An airplane is a vehicle for transporting passengers, but for Hollywood, it’s a conduit for a good story. There’s something about setting a movie 30,000 feet in the air that facilitates action.

On this particular flight they were not only headed to a new city via an airplane, but they’d be sent to far-flung lands ...

Zucker-Abrahams-Zucker started out writing Airplane! as a parody of all disaster movies, but based it especially on the 1957 airplane drama Zero Hour. They used the concept — a romance in mid ...

Seeing as the first plane flight on film was in a 1909 silent short featuring the Wright Brothers and the first Best Picture Oscar winner went to “Wings,” about World War I combat pilots ...

This happened while he was on the red carpet to celebrate his 2025 Golden Globe nominated musical, and, during an interview he was asked why Crazy Rich Asians is the best airplane movie.