You know what time it is: break down all the new shows and movies coming to HBO’s standalone streaming platform HBO Now next month o’clock. Let’s get to it.
First and foremost, though you can be forgiven for thinking that July was one of the summer months, HBO must remind you that winter is here: The seventh season of Game of Thrones premieres on July 16, and it’s sure to be a blockbuster. The epic fantasy series’ penultimate season is followed by the returns of two other notable HBO originals: the Entourage-esque Dwayne Johnson vehicle Ballers and Issa Rae’s acclaimed comedy Insecure, which only needed one season to crack our list of the best HBO series of all time. And don’t sleep on the Duplass brothers’ anthology series Room 104, which makes its debut on July 28.
If you like a little bit of learning with your entertainment, you can check out four-part documentary event The Defiant Ones, an Allen Hughes-directed examination of Dr. Dre, Jimmy Iovine and the massive impact their partnership has had on contemporary pop culture. There’s also The Words That Built America, an unabridged reading of the actual words of America’s founding fathers that features more than 100 readers, including all living presidents and vice presidents, a number of well-known politicians, and Hollywood titans like Robert De Niro, Meryl Streep, Bryan Cranston, Kerry Washington and Neil Patrick Harris. We can only hope that—assuming our current president was too busy golfing to get involved—he’s at least watching.
On the feature film side, Andy Samberg’s much-anticipated cycling mockumentary Tour De Pharmacy is due out on July 8, as is the underappreciated, Samberg-starring farce Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping. More serious film fare for the month includes the Oscar-nominated Loving, the Oscar-winning Hacksaw Ridge, cult horror classic The Blair Witch Project and quite a few more. And keep in mind the service is also losing a few noteworthy flicks, including the Leonardo DiCaprio-starring Catch Me If You Can and the Coen brothers’ Hail, Caesar!
Did we mention Game of Thrones?
Find the complete list of HBO Now’s July additions (and subtractions) below.
Original Programming:
HBO First Look: War for The Planet of the Apes (7/3)
Words That Built America (7/4)
Tour De Pharmacy (7/8)
The Defiant Ones, Documentary Event Premiere (7/9)
Season Premieres:
Game of Thrones, Season 7 Premiere (7/16)
Ballers, Season 3 Premiere (7/23)
Insecure, Season 2 Premiere (7/23)
Room 104, Series Premiere (7/28)
Theatrical Premieres:
The Other Side of the Door, 2016 (7/1)
Loving, 2016 (7/1)
Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping, 2016 (7/8)
Keeping Up With the Joneses, 2016 (7/15)
Hacksaw Ridge, 2016 (7/22)
Almost Christmas, 2016 (7/29)
Estrenos:
El Cerdo (AKA The Pig), 2015 (7/1)
La Invitación (AKA Sleepover), 2016 (7/1)
Esteban, 1973 (7/7)
Rara, 2016 (7/14)
Truman, 2015 (7/21)
Las Horas Contadas, 2016 (7/28)
Starting July 1:
About a Boy, 2002
American Gigolo, 1980
Bean, 1997
The Blair Witch Project, 1999
Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2, 2000
Born on the Fourth of July, 1989
Cobra, 1986
The Dark Knight, 2008
Erin Brockovich, 2000
Heartburn, 1986
Johnny Handsome, 1989
K-Pax, 2001
Lara Croft: Tomb Raider, 2001
Le Divorce, 2003
Leatherheads, 2008
The Man Without a Face, 1993
Mimic (Extended Version), 1997
Minority Report, 2002
Mission: Impossible II, 2000
Mr. Deeds, 2002
Necessary Roughness, 1991
Next Day Air, 2009
Over Her Dead Body, 2008
Panic Room, 2002
Pearl Harbor (Extended Version), 2001
Platoon, 1986
Richie Rich, 1994
Robin Hood: Men in Tights, 1993
The Rose, 1979
Selena, 1997
Solaris, 2002
Soul Food, 1997
Thirteen, 2003
Watchmen (Extended Version), 2009
The Women, 2008
The X-Files: I Want to Believe (Extended Version), 2008
Ending July 19:
Beautiful Creatures, 2013
Ending July 24:
Unfaithful, 2002
Ending July 31:
Batman Returns, 1992
Catch Me If You Can, 2002
The Color of Money, 1986
Criminal, 2016
Crossroads, 2002
El Cantante, 2007
Evil Dead 2, 1987
Fracture, 2007
Hail, Caesar!, 2016
Hard to Kill, 1990
Hotel for Dogs, 2009
Innerspace, 1987
Keanu, 2016
The Main Event, 1979
Men in Black II, 2002
Midnight Special, 2016
My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2, 2016
My Cousin Vinny, 1992
Rendition, 2007
Risky Business, 1983
Road to Perdition, 2002
Rooster Cogburn, 1975
Simon Birch, 1998
This Boy’s Life, 1993
Wildcats, 1986