On 12 July at 9 pm HBO will air Erin Brockovich. Julia Roberts won an Oscar for playing the title role a couple of years ago.

The channel has also announced that it will launch its HBO Film Makers Festival. Every Wednesday till September, viewers can enjoy the cinematic creations of some of the leading Asian, American and European directors, who have managed to make a global impact with their successful foray into Hollywood .

In July, it’s HBO Film Makers Festival – The Asian Invasion with movies like Elizabeth. This marked Shekhar Kapur's crossover to Hollywood. The film earned a Best picture Oscar nomination.

On 7 July at 9 pm, HBO will air its own movie Disappearing Acts. Based on the novel by Terry McMillan this is a romantic drama about a struggling construction worker and an independent woman making a living as a teacher with a musical career about to take off, who must confront the financial and social challenges that test the strength of their love. It stars Wesley Snipes and Sanaa Lathan

Coming back to the film Erin Brockovich, the main protagonist in the film, Erin, had a tough life with two divorces, three young kids, no job and no luck. Working as a legal assistant, Erin, almost single-handedly brought down a major power company accused of polluting a city's water supply. A shady corporation that paid the neighbouring residents a tiny fee for their silence; after contaminating the local water supply and killing some residents; leaving others with terrible diseases.

The principal photography for the film was done in several small towns in California's Mojave Desert. These included Hinkley, where the actual contamination took place; Boron, home to both the Borax mines, where NASA frequently reroutes its shuttle landings; the Barstow courthouse, where Judge LeRoy A. Simmons, who officiated at the real pleading and discovery for the case, came out of retirement to re-enact for the movie cameras his decision, which sent the case further into the legal system.