What to watch and what's leaving in August: Best movies, TV shows being added and removed from Netflix, Disney+, Prime Video

While the WGA SAG-AFTRA strike continues, amid significant concerns about the existing pay structures established before the rise of streaming platforms, we've reached the last of month of summer TV and movie releases on streaming sites.

From the highly-anticipated return of the Netflix hit Heartstopper, to famed Marvel film Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 landing on Disney+, and the final season of the AppleTV+ series Physical, there's still quite a bit to watch.

As you click into your favourite content on these streaming sites, it's a good time to think about how all actors and writers should be compensated fairly.

But with every new addition comes things being removed from streamers, including several Adam Sandler films leaving Netflix in Canada, in addition to the original 1984 Karate Kid film.

Here are the highlights for all the movies and TV shows coming, and leaving, Netflix, Disney+, Prime Video, Crave, Apple TV+ and Paramount+ in Canada in August:

Netflix

Heartstopper Season 2

A resounding success for its first season the Alice Oseman series is back again, landing on Netflix Aug. 3. Fans of the show will finally be reunited with Nick (Kit Connor) and Charlie (Joe Locke), with Season 2 really solidifying that Oseman is one of the best for telling very real, honest and truthful teen-focused stories. Season 2 extends and expands the narrative from the first season as these teens continue to explore relationship, queerness and teenage-hood.

Painkiller

Following the Hulu hit Dopesick, Netflix is entering the chat in cultural criticism of Purdue Pharma, the manufacturer of OxyContin, and the Sackler family's responsibility in the opioid crisis. Painkiller, premiering Aug. 10, isn't necessarily a story that we haven't heard before, but with an impressive cast that includes Matthew Broderick, Uzo Aduba and Taylor Kitsch, it's an easy sell.

If comedy movie are what you're drawn to, there are only a few days left to watch some absolutely hysterical hits leaving Netflix Canada in August. This includes Adam Sandler movies 50 First Dates and Happy Gilmore, Jason Segel's Forgetting Sarah Marshall and the Amanda Bynes hit She’s the Man. The iconic film Love Actually is also leaving Netflix on Aug. 11.

Disney+

Only Murders in the Building Season 3

The Hulu hit starring Steve Martin, Martin Short and Selena Gomez is easily one of our favourite shows on the entire Disney+ platform, and Season 3 is even more exciting with the addition of Meryl Streep. For Only Murders in the Building Season 3 (premiering Aug. 8), the series heads to Broadway, where Season 2 left off, after Ben Glenroy (Paul Rudd), the lead actor in Oliver's (Short) play, dies onstage.

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3

Following its massive theatrical release, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 will be available to stream at home on Aug. 2, the film that (in our opinion) is the best in the Guardians franchise. Chukwudi Iwuji is absolutely engrossing as the villain, The High Evolutionary, and James Gunn just added so much more heart and emotion to this film.

Prime Video

Red, White & Royal Blue

Whenever any piece of entertainment references the Royal Family, even in fictional form, people around the world perk up and pay attention. That's the best way to describe our curiosity with the upcoming Prime Video movie Red, White & Royal Blue (based on the novel by Casey McQuiston), premiering Aug. 11. Uma Thurman plays the U.S. president (the first woman to hold the position) and in the film her son Alex (Taylor Zakhar Perez) gets in a public altercation with the U.K.'s Prince Henry (Nicholas Galitzine). But as the story progresses, they start to fall for each other.

The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart

Another adaptation of a novel, The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart, starring Sigourney Weaver, premiers on Prime Video Aug. 4. The series follows Alice (Alycia Debnam-Carey), who went to live with her grandmother June (Weaver) when she was nine, after her parents died in a mysterious fire, setting off on a family drama of past secrets.

While its been teased for a while, that full series of the 2000s hit The O.C. is now set to be removed from Prime Video on Aug. 22.

Crave

Billions Season 7

We've reached the final season of the drama Billions, which premieres on Crave in Canada Aug. 11, promising a season where "alliances are turned on their heads." The series marks the return of Damian Lewis' Bobby Axelrod, alongside co-stars Paul Giamatti, Maggie Siff and Asia Kate Dillon, with the stakes set higher than ever before.

Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty Season 2

Taking us back to the 1980s Los Angeles Lakers, Season 2 of Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty (premiering Aug. 6) takes place between 1980 and 1984, including the 1984 NBA finals moment between Magic Johnson and Larry Bird. The series boasts an all-star cast including John C. Reilly, Jason Clarke, Adrien Brody, Quincy Isaiah, Sally Field, and Jason Segel.

AppleTV+

Physical Season 3

It's a bittersweet moment next month for AppleTV+, with the series Physical, starring Rose Byrne and Rory Scovel, coming to an end with its third season, premiering Aug. 2. Creator Annie Weisman moves her story's lead character Sheila (Byrne) to new heights, having to face competition after her Season 2 aerobics success.

Invasion Season 2

The alien invasion continues with Season 2 of Invasion, premiering Aug. 23, starring Golshifteh Farahani, Shioli Kutsuna, Shamier Anderson, India Brown, Billy Barratt, Azhy Robertson, Paddy Holland and Tara Moayedi. Things have escalated since the first season, as the humans determine how to best fight the invading creatures.

Paramount+

Mixtape

A new documentary landing on Paramount+ Aug. 1 looks at how mixtapes made a significant impact on the hip cop culture we know and love today, featuring stars including 2 Chainz, A$AP Rocky, DJ Khaled, Lil Wayne, Mark Ronson, Mike Tyson and more.

Twisted Metal

Based on the PlayStation game, Anthony Mackie is John Doe, taking us on his post-apocalyptic road trip to pick up and deliver a package. It's a lot of driving, promising performances and a deranged clown.

Full list of new shows and movies coming to Netflix, Disney+, Prime Video, Crave, Apple TV+ and Paramount+, and what's being removed from streaming platforms, below:

Netflix

New on Netflix Canada

August 1

• 47 Metres Down

• The Angry Birds Movie

• Coming to America

• No Strings Attached

• Not Another Teen Movie

• Rush Hour

• The Smurfs

• The Smurfs 2

• The Sweetest Thing

• Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby

• Two Weeks Notice

• Untold: Jake Paul the Problem Child

August 2

• Mark Cavendish: Never Enough

• Poisoned: The Dirty Truth About Your Food

• Scream

• Soulcatcher

August 3

• Head to Head

• Heartstopper Season 2

• The Last Hours of Mario Blondo

• The Lincoln Lawyer Season 2 Part 2

• Zom 100: Bucket List of the Dead

August 4

• The Big Nailed It Baking Challenge

August 7

• Gabby's Dollhouse Season 8

August 8

• Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City

• The Seven Deadly Sins: Grudge of Edinburgh Part 2

• Untold: Johnny Football

• Zombieverse

August 9

• Ladies First: A Story of Women in Hip-Hop

August 10

• Jagun Jagun

• The Lost City

• Marry My Dead Body

• The Matrix Resurrection

• Mech Cadets

• Painkiller

August 11

• Down for Love

• Heart of Stone

August 15

• Untold: Hall of Shame

• The Mummy

• Untold: Hall of Shame

August 16

• At Home With The Furys

• The Chosen One

• Depp V Heard

August 17

• My Dad the Bounty Hunter Season 2

• The Upshaws

August 18

• 10 Days of a Bad Man

• Love, Sex and 30 Candles

• Mask Girl

• The Monkey King

August 22

• Lighthouse

• Untold: Swamp Kings

August 23

• The Big Short

• Squared Love Everlasting

• The Ultimatum: Marry or Move On Season 2

August 24

• Ragnarok: Season 3

• Sonic the Hedgehog 2

• Who is Erin Carter

August 25

• Killer Book Club

• You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah — Netflix Film

August 31

• One Piece

Leaving Netflix Canada

August 1

• Harold Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay

• Jane the Virgin

• The Lost Café

• Sleepless Society: Nyctophobia

August 2

• 50 First Dates

• Being Napoleon

• The Blair Witch Project

• Blue Streak

• Born to Raise Hell

• Bountiful Blessings

• Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs

• Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2

• Country Song

• Daddy Day Camp

• Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo

• Diary of a Mad Black Woman

• Entangled

• Everything Must Go

• Failure to Launch

• Funny Girl

• Get Smart, Again!

• The Graduate

• Happy Gilmore

• Heist

• The In-Laws

• The Karate Kid (1984)

• Man on a Ledge

• The Ninth Gate

• Opening Night

• Red Dawn

• RV

• Search WWW

• Seven Pounds

• Surviving Escobar – Alias JJ

• The Young and Prodigious

August 3

• No One Will Ever Know

Aug. 5

• Chennai Express

August 6

• Nasha Natasha

August 7

• Pretty Hard Cases

• Quam’s Money

• Slay

August 8

• Stars in the Sky: A Hunting Story

August 9

• Pretty Man

August 11

• The Birth Reborn

• The Crowned Clown

• Forgetting Sarah Marshall

• Kongsuni and Friends

• The Lost Husband

• Love Actually

• She’s the Man

August 12

• Brother Jekwu

• Jim Gaffigan: Beyond the Pale

• Jim Gaffigan: King Baby

• Jim Gaffigan: Mr. Universe

• Jim Gaffigan: Obsessed

August 13

• Sensitive Skin

August 15

• Searching

August 16

• Awara Paagal Deewana

• Colin Quinn: Unconstitutional

• Jane Eyre

• Lawless

• The Purge

• Safe

August 17

• Bakugan: Evolutions

• Bhavesh Joshi Superhero

• Bombay

• O Kadhal Kanmani

Disney+

New on Disney+

August 2

• Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3

• Star Wars: Young Jedi Adventures

August 4

• Bull Shark Bandits

• Bull Shark vs. Hammerhead

• The Randall Scandal: Love, Loathing, and Vanderpump

• Return of the White Shark

• Saved From a Shark

• Shark Eat Shark

August 8

• Only Murders In The Building

August 9

• A Town Without Seasons

• High School Musical: The Musical: The Series

• Moving

August 11

• Barnyard Olympics

• Donald’s Cousin Gus

• Donald’s Nephews

• Flying Jalopy

• Goofy and Wilbur

• Jagged Mind

• Mickey’s Steam-Roller

August 16

• Firebuds

• Miguel Wants to Fight

August 18

• LEGO® Disney Princess: The Castle Quest

• Shark Below Zero

• Sharkcano: Hawaii

• Sharks vs. Dolphins: Bahamas Battleground

• When Sharks Attack 360

• When Sharks Attack... And Why

August 23

• Star Wars: Ahsoka

August 25

• Cinderella 4K Remaster

• The Squad: Home Run (Antigang: La Relève)

• Vacation Friends 2

August 29

• A Murder at the End of the World

August 30

• Adamas

• Impuros Season 4

• Justified: City Primeval

• NCT 127: The Lost Boys

• Reservation Dogs Season 3

Prime Video

New on Prime Video

August 1

• Desecration

• Capote

• The Birdcage

• Yours, Mine and Ours

• Irma La Douce

• The Barefoot Contessa

• Bulletproof Monk

• The Vikings

• The Last Waltz

• Captain America

• The Great Train Robbery

• Running Scared

• Yentl

• The Train

• A Fish Called Wanda

• Supernova

• Teen Witch

• The Purple Rose of Cairo

• Hoosiers

• Breath of Life

• Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs

August 4

• The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart

• Mamba’s Diamond

• WNBA: Atlanta Dream at Phoenix Mercury

August 5

• ONE Fight Night 13: Allazov vs. Grigorian on Prime Video

August 10

• The Killing Vote

• WNBA: Minnesota Lynx at Indiana Fever

August 11

• Red, White & Royal Blue

• The Super Mario Bros. Movie

• WNBA: Connecticut Sun at Phoenix Mercury

August 14

• Moving On

August 15

• In Bed with the Pedros

• Mirrors

August 16

• Three Mothers, Two Babies and a Scandal

August 16

• Renfield

August 18

• Shelter

• Cangaco Novo

• Listening Ears

• Underbelly

• Diamond in the Sky

• WNBA: New York Liberty at Las Vegas Aces

August 24

• Pizza 3: The Mummy

• WNBA: New York Liberty at Connecticut Sun

August 25

• Beautiful Disaster

August 28

• Polite Society

August 30

• A Good Person

August 31

• Umesh Chronicles

• Hostel Daze Season 4

• WNBA: Phoenix Mercury at Connecticut Sun

Leaving Prime Video

August 2

• Why Women Kill

August 3

• Boss Level

August 4

• Dietland

August 15

• Gully

August 19

• Escape Room: Tournament of Champions

August 20

• Hindi Medium

August 22

• The O.C.: The Complete Series

August 23

• Magical Girl Site

• Breaking News in Yuba County

August 26

• Guns Akimbo

August 30

• The Island

• Italian Job

• Jerome Commandeur: Tout En Douceur

• Beatless

• Fatman

Crave

New on Crave

August 1

• Origins Of Hip Hop

August 4

• 65

• Blizzard

• The Chi Season 6

• The Dishwasher

• East Harbour Heroes

• Good Morning Chuck

• The Journals Of Knud Rasmussen

• Monkey Beach

• Natural Born Killers

• One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest

• Rhymes For Young Ghouls

• Simulant

• Superbad

August 5

• Cocomelon

August 6

• Winning Time: The Rise Of The Lakers Dynasty Season 2

August 9

• Fantastic Friends Season 2

• Paco

August 10

• Rap Sh!T Season 2

August 11

• Alice, Darling

• Billions Season 7

• The Boy Who Smells Like Fish

• Farming For Love

• She Said

• Summering

August 14

• Framing Agnes

August 18

• Armageddon Time

• Hotel Transylvania

• Hotel Transylvania 2

• Living

• Pillow Talk Season 2

• Seriously Red

• Sleepless In Seattle

• Sweetness In The Belly

• Two Weeks Notice

August 21

• Subjects Of Desire

August 23

• BS High

August 25

• Air Force One

• The Bucket List

• Four Christmases

• Jesus Revolution

• Michael Clayton

• Pets & Pickers Season 2

• The Silent Twins

• Somebody’s Hiding Something

August 28

• All Light, Everywhere

Apple TV+

New on Apple TV+

August 2

• Physical Season 3

August 4

• Eva The Owlet

August 9

• Strange Planet

August 18

• Snoopy Presents: One-of-a-Kind Marcie

August 23

• Invasion Season 2

August 25

• Wanted: The Escape Of Carlos Ghosn

Paramount+

New on Paramount+

August 1

• A.I. Artificial Intelligence

• Bee Movie

• Mixtape

• No Strings Attached

August 4

• Book Club

• Charlotte’s Web

• Mafia Mamma

• Nightcrawler

August 10

• Love in Taipei

• Twisted Metal

August 11

• Paint

August 14

• Assassin Club

August 15

• Four Brothers

• Megamind

• Reinventing Elvis: The ‘68 Comeback

• Shaft

August 18

• When You Finish Saving the World

August 22

• Baby Shark’s Big Show

• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

• The Last Airbender

• The Loud House: The Really Loud House

• The Untouchables

August 24

• Organ Trail

August 25

• The Chosen

August 29

• Blue’s Clues & You

• Galaxy Quest

• I Love You, Man

• The Loud House

• The Truman Show

August 30

• Le Stade