Adult Swim News: HBO MAX Details September 2020 Acquisitions ; Toonami ; “Rick and Morty”
Adult Swim’s Toonami lineup will be replacing Ballmastrz: 9009 with that of Assassination Classroom kicking off August 30th @ 1 am ET/PT, check your local listings.
Synopsis:
Forget about homework and pop quizzes. The students of Class 3E have a far more important assignment: kill their teacher before the end of the year!
A Queens NYC drive-in theater is doing a screening of two Rick and Morty episodes starting September 6th @ 730 pm ET. Tickets are $45. This will take place at the New York Hall of Science. Get additional details here.
Synopsis:
This beloved, Emmy Award-winning animated series follows genius scientist and misanthropic, self-centered Rick and his nervous teenage grandson Morty as they dimension-hop to universes where snakes rule, cars sneeze, daylight savings time doesn’t exist, and pizzas eat people. In this rare theatrical screening, we present a pair of key episodes from the second and fourth seasons. You can watch Season 4 on Adult Swim and catch up now on Seasons 1-3 on HBO Max!
HBO MAX has announced a slew of acquisitions for Adult Swim content starting September 1st and you can see which ones you are getting below:
- Ballmastrz: 9009
- Black Dynamite
- The Brak Show
- Harvey Birdman: Attorney at Law
- Lazor Wulf
- Moral Orel
- Sealab 2021
- Squidbillies
- Superjail!
- Tigtone
"There are also other characters that come and go (also owned by the Warner Bros. Discovery conglomerate media company)."
Huh. Is that just referring to other characters from the show itself, or is this implying that the new season is going to have cameos from other WBD IPs