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Jaws

MOVIES SAVED BY RESHOOTS JAWS FROM LAUGHS TO SCREAMS. After audiences laughed at the cheap-looking shark, Steven Spielberg took a less is more approach to build suspense, and added character beats that spoke about how scary the shark is. You know what they say: Tell, don't show. CRACKED — Source

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Friends to Lovers

Tired Rom-Com Tropes (That Still Make Us Swoon) From friends to lovers Friends that fall for each other can still drive a solid rom-com. It's pretty much the entire plot of Love, Rosie and Always Be My Maybe, but it also features prominently in one of the best romantic dramas of recent times, Silver Linings Playbook. CRACKED.COM

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Hitchcock

18 Horror Movies That Did It First - Hitchcock was the first to attempt the so-called “one-shot” feature film with Rope in 1948.
It wasn’t a true one- — Source: The Wrap

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Wall-E

Easter Eggs of Oscar-winning movies WALLE 2009 Animated Feature WALL-E In one scene, you can see Rex... thousands of years after the events of Toy Story. Gathering dust. Mad? CRACKED.COM — Source

36

Dan Rather

DAN RATHER ONCE WALKED OFF-SET, LEAVING NOTHING TO AIR FOR SIX MINUTES. CRACKED.COM When CBS' live coverage of the 1987 US Open for Women's Singles in tennis was going to go two minutes long and cut into Dan Rather's time covering the Pope's visit to the US, Rather balked and said if they couldn't broadcast at 6:30 sharp, he wouldn't be there to broadcast at all. True to his word, when the evening news aired at 6:32, there was only a blank screen for the next six minutes. Some affiliates popped in a game show rerun, and they went on

35

NASA

There was a mystery on the Apollo 10 mission that's never been solved. NASA Owas NASA Six days after the 1969 mission started, as the astronauts prepared to leave the moon's orbit, a turd floated by. All three astronauts denied it was theirs. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Vox.com

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Mission to Mars

CRACKED.COM The movie Mission to Mars was based on a Disneyland ride. Before Pirates of the Caribbean, Brian De Palma's Mission to Mars was loosely based on the Tomorrowland ride of the same name. The connection was downplayed in the marketing, though, and it's unclear whether De Palma himself was aware of it. — Source

33

The Beatles

CRACKED HOFNER 500/1 BASS GUITAR (PAUL MCCARTNEY) The instantly recognisable bass has been with McCartney from The Beatles early days playing clubs in Germany to their final rooftop concert in London, and beyond, with it making several appearances throughout his solo career. — Source

32

Boyhood

Boyhood The movie was paid for in installments. The studio didn't want to give director Richard Linklater all $2.4 million dollars in a lump sum for a movie that would take over a decade to make, so he got $200,000 each year. CRACKED.COM — Source: Screen Rant

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The Babadook

THE BABADOOK THE BABADOOK isn't a story about the boogeyman. Instead, it's about a mother's descent into madness after her inability to process the tragic death of her husband. CRACKED.COM — Source: 12 Movies That Everyone Misunderstands (And What They Mean)

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Sylvester Stallone

40 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia We Stole From the Collection Basket

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Buffy the Vampire Slayer

The Master's baldness The ancient vampire had long hair in the concept art. Actor Mark Metcalf pushed to make him look more l — Source: Whedonverse Podcast

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Jim Carrey

JIM CARREY CRACKED.COM Carrey was only 18 years old when he auditioned for SNL. Didn't get I N the gig but he was MING quickly hired at LOR — Source

27

Apex

Awful CGI APEX We all love the movie Арех, about, erm, John Apex fighting the Apex Corporation? Now we're not gonna diss Bruce Willis, but that final composition of him green- screening out of an exploding house and looking like something out of a PowerPoint presentation is just, just, арех trash. Get it? That's called branding, kids. CRACKED.COM — Watch it on YouTube

26

Halle Berry

13 Surprising Facts About Movies (And A Ton Of Other Things) - Halle Berry spent 3-4 hours a day training dogs for John Wick: Chapter 3. It came — Source: Entertainment Weekly

25

Wilt Chamberlain

MOST 50-POINT BE NBA GAMES WILT CHAMBERLAIN ORIGINAL CRACKED.COM This mark is even more unreachable than his (bonus unbreakable record) 100-point game. Wilt Chamberlain's 118 50-point games is nearly 4 times as many as second place Michael Jordan's 31. From 1958 to 1973, Wilt the Stilt dominated the NBA, and in 1961-62 alone he had 45 50-point games (more than any other player's entire career). — Source: Stadiumtalk

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Yoko Ono

RZA & YOKO ONO CRACKED.COM When RZA and Yoko Ono took the stage in LA a few years back, the show was just as bizarre as you'd expect. Before breaking into duets, the two stars sat on stage and played chess. — YouTube, Pitchfork

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The Omen

The Omen is alyout demonic possession. Apparently, So was the filming of the original. The trained Rottweilers used on set attacked their handlers, an

22

George Lucas

George Lucas STAR WARS CRACKED.COM Notluwiski Papanoida started as a tasteful cameo in Revenge of the Sith, but became a self-indulgent hero fantasy in The Clone Wars. — Source

21

The Pope

Pope Leo XIII COCAINE MARIANI WINE MARIANI WISE - MAJIANI WINE ITEMS HEALTH STRENGTH XXXXXXXXX ENERGY a VITALITY THE BODY CRASIN HASTERS CONVALESCENCE - INFLUENZA. His Heliness THE POPE - the - Sur NET - VENSCH - mini With - - - I bearing - - CRACKED.COM Leo got hooked on Vin Mariani, a highly addictive cocaine-infused wine. Не appeared in ads for it, and gave the company a Vatican gold medal. — Source

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Monty Python

I Get By With A Little Help From My (Famous) Friends Musicians and Monty Python go together like peanut butter and dog treats (never let them know your next move). Pink Floyd and Led Zeppelin footed the bill for much of The Holy Grail and Beat- les member George Harrison gave the troupe money to make Life of Brian. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — RollingStone

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Brendan Fraser

40 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia We Stole From the Collection Basket — Source: 7 Actors Who Got Injured On-Set In The Dumbest Way Possible

18

Kyle Chandler

Kyle Chandler binge-watched 30 movies for Godzilla: King of the Monsters. To prepare for his role, he performed the near-superhuman feat of watching every single Godzilla movie ever made (covering a span of 65 years), over just two days. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The Dark Knight

The infamous Batman growl in The Dark Knight was not Christian Bale's fault. CRACKED.COM The real voice during film- ing was more toned down and then heightened to a rougher, grittier vibe during post-production un- der the decision of director Christopher Nolan. — IMDB

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Dave Chappelle

COMEDY DEL NERD Dave Chappelle once refused to leave the stage even though he got booed. To be fair, he hung out with some rappers before the show who got him super high, which may have affected things that night somewhat. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Rocky IV

USA! USA! ROCKY IV ALEDA ROCKY IV BOTTLE JEO CRACKED.COM VOLU The poster reveals the victor, Rocky, draped in the American flag. I'm no sports buff but I believe that happens at the END of the match. — Source

14

Men in Black

IN MEN IN BLACK, AGENT K UPHOLDS GALACTIC LAW AND BELIEVES IN PEACE BETWEEN WORLDS... Other than when he abuses his power and blows an alien's head of

13

Adrien Brody

Adrien Brody got excited (and racist) when introducing Sean Paul on SNL. CRACKED.COM The actor decided the best way to introduce the act was by mumbling We got the whole family in the house in a wig and Jamaican accent. Не also introduced Sean John by mistake. — Source: Twitter

12

Ocean’s Eleven

Mark Wahlberg turned down a role for Planet of the Apes. Wahlberg was offered the role of Linus (which eventually went to Matt Damon), but chose to work on Tim Burton's monkey movie instead. Swing and a miss, Mark. Ocean's Eleven CRACKED.COM — Source: Mental Floss

11

Nick Drake

Nick Drake was mostly ignored. Drake recorded only three albums, none of which sold more than 5,000 copies during his lifetime. His popularity has gro

10

Kim Kardashian

Kim Kardashian definitely channeled her inner beach bum for this 2010 tweet. Kim Kardashian West @KimKardashian kowabunga dudettes. i'm SO pumped to b

9

Meghan Markle

Meghan Markle stopped using Twitter after joining the Royal Family. I don't read anything, it's much safer that way, but equally that's just my own personal preference, because I think positive or negative, it can all sort of just feel like noise to a certain extent these days. CRACKED.COM — Source

8

Grand Theft Auto V

Gamers are living regular lives on Grand Theft Auto. The most transgressive thing you can do in GTA V isn't shooting cops or pedestrians, but living a normal, unremarkable life as a law-abiding citizen - and Grand Theft Auto Roleplay is exactly about that. While the community has been around since 2019, it has become wildly popular during lockdown. CRACKED.COM — Source

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British Rom-Coms

Forgotten Rom-Coms 1998 Martha, Meet Frank, Daniel and Laurence Entirely composed of meet cutes, this British film tells the story of a girl who meets her three dream guys on the same day-and they all happen to be best friends. You can see her predicament. Monica Potter and Joseph Fiennes are competent, Rufus Sewell plays a great weirdo as usual, and Tom Hollander is annoying. Still a decent rom-com, though. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Roger Corman

out III space beyond nED the sizzling sun... in TERRIFYING in color!! UNKNOWN worlds! Roger Corman Не made a sci-fi movie with Francis Ford Coppola (sort of). In 1962, Corman hired Coppola to Americanize the Soviet film Nebo Zovyot. Coppola was charged with redubbing the movie, erasing any anti-American propaganda, and even adding a monster fight scene. The result was called Battle Beyond the Sun. CRACKED.COM — Source: Wikipedia

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Ghostbusters

CRACKED.COM STAY Being 112.5 feet tall and 37.5 feet wide, the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man from Ghostbusters contains roughly 925,000 GALLONS of marshmallow. The goo from its explosion could be used to make HERSHEY 186 million s'mores. — Source

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White Castle

White Castle is the oldest fast-food burger chain, originating in 1921 White Castle WhiteChotte.com el Castle Save dron The company's assembly line style food preparation helped to lead the the entire fast food industry. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Consumerist

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Studio Ghibli

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Parasite

The trash can in the Parasite house cost $2,300. Bong Joon-ho wanted that specific model because it would look great in the movie: it opened and closed very smoothly, and it made a quiet sound instead of a loud clank. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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The Towering Inferno

Behind-the-scenes feuds The Towering Inferno Paul Newman vs Steve McQueen The movie stars disliked each other, and both wanted top billing. As a result of negotiations between the towering egos, McQueen's name appears first on the poster, but Newman's is a bit higher. CRACKED.COM — Source

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