40 Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia That Will Come True If You Recite Them Into a Mirror in a Dark Room Three Times

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40 Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia That Will Come True If You Recite Them Into a Mirror in a Dark Room Three Times

Escape From New York’s futuristic tech wizardry was done with duct tape.

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The Origins of the Special Effects Department

Historical Firsts in Practical Effects The term. Special Effect 1926 gets its first screen credit In the 1920s, studios began dedicating entire departments to special effects, and the term Special Effect first appears in the credits of 1926's What Price Glory? CRACKED

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Edge of Tomorrow

40 Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia That Will Come True If You Recite Them Into a Mirror in a Dark Room Three Times

Skyfall

40 Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia That Will Come True If You Recite Them Into a Mirror in a Dark Room Three Times

The Lord of the Rings

The Lord of the Rings trilogy mixed hobbits, dwarves, and humans. With forced perspective. Making normal-sized actors look vastly different in SiZE wa

Escape From New York

Escape From New York showed a wireframe view of the city. AOSE VTEW And it was done with tape and a black light. The filmmakers wanted to create a hig

The Rains Came

Historical Firsts in Practical Effects The first Academy Award_ 1939 for Best Special Effects. The Rains Came won the first-ever special effects Oscar. Of its $2.5 million budget, $500k was used for flood and earthquake scenes. The effects took almost 50 days, requiring 350 laborers, 14 cameras, and 33 million gallons of water. CRACKED

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The Force Awakens

In Star Wars: The Force Awakens, it took the special effects crew months to create the bread rising effect, in Rey's bowl. Special effects supervisor

Carrie Fisher

AT A GLANCE CARRIE FISHER She sent a COW tongue to a predatory producer. After learning a producer assaulted her friend, Carrie Fisher delivered a COW tongue wrapped in a Tiffany box to his LA office. CRACKED.COM

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Prodigy Princess

CRACKED NASCRED NEW HIS SEVEN-YEAR- OLD DAUGHTER AS A PRODUCER. Nas listed his child daughter as an executive producer on his Platinum album Stillmatic, to ensure she will always receive royalties from the album's sales.

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Don Behrns

CRACKED COM The RV crash scene in Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives was a way to screw over the producer. o Producer Don Behrns would get a chunk o

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST THE ACTORS LIVED IN THE PSYCHIATRIC WARD DURING SHOOTING. All of the actors who played patients actually stayed in the sleep quarters at the Oregon State Hospital, to get a sense of what it was like to be hospitalized. CRACKED.COM

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The Warner Bros. Were Kind of Dumb

Audiences don't want to hear actors. A WARNER BRO. CRACKED.COM H.M. Warner thought silent movies were the height of cinema: Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?

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The Oscar Love Curse

The 'Oscar Love Curse' is a strong superstition that is believed to be true in Hollywood circles. According to it, a woman who is awarded the Acade- my Award for Best Actress or Best Supporting Actress is doomed to have her boyfriend or husband cheat on her or divorce her soon after. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW

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‘Thandie’ Newton

Thandiwe Newton's first name was misspelled as Thandie in the credits of her 1991 first movie, Flirting. GRAGKED.COM In April 2021, after three decades, the actress reclaimed her original first name.

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Shirley Easton

Hollywood Rumors and Myths Did an actress die for real in Goldfinger? When Jill Masterson tries to double cross Goldfinger, he paints her gold, killing her via skin asphyxiation. Many people somehow believed that actress Shirley Eaton actually died in real life, because of how realistic the scene looks. CRACKED

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Piper Laurie

40 Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia That Will Come True If You Recite Them Into a Mirror in a Dark Room Three Times

Lillian Gish

The first film actress: CRACKED CON Known to act sO hard she'd collapse, Lillian Gish was the first actress hired specifically for film. She method-acted sO hard, she gave herself permanent nerve damage and almost starved to death on film.

Kristin Chenoweth

KRISTIN CHENOWETH COLLECTS QUARTERS The actress stores jars of quarters, which she disinfects with Purell. She says it's a holdover from being a broke actress. CRACKED.COM

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