2017 is flying by, and with its next chapter comes a fresh batch of movies and TV shows arriving and departing on HBO Now. Time to find out what’s going to capture our eyeballs and ear drums in October.
First and foremost, we’re looking forward to Larry David’s triumphant return in season nine of Curb Your Enthusiasm. The long-running comedy will return all of its core cast members, including Cheryl Hines, Jeff Garlin, Susie Essman and J.B. Smoove, and if its recent trailer is any indication, L.D. will be as delightfully irascible as ever in Curb’s reunion, which means we’re in for a pretty, pretty, pretty good season. Beyond that, HBO’s incoming original programming for October doesn’t lack for interesting entries, such as the Oct. 7 debut of Spielberg, an in-depth, career-spanning documentary on the eponymous director, as well as the Oct. 20 return of Emmy-winning sketch-comedy series Tracey Ullman’s Show, and the season one finales of both the Duplass brothers’ anthology series Room 104 (Oct. 13) and David Simon’s already-renewed porn-industry drama The Deuce (Oct. 29).
Just in time for Halloween, HBO is adding a couple of freaky films to its arsenal, including American horror story The Purge: Election Year, David F. Sandberg’s directorial debut Lights Out, M. Night Shyamalan’s shocking return to form Split, and Fifty Shades Darker (Unrated Version), which is freaky in an entirely different way. Other movies soon to stream on HBO Now include unbelievably underrated naval epic Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World, action trilogy middle child John Wick: Chapter 2, and a pair of stone-cold classics in The Terminator and The Sandlot.
As for what’s leaving HBO in October, you still have time to catch Spike Lee classic Do the Right Thing, John Hughes’ indispensable teen tales The Breakfast Club and Sixteen Candles, Spielberg’s razor-sharp Philip K. Dick adaptation Minority Report, early-’90s Clint Eastwood Western Unforgiven, and one of the best unintentional comedies ever made: Shymalan’s The Happening. Get to it, streamers.
See HBO Now’s full slate of incoming and outgoing programming below.
Original Programming:
Spielberg (10/7)
HBO First Look: Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (10/30)
Entre Nos, Part 2 (10/13)
Tokyo Project (10/14)
Tracey Ullman’s Show (10/20)
Season Premieres:
Curb Your Enthusiasm, Season 9 Premiere (10/1)
La vida secreta de las parejas, Series Premiere (10/16)
Season Finales:
Vice, Season 5 Finale (10/13)
Room 104, Season 1 Finale (10/13)
The Deuce, Season 1 Finale (10/29)
Theatrical Premieres:
The Resurrection of Gavin Stone, 2017 (10/1)
The Darkness, 2016 (10/1)
The Shack, 2017 (10/1)
Rock Dog, 2017 (10/1)
The Purge: Election Year, 2016 (10/1)
Lights Out, 2016 (10/1)
Fifty Shades Darker (Unrated Version), 2017 (10/14)
John Wick: Chapter 2, 2017 (10/21)
Split, 2017 (10/28)
Estrenos:
One Halloween, 2016 (10/1)
Un Lugar en el Caribe (AKA A Place in the Caribbean), 2017 (10/6)
Que Dios nos perdone (AKA May God Save Us), 2016 (10/20)
Starting October 1:
Australia, 2008
Constantine, 2005
Dead Presidents, 1995
Death Race, 2008
Eraser, 1996
Finding Neverland, 2004
Jackass: The Movie, 2002
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World, 2003
Monster’s Ball (Unrated Version), 2001
The Ninth Gate, 2000
The Pink Panther, 2006
Stuck on You, 2003
The Sandlot, 1993
The Sandlot 2, 2005
The Terminator, 1984
Wanted, 2008
X-Men Origins: Wolverine, 2009
Ending October 31:
Appaloosa, 2008
August Rush, 2007
Babylon A.D., 2008
The Breakfast Club, 1985
Breaking Away, 1979
The Cell, 2000
Clockers, 1995
Crooklyn, 1994
Do the Right Thing, 1989
Earth Girls Are Easy, 1989
Hairspray, 2007
The Happening, 2008
Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay, 2008
Independence Day: Resurgence, 2016
Indignation, 2016
Last Man Standing, 1996
Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates, 2016
Minority Report, 2002
Mo’ Better Blues, 1990
Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising, 2016
Notorious, 2009
The Peanuts Movie, 2015
Sixteen Candles, 1984
The Sweetest Thing, 2002
Unforgiven, 1992
Victor Frankenstein, 2015