Release date: October 23, 2025 on HBO Max.
Synopsis: After their journey through the multiverse, Fionna and Cake tackle new adventures while Huntress Wizard embarks on a desperate quest with fatal consequences.
Executive produced by Adam Muto.
Main voice cast:
Madeleine Martin as Fionna Campbell
Roz Ryan as Cake the Cat
Ashly Burch as Huntress Wizard
Release date: October 2, 2025 on HBO Max.
Synopsis: Charlotte’s Web tells the heartwarming story of friendship, hope, and the power of simple acts of kindness through the bond between Wilbur, a gentle pig, and Charlotte, a wise and selfless spider who vows to save him.
The three-part special is produced by Sesame Workshop and animated by Guru Studios.
Luke Matheny serves as showrunner, executive producer and writer, alongside director Yurie Rocha.
Release date: October 19, 2025 on Adult Swim. Next day on HBO Max.
Synopsis: Join the Campbell boys, three doting teenagers and their tenderhearted dad, as they live, laugh, love their way into your living rooms.
They’re big dudes with big feelings who are learning to navigate life in the wake of their mother’s death, sensing her presence in everyday adventures.
Created by Joe Cappa.
Release date: October 5, 2025 on Adult Swim. Next day on HBO Max.
Synopsis: Season three of Smiling Friends finds Pim, Charlie, Flint and the whole gang going absolutely bonkers once again, diving headfirst into their ultimate quest to spread joy upon the land.
We’ll see a bunch of unexpected stuff here such as Mr. Frog running full speed at the camera, the team finally collecting all the spirit gems they need, and a totally epic showdown spectacle with an Ancient Witch of some sort.
Created by Zach Hadel and Michael Cusack.
Adult Swim has also renewed the series for a fourth and fifth season.
HBO Max and GKIDS have extended and expanded their partnership, adding twenty more films from award-winning filmmakers to the streaming platform.
On September 1, the following films will premiere on HBO Max:
Children Who Chase Lost Voices – Directed by Makoto Shinkai
Fireworks – Directed by Akiyuki Shinbo and Nobuyuki Takeuchi
Fortune Favors Lady Nikuko – Directed by Ayumu Watanabe (North American Streaming Debut)
Ghost Cat Anzu – Directed by Yôko Kuno and Nobuhiro Yamashita (North American Streaming Debut)
Lonely Castle in the Mirror – Directed by Keiichi Hara (North American Streaming Debut)
Love & Pop – Directed by Hideaki Anno (North American Streaming Debut)
The Place Promised in Our Early Days – Directed by Makoto Shinkai
Your Name. – Directed by Makoto Shinkai (4K Streaming Debut)
Release date: August 30, 2025 on Cartoon Network. Next day on HBO Max.
Synopsis: Set 500 years before the rise of Iyanu, The Age of Wonders transports viewers to Yorubaland at the height of its magical civilization.
When Meje — the embodiment of the seven deadly sins — emerges, young warriors Dara and Ishe must stop the coming Age of Darkness.
Their only hope lies with the Divine Ones, legendary beings who once walked the earth and upheld the balance between light and shadow.
Iyanu: The Age of Wonders is the first of two movies set in the Iyanu universe.
Directed by Roye Okupe.
Written by Roye Okupe and Brandon Easton.
Release date: August 17, 2025 on Adult Swim. Next day on HBO Max.
Synopsis: Women Wearing Shoulder Pads follows Marioneta, a proud wealthy Spaniard living in 1980s Quito, Ecuador. There she encounters a diverse group of eccentric and ambitious women navigating the complicated worlds of love, family, and cuys.
The stop-motion series, created by Gonzalo Cordova, features an all-woman cast and is produced entirely in Spanish with English subtitles.
US release date: July 28, 2025 on Hulu.
International release date: October 6, 2025 on Cartoon Network and HBO Max.
Synopsis: Whether he’s battling an evil fast-food empire, facing off against a sentient AI in love with his mom, or trying to stop Banana Joe from wearing pants, Gumball Watterson drags his brother Darwin, sister Anais, and the rest of the town of Elmore along for the ride.
The Amazing World of Gumball returns for a seventh season with a new title, The Wonderfully Weird World of Gumball.
Created by Ben Bocquelet.
Release date: July 20, 2025 on Adult Swim. Next day on HBO Max.
Synopsis: In Robot Chicken: Self-Discovery Special, the Robot Chicken Nerd embarks on a journey of self-discovery by going on reality TV. The special is packed with sketches that spoof Discovery, Food Network and TLC series.
Created by Seth Green and Matthew Senreich.
Robot Chicken celebrated its 20th anniversary this February. It has won six Emmys, most recently in 2022 for “Outstanding Short Form Animated Program.”
Season 2 release date: Spring, 2026 on Cartoon Network and HBO Max.
Feature film release date: August 30, 2025 on Cartoon Network. Next day on HBO Max. The second movie will premiere in 2026.
Season 2 synopsis: Iyanu continues to master her powers as she finds herself in the middle of a conflict between Elu and the People of the Deep, led by a new opponent.
With various factions of Yorubaland vying for powerful divine artifacts that have reemerged, Iyanu strives to find a way to end the war and restore peace.
As Team Chosen reunites and tensions rise between old allies and foes, Iyanu must confront even more powerful threats from the Age of Wonders — including secrets buried deep within her own past.
Created by Roye Okupe, based on his graphic novel series Iyanu: Child of Wonder.
US release date: July 28, 2025 on Hulu.
International release date: October 6, 2025 on Cartoon Network and HBO Max.
The Amazing World of Gumball returns for a seventh season with a new title, The Wonderfully Weird World of Gumball.
Synopsis: Whether he’s battling an evil fast-food empire, facing off against a sentient AI in love with his mom, or trying to stop Banana Joe from wearing pants, Gumball Watterson drags his brother Darwin, sister Anais, and the rest of the town of Elmore along for the ride.
Created by Ben Bocquelet.
Directed by Matt Layzell and Erik Fountain.
US release date: May 25, 2025 on Adult Swim. September 1, 2025 on HBO Max and Hulu.
Season 8 synopsis: Look out for adventures with Summer, Jerry, Beth, and the other Beth. Maybe Butter Bot will get a new task? Whatever happens, you can’t keep Rick and Morty down for long. People have tried!
US release date: May 25, 2025 on Adult Swim. September 1, 2025 on HBO Max and Hulu.
Season 8 synopsis: Look out for adventures with Summer, Jerry, Beth, and the other Beth. Maybe Butter Bot will get a new task? Whatever happens, you can’t keep Rick and Morty down for long. People have tried!
U.S. release date: March 6, 2025 on HBO Max. The series premiered in Canada and the UK in 2024.
Synopsis: In Dylan’s Playtime Adventures, Dylan is eager to play pretend in every career. Whether it’s a doctor, a pizza chef, a sea caption or a hair stylist, there’s no adventure too big or too small.
Armed with nothing but a few props and three fantastic friends, Dylan shows kids the best of play and improv, as he “yes ands” his way through madcap adventures, empowering kids to trust their hearts, imaginations and each other.
Based on the books by Guy Parker-Rees.
Release date: April 5, 2025 on Adult Swim, next day on HBO Max.
Synopsis: The year is 2052. The world looked to be on the verge of an unprecedented era of peace and stability, and the painkiller drug “Hapna” developed by a lauded neuroscientist Dr. Skinner had a lot to do with it.
Hapna spread throughout the world as a “miracle drug” with no side effects, freeing humanity from pain. Until, that is, Skinner suddenly disappears off the face of the earth. When he reemerges after three years, it is as a devil who brings countless deaths and the end of civilization.
Hapna turns out to be a drug that has a fatal, retroactive effect, one that appears three years after first taking it; it was a death-trap for anyone who took it, even once. Humanity will start dying off in 30 days. The only way to save the world is to acquire the cure that only Skinner holds.
“Lazarus” is a team of five agents gathered from various corners of the world to do just that. Can they save humanity? And what is Skinner’s true purpose?
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