bodies buried in their garden; “Station Eleven” (Dec. 16), a post-apocalyptic drama series starring Mackenzie Davis and Himesh Patel as survivors of a devastating pandemic (a different one!); and the reality strip-tease competition series “Finding Magic Mike” (Dec. 16); as well as a slate of original documentaries and older movies.
Here’s the full list of what’s coming and going in December, as of Nov. 21 (release dates are subject to change):
What’s coming in December 2021
Dec. 1
12 Strong
20 Feet from Stardom
Adrienne — HBO Documentary
A Perfect Murder
All I See Is You
All Rise, Seasons 1 and 2
The Answer Man
Blade II
Bolero
Breakdown
Changing Lanes
Chicago
Cloud Atlas
Crazy, Stupid, Love.
Days of Thunder
Dragged Across Concrete
Enough Said
Finding Jesus: Faith, Fact, Forgery
Frontera
The Good Doctor
The Haunting in Connecticut
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
Interview with the Vampire
The Incredible Burt Wonderstone
The Italian Job
Jack the Giant Slayer
Jackie Brown
Jupiter Ascending
The Lawnmower Man
Lawnmower Man 2: Beyond Cyberspace
Limbo
Little Monsters
The Mask
Max Steel
Miss Congeniality
Mortal Kombat
Mortal Kombat: Battle of the Realms
The Muppets Take Manhattan
No Country for Old Men
Percy Jackson Sea of Monsters
Pope: The Most Powerful Man in History
Pulse
R.I.P.D.
Rubber
Runner Runner
Se7en
Shark Night
Surrogates
Troll Hunter
The Truman Show
Two for the Money
Two Lovers
Viva
War on Everyone
The Wedding Singer
The Wolfpack
World’s Greatest Dad
The Wrecking Crew!
Dec. 2
Music Box: Listening to Kenny G — HBO Documentary
Odo — Cartoonito Season 1 Premiere
Perfect Life (Vida Perfecta) — Max Original Season 2
Santa Inc. — Max Original Animated Series
Space Jam: A New Legacy
Dec. 3
Breathe the Night
Craig of the Creek, Season 3
Hood River
Mike & Molly
Yerba Buena
Dec. 4
The Last O.G., Seasons 1-3
At the Ready
Dec. 6
The Forever Prisoner — HBO Documentary
Landscapers — HBO Limited Series
Dec. 7
The Slow Hustle — HBO Documentary
Dec. 9
A Thousand Fangs
And Just Like That… — Max Original Season 1
Music Box: Mr. Saturday Night — HBO Documentary
Summer Camp Island — Max Original Season 5
Dec. 10
Dafne and the Rest (aka Todo lo Otro) — Max Original Season 1
DC’s Stargirl, Season 2
Dec. 14
The Murders at Starved Rock — HBO Documentary Series
Dec. 15
What’s New Scooby-Doo?
Dec. 16
2nd Annual HA Festival: The Art of Comedy — Max Original Comedy Special
Diego, The Last Goodbye (Diego, el ultimo adios) — Max Original Documentary
The Cut (aka O Grande Look) — Max Original Season 1
Finding Magic Mike — Max Original Season 1
The Fungies — Max Original Season 3
Music Box: Juice Wrld: Into the Abyss — HBO Documentary Premiere
Station Eleven — Max Original Season 1
Dec. 17
A Forbidden Orange — Max Original
Dec. 20
You Keep the Kids (Mama o Papa)
Dec. 22
After the Sunset
The Matrix Resurrections — Warner Bros. Film Premiere
Dec. 23
40 Means Nothing (aka 40 No es Nada) — Max Original Season 1
Beforeigners S2 — Max Original Season 2
The Suicide Squad
Dec. 24
Black Jesus
Dec. 30
Young Justice, Max Original Season 4 Part A
What’s leaving in December
Dec. 16
CNN Heroes: An All-Star Tribute, 2020
Dec. 18
The Invisible Man, 2020 (HBO)
Dec. 19
King Richard, 2021
Dec. 24
Fifty Shades of Black, 2016 (HBO)
Dec. 31
Abuelos (aka Grandpas), 2019 (HBO)
Ace Ventura: Pet Detective Jr., 2009
Alpha And Omega 2: A Howl-Iday Adventure, 2013
American Graffiti, 1973 (HBO)
Assault on Precinct 13, 1976 (HBO)
Bangkok Dangerous, 2008 (HBO)
Beautiful Girls, 1996 (HBO)
Black Christmas, 2019 (HBO)
Blackhat, 2015 (HBO)
Bratz: The Movie, 2007
Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason, 2004 (HBO)
The Cable Guy, 1996
Casi Famoso (aka Almost Famous), 2019 (HBO)
Cats, 2019 (HBO)
The Collection, 2012 (HBO)
Cousins, 1989 (HBO)
Curse of the Pink Panther, 1983 (HBO)
Dante’s Peak, 1997 (HBO)
Dear Christmas, 2020
Dim Sum Funeral, 2009 (HBO)
Don’t Tell Mom the Babysitter’s Dead, 1991 (HBO)
The Doors, 1991 (HBO)
Downhill, 2020 (HBO)
Dr. Strangelove, 1964
Emma. (2020), 2020 (HBO)
Employee of the Month, 2006 (HBO)
The English Patient, 1996 (HBO)
Eve’s Bayou, 1997
Flashpoint, 1984 (HBO)
Friends With Money, 2006
Gandhi, 1982
God’s Not Dead, 2014 (HBO)
Gods and Monsters, 1998 (HBO)
He Said She Said, 1991 (HBO)
Heaven Help Us, 1985 (HBO)
Hitch, 2005
Ira & Abby, 2007 (HBO)
Kill Bill: Vol. 1, 2003 (HBO)
Kill Bill: Vol. 2, 2004 (HBO)
Kramer vs. Kramer, 1979
Leapfrog: Math Adventure to the Moon, 2010
Leapfrog: Numbers Ahoy, 2011
Leapfrog: The Letter Factory, 2003
Like Mike, 2002 (HBO)
Like Mike 2: Streetball, 2007 (HBO)
Los Futbolisimos (aka The Footballest), 2018 (HBO)
Lucky, 2017 (HBO)
Machine Gun Preacher, 2011 (HBO)
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