It’s the first day of summer, and you can celebrate the occasion by scheduling time to stay in the air-conditioned indoors to watch all the stuff that’s coming to HBO Now next month. HBO’s standalone streaming service has just rolled out its July offerings, which include the airless Jem And The Holograms film adaptation as well as movies and TV shows you’ll actually want to watch.
Straight Outta Compton, Suffragette, Blackhat, and Our Brand Is Crisis join Jem in the recent releases slate, balanced by older favorites like Ghost, Jackie Brown, Ali, and The Neverending Story. But next month is far more notable for its TV premieres: On July 10, HBO is debuting The Night Of miniseries, an adaptation of Criminal Justice that stars John Turturro, Riz Ahmed (Rogue One, Four Lions), and Michael K. Williams. Then on July 17, Danny McBride’s Vice Principals will be in session; the ribald comedy stars McBride and Walton Goggins as ultra-competitive educators who really want Bill Murray’s (fictional) job.
Elsewhere on HBO Now, and Jason Bourne and Absolutely Fabulous followers will get their First Looks at those movies in mid-July, while Looking fans will get some much needed closure when executive producer Andrew Haigh’s film/coda premieres on July 23. Plenty of movies are leaving HBO Now in July, including Freddy Got Fingered, in case you want to watch that movie without going to jail.
Season and series premieres:
The Night Of, Series Premiere, 7/10
HBO First Look: Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie, July 12
Ballers, season two premiere, July 17
Vice Principals, series premiere, July 17
Open Your Eyes, July 18
HBO First Look: Jason Bourne, July 20
Looking: The Movie, July 23
Recent releases:
Jem and the Holograms, July 1
Vice, July 1
Suffragette, July 2
Blackhat, July 3
Black Mass, July 9
Straight Outta Compton, July 16
Our Brand Is Crisis, July 23
The 33, July 30
Starting July 1:
28 Weeks Later
A Perfect Murder
Dave Chapelle’s Block Party
Dirty Harry
Dumb and Dumber
Dumb and Dumber To
Ghost
Iceman
Jackie Brown
Joy Ride
Love Potion No. 9,
National Treasure
Not Another Teen Movie
The Bourne Ultimatum
The Neverending Story
The Secret Garden,
Stargate
Stargate: The Ark of Truth
Stargate: Continuum
Van Wilder: National Lampoon’s
Last Chance:
Freddy Got Fingered, leaves July 19
Leaving July 31:
Ali
All the Pretty Horses
As Above/So Below
Beerfest
Cheech & Chong’s Next Movie
The Divergent Series: Insurgent
Evan Almighty
Get Shorty
Kiss the Girls
A Little Chaos
The Longest Ride
Magnolia
My Big Fat Greek Wedding
Pathfinder
The Piano
Scream
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Transformers
The Water Diviner
What Happens in Vegas