New on HBO Now: All the Movies and TV Coming in August
Image via UniversalAnother month means another plentiful bounty of fine programming headed to HBO Now. August will see a number of original programming highlights headed to HBO’s standalone streaming platform, including the finale of the much-buzzed-about new crime series The Night Of, as well as the premiere of NFL fan-favorite Hard Knocks, with this year’s installment focused on the newly relocated Los Angeles Rams. Also on their way are two new documentaries: Meet the Donors: Does Money Talk, which finds intrepid filmmaker Alexandra Pelosi exploring what goes on behind the scenes of big-money political fundraisers, and Hitchcock/Truffaut, which documents a weeklong 1962 discussion between legendary directors Francois Truffaut and Alfred Hitchcock, in which the latter breaks down his career film-by-film for the former, then a young French filmmaker on the rise; Hitchcock/Truffaut also features directors Martin Scorsese, David Fincher, Wes Anderson, James Gray, Richard Linklater and Paul Schrader discussing the impact of the resulting book of the same title, which debuted 50 years ago in August.
HBO Now’s theatrical highlights of August will include a pair of 2016 awards-season standouts: The Danish Girl, for which Alicia Vikander won a Best Actress Oscar while Eddie Redmayne was nominated for Best Actor, and the lovely Brooklyn, which garnered three Oscar noms, including Best Picture. Other noteworthy features coming to the platform include The Peanuts Movie, Youth, The Theory of Everything, The Aviator, Capote, One Hour Photo and, last but by no means least, a treasure trove of classic Al Pacino films, including Scarface, Carlito’s Way, Dog Day Afternoon and The Scent of a Woman. (Hoo-ah!) However, HBO Now’s departing movies include the phenomenal Mad Max: Fury Road, not to mention such fan favorites as Barbershop, Spaceballs, Alpha Dogs and Tropic Thunder, so be sure to enjoy those while you can.
Not to be forgotten are a handful of late original programming additions for July that didn’t make it into last month’s HBO Now run-down. These include all three seasons of Todd McFarlane’s Spawn, the ‘90s animated HBO series based on the iconic comic book antihero, as well as a new weekly, Spanish-language, anything-goes late-night talk show titled Chumel con Chumel Torres that examines Mexico and Latin America’s most relevant events through a sharp, critical lens. Spawn is available to stream now, while Chumel con Chumel Torres doesn’t debut until July 25, with new episodes to follow on subsequent Monday nights.
Find the complete list of HBO Now’s August programming, both incoming and outgoing, below.
New Original Programming:
Meet the Donors (8/1)
Dios, Inc. – Season 1 Finale (8/5)
Hitchcock/Truffaut (8/8)
Hard Knocks: Training Camp with the LA Rams (8/10)*
El Negocio – Season 3 Premiere (8/12)
The Night Of (Limited Series Finale) (8/28)
(*Episodes of Hard Knocks will be added to HBO NOW the morning after their linear debuts)
Theatrical Premieres:
Youth, 2015 (8/1)
The Peanuts Movie, 2015 (8/6)
Brooklyn, 2015 (8/13)
Point Break, 2015 (8/20)
In the Heart of the Sea, 2015 (8/27)
Seventh Son, 2014 (8/25)
The Danish Girl, 2015 (8/26)
Estrenos:
Aurora, 2015 (8/1)
Detras de la verdad (aka Behind the Truth), 2014 (8/5)
Felices 140 (aka Happy 140), 2015 (8/12)
Starting August 1:
The Aviator, 2004
Brown Sugar, 2002
The Bucket List, 2007
Capote, 2005
Carlito’s Way, 1993
Carlito’s Way: Rise to Power, 2005
Charlie Wilson’s War, 2007
The Chase, 1994
Dog Day Afternoon, 1975
Hollywoodland, 2006
Hotel for Dogs, 2009
Life or Something Like It, 2002
No Reservations, 2007
One Hour Photo, 2002
Say Anything…, 1989
Scarface, 1983
Scent of a Woman, 1992
Simon Birch, 1998
Summer Catch, 2001
The Theory of Everything, 2014
Last Chance to Catch:
Annabelle, 2014 (Ends 8/15)
Ending August 31:
Alpha Dog, 2006
Barbershop, 2002
Barbershop 2: Back in Business, 2004
Beauty Shop, 2005
Far from the Madding Crowd, 2015
Halloween H20: Twenty Years Later, 1998
Inspector Gadget, 1999
I Origins, 2014
I Think I Love My Wife, 2007
Love & Basketball, 2000
Mad Max: Fury Road, 2015
Saving Silverman, 2001
The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, 2015
Shrek the Third, 2007
Snatch, 2000
Spaceballs, 1987
Tropic Thunder, 2008
True Story, 2015
Unfriended, 2014
The Uninvited, 2009
A Walk Among the Tombstones, 2015