The remake of a beloved 90’s baseball classic and the story of a thrilling real-life rescue mission are coming to Prime Video this August.
On August 12th, A League of Their Own hits the streaming platform. A TV reboot of Penny Marshall’s 1992 original, the sports comedy-drama tells the story of a generation of women who dreamed of playing professional baseball.
Tom Hanks, Geena Davis, and Madonna famously starred in the original, with Abbi Jacobson (Broad City) and D’Arcy Carden (The Good Place) among the actors tasked with replacing them. The film version of A League of Their Own was inducted into the US National Film Registry in 2012, so expectations are high for this TV adaptation.
A star-studded cast including Viggo Mortensen, Colin Farrell, and Joel Edgerton lead Thirteen Lives, Ron Howard’s take on the incredible rescue mission that saved a Thai soccer team from the Tham Luang cave in 2018. Faced with difficult odds, a team of the world’s most skilled and experienced divers joined with Thai forces and over 10,000 volunteers to attempt a harrowing rescue of the twelve boys and their coach.
Thirteen Lives is in capable hands, with Howard one of his generation’s finest directors of biographical films (Rush, Frost/Nixon, Cinderella Man, A Beautiful Mind).
You can check out the full list of titles coming to Prime Video this August below.
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August 1st
Sing
The Chocolate War
Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby
August 3rd
The Great Gatsby
August 4th
All or Nothing: Arsenal (Season 1)
August 5th
The Outlaws (Season 2)
Thirteen Lives
August 8th
Elvis
August 10th
Jurassic World Dominion
August 12th
Cyrano
The Paper Tigers
A League of Their Own (Season 1)
Cosmic Love (Season 1)
August 19th
Making the Cut (Season 3)
August 24th
Top Gun: Maverick
Minions: The Rise of Gru
Room
August 26th
Samaritan
Downton Abbey 2
Untrapped: The Story of Lil Baby
August 27th
Uncharted
