WarnerMedia CEO Reveals When Will ‘The Batman’ Arrive on HBOMax

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During this year, following the negative impact of the pandemic of COVID-19 on the movie industry, Warner Bros. released all of its major movies in theaters and on HBOMax simultaneously, trying to prevent further delays, and to give the audience a chance to see the movies regardless if they can or cannot visit theaters.

But, regardless of best intentions, this strategy of releasing movies wasn’t very successful for WarnerMedia. Not only that most of the movies were box office disappointments, even for the current pandemic era standards, but considering HBOMax still isn’t available in most of the world, WB decided to abandon this strategy for 2022.

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Earlier this year, after Disney released Black Widow and Jungle Cruise in theaters and on Disney+ simultaneously, they saw that wasn’t the right approach. Starting with Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, Disney decided to release the movie in theaters, and give it a 45-day theatrical release window before launching the movie on the streaming service.

According to WarnerMedia CEO Jason Kilar, WB will try to use the same strategy during the next year. Kilar didn’t specify if that strategy will apply to all of their upcoming movies, but he confirmed that fans can expect the upcoming DC movie The Batman on HBOMax on the 46th day after its premiere in theaters. Since The Batman will premiere in theaters on March 4, that means we can expect it on the streaming service around April 19, 2022.

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“Think about when movies would show up on HBO, which is eight to nine months after theatrical premiere. The Batman is going to show up on day 46 on HBO Max. That is a huge change from where things were in 2018, 2017, 2016.” — Jason Kilar for Vox’s Recode

Directed by Matt Reeves, and starring Robert Pattinson in the titular role, The Batman will premiere exclusively in theaters on March 4, 2022.

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Lukas Abramovich is a freelance writer and photo and video editor based in Croatia. He's also a web designer and holds a Master’s degree in general Computer Science from the Faculty of Informatics based in Pula, Croatia. Since 2018, Lukas has worked on several portals writing about movies, TV shows, and video games. He's currently writing articles for two of them: Fiction Horizon and Comic Basics. He also has a YouTube channel in his native language, and the content there is mostly reviewing popular movies and TV shows. Lukas also has an Instagram page where he once used to post fan-made posters he made, which is something he would like to continue working on, as photo and video editing are also some of his passions. Lukas is a big movie lover who is okay with watching any kind of movie. His favorite movie is Michael Curtiz's Casablanca, but he's a loyal follower of Marvel and DC movies, as well as several other blockbuster franchises he's been following for years; Star Wars, Fast & Furious, Mission: Impossible, and James Cameron's Avatar are only some of them. His favorite director is Christopher Nolan, with Quentin Tarantino and Denis Villeneuve as honorable mentions. Lukas is also a big fan of four fantasy multimedia franchises; The Wizarding World, A Song of Ice and Fire, The Witcher, and The Lord of the Rings. He calls them "the four rulers of the fantasy genre." He loves to write about anything spawned from those franchises (books, games, movies...), as well as anything branded with the Marvel or DC logo. Video games and their adaptations are also something he follows faithfully since he's a big fan of story-driven single-player games like Assassin's Creed, The Last of Us, Uncharted, etc. His favorite video game ever is Red Dead Redemption 2.