Los Angeles: The fans of Harry Potter can get
to binge watch the exploits of the Boy Who Lived on HBO's NOW
for free.
The streaming service will screen all the eight movies
for a month without any charge to the new subscribers,
Entertainment Weekly reported.
The development comes after the basic cable rights to
exhibit the movies were earned by NBCUniversal (from Disney)
last August. This was to be followed up with plans to screen
the movies on Syfy and USA later this year.
HBO and Warner Bros, the studio behind the franchise, are
both owned by Time Warner Cable.
The franchise based on J K Rowling's bestseller eight-
part book series on the boy wizard, the first movie, "Harry
Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" released in 2001.
The success of the films launched the careers of lead
actors Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson and Rupert Grint.
It also led to a spin-off, "Fantastic Beasts and Where to
Find Them", which released last year, with its sequel,
starring Johnny Depp, Eddie Redmayne and Jude Law, to be
released on November 16.
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