Wonder Woman 1984, HBO Max and Decay

With Wonder Woman 1984 on HBO Max, WarnerMedia must navigate decay in streaming viewership and decay in cultural impact

It happened: Wonder Woman 1984 will be released on HBO Max on Christmas Day, and will stay on the service, free to subscribers, for one month.

To date, I have preferred to avoid answering the question of whether Wonder Woman 1984 would end up on HBO Max during the COVID pandemic. I think both distributing and marketing a blockbuster movie on a new stream…