HBO Max is shooting for the stars this August in every sense of the word.
Many of the new movies and shows the streamer is set to debut this month feature a bounty of stars from the past and present, like Anne Hathaway in the 2026 psychological thriller Mother Mary and Nicole Kidman and Sandra Bullock as witchy sisters in the 1998 classic Practical Magic.
Its highest profile show, however, is about two space cops investigating a very Earth-bound mystery. Lanterns is another reimagining of the popular DC superhero Green Lantern, with Kyle Chandler as Hal Jordan and Aaron Pierre as John Stewart.
Continue reading to find out all the new movies and shows that are coming to HBO Max in August.
August 1
Amy
Barbarian
Bells Are Ringing
Billy Budd
Blockers
Epic
Flipper’s New Adventure
Great White Highway
Hall Pass
Hall Pass: Enlarged Edition
Happy Feet Two
It Comes At Night
Macao
Miss Sloane
Mojave
Murder on the Orient Express (2017)
Orphan
Practical Magic
Put A Ring On It: Cheat Hab
Quo Vadis
Road House (1989)
Sicario
Smart Money
Stand by Me
Strike Up the Band
Taxi!
The Band Wagon
The Crimson Pirate
The Fighting 69th
The Kennel Murder Case
The Rain People
The Sea Chase
The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm
The Wrong Man
The Yearling
Thresher Shark: Stun to Kill
Tusk
Who’s That Knocking at My Door?
You Can’t Get Away with Murder
August 3
Naked And Afraid: Shipwrecked – Season 1
August 4
Chopped: Volume 4 – Season 64
Hard Knocks: Training Camp with the Seattle Seahawks
August 6
Monsters of God
August 7
Georgie & Mandy’s First Marriage – Season 1
House Hunters International: Volume 9 – Season 215
House Hunters: Volume 11 – Season 260
The Invisible Guest
The Strangers: Chapter 2
August 8
Belle Collective – Season 8
August 9
Heart & Hustle: Houston – Season 2
August 10
Double Lives of Suburban Wives – Season 1
August 11
The Salisbury Poisonings: A Spy Next Door
August 12
Signs of a Psychopath – Season 11
August 13
Building Giants – Season 5
Faster With Newbern and Cotten – Season 3
Isadora Moon – Season 1D
Most Extreme Humans – Season 1
August 14
Normal
Whitmer Thomas: Terminal Crew of Dudes
August 16
Lanterns – Season 1
Aaron Pierre and Kyle Chandler in Lanterns. John Johnson/HBO Max
August 17
Thanksgiving (2023)
August 20
ER: Caught On Camera – Season 1
Expedition X – Season 12
August 21
Conan O’Brien Must Go – Season 3
Mother Mary
August 22
Abbott Elementary – Season 5
August 24
Margarita: Make Your Story Count – Season 3
August 25
“Ben Sasse is Coming Home: Lessons in Life and Death” with Jake Tapper, The Whole Story with Anderson Cooper
August 26
1000-lb Roomies – Season 2
Bobby’s Triple Threat – Season 5
Homestead Rescue: Intervention – Season 1
August 27
Totally ’90s House – Season 1
August 28
House Hunters: Volume 11 – Season 261
The Producer – Season 1
August 30
Enter Nowhere
Holla
Knock Knock
The Cabin in the Woods
The Strangers: Chapter 1
The Strangers: Prey at Night
August 31
Big Burger Battle – Season 1
The Robot Chicken Adult Swim Special
