It seems like just yesterday we were anticipating all the high-profile video game adaptations coming to movie theaters and streaming services in 2023, and one of the biggest is already almost here: HBO Max’s The Last of Us, based on the 2013 PlayStation post-apocalyptic zombie-adjacent survival adventure…thing.
The series follows two survivors of a fungal apocalypse that has killed most of the world’s population and turned them into mindless cannibals (isn’t that always the way). Joel (The Mandalorian’s Pedro Pascal) is a smuggler tasked with protecting a young girl, Ellie (Bella Ramsey, the scene-stealing Lyanna Mormont from Game of Thrones) for unknown but ultimately world-shattering reasons. From Craig Mazin, creator of HBO’s Chernyobl, and game developer Naughty Dog’s Neil Druckmann, the show looks to capture the original’s grim vibes of isolation and survival. What I’m saying is, if you found last year’s “everyone is dead in the future” HBO drama Station Eleven too uplifting, this is the show you’ve been waiting for.
Also arriving this month: Velma (Jan. 12), an animated reboot of the nearsighted, orange sweater-loving Scooby-Doo character voiced by Mindy Kaling. No word yet on whether the series makes the original show’s subtext, er, text; for that, you have to watch the recent Trick or Treat Scooby Doo!
Here’s everything else coming to (and leaving) HBO Max in January, including The Climb (Jan. 12), a Jason Mamoa-hosted reality competition series about competitive rock climbing; just watching the trailer gave me vertigo. Titles with (HBO) next to them are available on HBO and HBO Max; everything else is exclusive to HBO Max.
What’s coming to HBO Max in January 2023
Table of Contents
Date TBA
- Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel, Season 29 Premiere (HBO)
Arriving Jan. 1
- 20 Feet From Stardom, 2013 (HBO)
- American Hustle, 2013
- American Ultra, 2015 (HBO)
- At Middleton, 2013 (HBO)
- Back to School, 1986 (HBO)
- Batman and Superman: Battle of the Super Sons, 2022
- Black Butterfly, 2017 (HBO)
- Captain Phillips, 2013 (HBO)
- Catch a Fire, 2006 (HBO)
- Child’s Play, 2019 (HBO)
- Cold Pursuit, 2019 (HBO)
- Cops and Robbersons, 1994 (HBO)
- Coup de torchon, 1981
- Crocodile Dundee, 1986 (HBO)
- Crocodile Dundee II, 1988 (HBO)
- Crocodile Dundee In Los Angeles, 2001 (HBO)
- Cruising, 1980 (HBO
- )Death Warrant, 1990 (HBO)
- Dim Sum Funeral, 2008 (HBO)
- Dom Hemingway, 2013 (HBO)
- Every Secret Thing, 2014 (HBO)
- Extortion, 2017 (HBO)
- Fool’s Gold, 2008 (HBO)
- Flashpoint, 2007 (HBO)
- From Here to Eternity, 1953
- Gemini, 2017 (HBO)
- Geronimo: An American Legend, 1993
- Ghostbusters, 1984
- Ghostbusters II, 1989
- Hereditary, 2018 (HBO)
- Hoodlum, 1997 (HBO)
- Insidious: Chapter 2, 2013
- Jennifer Eight, 1992 (HBO)
- John Wick, 2014
- John Wick: Chapter 2, 2017
- John Wick: Chapter 3 — Parabellum, 2019
- Jumping the Broom, 2011
- Jury Duty, 1995 (HBO)
- Kill the Irishman, 2011 (HBO)
- Kusama: Infinity, 2018 (HBO)
- Law Abiding Citizen, 2009 (HBO)
- Lawrence of Arabia, 1962
- Line of Duty, 2019 (HBO)
- Marley & Me, 2008 (HBO)
- Matilda, 1996Nine, 2009 (HBO)
- Oasis: Supersonic, 2016 (HBO)
- Our Idiot Brother, 2011
- Piranha 3D, 2010 (HBO)
- Piranha 3DD, 2012 (HBO)
- Planet 51, 2009
- Precious Cargo, 2016 (HBO)
- Quartet, 2012 (HBO)
- Regression, 2015 (HBO)
- Rememory, 2017 (HBO)
- Sarah’s Key, 2010 (HBO)
- Skate Kitchen, 2018 (HBO)
- Stephen King’s Graveyard Shift, 1990 (HBO)
- Stephen King’s Silver Bullet, 1985 (HBO)
- Support the Girls, 2018 (HBO)
- Teen Wolf, 1985 (HBO)
- Teen Wolf Too, 1987 (HBO)
- The Artist, 2011 (HBO)
- The Book of Life, 2014 (HBO)
- The Brink, 2019 (HBO)
- The Cabin in the Woods, 2012 (HBO)
- The Company Men, 2010 (HBO)
- The Cookout, 2004
- The Crying Game, 1992 (HBO)
- The Guilty, 2021 (HBO)
- The Haunting, 1999 (HBO)
- The Homesman, 2014 (HBO)
- The Hunter, 2011 (HBO)
- The Iron Lady, 2011 (HBO)
- The Last Face, 2016 (HBO)
- The Lobster, 2015 (HBO)
- The Master, 2012 (HBO)
- The Perfect Score, 2004 (HBO)
- The Promise, 2016 (HBO)
- The Taking of Pelham One Two Three, 1974 (HBO)
- The Unborn, 2009 (HBO)
- The Whole Ten Yards, 2004 (HBO)
- This Boy’s Life, 1993 (HBO)
- This One’s for the Ladies, 2018 (HBO)
- Urge, 2016 (HBO)
- USS Indianapolis: Men of Courage, 2016 (HBO)
- Vendetta, 2022 (HBO)
- When We Were Kings, 1996
- White Chicks, 2004 (HBO)
- Wild Rose, 2018 (HBO)
- Woman at War, 2018 (HBO)
- Zero Dark Thirty, 2012
Arriving Jan. 3
Arriving Jan. 6
- DC’s Stargirl, Season 3
- The Nun, 2018 (HBO)
- Who’s Talking to Chris Wallace?, Season 2
Arriving Jan. 8
Arriving Jan. 10
- Horrible Bosses 2, 2014 (HBO)
Arriving Jan. 11
- In With the Old, Season 3
Arriving Jan. 12
- Blended, 2014 (HBO)
- The Climb, Max Original Series Premiere
- Velma, Max Original Series Premiere
Arriving Jan. 13
- The Big Soirée (El Gran Sarao), Max Original Premiere
- I Don’t Like Driving w/t (No Me Gusta Conducir), Max Original Premiere
Arriving Jan. 15
- The Last of Us, Series Premiere (HBO)
Arriving Jan. 17
- Batman and Superman: Battle of the Super Sons
- Sesame Street Mecha Builders, Season 1E
- USWNT @ New Zealand #1, Live Sports
Arriving Jan. 20
- Game Theory with Bomani Jones, Season 2 Premiere (HBO)
- Real Time with Bill Maher, Season 21 Premiere (HBO)
- The Cabin Chronicles, Season 3
- USWNT @ New Zealand #2, Live Sports
Arriving Jan. 23
- YOLO: Silver Destiny, Season 2
Arriving Jan. 25
- USMNT vs Serbia, Live Sports
What’s leaving HBO Max in January 2023
Leaving Jan. 3
- Bachelor in Paradise, Seasons 4-6
- Bachelor Pad, Season 1
- The Bachelor Winter Games
- The Bachelor, Season 21
- The Bachelor, Season 24
- The Bachelor, Season 25
- The Bachelorette, Season 11
- The Bachelorette, Season 14
- The Bachelorette, Season 15
- The Bachelorette, Season 16
Leaving Jan. 6
- Christmas Eve on Sesame Street
- Elmo Saves Christmas
- Once Upon a Sesame Street Christmas
- A Sesame Street Christmas Carol
Leaving Jan. 19
Leaving Jan. 20
- The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It, 2021 (HBO)
Leaving Jan. 21
Leaving Jan. 23
- Alvin and the Chipmunks, 2007 (HBO)
Leaving Jan. 25
- Babylon 5
- What I Like About You, 2002
Leaving Jan. 27
- In the Heights, 2021 (HBO)
- The Hangover Part III, 2013 (HBO)
Leaving Jan. 28
Leaving Jan. 31
- 12 Years a Slave, 2013 (HBO)
- Abduction, 2011 (HBO)
- Amityville 3-D, 1983 (HBO)
- Amityville II: The Possession, 1982 (HBO)
- Aquaman (1967)
- At Close Range, 1986 (HBO)
- At First Sight, 1999 (HBO)
- Bananas, 1971 (HBO)
- Batman: The Brave and the Bold
- Biker Boyz, 2003 (HBO)
- Boogie, 2021 (HBO)
- Borg vs. McEnroe, 2018 (HBO)
- Care Bears: Unlock the Magic
- Cellular, 2004 (HBO)
- The Champ, 1979
- Chinatown, 1974 (HBO)
- Chocolate City, 2015 (HBO)
- Chopped: Holiday
- Chopped: Thanksgiving
- Code of Silence, 1985 (HBO)
- Confidence, 2003 (HBO)
- Daybreakers, 2010 (HBO)
- Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, 2016
- Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald, 2018
- Fools Rush In, 1997
- Gang Related, 1997 (HBO)
- Good Deeds, 2012 (HBO)
- Head of the Class (1986)
- Holiday Baking Championship, Season 7
- Holiday Baking Championship, Season 8
- Horsemen, 2009 (HBO)
- Hyde Park on the Hudson, 2012 (HBO)
- I, Robot, 2004 (HBO)
- Jeff, Who Lives at Home, 2012 (HBO)
- John Wick, 2014
- John Wick: Chapter 2, 2017
- John Wick: Chapter 3 — Parabellum, 2017
- Jurassic Park, 1993 (HBO)
- Jurassic Park III, 2001 (HBO)
- Justice League
- Justice League Unlimited
- Kick-Ass 2, 2013 (HBO)
- Land, 2021 (HBO)
- Le Divorce, 2003 (HBO)
- Life of Pi, 2012 (HBO)
- Little Men, 2016 (HBO)
- Macbeth, 2015 (HBO)
- Much Ado About Nothing, 1993 (HBO)
- The New Adventures of Old Christine
- The Next Karate Kid, 1994
- Nostalgia, 2018 (HBO)
- Rango, 2011 (HBO)
- Riddick, 2013 (Director’s Cut) (HBO)
- Rules of Engagement, 2000 (HBO)
- Running Scared, 1986(HBO)
- School Ties, 1992 (HBO)
- Solaris, 2002(HBO)
- Soul Food, 1997 (HBO)
- Source Code, 2011
- Suite Francaise, 2014 (HBO)
- Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, 2007 (HBO)
- The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl, 2005 (HBO)
- The Book Thief, 2013 (HBO)
- The Care Bears Movie, 1985 (HBO)
- The Con Is On, 2018 (HBO)
- The Core, 2003 (HBO)
- The Dead Zone, 1983 (HBO)
- The Help, 2011 (HBO)
- The Lost World: Jurassic Park, 1997 (HBO)
- The Next Three Days, 2010 (HBO)
- The One I Love, 2014 (HBO)
- The Possession, 2012 (Extended Version) (HBO)
- The Untouchables, 1987 (HBO)
- Thirteen, 2003 (HBO)
- Transcendence, 2014 (HBO)
- Two Can Play That Game, 2001
- West Side Story, 1961 (HBO)
- Zero Dark Thirty, 2012