18 Facts About What’s Streaming On Prime Video In August
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We’re all tired. Tired of work. Tired of finding work. Tired of loneliness. Tired of relationships. Tired of life. It feels like a cycle of struggling to wake up, then struggling to get to sleep. But there is one constant throughout all of the tired feelings you may (or may not) have. No matter how tired you are, there will always be some form of entertainment on Prime Video.
If you struggle to wake in the morning, Prime Video is there to give you something to stimulate your brain alongside your coffee. If you struggle to sleep, Prime Video is there for you to gently tell you some video stories to whisk you to dreamland maybe. It’s now your mother. Submit to the Prime. ALL HAIL, PRIME!
Or it’s just another streaming platform with some new stuff to offer in August. Here are some facts about the new shows and movies coming to Prime Video this month.
500 Days of Summer
![August on prime video August 1 500 Days of sumer Summer wears something blue in nearly every scene she's in-not as foreshadowing or anything, but to bring out the natural blue in Zooey Deschanel's eyes. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/6/3/862363.jpg)
Source: Screen Rant
A League of Their Own
![August on prime video GRetA A League of August 12 Their Own The show will not try to retread the 1992 movie. There will be less focus on the coach, and the story will delve into race and sexuality. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/6/2/862362.jpg)
Source: Us Magazine
Sonic the Hedgehog 2
![August on prime video August 10 Sonic the Hedgehog 2 To thank the crew for their hard work, Jim Carrey raffled a Chevy Blazer RS mong all the crew members. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/5/3/862353.jpg)
Source: TMZ
Licorice Pizza
![August on prime video Licorice Pizza August 5 Alana Haim spent months learning how to drive a huge truck, rather than have a stunt double do it. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/6/0/862360.jpg)
Source: The Hollywood Reporter
Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story
![August on prime video August 1 Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story Over 100 songs were written for the movie over a period of six months (but only 50 were actually recorded). CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/5/8/862358.jpg)
More: 15 Behind-The-Scenes Facts About Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story
A Fish Called Wanda
![August on prime video A Fish August 1 Called Wanda Charles Critchton and John Cleese took five years to write the script, tossing ideas back and forth all the time. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/5/2/862352.jpg)
Source: The New York Times
Thief
![August on prime video Thief This modern classic by Michael Mann was Jim Belushi's first film. August 1 CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/4/6/862346.jpg)
Source: Film School Rejects
A.I. Artificial Intelligence
![August on prime video August 1 A.I. Artificial Intelligence Stanley Kubrick bought the film rights to the story all the way back in 1983, but didn't do the movie right away because he felt it'd be too expensive. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/4/7/862347.jpg)
Source: Los Angeles Times
Star Trek: Generations
![August on prime video Star Trek: August 1 Generations The movie had to be done in just six months to release it after the finale of Star Trek: The Next Generation. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/4/8/862348.jpg)
Source: Screen Rant
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
![August on prime video August 1 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid Paul Newman had to do his own bicycle stunts, as the stuntman wasn't able to pull them off. Director George Roy Hill was annoyed that they paid a stuntman to do nothing. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/5/7/862357.jpg)
Source: Mental Floss
Serpico
![August on prime video August 1 Serpico Dino De Laurentiis bought the film rights after reading 20 pages - which was in fact all that author Peter Maas had written up to that point. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/5/0/862350.jpg)
Source: Movie Moguls Speak: Interviews with Top Film Producers, by Steven Priggé (via Google Books)
Pet Sematary
![August on prime video August 1 Pet Sematary Stephen King was so freaked out by his own book, he didn't want to have it published. Не only agreed to release it to get out of a contract with Doubleday. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/4/9/862349.jpg)
Source: Entertainment Weekly
Kingpin
![August on prime video RHINO August 1 Kingpin Woody Harrelson and co-director Peter Farrelly were roommates for four years, back when Harrelson was doing Cheers. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/6/1/862361.jpg)
Source: Mental Floss
I Love You, Beth Cooper
![August on prime video Ke I Love You, August 1 Beth Cooper The picture of Beth Cooper in Paul Rust's bedroom comes from Bring It On: All or Nothing, another movie also starring Hayden Panettiere. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/5/6/862356.jpg)
Source: Movie Mistakes
Once
![August on prime video CITIZEN WE August 1 Once Writer/director John Carney outlined the entire movie in five minutes while sitting in a café - faster than you can drink a cup of hot coffee. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/5/4/862354.jpg)
Source: The Guardian
Ronin
![August on prime video August 1 Ronin Director John Frankenheimer intentionally let Sean Bean live, after toying with the idea of killing his character. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/5/5/862355.jpg)
Source: Film School Rejects
King Kong (1976)
![August on prime video August 1 King Kong $1.7 million was spent on a 40-foot tall animatronic ape-which never worked. Also, two giant gorilla hands were made - both of them right hands. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/5/9/862359.jpg)
Source: Den of Geek
Face/Off
![August on prime video August 1 Face/Off The movie was originally written for Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone. We were denied the chance of seeing the two impersonating each other. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/5/1/862351.jpg)
Source: Mental Floss