It isn’t often that a new film in a franchise that has been around since the 1960s finds a way to not only be good, but also be relevant. It’s even harder in a franchise like that to follow on the heels of perhaps the most beloved and acclaimed trilogy within the series and not let fans down. But that’s exactly what the latest installment in the Planet of the Apes saga was able to pull off last year, and now it’s available on HBO Max‘s streaming lineup for even more fans to enjoy.
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Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes just made its way to HBO Max, after being available exclusively on Hulu for quite a while. This is the 10th film in the franchise and, somehow, it’s easily in the top half in terms of its quality. Any Apes fan will tell you this is a movie that is better than it has any right to be.
After the two Matt Reeves movies completely reinvented the Planet of the Apes mythology and set a new standard for franchise filmmaking, it seemed like a fruitless effort to simply continue the saga so soon. But director Wes Ball’s Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes proved quickly to be a worthy successor to the Caesar era of the Apes films, even if it didn’t quite hit the same highs as the previous two installments.
Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes takes the series one step closer to the fully realized ape world that was discovered in the original 1968 film, showing off full societies that were born out of the teachings and triumphs of Caesar. The film made nearly $400 million at the global box office, as good a launch for the next era as anyone could have hoped.
Now Streaming on HBO Max
This new Apes addition comes a couple of weeks after Dawn for the Planet of the Apes was added to the HBO Max lineup. A day before that, on November 1st, the streamer brought in dozens of new titles for subscribers to watch. You can check out the complete list of those November 1st arrivals below.
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
A Christmas Carol (1938)
A Christmas Story
A United Kingdom
A Woman’s Face
Alex Cross (2012)
Backfire
Beasts of the Southern Wild
Betrayed (1954)
Brick Mansions
Crime Wave
Dangerous Liaisons
Deception (1946)
Desperate
Destination Tokyo
Dillinger
Each Dawn I Die
Elf
Four Christmases
Happy Feet
Hellboy (2004)
House of 1000 Corpses
I Was a Communist for the F.B.I.
Ice Age: Continental Drift
Invisible Stripes
Johnny Angel
Kingsman: The Golden Circle
Marine Raiders
Marked Woman
Monster-In-Law
Murder, My Sweet
National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation
Nocturne
Norm of the North
Objective, Burma!
Out of the Fog
Out of the Past
Puss In Boots
Red Light
Red Riding Hood
Roadblock
Screaming Eagles
Sucker Punch
The Bride of Frankenstein
The Devil’s Rejects
The Devil’s Rejects: Director’s Cut
The Kitchen, Season 39 (Food Network)
The Locket
The Man I Love
The Mask of Dimitrios
The Polar Express
The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946)
The Public Enemy
The Roaring Twenties
The Set-Up
The Town
The Unsuspected
The Wolfman
The Women (1939)
They Live by Night
They Were Expendable
Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo
This Woman Is Dangerous
Where Danger Lives
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