Everything Coming to Paramount+ August
With a mix of fresh original documentaries, series, and films to view, Paramount+'s movie and TV show collection is growing in August 2024. Docuseries and family favorites abound in August 2024's new TV episodes and films from Paramount+. Aiming to increase its offers and reach, Paramount+ debuted in March 2021 as a rebranding of the CBS All Access streaming platform. Re-merger between CBS and Viacom in 2019 allows Paramount+ to also access Nickelodeon, Comedy Central, and MTV libraries. Since users can binge-eat already-existing shows, library materials are typically more interesting for them than newly produced stuff.
The focus on original content by Paramount+
Unlike some of its rivals, Paramount+ has not prioritized original movie content save for those aimed for children's viewing. The multiple-timeline and decade-spanning Yellowstone franchise is among the popular array of exclusive original shows the streaming service offers, though. But in August 2024, the most popular material for the streamer remained shows from CBS like NCIS, Blue Bloods, and Criminal Minds, originally available.
Top Movies and Shows Approved for Paramount+ in August
Erin Brockovich: An Actual Motivational Source
For Julia Roberts' career, Erin Brockovich was outstanding; nevertheless, genuine events also shape the narrative. Roberts's titular character worked in a law office that accepted a large corporation contaminating a small town's water with chemical run-off and rendering the locals sick. Erin Brockovich was essential in meeting the impacted residents, investigating the matter, and persuading the law firm to initially take up the matter.
Although some of the plot is perhaps simplified to create a tidy storyline for a film, the bulk of the story and Erin Brockovich's assistance in securing financial compensation for the impacted families are factual. Since Roberts was mostly recognized at the time for romantic comedies, the film represented a significant turning point for her. She won her first Oscar, but the part brought her a Golden Globe and Critics Choice award as well.
Miss Congeniality: A Comedy with a Heartful of Emotion
Like Julia Roberts, Sandra Bullock is well-known for her fair number of romantic comedies, but she also combined her acting résumé with plenty of dramas and real-life depictions. Given their very similar career paths, it makes natural that Paramount+ should add a terrific Bullock film simultaneously with a Roberts one. In this scenario, Miss Congeniality is unquestionably a comedy.
Though there is little romance, the movie's larger narrative is the women's growing closeness. Bullock plays an FBI agent trying to find out who is intending to attack a beauty pageant by infiltrating a contest. She first finds it tough to fit in since she despises pageants in general, but she develops to genuinely enjoy and befriend the other women during the process. Though it's an excellent action-comedy, it's also a fantastic approach to show female friendships.
Pulp Fiction: A Masterpiece Cinematically Designed
Though it's also regarded as Quentin Tarantino's best, Pulp Fiction was among his first films. Though he has many other Movies exploring other personalities, Pulp Fiction is the one most people cite as having the finest writing and approach.
Comprising John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson, and Uma Thurman, the film chronicles four distinct tales of crime and violence that cross over. It affected many of the crime and action films that have followed it and features what is now considered as the ideal mix of humor and violence.
Added to the US National Film Registry in 2013, the film won the Palle d'Or at the 1994 Cannes Film Festival. It routinely ranks on "best of" lists, and Entertainment Weekly, when they assembled their own list in 2008, even called it the best movie produced following 1983.
Faculty: A Twist on a Horror Movie
Although many films draw on Invasion of the Body Snatchers (which also comes Paramount+ this month), The Faculty is one of the few that acknowledges the events of the tale are really like something out of a horror novel. The protagonists know full well that if the truth of the alien invasion in their small town hadn't bound them together, they wouldn't be buddies.
With Elijah Wood, Josh Hartnett, and Jordana Brewster among the ensemble, the film follows a group of high school students from quite diverse social backgrounds as they discover that a parasitic extraterrestrial species has seized control of their professors. Though members of their group are gradually taken over themselves, they try to rebel. The audience is taken on quite a fantastic ride as the film boasts a great mix of humor and action.
Training Day: Villainous Turn from Denzel Washington
Denzel Washington seldom plays a villain in one of his films, hence this could be the reason Training Day has stayed so popular since its first release. Washington is electric in the part of a nasty cop trying to survive on a particularly tough workday.
Ethan Hawke is as skilled as the aspirational police officer assigned to accompany him for the day who discovers himself in increasingly dangerous circumstances as the day unfolds. Washington took home an Oscar; Hawke was nominated for one for his performance in the film. For their work, both performers received nominations for a Screen Actors Guild Award as well.
Given that corruption within the Los Angeles Police Department hadn't yet been completely revealed at the time the film's release, Training Day is sometimes considered as ahead of its time.
Tales of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: A New Animated Series
Generally speaking, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles are a popular set of superheroes. Something about a group of turtles growing up in a sewer transforming into superheroes simply works. Comics, film, and television have all seen multiple incarnations of the turtles; nevertheless, this most recent series spins out of the movie Mutant Mayhem.
Exciting people who loved the newest animated film, the series was formally revealed in 2023 with an instant two-season order. The show is supposed to be set between the film and the scheduled follow-up. The movie's principal cast returns to play their parts for the series.
The show's first arc sets the turtles split apart and forced to stand on their own. The same day will see the drop of every episode for the arc.
Extra Materials on Paramount+
Those Premium+ members with the Showtime add-on also have access to extra materials. August sees fresh episodes of television shows from networks under Paramount ownership running on. Once they do, fresh episodes of the series will also be available to stream on Paramount+ the day after they premiere, so August 2024 will be even more busy than July for the streamers. Paramount also routinely adds live sporting and news coverage. The accessible material depends on the playing schedules.
