Steven Spielberg’s $604M Sci-Fi Sensation Is Officially Leaving HBO Max
Steven Spielberg’s *War of the Worlds*, starring Tom Cruise, is leaving HBO Max on 1 November. The 2005 film remains Spielberg’s highest-grossing science-fiction release of the 21st century and adapts H.G. Wells’s novel as an alien invasion story with political overtones.
Made for a reported $130 million, it earned more than $600 million worldwide. Dakota Fanning and Tim Robbins also star as a family tries to survive the invasion; the film has a 76% critics’ score and a 42% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes.
- *War of the Worlds* leaves HBO Max on 1 November.
- The 2005 film earned more than $600 million worldwide.
- Critics’ and audience scores differ sharply on Rotten Tomatoes.