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Monday, February 25, 2019

New HBO Home Entertainment Titles Available in March 2019

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

NEW YORK, NY (February 25, 2019)

Available for Digital Download:
  • Swiped: Hooking Up in the Digital Age - Available for Digital Download 3/11/2019
  • O.G. - Available for Digital Download 3/25/2019
  • 2 Dope Queens Season 2 - Available for Digital Download 3/25/2019
  • Jane Fonda in Five Acts - Available for Digital Download 3/25/2019 & on DVD 3/26/2019
Available on DVD: 
  • Camping - Available on DVD 3/26/2019

AVAILABLE MARCH 11TH
Swiped: Hooking Up in the Digital Age (Digital Download)
Swiped: Hooking Up in the Digital Age looks across the entire landscape of online dating, offering startling revelations about this billion-dollar industry. The film features interviews with, among others: Jonathan Badeen, co-founder and CSO of Tinder; Whitney Wolfe Herd, founder and CEO of Hinge; and Mandy Ginsberg, CEO of Match Group, which owns Tinder, OkCupid and other dating sites.
AVAILABLE MARCH 25TH
O.G. (Digital Download)

Filmed in Indiana's Pendleton Correctional Facility, an active maximum-security prison, O.G. follows Louis (Jeffrey Wright), once the head of a prominent prison gang, in the final weeks of his 24-year sentence. His impending release is upended when he takes new arrival Beecher (Theothus Carter), who is being courted by gang leadership, under his wing. Coming to grips with the indelibility of his crime and the challenge of reentering society, Louis finds his freedom hanging in the balance as he struggles to save Beecher.
2 Dope Queens Season 2 (Digital Download)
The 2 Dope Queens return with some of their favorite stand-up comedians, including Rory Scovel, Solomon Georgio, Bowen Yang, Jamie Lee, Pat Brown and many more, along with celebrity guests, to talk music, nostalgia, fashion and how to be Regal AF. Throughout the four specials these Cocoa Khaleesis discuss their favorite childhood memories, how to curate the best sex playlist and their favorite fashion moments, all while serving LEWKS and delivering their signature hilarious banter.
Jane Fonda in Five Acts (Digital Download)
Girl next door, sex kitten, activist, fitness tycoon: Oscar-Winning Jane Fonda has lived a life marked by controversy, tragedy and transformation, and she's done it all in the public eye. Fonda has been vilified as Hanoi Jane, lusted after as Barbarella and heralded as beacon of the women's movement. This film goes to the heart of who she really is, a blend of deep vulnerability, magnetism, naiveté and bravery revealing a life transformed over time.

Jane Fonda in Five Acts will also be available on DVD on March 26th.
AVAILABLE MARCH 26TH
Camping (DVD)
Camping stars Jennifer Gardner and David Tennant as Kathryn and Walt, a not-so-happily married couple. A meticulously planned outdoor trip to celebrate Walt's 45th birthday is derailed by uninvited guests and forces of nature, turning the weekend in a test of marriage and friendships.

About HBO Home Entertainment®  
HBO Home Entertainment develops, distributes and markets an extensive array of critically-acclaimed and groundbreaking programs in three formats—Blu-ray™, DVD, and Digital Download—throughout the world.  Releases include the global hit Game of Thrones®, the #1 selling TV on DVD/Blu-ray™ title in major territories throughout the world over the past six years, in addition to current hits and classic favorites including True Detective®, Girls®, The Sopranos®, Sex and the City® True Blood®, The Wire® and Entourage®. The company’s catalog contains hundreds of titles including multiple Emmy® Award-winning limited series Big Little Lies® and Band of Brothers®, which holds the record through 2017 as the all-time best selling TV on DVD/Blu-ray™ title in the US; provocative programs from HBO Documentary Films including The Jinx: The Life & Deaths of Robert Durst and The Case Against 8; innovative movies from HBO Films including The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks and Wizard of Lies; hit Cinemax® original series including Banshee℠ and Strike Back®; and comedy specials featuring stand-up performers like Pete Holmes and  T.J. Miller.  Launched in 1984, HBO Home Entertainment has offices in New York, London and Toronto. The company’s releases are sold in more than 70 territories around the world and are digitally distributed on a transactional basis across an expanding number of territories and platforms. 

Thursday, August 30, 2018

"Swiped: Hooking Up in the Digital Age," An Eye-Opening Look at Online Dating Today, Debuts Sept. 10, Exclusively on HBO

"Swiped: Hooking Up in the Digital Age," An Eye-Opening Look at Online Dating Today, Debuts Sept. 10, Exclusively on HBO
The film looks across the entire landscape of online dating, offering startling revelations about this billion-dollar industry.
[via press release from HBO] "SWIPED: HOOKING UP IN THE DIGITAL AGE," AN EYE-OPENING LOOK AT ONLINE DATING TODAY, DEBUTS SEPT. 10, EXCLUSIVELY ON HBO

With more than 40 million Americans currently engaged in online dating, seeking hookups, relationships and love, meeting someone has never been easier. The options are endless - just turn on your phone.

After New York Times bestselling author Nancy Jo Sales wrote the 2015 Vanity Fair piece "Tinder and the Dawn of the Dating Apocalypse," she went deeper into the subject. In SWIPED: HOOKING UP IN THE DIGITAL AGE, she investigates the online dating industry's impact on gender issues, examining how it has changed the way people date, mate and think about the apps on their phones, and explores how the act of swiping affects the ability to find true and lasting connections. Directed and written by Sales, the timely film debuts MONDAY, SEPT. 10 (10:00-11:25 p.m. ET/PT), exclusively on HBO.

The documentary will also be available on HBO On Demand, HBO NOW, HBO GO and partners' streaming platforms.

SWIPED: HOOKING UP IN THE DIGITAL AGE looks across the entire landscape of online dating, offering startling revelations about this billion-dollar industry. The film features interviews with, among others: Jonathan Badeen, co-founder and CSO of Tinder; Whitney Wolfe Herd, founder and CEO of Bumble; Justin McLeod, founder and CEO of Hinge; and Mandy Ginsberg, CEO of Match Group, which owns Tinder, OkCupid and other dating sites.

Also featured are interviews with experts and academics, who provide social and historical context for the rapidly evolving nature of dating today, including: April Alliston, professor of gender and sexuality studies at Princeton; Adam Alter, social psychologist at New York University; David Buss, evolutionary psychologist at the University of Texas at Austin; Justin Garcia, research scientist at the Kinsey Institute; and Moira Weigel, dating historian at Harvard University.

At the heart of SWIPED: HOOKING UP IN THE DIGITAL AGE are the teens and twentysomethings who describe in intimate detail their experiences with online dating, the only type of dating many have ever known. Sales follows six young people of diverse backgrounds, ranging in age from 18 to 29, in four cities across America, as they try to find love and sex with the help - or hindrance - of online dating.

Their experiences run the gamut. Some of their stories reveal the complex attitudes and ramifications of a dating world where hooking up is just a picture swipe away. Several young women also discuss the dark side of online dating, including receiving unsolicited nude images, being targets of revenge porn and feeling pressured into having sex.

In industry surveys, 80% of dating app users say they are looking for a serious relationship, yet nearly the same percentage has never found a long-term connection on any swiping app. SWIPED: HOOKING UP IN THE DIGITAL AGE is a thought-provoking exploration of digital dating and whether it is meeting or thwarting the need to connect.

In addition to Vanity Fair, Nancy Jo Sales has written for Harper's Bazaar, the Guardian and other national publications. Her books include "American Girls: Social Media and the Secret Lives of Teenagers" and "The Bling Ring: How a Gang of Fame-Obsessed Teens Ripped Off Hollywood and Shocked the World."

SWIPED: HOOKING UP IN THE DIGITAL AGE is written and directed by Nancy Jo Sales; producers, Carly Hugo, Matt Parker and Nancy Jo Sales. For Consolidated Documentaries: executive producers, Graydon Carter and Annabelle Dunne. For HBO: executive producers, Lisa Heller and Jacqueline Glover.