Here be dragons.
The final season of “Game of Thrones” in 2019 left many viewers with a sour taste, but HBO is placing a big bet that fans will flock back to the intrigue and infighting of Westeros (and its many dragons) in the prequel series “House of the Dragon” (Aug. 21).
With a sprawling cast that includes Matt Smith, Emma D’Arcy, Paddy Considine, Olivia Cooke and Milly Alcock, the new series takes place 200 years before the events of “Game of Thrones,” and details a war of succession that tears apart the Targaryen dynasty. It’s based on George R.R. Martin’s book “Fire & Blood,” and has a production cost higher than the original series (dragons don’t come cheap, you know). It’s the first of many planned “Game of Thrones” spinoffs by HBO, so get ready for much more to come.
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HBO Max also has Season 2 of “Industry” (Aug. 1), the addictive drama about young workers at a top investment bank in London; Season 2 of “Sweet Life: Los Angeles,” (Aug. 4), the unscripted series about a group of friends from South L.A.; a new season of the behind-the-scenes NFL docuseries “Hard Knocks” (Aug. 9), in training camp with the Detroit Lions this year; and movies such as “Blue Velvet,” “Ex Machina,” “Slow West” (all Aug. 1) and Oscar-winner “Belfast” (Aug. 5), while the Harry Potter movies are set to depart at the end of the month.
Here’s the full list of what’s coming and going, as of July 21 (release dates are subject to change):
What’s coming in August 2022
Date TBA
Selena + Chef, Season 4
Aug. 1
A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charlie Swan III, 2013 (HBO)
A Most Violent Year, 2015 (HBO)
Amy, 2015 (HBO)
Barely Lethal, 2015 (HBO)
Belle, 2013 (HBO)
Biker Boyz, 2003 (HBO)
Blow Out, 1981 (HBO)
Blue Velvet, 1986 (HBO)
Bug, 2007 (HBO)
Cadillac Man, 1990 (HBO)
Charlie’s Angels, 2000
Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle, 2003
Chasing Papi, 2003 (HBO)
Children of a Lesser God, 1986 (HBO)
Chocolate City, 2015 (HBO)
Colors, 1988 (HBO)
Damien Omen II, 1978 (HBO)
Dark Places, 2015 (HBO)
Days of Being Wild, 1990
DC Showcases Short: Constantine – The House of Mystery, 2022
Enemy, 2014 (HBO)
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex but Were Afraid to Ask, 1972 (HBO)
Ex Machina, 2015 (HBO)
Fantastic Voyage, 1966 (HBO)
Fighting, 2009 (HBO)
From Hell, 2001 (HBO)
Garfield, 2004 (HBO)
Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties, 2006 (HBO) Extended Version
Gaslight, 1944
Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai, 1999
Ginger & Rosa, 2012 (HBO)
How to Lose Friends and Alienate People, 2008 (HBO)
How to Talk to Girls at Parties, 2017 (HBO)
Industry, Season 2 Premiere (HBO)
Invasion of the Body Snatchers, 1978 (HBO)
Ivanhoe, 1952
Jeff, Who Lives at Home, 2011 (HBO)
Laggies, 2014 (HBO)
Late August, Early September, 1998
Lean on Pete, 2017 (HBO)
Life After Beth, 2014 (HBO)
Lions for Lambs, 2007 (HBO)
Little Men, 2016 (HBO)
Little Women, 1994
Locke, 2013 (HBO)
Love & Basketball, 2000
Man of the Year, 2006 (HBO)
Miles Ahead, 2016
Mississippi Grind, 2015 (HBO)
Mojave, 2015 (HBO)
My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2, 2016 (HBO)
Mystic Pizza, 1988 (HBO)
Objective, Burma!, 1945
Obvious Child, 2014 (HBO)
Original Cast Album: Company, 1970
Out of the Past, 1947
Remember, 2016 (HBO)
Revenge of the Green Dragons, 2014 (HBO)
Slow West, 2015 (HBO)
Son of a Gun, 2014 (HBO)
Source Code, 2011
Stardust, 2007 (HBO)
Teen Titans Go, Season 7C
The Adderall Diaries, 2016 (HBO)
The Blood of a Poet, 1932
The Captive, 2014 (HBO)
The Devil’s Backbone, 2001
The End of the Tour, 2015 (HBO)
The Fault in Our Stars, 2014 (HBO)
The Field Guide to Evil, 2018 (HBO)
The Great Escape, 1963 (HBO)
The Last Word, 2017 (HBO)
The Notebook, 2004
The One, 2001 (HBO)
The Possession, 2012 (HBO) Extended Version
The Rover, 2014 (HBO)
The Spectacular Now, 2013 (HBO)
The Spiderwick Chronicles, 2008 (HBO)
The Testament of Orpheus, 1960
The Transporter Refueled, 2015 (HBO)
Thunderstruck, 2012 (HBO)
Transcendence, 2014 (HBO)
Trouble With the Curve, 2012 (HBO)
Tusk, 2014 (HBO)
Under the Skin, 2014 (HBO)
Whiplash, 2014
Aug. 3
Belle, 2021
Aug. 4
Sweet Life: Los Angeles, Max Original Season 2 Premiere
Aug. 5
Belfast, 2021 (HBO)
Jesus Sepulveda: Mr. Tough Life, Comedy Special Premiere(HBO)
Aug. 7
The Smiling Friends Go To Brazil, Special
Aug. 9
Hard Knocks: Training Camp with the Detroit Lions, Season 17 Premiere (HBO)
Aug. 13
The Princess, Original Documentary Premiere (HBO)
Aug. 21
American Sniper, 2014
House of the Dragon, Series Premiere (HBO)
Aug. 24
Katrina Babies, Original Documentary Premiere (HBO)
Aug. 25
House of Ho, Max Original Season 2 Premiere
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, 2013 (HBO) Extended Version
Aug. 26
Victor and Valentino, Season 3C
Wolf, 2021 (HBO)
What’s leaving in August
Aug. 2
300: Rise of an Empire, 2014
Aug. 3
Aldnoah.Zero (Dubbed), 2014
Inuyasha, 2019
Mob Psycho 100 (Dubbed), 2019
Puella Magi Madoka Magica, 2012
The Promised Neverland (Dubbed), 2019
Aug. 4
Top Gear, Season 26
Aug. 6
Hard Knocks: The Dallas Cowboys, 2021 (HBO)
Aug. 12
For A Good Time, Call …, 2012 (HBO) Extended Version
Aug. 17
Top Gear, Season 27
Aug. 26
Pure, 2020
Aug. 27
Profugos, 2012 (HBO)
Aug. 31
17 Again, 2009
2 Days in New York, 2012 (HBO)
42nd Street, 1933
A Cinderella Story, 2004
A Cinderella Story: If the Shoe Fits, 2016
A Cinderella Story: Once Upon a Song, 2011
A Mighty Wind, 2003 (HBO)
Admission, 2013 (HBO)
Adventureland, 2009 (HBO)
Airheads, 1994 (HBO)
Alan Partridge, 2014 (HBO)
Alex & Emma, 2003 (HBO)
Alex Cross, 2012
America’s Sweethearts, 2001
Another Cinderella Story, 2008
Army of One, 2016 (HBO)
Batman Begins, 2005
Beetlejuice, 1988
Being Flynn, 2012 (HBO)
Best in Show, 2000 (HBO)
Beyond the Black Rainbow, 2011 (HBO)
Birth, 2004 (HBO)
Blade, 1998
Blade II, 2002
Blade: Trinity, 2004
Bolero, 1984 (HBO)
Broadcast News, 1987 (HBO)
Bronson, 2009 (HBO)
Caddyshack, 1980
Charlie’s Angels, 2000
Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle, 2003
City of God, 2003 (HBO)
Cloverfield, 2008 (HBO)
Cold Mountain, 2003
Danny Collins, 2015 (HBO)
Daphne & Velma, 2018
Deep Blue Sea, 1999
Defiance, 2008 (HBO)
Dennis the Menace, 1993
Dog Day Afternoon, 1975
Dolphin Tale, 2011
Dolphin Tale 2, 2014
Down a Dark Hall, 2018 (HBO)
Dracula Untold, 2014 (HBO)
Dumb & Dumber, 1994
El Cantante, 2007 (HBO)
Escobar: Paradise Lost, 2015 (HBO)
Fandango at the Wall, 2020 (HBO)
Fay Grim, 2007 (HBO)
Final Destination, 2000
Final Destination 2, 2003
Final Destination 3, 2006
Final Destination 5, 2011
Finding Neverland, 2004 (HBO)
Fool’s Gold, 2008
For Colored Girls, 2010 (HBO)
For Your Consideration, 2006 (HBO)
Free Willy, 1993
Free Willy: Escape from Pirate’s Cove, 2010
Friends With Kids, 2012 (HBO)
From Dusk Til Dawn, 1996
Fun Size, 2012 (HBO)
Gangster Squad, 2013 (HBO)
Get Carter, 1971
Getting Played, 2006 (HBO)
Gran Torino, 2008
Grumpy Old Men, 1993
Gun Shy, 2017 (HBO)
Hairspray, 1988
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, 2002
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1, 2010
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2, 2011
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, 2005
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, 2009
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, 2007
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, 2004
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, 2001
Harry Potter and The Sorcerer’s Stone: Magical Movie Mode, 2001
Horrible Bosses, 2011
How to Deal, 2003 (HBO)
Huracan (aka Hurricane), 2019 (HBO)
I Give it a Year, 2013 (HBO)
I Spy, 2002
Impostor, 2002 (HBO)
Julie, 1956
Just Married, 2003 (HBO)
Kajillionaire, 2020 (HBO)
King Kong, 2005 (HBO) Extended Version
Klute, 1971
Kong: Skull Island, 2017
La Musiquita Por Dentro, 2019 (HBO)
Lawnmower Man 2: Beyond Cyberspace, 1996 (HBO)
Lean on Me, 1989
Leap Year, 2010 (HBO)
Like Crazy, 2011 (HBO)
Los Cronocrimenes (aka Timecrimes), 2008 (HBO)
Lost in Space, 1998
Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior, 1983
My Dog Skip, 2000
Mystic River, 2003
Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase, 2019
Nanny McPhee, 2006 (HBO)
National Lampoon’s European Vacation, 1985
National Lampoon’s Vacation, 1983
Not Easily Broken, 2009
Oblivion, 2013 (HBO)
Ocean’s Eleven, 2001
Ocean’s Thirteen, 2007
Ocean’s Twelve, 2004
Page One, 2011 (HBO)
Pale Rider, 1985
Pariah, 2011 (HBO)
Paulie, 1998 (HBO)
Point Break, 1991
Prime, 2005 (HBO)
Project X, 2012
Quigley Down Under, 1990 (HBO)
Rabbit Hole, 2010 (HBO)
Red Dragon, 2002 (HBO)
Red Sonja, 1985
Ringo and His Golden Pistol, 1966
Romeo Must Die, 2000
Roots (Mini Series), 1977
Seeking a Friend for the End of the World, 2012 (HBO)
Serendipity, 2001
Sin Cielo, 2018 (HBO)
Son of Kong, 1933
Space Jam, 1996
Starship Troopers, 1997
Starship Troopers 2: Hero of the Federation, 2004
Super Fly, 1972
Taken 2, 2012 (HBO) Extended Version
Tales from the Darkside: The Movie, 1990 (HBO)
Tea for Two, 1950
The Amazing Panda Adventure, 1995
The Ant Bully, 2006
The Big Sleep, 1946
The Bridges of Madison County, 1995
The Brothers Grimm, 2005 (HBO)
The Dark Crystal, 1982
The Dark Knight, 2008
The East, 2013 (HBO)
The Extra Man, 2010 (HBO)
The Final Destination, 2009
The First Monday in May, 2016 (HBO)
The Fugitive, 1993
The Gay Divorcee, 1934
The Goodbye Girl, 1977
The Loft, 2015 (HBO)
The Man Who Would Be King, 1975
The Mask, 1994
The Outlaw Josey Wales, 1976
The Pelican Brief, 1993
The Raid 2, 2014
The Reader, 2008 (HBO)
The River Wild, 1994 (HBO)
The Town, 2010
This Must Be the Place, 2012
Tickled, 2016 (HBO)
Tom & Jerry: The Movie, 1993
Transformers, 2007 (HBO)
Transporter 2, 2005 (HBO)
Tweety’s High-Flying Adventures, 2000
Two Weeks Notice, 2002
Underworld, 2003
Underworld: Awakening, 2012
Underworld: Rise of the Lycans, 2009
Undisputed, 2002 (HBO)
Unforgiven, 1992
Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning, 2012
Valentine’s Day, 2010
Vanilla Sky, 2001 (HBO)
View From the Top, 2003 (HBO)
Wall Street, 1987 (HBO)
We Are Marshall, 2006
What Women Want, 2000 (HBO)
Young Man with a Horn, 1949
