New looks at The Suicide Squad, Mortal Kombat and more in HBO Max trailer

Warner Bros. is continuing forward with its plan to release its 2021 slate of movies on both HBO Max and into theaters on the same day, no matter what directors it ticks off. And it wants to make sure you know the movies are coming, as it highlighted several in a new trailer released today. Check it out:

We’ve glimpses there of  The Suicide Squad, Godzilla vs Kong, Those Who Wish Me Dead, Mortal Kombat, The Many Saints of Newark, the Lin-Manuel Miranda musical In The Heights, Reminiscence, The Little Things, Judas and the Black Messiah, Tom & Jerry: The Movie, The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It, Cry Macho, King Richard, Space Jam: A New Legacy, Malignant and even The Matrix 4, which has a logo but no footage.

Dune in there too, which means that Warner Bros. must be confident that it can get around Legendary’s objections to the duel-release approach to the movie. Either that or someone’s gonna file a lawsuit in the next couple minutes.

Will The Suicide Squad, Mortal Kombat, Dune and others help put HBO Max on top?

While it’s still not on the level of Disney+, to say nothing about Netflix, the fortunes of HBO Max have been improving of late, and the plan to release movies directing to the streaming service is part of a plan to keep that going. The question is whether it will be worth alienating some of those big-name directors, but for all we know, that squall has already passed.

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And of course, HBO Max has plenty coming on the TV front, too:

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h/t Digital Spy