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This August, Paramount+ is bringing you a lot of entertainment with the highly anticipated streaming release of the biographical film Bob Marley: One Love and a very weird but humorous and heartfelt film Sasquatch Sunset, which follows the daily lives of a Sasquatch family. However, for the purposes of this article, we are only including the films that are coming to Paramount+ this month and have a 90% or higher Rotten Tomatoes score. So, check out the 10 best films that are coming to Paramount+ in August 2024 with a 90% or higher Rotten Tomatoes score.

Airplane! (August 1)

Airplane! is a disaster absurdist comedy film written and directed by Jim Abrahams, David, and Jerry Zucker. Based on the 1957 drama film Zero Hour! by Arthur Hailey, Hall Bartlett, and John Champion, the 1980 film follows Ted Striker, a former pilot with a fear of flying as he finds himself in the impossible situation of landing a...

Exclusive: Airplane! writer-directors David Zucker, Jim Abrahams, and Jerry Zucker are teaming up with a cast of celebrities and industry figures to chronicle the making of the influential hit 1980 comedy.

Audiobook Surely You Can’t Be Serious will be narrated by the trio of filmmakers alongside comedians and actors Jimmy Kimmel, Bill Hader, “Weird” Al Yankovic, Molly Shannon, Sarah Silverman, Patton Oswalt and Beau Bridges, and industry including John Landis, Barry Diller and Michael Eisner. It will also include contributions from original Airplane! cast members Bob Hays and Julie Hagerty.

Airplane! premiered on July 2, 1980. With a budget of $3.5M, it went on to make more than $80M at the box office. The slapstick comedy sees a neurotic ex-fighter pilot have to land a commercial airplane after the crew becomes sick with food poisoning.

The audiobook will also chart the story of the Zaz trio, charting the rise...

What can you make out of Airplane! at 40 years old? Well, aside from a hat or a brooch or a pterodactyl? Written and directed by brothers Jerry and David Zucker, and Jim Abrahams, the 1980 parody of disaster films is frequently ranked among the best comedies of all time.

So, what is Airplane! about? Following the plot of the 1957 drama Zero Hour!, as well as inspired by the 1956 Canadian TV movie Flight into Danger, and famed disaster movie Airport 1975, Airplane! is a spoof film about a washed-up pilot summoned to greatness on a potentially doomed aircraft.

But that’s not important right now. What is important is that the trio of young creators, known as the Zaz team — also behind Wisconsin’s Kentucky Fried Theater sketch comedy team — crafted a style of machine-gun fast slapstick cinema which kickstarted a movie subgenre.

And surely one can’t forget the multitude of one-liners from Airplane!

Most people smile just at the mention of this show … nothing is more healthy than an old fashioned laugh. Zucker, Zucker & Abrahams’ non-stop joke fest finds good fun in movie spoofery without malice, and is populated by a squadron of old pros that once made the originals fly right, no matter how clunky they were. All hail Leslie Nielsen, Lloyd Bridges, Robert Stack and Peter Graves, the veterans of countless ‘keep a straight face and pretend it’s serious’ groaners. It’s a 40th Anniversary new restoration. Now, finally, do I park in the red zone or the white zone?

Airplane!

Blu-ray

Paramount Presents

1980 / Color / 1.78 widescreen / 87 min. / Street Date July 21, 2020 / 22.99

Starring: Robert Hays, Julie Hagerty, Lloyd Bridges, Leslie Nielsen, Robert Stack, Peter Graves, Lorna Patterson, Stephen Stucker, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Barbara Billingsley, Ethel Merman, James Hong, Maureen McGovern, Kenneth Tobey, Jimmie Walker, Kitten Natividad.

Cinematography: Joseph F. Biroc

Film Editor: Patrick Kennedy

Visual Effects: Robert Blalack,...

LGBT TV movies, series and specials are part of our cultural landscape. They are frequently awarded with Emmys, Golden Globes, Critics Choice and SAG Awards. But this acceptance was a long time coming. Here’s a look back at the landmark telefilms that paved the way.

Do you know the first TV movie that featured a gay character? No, it wasn’t 1972’s “That Certain Summer.”

It was a drama called “South” that was produced by England’s ITV and aired on that network on Nov. 24, 1959. Set in the Antebellum South, the drama revolved around a handsome Polish army lieutenant living in the South who is torn between his love for a plantation owner’s niece or a hunky blond officer. “South” was incredibly daring for its time, especially since it would be eight years before homosexuality was legalized in England and Wales with the passing of the Sexual Offences...

Rebel Wilson is our new Goldie Hawn. The actress and comedian has signed on for New Line's remake of "Private Benjamin," the hit 1980 comedy which starred Hawn as a spoiled high-society widow who struggles to assimilate after joining the U.S. Army. The remake, which previously had Anna Faris attached to the lead role, will follow the same basic outline as the original film according to story-breaker The Tracking Board. "Private Benjamin" grossed nearly $70 million in the fall of 1980, becoming one of the biggest hits of the year. It went on to spawn a short-lived CBS TV series starring Lorna Patterson. What do you think of Rebel Wilson as "Private Benjamin"? Vote in the poll below to let us know.

Actor who made her name in comedy films as an acid-tongued, gravel-voiced tyrant

Eileen Brennan, who has died aged 80, had been a stage actor since the late 1950s, but it was as a largely comic presence in Us cinema of the 1970s and early 1980s that she was most widely admired. As the pitiless Captain Doreen Lewis, putting a dippy new recruit – Goldie Hawn – through her paces in the hit military comedy Private Benjamin (1980), she wore her trademark look: a solid frizz of red hair, a clenched, sneering smile and an expression of withering incredulity. Then there was the gravelly voice: a heard-it-all whine to match that seen-it-all face. It sounded like bourbon on the rocks. Actual rocks, that is.

Captain Lewis epitomised the sort of role Brennan was best at – and which she was still playing as late as 2001, when she made the first in a run of appearances...

TV vet Eileen Brennan — who took home a Supporting Actress Emmy in 1983 for her work in the TV adaptation of Private Benjamin — died on Sunday at age 80 from bladder cancer.

Brennan’s career in TV and movies spanned six decades, from her breakthrough run as a series regular on Rowan & Martin’s Laugh In in 1968 to her Emmy-nominated turn as Jack’s acting coach Zandra on Will & Grace. In all, Brennan racked up seven Emmy nods — in addition to the aforementioned series, she was also singled out for her work on thirtysomething, Newhart and Taxi — and an Academy Award nomination as the acerbic Capt.

Playing the oh-so-serious space commander in the 1956 cult B-movie "Forbidden Planet," no one imagined then that the comic genius of Leslie Nielsen would become so beloved by moviegoers around the globe -- or maybe they could have from that mischievous twinkle in his eye!

Here are some choice movie lines from the late actor's classic comedies "Airplane!" and "The Naked Gun."

Leslie Nielsen Movie Quotes'Forbidden Planet'

"I'm in command of 18 competitively selected super-perfect...

Anna Faris is set to star in a remake of Private Benjamin.

So as you see, this actress could take over Goldie Hawn’s role from 1980, in new remake (yes, if it’s not 3D then it’s a remake), but unfortunately we still don’t have any information about the possible director.

The only thing we know is that Amy Talkington is in talks to write for producer Mark Gordon.

We’re more than sure you all remember that interesting story about Judy Benjamin, a Jewish-American woman who joins the U.S. Army after her new husband dies on their wedding night during sex.

Duped by a sneaky recruiting sergeant who lets her believe military life to be more glamorous than it is, she has a rude awakening in boot camp. After getting in trouble constantly, Judy wants to quit but chooses to stick it out, and has a...

Original movie was also made into a TV show in the '80s that lasted for three seasons.

By Christopher Campbell

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Another Goldie Hawn movie is set for a remake. Two weeks after the announcement that Jennifer Lopez would take over Hawn's role in an "Overboard" redo, The Hollywood Reporter confirms that Anna Faris has been cast in the title role for a "Private Benjamin" update in development at New Line.

And while the studio's other training-program-set '80s remake, "Police Academy," is sure to poke lots of fun at law enforcement, this new "Private Benjamin" will be a more respectful handling of the armed forces than one might expect. Released in 1980, the original "Benjamin" told the story of a spoiled woman who enlists in the army after her husband dies on their wedding night. The fish-out-of-water tale earned an Oscar nomination for...

Julie Hagerty, Lorna Patterson, Leslie Nielsen, Peter Graves in Airplane! Peter Graves, the star of TV’s Mission Impossible and the airplane pilot with a fondness for little boys in the 1980 comedy hit Airplane!, was found dead today at his home in the Los Angeles suburb of Pacific Palisades. The 83-year-old actor apparently died of natural causes. Graves was best known for his television work as Mission Impossible’s silver-haired, gravely authoritative James Phelps, a role later played by Tom Cruise – minus the silver hair and the grave authority — in the big-screen versions. Additionally, Graves had a long career in films, beginning in the early 1950s. Among his screen credits are the sci-fier Red Planet Mars (1952); Billy [...]...