As of 2021, most of Warner's film and television content fuels HBO Max (renamed Max in May 2023, then reverted in July 2025), a large-scale streaming service that launched in May 2020 and an expansion of HBO's other services. In response to the Coronavirus Pandemic shuttering many movie theaters or leaving them with little content to play, the studio announced that Wonder Woman 1984 and the studio's entire 2021 slatenote much of which had originally been intended to play in 2020 would have dual premieres in theaters and on HBO Max in the United States. The results of the strategy were very mixed; several films early in the year, such as Tom & Jerry and Godzilla vs. Kong, were notable successes on both theatrical and streaming, the latter receiving much credit for helping revive the box office in the wake of the pandemic; many high-profile films later in the year, such as The Suicide Squad, King Richard and The Matrix Resurrections, severely underperformed at a time where theatrical-exclusive releases were seeing increased success. The hybrid strategy ended at the end of 2021 due to deals Warner made with cinema chains to ensure a 45-day theatrical window going forward; the new window was introduced with The Batman. Ver mais