" The concert was filmed in one take and aired on Cinemax under the title Roy Orbison and Friends, A Black and White Night ; it was released on video by Virgin Records, selling 50, 000 copies.

During the network's first decade on the air, Cinemax had also aired some original music programming, during the mid-to-late 1980s, upon the meteoric rise in popularity of MTV, Cinemax tried its hand at airing music videos by airing an interstitial between films called Max Tracks, it also ran music specials under the banner Cinemax Sessions during that same time period.

The mid and late 1980s also saw Cinemax include a very limited amount of television series on its schedule including the sketch-comedy series Second City Television ( whose U. S. broadcast rights Cinemax had acquired from NBC in 1983 ) and the science fiction series Max Headroom ( which had also aired on ABC from 1987 to 1988 ).

From 1992 to 1997, Cinemax aired one movie each day of the week that would be centered around a certain genre, represented by various pictures that would play in a specialized feature presentation bumper before the start of the movie ; the symbols included: Comedy ( represented by an abstract face made up of various movie props, with the mouth open to look like it is laughing ), Suspense ( represented by a running man silhouette ), Premiere ( represented by an exclamation point caught in spotlights ), Horror ( represented by a skull ), Drama ( represented by abstract comedy & tragedy masks ), Vanguard ( represented by a globe ), Action ( represented by a machine gun ) and Classic ( represented by a classic movie-era couple embracing and kissing ).

On August 12, 2011, Cinemax launched its original programming content outside of the licensed Max After Dark programming, with the addition of action-oriented series targeted at males 18-49, to its primetime schedule ; on that date, Cinemax debuted its first mainstream original program, the U. S. premiere of the British action series Strike Back ( first-run episodes of the series aired by Cinemax during its 2011 season were from the show's second season, the series originally debuted on Sky1 in the United Kingdom, which Home Box Office, Inc ./ Cinemax partnered with to produce the series after the conclusion of its first season, in 2010 ).

In the U. S., the film was released to DVD in January 2007 and later aired on premium-television, multiplex channels: Cinemax in September 2007 and HBO in January 2008.

Shadoevision was an episode of " The Cinemax Comedy Experiment " that first aired in 1986, and was repeated on Weird TV in 1995.

After the film aired on the HBO / Cinemax “ Reel Life ” series, Kirkman was nominated for an Emmy Award ( Documentary Writing Category ).

In 2010, the premium Cinemax channel was converted into an ad-supported basic cable movie channel, while two new premium channels ( Max and Max HD ) followed Cinemax's league by airing independent films, European movies, etc.

Additionally, there is a public television service operated by Televiziunea Română with four channels ( TVR 1, TVR 2, TVR Cultural and TVR i ) and there are many localized or franchised international channels ( such as HBO, MTV, Cinemax, AXN, Cartoon Network ).

Cinemax is operated by Home Box Office, Inc., a subsidiary of Time Warner.

Cinemax original logo when launched in 1980 ; it was used until 1985, and by that time was used in conjunction with another logo introduced that year.

Cinemax launched on August 1, 1980 as HBO's answer to The Movie Channel ( at the time, The Movie Channel was owned by Warner-Amex Satellite Entertainment, a joint venture between Time Warner predecessor Warner Communications and American Express ; that channel is now owned by CBS Corporation through its Showtime Networks unit ).

Movies were the most sought-after program category by cable subscribers, and the fact Cinemax would show classics without commercials and editing made the channel an attractive add-on for HBO subscribers.

First, the channel opted to carry more violent fare that HBO would only show at night, and then Cinemax decided it could compete by airing more adult-oriented movies that contained nudity and strong sexual content.

In 2001, Cinemax began to change its feature film focus from a channel that airs second-run feature films that previously were broadcast by sister channel HBO before their Cinemax debut, to one that premieres select blockbuster and lesser-known theatrical films before their HBO debut.

Animation, New Line Cinema and Castle Rock Entertainment, all of which are owned by Cinemax corporate parent Time Warner's Warner Bros. Entertainment division ), DreamWorks Animation ( which lasts until 2013, at which time the Netflix streaming service will assume pay-TV rights ), 20th Century Fox ( and subsidiaries 20th Century Fox Animation and Fox Searchlight Pictures ) and Universal Studios ( and subsidiaries Universal Animation Studios, Working Title Films, Illumination Entertainment and Focus Features ).

Starting in 2013, Cinemax will also obtain rights to films distributed by Summit Entertainment through a four-year licensing agreement with HBO that will run until 2017, upon the expiration of Summit's exclusive licensing deal with Showtime.

Usually films which HBO has pay-cable rights to will also run on Cinemax during the period of its term of license, although some feature films from the aforementioned studios that Cinemax and HBO have broadcast rights to make their premium television debut on Cinemax several weeks before its premiere on HBO.

Cinemax has also ran since 1992, an annual film festival called The Summer of 1000 Movies, in which the channel claims to run 1000 films ( many with a similar subject ) over the course of each summer.

* Nemesis ( TV series ), a British-American TV-television spy drama from BBC and Cinemax

Unlike HBO ( and most cable and over-the-air broadcast channels already on the air at the time it launched ), Cinemax broadcast 24 hours a day from the day it signed on the air ( HBO had only broadcast about nine hours of programming a day from 3 p. m. to midnight ET until September 1981, when it began broadcasting a 24-hour schedule on weekends until midnight ET on Sunday nights ; it did not start airing 24 hours on weekdays until December 28 of that year ).

By the mid-2000s, the classic films from the 1960s and earlier that had been broadcast on Cinemax from its launch were relegated to some of its multiplex channels, and have become prominent on its multiplex service, 5StarMax.

Today, a large majority of mainstream films featured on Cinemax are from the 1990s to present, with some films from the 1970s and 1980s included on the schedule.

A year later, research from Nielsen Media Research showed that multiplex delivery of HBO and Cinemax had positive impact on subscriber usage and attitudes, including subscribers ’ retention of pay cable subscriptions.

ET ; originally known as " Cinemax 2 " from 1991 until 1998.

ET ; originally known as " Cinemax 3 " from 1995 to 1998.

Cinemax ( through HBO ) also shows sub-runs ( runs of films that have already received broadcast network / syndicated television releases ) of theatrical films from Paramount Pictures ( usually those released prior to 1997 ), Universal Pictures, Walt Disney Motion Pictures Group ( including Walt Disney Pictures, Touchstone Pictures and Miramax ), Sony Pictures Entertainment ( including Columbia Pictures and TriStar Pictures ), Twentieth Century Fox ( select films from all five studios are shared with Starz and Encore ), Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, DreamWorks Pictures ( those made prior to the 2010 shift of film distribution rights from Paramount to Touchstone Pictures ), and Lionsgate Entertainment.

Cinemax had for some time continued to air films from the 1950s, ' 60s and ' 70s in the morning hours, but these movies for the most part have since been relegated to MoreMax and 5StarMax.

* Cinemax ( unofficially known as Max ), an American premium television network

Cinemax, sometimes abbreviated as simply " Max ", is a collection of premium television networks that broadcasts primarily feature films, along with softcore erotica, original action series, documentaries and special behind-the-scenes features.

One of only two Cinemax channels that does not air Max After Dark content.

One of only two Cinemax channels that does not air Max After Dark content.

On September 13, 2010, Cinemax launched Max Go, a website which features 700 hours of content available for streaming in standard or high definition, at no additional charge to Cinemax subscribers.

In August 2011, Cinemax introduced a new logo in line with promotional efforts for Strike Back, with a diagonal-cut yellow line with uppercase black " CINEMAX " lettering ; only the " MAX " portion is used for Cinemax on Demand and Max Go ( for both services, a tilted black box is added next to the yellow / black " MAX " to fit either " OD " " on demand " or " GO "), along with the linear multiplex channels ( for the multiplex channels, the prefix titles for each channel are added before it with no line treatment ).

Max Headroom doing a promotion for the Cinemax.

DishOnline is Dish Network's subscriber-only streaming video service, which includes HBO and Cinemax programming.

In 1983, the Weinsteins and Lewis produced an 80-minute sequel TV special for HBO / Cinemax later released on home video by Media Home Entertainment titled The Secret Policeman's Private Parts.

Since the rise in popularity of home video in the 1980s, however, most softcore films have been restricted to home video releases or overnight timeslots on premium channels such as Cinemax, Showtime, and Multipremier, and production values have dropped.

The advent of such cable television networks as HBO, Cinemax, Showtime and The Movie Channel ( all of which broadcast theatrical films on cable before they appear on commercial television ), along with the emergence of various home video formats, led to the decline of theatrical films regularly airing on network TV.

This version was never released on any consumer video format and only broadcast, first on Cinemax, later on MTV and other TV channels.