The unscripted ‘Friends’ Reunion Special will feature all six (6) main stars - Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, Matt LeBlanc, Matthew Perry and David Schwimmer - as well as series creators David Crane and Marta Kauffman. The Reunion Special, along with the entire ‘Friends’ library will be available to stream when HBO Max launches at a date to be determined in May.
All six (6) cast members revealed the official news on Friday 21st February 2020 by simultaneously posting the below photo on their respective Instagram accounts with the caption “It’s happening...”
According to The Hollywood Reporter:
Sources tell The Hollywood Reporter that the cast, who all negotiated together, will earn more than double their former per-episode fee for the reunion and be paid between $2.5 million and $3 million for the special. The cast famously renegotiated their salaries together during the show's original run to earn a then-historic $1 million per episode of the scripted comedy.
Netflix has previously been the home of the entire ‘Friends’ library for the past couple of years, where it has grown in popularity and found new audiences. However, it left the U.S streaming service at the end of 2019 and will now make its debut on the WarnerMedia-backed HBO Max when that U.S $15 monthly subscription platform launches in May.
Sources say WarnerMedia paid U.S $85 Million per year for five (5) years (U.S $425 Million) to reclaim the streaming rights of ‘Friends,’ ultimately outbidding Netflix, which previously paid between U.S $80 - $100 Million to keep ‘Friends’ on its service through 2019. The ‘Friends’ Reunion Special will be filmed on Stage 24 of the Warner Bros. Studio lot in Burbank, California, where the entire series was filmed. Kevin Reilly, Chief Content Officer at HBO Max and President of TBS, TNT and truTV made the following comments about the official news: Guess you could call this the one where they all got back together — we are reuniting with David, Jennifer, Courteney, Matt, Lisa and Matthew for an HBO Max special that will be programmed alongside the entire Friends library.
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