

The service costs $14.99 a month, and new members can receive a free seven-day trial. To watch "The Witches" when it's released on October 22, you'll need an HBO Max subscription. "The Witches" will look to capitalize on Halloween excitement with the holiday just days away and much of the world still practicing social distancing. also released "Scoob!" to home audiences after cancelling a May theater release and made it available to HBO Max subscribers in June.

Streaming premieres for several of its films this year. "The Witches" was originally planned for a theatrical release, but the coronavirus pandemic has led Warner Bros. Spencer's character and her grandson (played by Jahzir Bruno) come across a witch conference at an Alabama hotel and eventually discover the witches' plot to turn children into mice. This reimagining of "The Witches" is set in the American south during 1967, while Dahl's novel was published in 1983 and set in England.
