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30 Bits of Hollywood Trivia That Are a Peak Behind the Big Red Curtain

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30 Bits of Hollywood Trivia That Are a Peak Behind the Big Red Curtain

September 02, 2024

Marlon Brando got $15 million to not appear in a movie.

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CST3-KBL The Terminator The movie came from James Cameron's nightmare. Cameron was in Rome, Italy doing the final cut of Piranha II, when he was stricken with a 102-degree fever. As he tossed and turned at night, he dreamt of the unstoppable robot. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Literature

Roger Corman He's a bookworm. Corman briefly studied English literature at Oxford-and it shows. His entire filmography is sprinkled with movies or movie projects involving authors like Lovecraft, Joyce, Gibran, and Updike. Of course, Corman's most famous literary interest was in horror icon Edgar Allan Poe. CRACKED.COM — Source: Wikipedia

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BTS brings big bucks to South Korea.

800,000 foreigners visit South Korea every year just for the band BTS. NBC NE dcr CRACKED.COM BTS is responsible for a ripple effect that includes increased tourism to South Korea, inter- est in Korean culture, movies, and study of the Korean lan- guage, and added approxi- mately $5 billion per year to South Korea's economy. — NPR

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CRACKED VS. Significant features ROGER EBERT ROTTEN TOMATOES M RogerEbert.com Rotten Tomatoes CRACKED Letters to the Editors The podcast series, Rotten Tomatoes Is Wrong. Ebert was widely known for responding and RT has been criticized for communicating with his having wildly different critic audience. After his passing, scores than what the this ability to correspond audience gave a movie. They with critics on his site was started a series discussing brought back by popular these films, mostly admitting demand to ensure a two-way that their scores might not communication between the reflect the true critique or site and its readers. — Sources: Roger Ebert, Rotten Tomatoes

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Tired Tropes - (And The Movies That Pulled Them Off) 4210 1/2 GRA Bea delles - - - - - - I Office Space (1999) WORKPLACE MISERY We could write an entire piece on how peak-'90s neoliberalism movies depict offices as the place where the human spirit goes to die. But Office Space focused on its specifically absurdist, Kafkaesque angle, making for a particularly smart example. Swingline CRACKED.COM — Source

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Newt / Toy Story 3

The movie that never was: 2010 NEWT XING 5 DE 12 a 21 ET CRACKED.COM Toy Story 3 snuck in a reference to Newt, a film that was supposed to come out in 2011, but instead languished in development hell before being quietly cancelled. — Source: 14 Pixar Characters Who Were Secretly Launched

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CollegeHumor made a Dora the Explorer parody that was eerily close to a real movie that came out years later. The 2012 gritty live-action parody trailer seemed extremely similar to the gritty live-action 2019 movie. CRACKED.COM — Source: CollegeHumor

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Booger's winning belch in Revenge of the Nerds came from an animal - specifically, a camel. They took the sound of a camel having an orgasm and mixed it with a human belch to get the truly amazing seven-second sound in the movie. CRACKED.COM — Source

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They didn't use any special effects in the Wizard of Oz color transition scene. When the movie turns from sepia to color, they shot Judy Garland's stunt double in a sepia dress, with sepia makeup on, on a sepia set. When she steps out of the shot, she's replaced by Judy Garland in a blue dress. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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30 Bits of Hollywood Trivia That Are a Peak Behind the Big Red Curtain

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FOR A HORROR MOVIE, THE OPENING SCENES OF ALIEN: COVENANT ARE PRETTY INSPIRING The ship using solar sails to power GRAGKEDCOM itself shows what humani

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REALITY SHOWS! 2002 If the Halloween franchise starts to feel stale going into its eighth movie, just add some Big Brother! In Halloween: Resurrection — Source: Movie Rant

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Duela Dent

VILLAINS BATMAN SHOULD FIGHT IN HIS NEXT MOVIE Hibboss DUELA DENT The Joker's Daughter Likes: her dad's cut-off face, wearing it everywhere, being a general menace. Dislikes: bats. CRACKED.COM — Source: Batman Fandom

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COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM BILL HADER Bill Hader absolutely deserves a spot on this list. Obviously he was a shining star on SNL, but his work on The Skeleton Twins and Barry revealed an amazing skill for the dramatic. Give us a Gritty Stefan movie NOW.

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THE ACTOR: Cher THE ROLE: Tess in Burlesque WHY SHE She called the movie HATED IT: horrible, and says the director told her, don't care about what

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Jersey Girl

CRACKED.COM view Askewniverse Jersey Girl Malcolm Ingram sent Fleetwood Mac's Landslide to Kevin Smith as an apology, and Smith was so touched by the gesture that he included the song in the movie. — Source: Moviepedia

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Ringo Lam

CRACKED.COM I HONG KONG ACTION MOVIES RINGO LAM Ringo Lam is a legend of '80s Hong Kong action movies. Не directed City on Fire, Prison on Fire, and School on Fire (dude liked fire), but also Full Contact, and the Van Damme flick Maximum Risk. — Source: Wikipedia

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Fantasia

Movies altered after the release Then VS. Now Fantasia Disney ceded to the woke mob-in 1969. Fantasia is a masterpiece, but it also has black centaurettes as servants, attending to the white centaurettes. Yikes. By the late-'70s, the sequences began being edited out of all subsequent releases. CRACKED.COM — Disney
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Historical Firsts in The World of Stunts The first car chase stunts 1958 Car stunts had been done (notably 1955's Rebel Without A Cause), but Cary Loftin and his team's work on Thunder Road was ground zero for the modern action movie (although driver safety became a new issue). CRACKED — Source

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Rich Jerks DC Comics Lex Luthor No one can agree on how Luthor got bald. Depending on which era of comic books you read or show/movie you watch, Luthor's bald head is due to a chemical accident caused by Superman, his hair being permanently burned in a kryptonite explosion, basic male pattern baldness, or other reasons. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Sly Stallone's character in Guardians of the Galaxy 2 is an old comics name. Stakar first showed up in Marvel comics in the mid-70s-but they changed him massively for the movie (in the comics, he was born in 2002). CRACKED.COM — Vulture

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Get OUT The name Armitage connects the movie to H.P. Lovecraft's The Dunwich Horror, a novella about race mixing. CRACKED.COM — Source: Looper

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ARMIE HAMMER would have been a DCEU problem HGRACKEDCO Hammer was cast as Batman and would have been behind the wheel of the Batmobile for multiple films. Recent allegations are ugly and he's been dropped by both movie projects and his representation. That's one bit of recasting DC doesn't have

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They tried to not pay him for not appearing. Can you believe that B.S?

Marlon Brando sued for his non- appearance money. EASY BUCK$ For 1980's Superman 2, Brando was contracted to be paid 11.75% of its total earnings. His one scene was cut, so the movie tried to revoke that payout. Не took them to court and won $15 million to not appear in the movie. CRACKED — Warner Bros. Pictures
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A Nightmare on EIm Street was rejected by every major movie studio until New Line Cinema stepped in. Then nearly all of the investors jumped ship righ

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Michael Caine is actually in Dunkirk, but he never shows up on-screen. He's the voice that gives out instructions, via radio, to Tom Hardy's and Jack Lowden's pilots near the start of the movie. CRACKED.COM — Vulture

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Sword duels didn't work like in movies. Block too many swings with the edge of your blade, and you'll end up with a blunt, broken sword. That's why medieval and Renaissance fighting manuals devote exactly zero time to such parries. — More: 5 Weapon Myths You Probably Believe (Thanks to Movies)

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8½

Meta Movies 8 1/2 The title is a meta-reference to Federico Fellini's work. This classic Italian movie about the making of itself was indeed Fellini's eighth-and-a-half film (sort of): he had directed six others, co-directed another one, and made two segments for anthology films. CRACKED.COM — Source: Wikipedia

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Peter Jackson secretly pays homage to the original King Kong. Jackson directed the 2005 remake of the classic monster movie, and chose to be one of th

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