Trivia: Universal's first choice to direct was Tobe Hooper, who was under contract and considered a better choice. Hooper even wrote two drafts of the screenplay as a horror-comedy, without the shape-shifting elements. After Carpenter was hired and the film made, co-producer Stuart Cohen reportedly said, "We avoided a disaster." (Sources: WhatCulture.com, Variety).
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24th Feb 2021
The Thing (1982)
24th Feb 2021
The Thing (1982)
Trivia: Carl Weathers, Isaac Hayes and Ernie Hudson were all considered for the role of Childs. Hudson almost got the part, but ultimately it went to Keith David due to the tone of his voice. It was David's first major film role. (Sources: WhatCulture.com, Variety).
24th Feb 2021
The Thing (1982)
Trivia: Nick Nolte and Jeff Bridges were just two notable actors who were offered the role of MacReady but turned it down. Kevin Kline was also briefly suggested by the studio. (Source: WhatCulture.com).
29th Jan 2021
Monsters, Inc. (2001)
Trivia: The Hidden City Cafe was a real place in Port Richmond, California. At a dinner in 1994, a group of Pixar guys came up with the ideas for Monster's Inc, Wall-E, A Bug's Life and Finding Nemo. (Source: MTV).
5th Jan 2021
How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (1966)
Trivia: Chuck Jones met his wife thanks to the Grinch. Marian Dern from TV Guide interviewed him about the special, and they got married in 1981.
5th Jan 2021
How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (1966)
Trivia: The Grinch's face is partly based on Chuck Jones' own face. Jones said he tended to sneak his face in without even realizing it. (Source: NPR).
23rd Dec 2020
Star Wars (1977)
23rd Dec 2020
How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (1966)
Trivia: "How the Grinch Stole Christmas" was extremely expensive for its time. It cost $315,000 while "A Charlie Brown Christmas," which came out the year before, cost about $76,000. It cost about ten times more than the average half hour of animation at the time. (Source: Saturday Evening Post).
1st Dec 2020
Parasite (2019)
Trivia: Mister Park's company in the film is called Another Brick because Bong Joon-ho's favorite band while he was in college was Pink Floyd.
1st Dec 2020
Django Unchained (2012)
Stupidity: So he can rescue his wife from slavery, Django comes up with a plan to buy Candie's most expensive fighter and then get him to throw her in for free. Why doesn't Django just offer to buy her directly? Surely there was some amount that Candie would agree to. Even racists like money.
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Suggested correction: You missed the point of the plan. They knew if they went in asking to buy Broomhilda directly, Candie would set the price too high. They feigned interested in his best fighter and would get him to throw in Django's wife at a nominal price. They would then just pay the nominal price for Broomhilda and back out of buying the fighter. It's only when Candie is told Django and Broomhilda know each other did he raise the price for her.
Yes, Candie, not Candle. Stupid typo on my part. I disagree with the correction though in the sense of why would Candie raise the price before knowing that Broomhilda was Django's wife? You yourself said in your correction that he only did so when he found this out. They could still have offered to buy her initially.
Because if they didn't feign interest in buying a fighter, Candie wouldn't have even invited them to his place. So the plan was to get him to throw her in for free, rather than risk him setting the price too high (or not even negotiating at all). Candie even figured out what their plan was.
1st Dec 2020
A Christmas Story (1983)
9th Nov 2020
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 (2015)
Trivia: At the end of the film, when Katniss and Peeta are enjoying their life together, their two children are played by Jennifer Lawrence's real-life nephews Bear and Theodore.
9th Nov 2020
Face/Off (1997)
Trivia: The magnetic boots worn by all the inmates in the sea prison are the same boots worn by the Goombas in "Super Mario Bros."
6th Nov 2020
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (2011)
Factual error: At one point, Sherlock uses a tube of lipstick to sabotage a gun. The film is set in the late 19th century, and tube lipstick wasn't available until 1915.
31st Oct 2020
Guardians of the Galaxy (2014)
Trivia: The worms in a tank in the Collector's collection are worms from James Gunn's 2006 film "Slither." (Source: Film School Rejects).
25th Sep 2020
Avengers: Endgame (2019)
Trivia: There are no inserts of any of the actors in the funeral scene at the end of the film. Everyone pictured is actually there. The Russo Brothers have called it, "The most complicated scheduling shot in the history of cinema." (Source: Film School Rejects).
25th Sep 2020
A Few Good Men (1992)
Trivia: Aaron Sorkin wrote "A Few Good Men" on cocktail napkins while he was a waiter at the Palace Theater. He would scribble notes on the napkins when he had a chance and get home with his pockets stuffed with them.
25th Sep 2020
Coraline (2009)
Trivia: The blossoms on the trees are actually painted popcorn pieces. The crew spent over 800 hours painting 250,000 of them. (Source: Wired magazine).
9th Sep 2020
47 Meters Down: Uncaged (2019)
Continuity mistake: Near the end of the film, the two surviving characters are banging on the bottom of the glass-bottomed tour boat. In the following exterior shot of the boat, they are several meters away from it.
9th Sep 2020
47 Meters Down: Uncaged (2019)
Factual error: Like so many other films that take place underwater, this one makes the mistake of having characters who can hear each other underwater despite not wearing earpieces and having their ears exposed to the water.
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