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Birds of Prey

Birds of Prey has a subtle homage to Harley Quinn's first appearance. She wears the number 92 on her derby outfit - that's a nod to the episode of Batman: The Animated Series, broadcast in '92, where she first appeared. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Iron Man

Easter eggs in Marvel deleted scenes Iron Man Mutants and spiders. In Nick Fury's original iteration of his speech to Tony Stark, he mentions radioactive spider bites and mutants. CRACKED.COM — Source: 14 Easter Eggs in Marvel Deleted Scenes

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Helen Mirren and Liam Neeson

CRACKED.COM Helen Mirren and Liam Neeson were a couple in the '80S. Their child would be the most talented actor in the universe. However, their union was not to be. — Source: Vanity Fair

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Moonlight

CRACKED.COM Edgy Movies Then vs. Now LGBT representation Before the prudish Hays Code ruined the fun, 1932's Call Her Savage featured gay folks, and even a gay bar. By now, a long history of queer representation has led to classics like Moonlight, Call Me By Your Name, and - and did we already mention Moonlight? — Source: Wikipedia

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Thor: The Dark World

Marvel Stars from the Multiverse A different Korg appeared in Thor: The Dark World. Despite Korg appearing as an enemy that Thor takes out in one hit in The Dark World, a somewhat more comic-accurate Korg appeared in Ragnarok, played by director Taika Waititi. — Source: Screen Rant

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The Blair Witch Project

BEHIND-THE-SCENES FACTS People thought The Blair Witch Project was real, and that the people in the movie actually died. CRACKED.co Due to the marketing around The Blair Witch Project, which described the unknown actors as missing, presumed dead, many viewers thought they were really watching the final days of the people on the screen. The mother of actress Heather DOnahue actually received sympathy cards from concerned audience members. — Source: 14 Behind The Scenes Facts About Your Favorite Horror Movies

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Phantom Menace

TELL US NOW. WHAT IS THE DUMBEST LINE IN A MOVIE EVERYONE FORGETS? Now THIS is podracing! L. Keenan The worst line in Phantom Menace. No, Anakin, th — Keenan L.

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Buffy the Vampire Slayer

The SPIKE welve grown to love from BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER was never meant to last or be likeable for that matter. Buffy the ampire Slauer According

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Emilia Clarke

Eating a real horse heart would be horrifying. Apparently the gummy version was just as bad. Emilia Clarke said the gummy stallion heart that she had

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C-3PO

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Movie Tropes

40 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia You Can Boil Up Into a Nice Stew in a Pinch

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Vanilla Ice

Vanilla Ice TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES II CRACKED.COM 30 years before he was, extremely sadly, the crown jewel of the president's New Year's Eve celebration, Ice entertained another nearly-maskless mob of cultural relics when he led the infamous Ninja Rap.

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John Hughes

EASTER EGGS IN '80S MOVIES The Breakfast Club ILUNOIS EMC 2 JOHN HUGHES LEFT EASTER EGGS ON LICENSE PLATES. Nerd Brian's plate is EMC 2 because E=MC². And all the individual plate numbers on Jake Ryan's car add up to 16. - 21850 KORNAK 16 Candles CRACKED.COM

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Daisy Ridley

Daisy Ridley acted in an interactive CPR video before becoming famous. The star of the Star Wars sequels was featured in Lifesaver, a free, interac- tive course that gave com- puter users choices that af- fected the outcome of a re- alistic emergency situa- tion. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

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Michaela Watkins

Michaela Watkins CRACKED G COM After her one season, Michaela Watkins described her firing from SNL in 2009 as a little rude. I thought that this was my big break. I thought that it was going well. I thought we were all having a good time, but then they didn't renew my contract the next year. Maybe I was delusional. I really wanted to go back. I would have been really happy if they'd had me for three seasons. I felt like that would have been a really nice time there, but they had me for one. — Source

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Will Smith

Will Smith came up with After Earth as a parenting metaphor. In the movie, a sci-fi soldier (Will Smith) guides his son (his real-life son Jaden) through a post-apocalyptic landscape. For Will Smith, it was really about him helping Jaden navigate show business. The movie got an 11% Rotten Tomatoes score and six Golden Raspberry nominations (the Smiths won an acting Razzie each, and another one as the Worst Screen Combo). CRACKED.COM — Source

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Captain America: The First Avenger

MCU Phase One Easter Eggs The Captain America: The First Avenger The Human Torch The Synthetic Man, the original Human Torch makes an appearance in Steve Rogers' premiere film. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Jonathan Cheechoo

CRACKED ССМ 4 DOCKS 20 o OTA 14 ASTON 4 VAUGHN BAUER NHO VAUCH TON JONATHAN CHEECHOO WAS AN ELITE NHL PLAYER FOR ONE SEASON. In 2006, he won the Maurice Rocket Richard Trophy for the most goals in a season with 56 goals. Не never again came close to that, and was sent to the minors in 2010. — Bleacher Report / Sharks Alumni Foundation

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Black Adam

BLACK ADAM НЕ WAS A FAMILY MAN. Black Adam was happiest when he was with his wife Isis and his brother-in-law Osiris. That is, until a Horseman of the apocalypse killed them both, leading back to the path of rage. CRACKED.COM — DC
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Alfonso Cuaron

Alfonso Cuarón doesn't like the auteur theory. The auteur theory is the idea that the director is the author and primary creative force behind a movie. Cuarón says he doesn't buy into it. The auteur theory manifested from a certain snobbery of the 50s and 60s that I don't think I'm particularly in need of. It's a need to differentiate between 'real filmmakers' with a point of view and 'hacks' that can do plate films and entertaining films but don't provide a unity of cinematic elements. CRACKED.COM — Source: 17 Directors And The Things They Hate

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Aaron Paul

'90s Teen Rom-Coms Whatever It Takes This was Aaron Paul's first movie. The Breaking Bad star and Mission: Impossible 3 cameo made his feature film debut in this '90s rom- com. His character is one of the best things about the film, and certainly amps up the rewatch value. CRACKED.COM — Source: IMDb

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Henry Winkler

Guest Stars on Bob's Burgers HENRY WINKLER as a mall Santa It's fitting that the reportedly nicest man in Hollywood would voice the OMG Mall Santa, even if he couldn't get Louise a pet shark. SEASON 6 NICE-CAPADES CRACKED.COM — Source: IMDb

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Bronn

Game of Thrones FIRST APPEARANCE Cripples, Bastards, and Broken Things BRONN From mercenary to... uhhhh... LAST APPEARANCE The Iron Throne CRACKED.COM

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Paper Planes

Paper Planes by MIA The song satirizes negative stereotypes about immigrants. MIA herself was denied entry to the US, even when she was signed to Interscope Records. CRACKED.COM — ODD Magazine

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Jennifer Garner

Jennifer Garner has a pet chicken that she's named after a Mean Girls character. The chicken is called Regina George (of course, who else?), and she's filmed herself for Instagram reading the newspaper aloud to Regina. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Celebrities Who Keep Truly Weird Pets

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Stephen King

HE TRIED MAKING A MOVIE OF HIS WORK CRACKED In 1986, he directed a movie of his story Maximum Overdrive, about trucks that come to life, with nothing but AC/DC on the soundtrack. — Source: IMDB

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Bill Tytla

WHO WAS BILL TYTLA? TYTLA THOUGHT THAT ANIMATION SHOULDN'T BE REALISTIC. In Bill Tytla's expert opinion, animation was better at bringing characters to life if it didn't try to make the stuff look too damn naturalistic. Disney himself heartily agreed. Maybe someone over at the company should have remembered that before they remade The Lion King. — Source: Vladimir Tytla, Master Animator, by John Canemaker (via AnimationResources.org)

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30 Rock

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Jay Leno

Jay Leno invested in rare and valuable motorcycles, and it paid off. For example, he bought six 1929 Brough bikes for over $30,000 apiece in the 1990s, and their value has gone up tenfold since then. CRACKED.COM — Source: The Hollywood Reporter

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Star Wars

The Star Wars opening crawl is a nod to the serials that inspired the franchise. PIECE issued THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK and remain in fion for from years fraing DURING their Rip Van been rial troops forces from their eer Killer Kane,has gain them ed control of Earth nd pursued the except for the Hidden City. axy. THE only hope of these refugees is an allianc the dreaded with the planet. Satur Buck volunteers a group of a space ship throug Buck Rogers and Flash Gordon, which George Lucas had grown up with, both had an opening crawl, so — Source: Washington Post

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The Shawshank Redemption

The Shawshank Redemption inspired a dance program at a Filipino jail. In the movie, Andy Dufresne plays an aria to inmates over the loudspeaker- which gave Byron F. Garcia, security advisor at a prison in Cebu, the Philippines, the idea to play Queen's Another One Bites the DuSt for inmates. — Source: Refinery 29

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Game of Thrones

EVERYONE ON THE GAME OF THRONES SET HATED THE CAT. Ser Pounce, King Tommen's cat, was popular with fans even though he only appeared once - but he only appeared once because he was hell to work with. Natalie Dormer called it a bit of a diva -and according to — More: The Most Hated Star On 'Game Of Thrones' Set? The Cat.

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It

IT 2017 The script originally called for Pennywise to straight-up eat a baby. It was an screen, but still brutally visceral death that was only ever p — Source: Bloody-Disgusting

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Jared Leto

THE ACTOR: Jared Leto THE ROLE: Mark David Chapman in Chapter 27 THE PREP: Leto gained 67 pounds to play the dude who shot John Lennon. Unfortunately

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Buddies

Buddies ABC, 1996 After a single, wildly popular appearance on Home Improvement, Dave Chappelle and Jim Breuer were given their own series. Then produ

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Woody Harrelson

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David Carradine

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David O. Russell

DAVID O. RUSSELL GROPED HIS TEENAGE TRANSGENDERED NIECE. In 2011, the director inappropriately touched his niece while they were exercising at a hotel

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Game of Thrones

In Game of Thrones, Khal Drogo POURS MOLTEN GOLd over the head of Viserys Targaryen, killing him. History is actually more gruesome. Centuries ago, th

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Clerks

Clerks' oftthe-cuff style made it a cult classic. PLAN -OPLIFT US KNOW THAKS But it nearly ended in violence and death. The movie, which at its most s

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