18 Facts About What’s Streaming On Hulu In August
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What are you doing with yourself? Seriously, what’s wrong with you? Surely, you have better things to do than that thing you did. You know the thing. Don’t pretend you don’t know the thing. We all know very well the thing you did. We don’t know why you did it, but we know you did it. And there were so many other things you could have done instead of that thing.
You could have watched Hulu! It’s that one streaming service. No, the other one. No, the one that’s sorta owned by Disney but it’s not Disney+. Yeah, that one. You could have watched that one. There’s a lot of stuff you could have watched on Hulu. It would have killed more time than that thing you did. They're even adding new stuff onto it, too.
Here are some facts about the new-to-Hulu shows and movies being added to it this month.
Prey
![August on hulu August 5 Prey Amber Midthunder had no idea she was auditioning for a Predator movie. I knew that it was a film only about a young Comanche woman who wanted to be a hunter, she said. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/6/4/863664.jpg)
Source: Looper
The Muppets Take Manhattan
![August on hulu August 1 The Muppets Take Manhattan Joan Rivers and Miss Piggy were drunk. The scene wasn't clicking, so Frank Oz ordered Bloody Marys for him and Rivers. It loosened them up to get the performance they wanted. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/7/0/863670.jpg)
Source: NPR
Blazing Saddles
![August on hulu Blazing August 1 Saddles Alfred Hitchcock loved the movie. Hitchcock became friends with Mel Brooks, and praised him for the film. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/6/3/863663.jpg)
Source: The A.V. Club
The Shape of Water
![August on hulu August 14 The Shape of Water Guillermo del Toro pitched the movie to Sally Hawkins when he was drunk during the 2014 Golden Globes ceremony. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/6/5/863665.jpg)
Source: Screen Rant
Spider-Man
![August on hulu August 1 Spider-Man Organic web shooters were James Cameron's idea. Sam Raimi adopted that aspect from the treatment Cameron wrote in the 1990s. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/6/8/863668.jpg)
Source: Mental Floss
X-Men Origins: Wolverine
![August on hulu August 1 X-Men Origins: Wolverine Kodi Smit-McPhee (Nightcrawler in X-Men: Apocalypse) was supposed to play a young Wolverine, but had to drop out due to shooting commitments with The Road. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/6/6/863666.jpg)
Source: Moviefone
The Blair Witch Project
![August on hulu The Blair August 1 Witch Project The actors were encouraged to come up with their own lines to keep the film feeling natural and real. In lieu of an actual script, everyone involved worked from a 35-page treatment. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/6/7/863667.jpg)
Source: Screen Rant
Black Swan
![August on hulu August 1 Black Swan Natalie Portman recommended Mila Kunis for the job. Portman discovered Kunis did ballet as a child and convinced director Darren Aronofsky to talk to her. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/6/9/863669.jpg)
Source: Screen Rant
Pretty Woman
![August on hulu August 1 Pretty Woman The original ending was bleak, with Kit dying from an OD, and Edward kicking Vivian out of his car while tossing money at her for the weekend. This is the perfect argument for rewrites. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/5/9/863659.jpg)
Source: Collider
You've Got Mail
![August on hulu You've August 1 Got Mail The movie is based on the 1936 Hungarian play Parfumerie by Miklós László, about two bickering coworkers at a gift shop in Budapest who don't realize they're pen pals. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/6/0/863660.jpg)
Source: Mental Floss
Kindergarten Cop
![August on hulu August 1 Kindergarten Cop Arnold Schwarzenegger celebrated his 43rd birthday on set, with all the child actors singing Happy Birthday to him. Awww. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/5/8/863658.jpg)
Source: Eighties Kids
Hotel Transylvania
![August on hulu August 1 HOTEL TRANSYLVANIE INTERNT AUX HUMAINS Hotel Transylvania The movie is a Sandler family affair. Adam Sandler voiced Count Dracula, his wife Jackie voiced Dracula's wife, and his daughter Sadie voiced the younger version of Dracula's daughter, Mavis, and the werewolf pup, Winnie. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/6/1/863661.jpg)
Source: Fun Fact Films/YouTube
Ghostbusters
![August on hulu August 1 Ghostbusters Sigourney Weaver embodied one of Gozer's dogs during her audition, and started writhing on the floor and barking at the director. She got the part (of the female lead, not the dog). CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/5/6/863656.jpg)
Source: Rolling Stone
Gandhi
![August on hulu August 1 Gandhi Over 300,000 extras were in the funeral scene, which set a Guinness Book World Record for most extras in a movie scene. It took 11 camera crews to shoot two minutes' worth of film. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/5/5/863655.jpg)
Source: Guinness World Records
Reservation Dogs
![August on hulu August 2 Season 2 Reservation Dogs Every writer, director, and series regular comes from an Indigenous background, and the show shot in Okmulgee, OK to keep it authentic and to boost representation. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/5/7/863657.jpg)
Source: TV Insider
Boruto: Naruto Next Generations
![August on hulu Boruto: Naruto Next August 1 Generations This is the sequel series to the Naruto anime featuring his son, who is also a bratty ninja with special the one powers like his dad. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/5/3/863653.jpg)
Source: CBR
So I Married An Axe Murderer
![August on hulu August 1 So I Married An Axe Murderer H The movie was inspired by Annie Hall. Screenwriter Robbie Cox got the idea for his watched the Woody Allen movie and thought, What if Annie might be a murderer? CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/5/2/863652.jpg)
Source: The Well Fed Muse
Cast Away
![August on hulu August 1 Cast Away FedEx was fine with the plane crash. Company execsthought, It's not product placement, we're a character in this movie. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/5/4/863654.jpg)
Source: Mental Floss