Best movie trivia of 2023

Please vote as you browse around to help the best rise to the top.

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 picture

Trivia: The first MCU movie to feature the word "fuck", when Quill tells Nebula to "open the fucking door", a line that was improvised on-set and kept in because it was so funny. James Gunn anticipated being told to cut it out, but Kevin Feige left it up to Gunn's discretion. Feige said the Russo brothers had a "fuck" in an early cut of Avengers: Endgame, but they "didn't want that to be their legacy, so if you want that to be your legacy, then sure." James Gunn said that just made him even more keen to keep the line in, at which Feige "laughed his ass off."

More Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 trivia
Oppenheimer picture

Trivia: The IMAX prints of the film are 11 miles long, weighing 600lb.

More Oppenheimer trivia
Barbie picture

Trivia: So much pink paint was used for set production in this film that it actually led to a global shortage.

Phaneron

More Barbie trivia
Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning picture

Trivia: After a delay caused by positive covid tests, Tom Cruise personally paid half a million pounds for a cruise ship for the cast and crew to isolate themselves on during filming.

More Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning trivia
The Super Mario Bros. Movie picture

Trivia: The movie came about partially thanks to the "Super Nintendo World" theme parks. As the Nintendo World parks were to be situated in Universal Studios theme parks, Mario creator Shigeru Miyamoto met many Universal executives, including Illumination CEO Chris Meledandri, to discuss the park's creation. Miyamoto felt Meledandri was a kindred spirit due to their similar creative processes and began talking with him about making a new Mario movie. Within a few years, the project was greenlit.

TedStixon

More The Super Mario Bros. Movie trivia
The Flash picture

Trivia: SPOILER: Nicolas Cage has a cameo in this film as an alternate version of Superman fighting a giant spider. This is a nod to the cancelled film "Superman Lives", which would have starred Cage and been directed by Tim Burton. The giant spider was part of the script at the insistence of producer Jon Peters, who finally got to make use of the idea in Wild Wild West.

Phaneron

More The Flash trivia
Scream VI picture

Trivia: When the kids are walking down the stairs in the subway station, you can see one guy walking upstairs dressed as the character Mojo Jojo from "The Powerpuff Girls." Mojo Jojo was voiced by Roger L. Jackson, the same voice actor for Ghostface.

More Scream VI trivia
Saw X picture

Trivia: After 19 years, this became the first film in the franchise to receive mostly positive reviews from critics. The original film was previously the best-reviewed entry in the franchise according to Rotten Tomatoes, but only received mixed reviews.

Phaneron

More Saw X trivia
The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes picture

Trivia: When Flikerman cancels his dinner reservation, he tells the restaurant "two, and a high chair," a reference to his son Caesar, the future host of the Hunger Games.

More The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes trivia
The Great Escaper picture

Trivia: This is Michael Caine's final film. He decided to retire after making it, when he came to the realisation that, at age 90, he would only be landing roles of old men.

Phaneron

More The Great Escaper trivia
More Insidious: The Red Door trivia
Haunted Mansion picture

Trivia: Harriet's chair in the spirit session is styled after the vehicles in the Haunted Mansion theme park ride.

More Haunted Mansion trivia
John Wick: Chapter 4 picture

Trivia: Lance Reddick, who played Charon in this series of films, died one week before this film was released.

Phaneron

More John Wick: Chapter 4 trivia
Cocaine Bear picture

Trivia: The film is loosely based on true events, however the real cocaine bear is not known to have attacked anyone and died as a result of the cocaine. The bear is on display in Lexington, Kentucky.

manthabeat

More Cocaine Bear trivia
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse picture

Trivia: 14-year-old Preston Mutanga animated the Lego segment. The directors had seen a video he posted on Twitter recreating the trailer for this movie from Lego, and wanted to showcase his talent. The universe seen (Earth 13122) is meant to be the same one as in the Lego Marvel Super Heroes games.

More Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse trivia
Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves picture

Trivia: When the party is put into the arena to run through the maze they see another two groups with them. The second one they look at, who make it to the cage, are from the Dungeons and Dragons cartoon.

MAdMaN

More Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves trivia
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny picture

Trivia: This is the only film in the series in which the Paramount logo does not match-dissolve to a similar shape. The Lucasfilm logo does instead.

Phaneron

More Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny trivia
The Little Mermaid picture

Trivia: Jodi Benson, who voiced Ariel in the 1989 animated movie "The Little Mermaid", appears in the live-action film as a marketplace vendor who offers Ariel a plate of food and a fork. In a reference to the original film, Ariel uses the fork to comb her hair.

Steven Lee

More The Little Mermaid trivia
Blue Beetle picture

Trivia: One of the first weapons the suit creates is an almost exact replica of the Zorg ZF-1 Pod Weapon System from the movie "The Fifth Element." The only major difference being that it's blue instead of the original tan camouflage color.

TedStixon

More Blue Beetle trivia
Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania picture

Trivia: Scott's memoir, "Looking Out for the Little Guy," ended up being published in real life in September 2023 by Hyperion Avenue, a subsidiary of Disney Publishing Worldwide.

Phaneron

More Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania trivia

Join the mailing list

Separate from membership, this is to get updates about mistakes in recent releases. Addresses are not passed on to any third party, and are used solely for direct communication from this site. You can unsubscribe at any time.

Check out the mistake & trivia books, on Kindle and in paperback.