{"id":252193,"date":"2026-07-16T16:30:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T16:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/16\/3-new-hbo-max-movies-to-watch-this-weekend-july-17-19-marc-by-sofia-and-more\/"},"modified":"2026-07-16T16:30:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T16:30:11","slug":"3-new-hbo-max-movies-to-watch-this-weekend-july-17-19-marc-by-sofia-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/16\/3-new-hbo-max-movies-to-watch-this-weekend-july-17-19-marc-by-sofia-and-more\/","title":{"rendered":"3 New HBO Max Movies to Watch This Weekend (July 17-19): \u2018Marc by Sofia\u2019 and More"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/media-network\/hbo-max\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">HBO Max<\/a> continues to kill it in July by adding a steady stream of new movies and TV shows that make the high subscription cost worth it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/watch-with-us\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Watch With Us<\/a> can barely keep up, but we\u2019ve selected a few new films you should watch over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>At the top of the list is <em>Marc by Sofia<\/em>, a fascinating new documentary about renowned fashion designer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrities\/marc-jacobs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Marc Jacobs<\/strong><\/a> by Oscar-winning director <strong>Sofia Coppola<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>If high fashion isn\u2019t your thing, go lowbrow and spend some time with <strong>Brendan Fraser<\/strong> and a horde of undead zombies in <em>The Mummy<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>School\u2019s out for most people, but we recommend you enroll for two hours and watch <em>Up the Down Staircase<\/em>, an unjustly neglected film about a new teacher who struggles to connect with her students in an inner-city high school.<\/p>\n<h2>\u2018Marc by Sofia\u2019 (2026)<\/h2>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Marc by Sofia | Official Trailer HD | A24\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Ae8qAH0CZv4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Marc Jacobs<\/strong> is one of the world\u2019s most successful \u2013 and famous \u2013 fashion designers, but few know him quite like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrities\/sofia-coppola\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Sofia Coppola<\/strong><\/a>. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/entertainment\/news\/scarlett-johansson-on-bill-murrays-misconduct-allegations-change\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Lost in Translation<\/em> filmmaker<\/a> first met Jacobs in the early \u201890s, and they\u2019ve been friends for over 30 years. It\u2019s that friendship that takes center stage in the documentary Marc by Sofia, which showcases Jacobs\u2019 evolution as a designer and gives a glimpse into his creative process \u2013 and provides insight into Coppola\u2019s as well.<\/p>\n<p>Set primarily during the lead-up to Fashion Week in 2024, <em>Marc by Sofia<\/em> probes its subject\u2019s early years as an upstart dressmaker at Perry Ellis to his controversial period as Louis Vuitton\u2019s creative director. But the film transcends traditional biography by showing Jacobs putting together his collection and staging his runway show, which is set in a large room with an oversized table and chair.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4378232\" style=\"width: 900px;\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\">\n<div class=\"ratio-based-placeholder\" style=\"padding-bottom:56.285714285714%;\"><\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span class=\"caption\"><br \/>\n Marc Jacobs in Marc by Sofia.<\/span> <span class=\"credit\">A24 \/Courtesy Everett Collection<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The result is a fascinating exploration of what makes an artist tick; for Jacobs, it\u2019s memories of hanging out with his grandmother and their shared love for film icon<a href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrities\/elizabeth-taylor\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong> Elizabeth Taylor<\/strong><\/a>. For Coppola, it\u2019s Jacobs himself, and this documentary showcases both designer and filmmaking as one-of-a-kind artists who frequently share the same muse \u2013 each other.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hbomax.com\/movies\/marc-by-sofia\/a6d0faad-acce-4c87-80e9-ef541e6e4e9d\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Marc by Sofia<\/em> is streaming on HBO Max.<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>\u2018The Mummy\u2019 (1999)<\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4246853\" style=\"width: 900px;\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\">\n<div class=\"ratio-based-placeholder\" style=\"padding-bottom:56.285714285714%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-4246853\" src=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/The-Mummy-Movie.jpg?w=1000&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all\" alt=\"The cast of The Mummy\" width=\"1000\" height=\"563\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/The-Mummy-Movie.jpg?w=100&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 100w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/The-Mummy-Movie.jpg?w=200&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 200w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/The-Mummy-Movie.jpg?w=300&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 300w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/The-Mummy-Movie.jpg?w=400&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 400w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/The-Mummy-Movie.jpg?w=500&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 500w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/The-Mummy-Movie.jpg?w=600&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 600w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/The-Mummy-Movie.jpg?w=700&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 700w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/The-Mummy-Movie.jpg?w=800&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 800w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/The-Mummy-Movie.jpg?w=900&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 900w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/The-Mummy-Movie.jpg?w=1000&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 1000w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/The-Mummy-Movie.jpg?w=1200&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 680px) calc(100vw - 6em), (max-width: 1000px) 80vw, 1000px\"\/><\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span class=\"caption\"><br \/>\n The cast of The Mummy<\/span> <span class=\"credit\">Universal Pictures<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><em>Lee Cronin\u2019s The Mummy<\/em> debuted on HBO Max earlier this month, but those looking for undead thrills should beware \u2013 it\u2019s not really a mummy movie. For ancient beings wrapped in gauze, you\u2019re better off watching 1999\u2019s <em>The Mummy<\/em>, an action-adventure that combines Old Hollywood horror thrills with modern-day (well, for 1999) CGI spectacle.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrities\/brendan-fraser\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Brendan Fraser<\/strong><\/a> stars as treasure hunter Rick O\u2019Connell, who is hired by brother-sister duo Evelyn (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrities\/rachel-weisz\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Rachel Weisz<\/strong><\/a>) and Jonathan (<strong>John Hannah<\/strong>) to find an ancient Egyptian artifact. In the process, they unwittingly awaken Imhotep (<strong>Arnold Vosloo<\/strong>), a cursed high priest who was buried alive because of his affair with the Pharaoh\u2019s mistress, Anck-su-namun (<strong>Patricia Vel\u00e1squez<\/strong>). A now supernaturally powerful Imhotep has only one goal \u2013 to resurrect Anck-su-namun, and the only way to do that is by sacrificing Evelyn.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Mummy<\/em>\u2019s plot is creaky and the effects haven\u2019t aged well, but the film remains giddy fun that evokes memories of \u201880s classics like <em>Raiders of the Lost Ark<\/em> and<em> The Goonies<\/em>. Fraser pioneered the snarky action hero long before <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrities\/chris-pratt\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Chris Pratt<\/strong><\/a>\u2019s Star-Lord in the <em>Guardians of the Galax<\/em>y films, and he makes Rick an everyman who can\u2019t believe he\u2019s fighting undead mummies in 1920s Egypt. Weisz and Hannah are also good as two English twits who can\u2019t help but be excited by all the danger around them, while Vosloo is appropriately intimidating as a pissed-off Mummy.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hbomax.com\/movies\/mummy\/a6112596-204c-434e-aed6-3e3fcb88c31d\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>The Mummy<\/em> is streaming on HBO Max.<\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"news-block\">\n<div class=\"newsletter-form  \">\n\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/themes\/us-weekly\/assets\/img\/newsletter-bg-narrow.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"newsletter-form__background background-narrow\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\n\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/themes\/us-weekly\/assets\/img\/newsletter-bg-wide.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"newsletter-form__background background-wide\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"newsletter-signup__success\" aria-live=\"polite\">\n<h3>Thank You!<\/h3>\n<p>You have successfully subscribed.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<h2>\u2018Up the Down Staircase\u2019 (1967)<\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4378230\" style=\"width: 900px;\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\">\n<div class=\"ratio-based-placeholder\" style=\"padding-bottom:82.857142857143%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-4378230\" src=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/up-the-down-staircase.jpg?w=1000&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all\" alt=\"Sandy Dennis in Up the Down Staircase\" width=\"1000\" height=\"828\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/up-the-down-staircase.jpg?w=100&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 100w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/up-the-down-staircase.jpg?w=200&amp;quality=55&amp;strip=all 200w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/up-the-down-staircase.jpg?w=300&amp;quality=55&amp;strip=all 300w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/up-the-down-staircase.jpg?w=400&amp;quality=55&amp;strip=all 400w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/up-the-down-staircase.jpg?w=500&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 500w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/up-the-down-staircase.jpg?w=600&amp;quality=40&amp;strip=all 600w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/up-the-down-staircase.jpg?w=700&amp;quality=40&amp;strip=all 700w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/up-the-down-staircase.jpg?w=800&amp;quality=55&amp;strip=all 800w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/up-the-down-staircase.jpg?w=900&amp;quality=78&amp;strip=all 900w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/up-the-down-staircase.jpg?w=1000&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 1000w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/up-the-down-staircase.jpg?w=1200&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 1200w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/up-the-down-staircase.jpg?w=1400&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 1400w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/up-the-down-staircase.jpg?w=1600&amp;quality=70&amp;strip=all 1600w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/up-the-down-staircase.jpg?w=1800&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 1800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 680px) calc(100vw - 6em), (max-width: 1000px) 80vw, 1000px\"\/><\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span class=\"caption\"><br \/>\n Sandy Dennis in Up the Down Staircase.<\/span> <span class=\"credit\">Everett<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Sylvia Barrett (<strong>Sandy Dennis<\/strong>) is a recent graduate student who is just starting her career as a public high school teacher in New York City. Yet on her first day at Calvin Coolidge High School, she discovers a classroom filled with shattered windows, broken desks and over two dozen unruly teenagers. That sets the stage for an eventful year for Sylvia, who has to contend with a crumbling education system and fellow teachers who don\u2019t seem to care what happens to their students. Sylvia does, especially with the intelligent but delinquent Joe (<strong>Jeff Ferone<\/strong>), but can she devote enough time and energy to him \u2013 and the rest of her class \u2013 to ensure they have some hope for a bright future beyond high school?<\/p>\n<p>Inspirational teacher stories are largely a clich\u00e9 by now, but <em>Up the Down Staircase<\/em> is one of the few films to portray the harsh reality of being an inner-city school teacher without resorting to easy sentimentality. Largely shot on location in Harlem, the film looks and sounds authentic, and most of the student extras were actual students. Dennis is superb as a young teacher who is disillusioned by her everyday reality but has enough hope to try to change it, one student at a time.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hbomax.com\/movies\/up-the-down-staircase\/5121f50f-aec4-4ebf-aa02-e059155b688b\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Up the Down Staircase<\/em> is streaming on HBO Max.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/entertainment\/news\/3-new-hbo-max-movies-to-watch-this-weekend-july-17-19-26\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HBO Max continues to kill it in July by adding a steady stream of new movies and TV shows that make the high subscription cost worth it. Watch With Us can barely keep up, but we\u2019ve selected a few new films you should watch over the weekend. 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