HBO NOW Highlights — October 2018

Photo: The Post (Credit: Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation). Please note this is a promotional photo for press only.

Autumn is here, so cozy up in your favorite fall sweater and tune into HBO’s phenomenal line-up of programming, including a stack of creepy theatricals just in time for Halloween.

October kicks-off with the premiere of HBO Films’ My Dinner with Hervé, which explores the unlikely friendship between struggling journalist Danny Tate (Jamie Dornan) and Hervé Villechaize (Game of Thrones’ Peter Dinklage), the world’s most famous knife-wielding French dwarf actor. New comedy series Camping debuts, starring Jennifer Garner and following a group of old friends who embark on a camping trip, sparking heightened emotions, latent tensions (sexual and otherwise) and memories they’d rather forget.

The hit political podcast Pod Save America comes to the network for a series of four specials and the boys are back on HBO with the special presentation of Flight of the Conchords: Live in London, performing their classics and new original songs before a sold-out audience at the Eventim Apollo in London. Plus, the third season of Animals. and the fourth season of hit comedy series Ballers come to a close this month.

Documentary highlights include landmark documentary Queen of the World, which offers unique insights into Her Majesty The Queen’s role as a figure on the global stage, Stolen Daughters: Kidnapped by Boko Haram, The Sentence, a searing look at the consequences of mandatory minimum sentencing, and RX Early Detection: A Cancer Journey with Sandra Lee.

Theatrical premieres include blockbuster hits like Academy Award®-nominee for Best Picture The Post starring Meryl Streep, Game Night with Rachel McAdams, and Maze Runner: The Death Cure. Early Man, Lowriders and Fifty Shades Darker also start on HBO this month along with terrifying theatricals perfect for Halloween such as House of 100 Corpses, The Descent, The Descent: Part 2, The Devil’s Rejects, and The Lost Boys.

A coven’s worth of scary movies will leave HBO at the end of the month (available through Halloween, highlighted below for easy reference), plus classics like E.T. The Extra Terrestrial and Good Will Hunting.

Photos: Queen Elizabeth II (Credit: Samir Hussein/WireImage ©Getty Images/HBO); My Dinner with Herve (Credit: Peter Iovino/HBO)

Photos: Camping (Credit: Anne Marie Fox/HBO); Animals (Credit: HBO). Please note these are promotional photos for press only.

Original Programming:
HBO First Look: First Man (10/1)
Queen of the World (10/1)
Student Athlete (10/2)
Entre Nos: A Stand-Up Comedy Special (10/5)
RX Early Detection: A Cancer Journey with Sandra Lee (10/8)
Flight of the Conchords: Live in London (10/6)
Pod Save America (10/12)
The Sentence (10/15)
HBO First Look: Hunter Killer (10/16)
My Dinner with Hervé (10/20)
Stolen Daughters: Kidnapped by Boko Haram (10/22)
HBO First Look: Bohemian Rhapsody (10/25)
Gente De Zona: En Letra De Otro (10/26)

Series Premieres:
Camping, Series Premiere (10/14)
Magnifica ’70, Season 3 Premiere (10/14)

Series Finales:
Animals, Season 3 Finale (10/5)
Ballers, Season 4 Finale (10/7)

Photos: Fifty Shades Darker (Credit: Universal Studios Pay Television, Inc); Maze Runner (Credit: Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation)

Photos: Game Night (Credit: Warner Bros. Inc.); The Descent (Credit: Lions Gate Films, Inc.). Please note these are promotional photos for press only.

Theatrical Premieres:
Early Man, 2018 (10/1)
Lowriders, 2017 (10/1)
Game Night, 2018 (10/6)
Maze Runner: The Death Cure, 2018 (10/13)
The Post, 2017 (10/27)

Estrenos:
El Abogada (AKA The Lawyer), 2016 (10/1)
La Gran Promesa (AKA The Big Promise), 2017 (10/12)
Las Giretas de jara (AKA Dark Buildings), 2018 (10/19)

Starting October 1:
A Perfect Getaway, 2009
Analyze That, 2002
The Cooler, 2003
Dances with Wolves (Extended Version), 1990
The Descent (Extended Version), 2006
The Descent: Part 2, 2010
The Devil’s Rejects (Director’s Cut), 2005
Fantastic Mr. Fox, 2009
Fifty Shades Darker, 2017
The Guru, 2003
House of 100 Corpses, 2003
House of D, 2005
The Human Stain, 2003
Inherent Vice, 2014
The Lost Boys, 1987
Man on Fire, 2004
The Midnight Meat Train (Unrated Version), 2008
Public Enemies, 2009
Romeo Must Die, 2000
The Singing Detective, 2003
Starter for 10, 2007
Taken (Unrated Version), 2009
Taking Woodstock, 2009
The Thin Red Line, 1998
Underworld (Unrated Version), 2003

Ending October 21:
Runaway Jury, 2003

Ending October 31:
Absolute Power, 1997
Avatar, 2009
The Beguiled, 2017
The Beguiled, 1971
The Book of Henry, 2017
Crazy Heart, 2009
E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial, 1982
Eurotrip, 2004
Garfield, 2004
Girls Trip, 2017
Good Will Hunting, 1997
Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs, 2009
In the Cut, 2003
Julia, 1977
Kill the Messenger, 2014
Man on the Moon, 1999
My Life Without Me, 2003
Nine to Five, 1980
O, 2001
The Postman, 1997
The Theory of Everything, 2014

Photo: ET (Credit: Universal Pictures). Please note this is a promotional photo for press only.

Scary Movies Available to Stream on Halloween (Ending October 31);
AVP: Alien vs Predator, 2004
Alien: Covenant, 2017
Damien: Omen II, 1978
The Final Conflict, 1981
The Fly II, 1989
From Hell, 2001
The Hand That Rocks the Cradle, 1992
Hannibal, 2001
Incarnate, 2016
The Last House on the Left, 2009
The Mummy, 1999
The Mummy Returns, 2001
Omen IV: The Awakening, 1991
The Omen, 1973
Predator, 1987
Predator 2, 1990
The Scorpion King, 2002
The Silence of the Lambs, 1991

Photos (L-R): Bram Stoker’s The Mummy (Credit: Unapix Entertainment, Inc.); The Silence of the Lambs (Credit: Orion Pictures Corporation); The Devils Rejects (Credit: Lions Gate Films, Inc.). Please note these are promotional photos for press only.

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