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40 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia We Stuffed in Our Piggy Bank

October 21, 2024

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BEHIND-THE-SCENES FACTS THE FILM'S FAILURE AT THE BOX OFFICE DEVASTATED THE CAST. WALK'HARID The movie only ended up making $20 million at the box office on a budget of $35 million. It took me a couple years to dig out of the sadness of that, said John C. Rilley about the film's lackluster box office performance. CRACKED.COM — The Ringer

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Classic movies crushed at the box office X-Men: Days of Future Past blitzed ahead of Edge of Tomorrow. Edge of Tomorrow made $56.6 million, while X-Men: Days of Future Past made $205.9 million by mid-June 2014. CRACKED — Source

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CRACKED DEMI MOORE: FROM 80S ICON TO BOX OFFICE POISON. Demi Moore was a successful actress in the 1980s and early '90s, but her career was damaged after the release of the 1996 movie Striptease, which received a poor critical reception and led to her being branded box office poison. — Far Out Mag

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Classic movies crushed at the box office The Shining.got frozen out by The Empire Strikes Back. The Empire Strikes Back, Kramer VS. Kramer, and The Jerk were the top films in 1980. The Blues Brothers, The Electric Horsemen, and The Shining also did well, each making just under $31 million. CRACKED — Lucasfilm, Warner Bros.
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Spirited Away Spirited Away was Japan's biggest box office hit for years. Not just the biggest Ghibli movie, or even the biggest animated movie - it was the highest-grossing movie in Japan, period. It held its title for almost 20 years, until Demon Slayer beat it in 2020. — Source: The Hollywood Reporter

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Round 3 BOX OFFICE (Worldwide) BATMAN: $6 billion. PREDATOR: $740 million. BATMAN WINS! — Sources: The Numbers (for Batman), The Numbers (for Predator)

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STEVE CARELL IN DINNER FOR SCHMUCKS. Despite comedy giants like Carell and Paul Rudd headlining the film, it flopped both commercially and critically. Carell went home with around $12 million. CRACKED.COM — Box Office Mojo & The Richest

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ROBERT DOWNEY JR. IN DOLITTLE. Right after finishing his stint with Marvel, Downey got a hefty $20 million salary to play Dr. Dolittle. It ended up being a box office disaster- only making $245 million on a $175 million budget. CRACKED.COM — Box Office Mojo & The Richest

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Classic movies crushed at the box office Last Action Hero was flattened by Jurassic Park. Last Action Hero was a box office flop, quickly losing to Jurassic Park which came back into theaters. CRACKED — Universal Pictures, Columbia Pictures
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COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM Baby Geniuses 2: Super Babies BAUCA Bay When your key demographic is babies, what can you expect? The 20 million dollar film received a zero percent on Rotten Tomatoes, mostly likely because babies can't type. — Source: Rotten Tomatoes

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The first movie to break a $100 million budget was True Lies. The Arnold Schwarzeneggar lead picture by James Cameron was the first film to reach a budget this size, in 1994. It went on to gross $378,882,411 worldwide. CRACKED.COM — Guinness World Records

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COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM Monkeybone John Turturro, Heartthrob Brendan Fraser, less of a heartthrob Chris Katan. Monkeybone's mashup of zany comedy and Henry Selick extensive budget left the film at a 71 million dollar loss. — Source: The Numbers

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COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM Son Of The Mask Son of the Mask cost 5 times as much to make as the original with a budget of 100 million. All that money put the nail in Jamie Kennedy's career coffin and lost 40.1 million dollars at the box office. — Source: The Numbers

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Blade Runner blew its budget on details you never see. Conceptual artist Syd Mead was hired for a few days, at $1,500 a day - but he ended up staying for weeks, filling the sets with stuff you never really notice (like fastidiously detailed, futuristic parking meters). That was one of the reasons for the movie's budget issues. CRACKED.COM — Source

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COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM Evan Almighty Ark Building DUMMIES While the film almost made its budget back, the marketing got away from the studio and resulted in an 87 million dollar loss. Where are you when we need you Morgan Freeman God? — Source: The Numbers

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CRACKED.COM Unbreakable The movie had a bigger budget than the sequels. Usually sequels have larger budgets than the originals, but while Unbreakable had a $75 million budget, the budget for Split was $9 million, and $20 million for Glass. a COALITION EVIL! — Source: WhatCulture

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COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM The Adventures of Rocky& Bullwinkle BIO-TECH RESEARCH Ever wonder what Rocky and Bullwinkle would look like if they were 3D rendered to look like PS1 Tomb Raider models? Then this is the movie for you! It lost 35 million at the box office. — Source: The Numbers

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THE BFG BUDGET: $140 MILLION EARNINGS: $195 MILLION CRACKED COM An MCU budget with an Adam Sandler rom-com return, the big screen adaptation of Roald Dahl's 1982 classic kid's book was as unnecessary as it was visually jarring. — Source: IMDB

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COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM How DO You Know REESE WITHERSPOON OWEN WILSON PAUL RUDD and JACK NICHOLSON HOW DO YOU KNOW I FILM BY JAMES L BROOKS SHE'S IN LIMBO. HE'S IN LOVE HE'S IN TROUBLI HE'S IN DENIAL This romantic comedy had big names like Reese Witherspoon, Paul Rudd and Jack Nicholson, but ended up with a 24% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes and a whopping 70 million dollar loss at the box office. — Source: The Numbers

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CRACKED WTF CAMEOS QUENTIN TARANTINO DJANGO UNCHAINED Considered his worst cameo, he kind of ruins what should be Django's all is lost moment with a terrible Australian accent and way too many lines. Take a page out of Stan Lee's book, Quentin. — The Weinstein Company
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TIME TRAVEL MOVIES X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST A PLANNED STAN LEE CAMEO WASN'T SHOT. Lee was supposed to film his cameo in Montreal, but chose to show up for the fans at Toronto's 2013 Fan Expo instead. CRACKED.COM — Source: Bleeding Cool

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This isn't the Disney Channel, DEMI LOVATO GREY'S ANATOMY CRACKED.COM If you ever wanted to see the former tween star stab herself in the heart with a hypodermic needle, have we got the episode for you! Spoiler alert: She's not crazy, she just has a hole in her ear. — Popsugar

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PETE & PETE Vincent Pastore was a pro bowling agent. CRACKED.COM Right as Artie is winning a big bowling tournament, Vincent Park swoops in and recruits him to a pro bowling tour that's... apparently going on at that very moment? — YouTube

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BAYWATCH Mila Kunis CRACKED.COM As a kid, Kunis played two different precocious kids on the show. — 22 Surprising Celebrity Appearances Everybody Forgets About

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Pretty Little Liars SEVER TRUST did WITH .. VOLK SECRET Lians SARA SHEPARD News 9 Analyst SARA SHEPARD NATIONAL BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF FLABLESS CRACKED.COM Sarah Shepard plays a substitute teacher in The Homecoming Hangover, and a news reporter in I'm a Good Girl, I Am. — 17 Author Cameos In Movie Adaptations You Might Have Missed

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The founder of the Titanic Historical Society showed up in James Cameron's Titanic. Edward Kamuda consulted on the movie (Cameron introduced him as the man who made it all possible,) and also had a cameo, with this wife, as a passenger. CRACKED.COM — MassLive, WBUR

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Guardians of the Galaxy actress Pom Klementieff cameos in The Suicide Squad. Klementieff (AKA Mantis) is the main dancer, wearing a red wig, at the seedy bar in Corto Maltese where Bloodsport takes his team. CRACKED.COM — CBR

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ALIEN Ridley 2 Scott CRACKED.COM Scott (specifically, his hands) played the part of Putrid, Pulsating Egg Sac just before John Hurt gets facehugged. — 22 Surprising Celebrity Appearances Everybody Forgets About

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Baby Driver has a cameo from a former bank robber who consulted on the movie. Joe Loya, was hired as a script consultant and tech consultant for his expertise-- and, ironically, also got a cameo as a security guard in a heist. CRACKED.COM — Source: NPR

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STAR WARS Locations around the Tunisian city of Tataouine served as sets for the planet Tattooine in most Star Wars movies. Later, the region became a — Source: The Guardian

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Lego Star Wars: The Video Game (Star Wars) CRACKED.COM Just about every popular franchise has a Lego game at some point, but it all started with the original Lego Star Wars, which finally brings a sense of fun to the humorless prequel trilogy. — Source

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CRACKED STAR STAR WARS WARS ORANGES AR RS ES VER HUI ON R STAR WARS STAR ORANGES WARS STAR WARS: FRESH PRODUCE Disney tried to make sure you get your daily dose of nutrition or something with Star Wars-themed produce - apples, carrots, grapes, oranges - released in 2015 to market The Force Awakens. — Business Insider

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In Star Wars, Jabba the Hutt was going to be a big, walking furry alien. And his voice would be the thick brogue of Northern Irish actor Declan Mulholland. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Movie Scenes That Were Supposed To Play Out Differently

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Star Wars Droid Viewers reveal an IMAGE From TAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS EACH WITH oroid viewer STAR STAR WARS ARS - THEATERS 6 oroid viewers TO collect STAR WARS CRACKED.COM You could see an image from the movie before it premiered! In 2015, Cinnamon Toast Crunch got us all pumped for The Force Awakens with С-ЗРО, R2-D2 and BB-8 Droid Viewers that revealed a never-before seen frame from the movie. — Source: StarWars.com

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A cameo appearance from 'N SYNC was cut out of the final version of Star Wars. CRACKED.COM George Lucas allowed the band members to make a cameo in 'Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones' in order to appease his daughters. — Huffington Post

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Queen Amidala's look in Star Wars was closely based on a Mongolian queen. That was Queen Genepil, the last queen of Mongolia, who was executed in 1938. CRACKED COM — Source

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The Meridian Trench was where Luke made his final attack run on the Death Star. It only existed because the model maker was lazy. The material used by Colin Cantwell to craft the Death Star tended to shrink, and the final model had a gap around the middle. Rather than putty it in, Cantwell suggested it be part of the plot. http://www. originalprop com/blog/2014/11/13/colin- CRACKED.COM cantwell-video-interviews-star-wars-prototype-models-nasa/ — 27 Mind-Blowing TRUE Star Wars Behind The Scenes Stories

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40 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia We Stuffed in Our Piggy Bank

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Leonardo DiCaprio used to have a huge Star Wars action figure collection. The Titanic actor sold his Star Wars and G.I. Joe collection for over $100,000 in 2006, which went towards environmental protection efforts. CRACKED.COM — Source: The Force and Antiques and the Heart

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