What’s New On Max This July (2024)

Debuts July 2 at 9 p.m. ET
HARD KNOCKS: OFFSEASON WITH THE NEW YORK GIANTS
HBO Original Sports Unscripted Series
5 episodes

Logline: HARD KNOCKS: OFFSEASON WITH THE NEW YORK GIANTS will bring viewers inside the New York Giants organization as the team prepares for their highly anticipated 100th season. Camera crews will chronicle the team’s every move as general manager Joe Schoen and other members of the team’s front office and staff navigate the critical offseason period from January to July 2024, from the NFL Scouting Combine to free agency, to the NFL Draft, and team minicamps.

Credits: Hard Knocks, the recipient of 18 Sports Emmy^® Awards, has previously documented NFL training camps and the regular season. The longtime series is produced by the legendary team at NFL Films, a division of NFL Media owned and operated by the National Football League. Skydance Sports will be co-producing this all-new iteration with Liev Schreiber narrating.

Debuts July 10 at 9 p.m. ET
QUAD GODS
HBO Original Documentary

Logline: QUAD GODS is a high-stakes and heart-warming film that follows the lives of three New Yorkers with quadriplegia that meet in a neuro-rehabilitation lab where they create the world’s first-ever, fully quadriplegic e-sports team. As they navigate New York City, confronting challenges at every turn, they pursue their shared dream to compete as athletes while subverting assumptions about disability.

Credits: HBO Documentary Films presents QUAD GODS, a Loki Films Production. Directed by Jess Jacklin; produced by Johnny Fego and Jess Jacklin; executive produced by Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady.

Debuts July 11
TEEN TORTURE INC.
Max Original Documentary Series
3 Episodes

Logline: This arced documentary series follows on-going efforts to expose America’s “troubled teen” industry (TTI). For six decades and counting, this billion-dollar business has used what it calls “tough love” as a form of treatment despite numerous deaths, countless suicides, life-altering injuries, and instances of child sexual abuse. Until recently, nobody has been able to stop it. The series follows a recurring band of young survivors and whistleblowers and their harrowing first-hand accounts of extreme abuse and cult-like brainwashing at the hands of these programs, starting a social media firestorm in 2021. Survivors, including rap star Bhad Bhabie, are determined to take down this business once and for all. While they have seen impressive victories, the “troubled teen” industry has long been protected by power and is not going down without a fight.

Credits: Talos Films presents TEEN TORTURE INC.; directed produced by Tara Malone; executive produced by Julian P. Hobbs and Elli Hakami.

Debuts July 13 at 8 p.m. ET
FAYE
HBO Original Documentary

Logline: In FAYE, the first feature documentary of the Hollywood legend, Academy Award^®-winning actress Faye Dunaway candidly discusses the triumphs and challenges of her illustrious career, with breakthrough, Academy Award^®-nominated roles in “Bonnie & Clyde,” “Chinatown,” and “Network” – for which she won Best Actress in 1977 – while also reflecting on the film “Mommie Dearest,” which she views as a critical career misstep. Through those reflections, she courageously explores personal discoveries including her struggles with mental health issues and bipolar disorder, her family history growing up in a small town in Florida, and how the intensity of the characters she played still impacts who she is today. In addition to Faye, the film features interviews with her son Liam Dunaway O’Neill, as well as her colleagues and friends including Sharon Stone, Mickey Rourke, and James Gray.

Credits: HBO Documentary Films presents FAYE, an Amblin Documentaries Production in association with Nedland Media. Directed and produced by Laurent Bouzereau; produced by Markus Keith, Justin Falvey, and Darryl Frank; edited by Jason Summers; composer, Tyler Strickland; directors of photography, Travers Jacobs, Chris Johnson, Toby Thiermann.

Debuts July 17 at 9 p.m. ET
WILD WILD SPACE
HBO Original Documentary

Logline: WILD WILD SPACE chronicles the modern-day, celestial land grab happening above our heads. It’s a fast paced, high-stakes race of epic proportions in which companies compete to blast satellite-carrying rockets into low earth orbit. From exhilarating triumphs to gut-wrenching setbacks, we witness the fierce competition to tackle humanity’s next great frontier. However, beneath the shiny veneer of progress is the dark side of capitalism’s insatiable appetite for profit and the far-reaching reverberations of a world controlled from the skies.

Credits: HBO Documentary Films presents WILD WILD SPACE, a Zero Point Zero Production in association with Amblin Documentaries and Hyperobject Industries. Directed by Ross Kauffman; produced by Jaye Callahan, Ashlee Vance, Adam McKay, Todd Schulman, Justin Falvey, Darryl Frank, Christopher Collins, Lydia Tenaglia, and Craig H. Shepherd; executive produced by John Khoury, Maiken Baird, and Rachel Crane; For HBO: executive producers, Nancy Abraham, Lisa Heller, and Tina Nguyen.

Debuts July 18
KITE MAN: HELL YEAH!
Max Original Adult Animated Series
10 Episodes

Rollout: The season debuts with two episodes, followed by one new episode each week, concluding with the season finale on September 12.

Logline: Kite Man and Golden Glider take their relationship to the next level by opening a bar in the shadow of Lex Luthor’s Legion of Doom. Nobody said serving cold ones to the most dangerous rogues outside of Arkham Asylum would be easy, but sometimes you want to go where everybody knows your name, and how to hide a body.

Cast: Matt Oberg as Kite Man, Stephanie Hsu as Golden Glider, James Adomian as Bane, Natasia Demetriou as Malice, Janelle James as Queen of Fables, Jonathan Banks as Noonan, Keith David as Darkseid, Michael Imperioli as Joe/Moe Dubelz, Rory Scovel as Gus the Goon, Lance Reddick as Lex Luthor, and Judith Light as “Helen Villigan.”

Credits: Executive producers are Dean Lorey, Justin Halpern, Patrick Shumacker, Kaley Cuoco, and Sam Register. Based on the characters from DC. Production companies, Delicious Non-Sequitur, Lorey Stories, and Yes, Norman Productions in association with Warner Bros. Animation.

Debuts July 18 at 9 p.m. ET
THE COMMANDANT’S SHADOW
Documentary Film

Logline: THE COMMANDANT’S SHADOW follows Hans Jürgen Höss, the 87-year-old son of Rudolf Höss, as he faces his father’s terrible legacy for the first time. His father was the camp commandant of Auschwitz and masterminded the murder of over a million Jews. The life of Höss and his family was recently fictionalized in the Academy Award^®-winning “The Zone of Interest.” Now, THE COMMANDANT’S SHADOW tells the story of some of the real people who lived on-site at Höss’s concentration camp.

Credits: Warner Bros. Pictures in association with HBO Documentary Films presents a Snowstorm Productions presentation and a Creators Inc. production in association with New Mandate Films; written, produced, and directed by Daniela Völker; produced by Gloria Abramoff with Wendy Robbins, Neil Blair, Jonathan Blair, Matti Leshem, Joel Greenberg, Len Blavatnik, Danny Cohen, Sajan Raj Kurup, Jani Guest, and Jamie Jessop serving as executive producers.

Debuts July 19
LOVE LIES BLEEDING
A24 Film

Logline: From Director Rose Glass comes an electric new love story; reclusive gym manager Lou falls hard for Jackie, an ambitious bodybuilder headed through town to Vegas in pursuit of her dream. But their love ignites violence, pulling them deep into the web of Lou’s criminal family.

Cast: Kristen Stewart, Katy O’Brian, Jena Malone, Anna Baryshnikov, with Dave Franco and Ed Harris.

Credits: Written and directed by Rose Glass and Weronika Tofilska.

Debuts July 24 at 9 p.m. ET
CHARLIE HUSTLE & THE MATTER OF PETE ROSE
HBO Original Documentary Series
Four Episodes

Rollout: The series will be four episodes total, with two episodes debuting on July 24 and two episodes the following night. All four episodes will be available to stream on Max on July 24.

Logline: A four-part documentary series chronicling the life and career of Pete Rose, baseball’s all-time hits leader, who received a lifetime ban from the game after a Major League Baseball investigation revealed he bet on the Cincinnati Reds to win games during his time as manager of the team. CHARLIE HUSTLE & THE MATTER OF PETE ROSE provides intimate access to the polarizing former player as he embarks on a new bid for reinstatement in the MLB and a place in the National Baseball Hall of Fame.

Credits: HBO Sports Documentaries presents CHARLIE HUSTLE & THE MATTER OF PETE ROSE, a Bad Robot / Zipper Bros Films Production in association with Greg & Jeff Productions, Diamond Docs, & Sutter Road Picture Company. Directed and executive produced by Mark Monroe; executive producers J.J. Abrams, Sean Stuart, Glen Zipper, Rachel Rusch Rich, Greg Grunberg, Jeffrey Lenkov; producer, Maren Domzalski; field producer, Chris Krein; editor, James Leche; music by, David Schwartz; director of photography, Jake Swantko.

Debuts July 26
KNOX GOES AWAY
Film

Logline: Academy Award^® nominee Michael Keaton directs and stars in this unpredictable thriller as John Knox, a hit man attempting to make amends before his recently discovered dementia takes over. Aided by a trusted friend with his own shady past, Knox races against the police, and his own rapidly deteriorating mind, to save his estranged son from a vengeance-fueled mistake and “cash out” before it’s too late.

Cast: The film stars Academy Award^® nominee Michael Keaton, James Marsden, Suzy Nakamura, Joanna Kuligp, Academy Award^® winner Ray McKinnon, John Hoognakker, Lela Loren with Academy Award^® winner Marcia Gay Harden and Academy Award^®winner Al Pacino.

Credits: Directed by Michael Keaton. The screenplay is by Gregory Poirier. The film is produced by Michael Keaton, Trevor Matthews, p.g.a., Nick Gordon, p.g.a., Michael Sugar, p.g.a., and Ashley Zalta, p.g.a. The executive producers are Carter Stanton, Jillian Kay, Gregory Poirier, Wayne Carmona, Ali Jazayeri, David Gendron, Michael Hansen, Viviana Zarragoitia, William V. Bromiley, Shanan Becker, Jonathan Saba, Ness Saban, Ronald Richardson, Scott Lake, Nick Blasko, Eric London, Donald Povieng, Dina Randazzo, Nate Holthouser, and Andy Huang.