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Trivia: The first movie to ever gross over $200 million domestically in its opening weekend. (And somewhat coincidentally, it was released almost exactly ten years to the day after "Spider-Man" - the first movie to gross over $100 million in its opening weekend, and also based on a Marvel property).

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Trivia: Kevin Spacey originally starred in the film. However, after sexual harassment allegations were leveled against him, most of his scenes were re-filmed with Christopher Plummer, costing the production almost $10 million. Spacey reportedly only appears in the finished film in one scene, and even then, only in wide-shots where his face can not be made out.

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Trivia: Rose's husband Christopher is named after director Christophe Gans. Writer Roger Avery, knowing how personal the film was to Gans, thought it would be fun to name a character after him. He simply added an "r" to "Americanize" his name.

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Trivia: Director Christophe Gans originally didn't want any men in the film whatsoever, as he wanted the movie to be heavily inspired by witchcraft, which is traditionally viewed as being somewhat more feminine. Writer Roger Avery also half-jokingly-half-seriously suggested in an interview that Gans has a "thing" for American women, and wanted to make a film with nothing but women from the US and Canada. The male characters were added into the film as a studio-note, as executives felt it was a bit odd that there were no men in the early drafts of the script.

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Trivia: As a behind the scenes goof, the set decorators labeled one of the storefronts on set "M.T. Rooms" - aka "Empty Rooms." A joke about the fact that the majority of the buildings visible are basically just for show with nothing inside.

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Trivia: In order to show Rose's progression as a character and her increasing desperation, her clothing slowly changes color throughout the film - going from a standard wardrobe of warm colors to a dark, almost blood-red by the time the film is over. Clothing in dozens and dozens of subtly different hues was crafted for the film, with the actress frequently changing wardrobe several times a scene. The changes are so subtle, that they're near-impossible to notice in any given scene.

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Trivia: While "A Cold Day in Hell" was filming, Kevin Bacon, who co-starred in the original film, was working on a pilot for a "Tremors" TV-series, as he had long wanted to return to the franchised, but wanted to to move it to episodic television. Unfortunately, shortly before this film was released, the series was passed on by the intended network. Around the same time, co-star Michael Gross announced that Universal was already interested in producing a seventh film, should this sixth film be successful.

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Trivia: There's a running gag about Burt wearing a new hat, and how it throws everyone off. And it's true - this is the first film in the series where he isn't seen wearing an Atlanta Hawks hat at some point. (Instead he wears a Chicago Cubs hat). According to the documentary on the Blu-ray of the original Tremors, Burt wore an Atlanta Hawks hat in the first movie because the production had been given a large stock of them, and thus a Hawks hat became a staple of Burt's costume throughout the franchise. Michael Gross himself, however, is from Chicago, and in 2016, between the production of the 5th and 6th movies, the Cubs won the World Series (as mentioned in this film). Thus, Gross, a producer on the films, switched to the hat of his favorite team to honor the championship.

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Question: Before the sequel went into production, the writer of the first film (Roger Avery) was supposed to return to write it, and even worked out a plan to write it from prison after he was jailed for vehicular manslaughter. But he ended up getting dropped. I'm just curious... did he actually ever write a draft for the sequel? And if so, is it available online? The second movie wasn't very good (in fact it pretty much sucked), so I'd be interested to see what he originally had planned before being dropped from the project.

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Trivia: The baby's name, "Pubert," was actually the original intended name for Pugsley when the comic was turned into a sitcom in the 1960's. Comic creator Charles Addams pitched the name, but it was rejected as it sounds like a number of other words including "puberty" and "pubic." (Which were quite taboo at the time.) The name was finally used thirty years later in this movie for the Addams new baby.

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Trivia: A third film in the series was planned after the previous film became a huge hit with audiences. Unfortunately, this sequel only managed to pull in about half of the original's box-office in domestic markets, and shortly after release co-star Raul Julia became seriously ill and passed away after suffering from a stroke. As a result of these two developments, the third film was cancelled and instead, children's media company Saban later "rebooted" the series with the film "The Addams Family Reunion" and a television series entitled "The New Addams Family." Though "Addams Family Reunion" is often cited as the "third" film in the series, it actually has no connection to the plot of the prior films and was produced and distributed by a different studio.

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The Good Parts - S3-E12

Continuity mistake: In the beginning of the episode, watch closely when Tara lifts Bryce out of the water and pulls the shroud from his face while water-boarding him. Bryce goes from soaking wet, with water dripping off him when he was first lifted out, to more-or-less dry with no dripping water a mere instance later after the camera cuts a few times. There was nowhere near enough time for him to dry-off between cuts. (It's literally a second or two at most.) True, this scene takes place in Tara's mind and thus some real-world rules might not apply, but the water behaves like normal water in the rest of the scene, so Bryce should still be soaked and dripping.

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Trivia: The story behind this film is quite strange. While the theatrical rights to the series was owned by Paramount whom produced the 1991/1993 films, due to a contractual loophole the children's media studio Saban managed to secure the home-video rights - allowing them to make this unrelated direct-to-video film so long as it wasn't shown in theaters. Director Dave Payne was brought in, and wanted to make a quirky, dark kids movie that was tonally similar to the films of the Cohen Brothers, except set in the "Addams Family" universe. Instead, Saban vetoed all of his ideas, and instead forced him to make a carbon-copy of the other films, despite being unrelated, except they also demanded that all of the dark humor be removed, in order to make the film appeal exclusively to children under 12.

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Trivia: Despite being unrelated, this movie does have two cast members from the 1991 and 1993 "Addams Family" theatrical films. Carel Struycken as hulking butler "Lurch" and Christopher Hart, whom portrays the living-hand "Thing." Struycken was brought in simply because he was one of the only actors who was big enough to play the character, while Hart was actually neighbors with director Dave Payne, and agreed to reprise the role in this reboot as a favor.

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Trivia: Though this film is oft-cited as a "sequel" to the 1991 and 1993 "Addams Family" movies, it is actually a "reboot" that was produced and distributed by a completely different studio, and was actually created to serve as a "backdoor pilot" for the subsequent television series "The New Addams Family."

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Trivia: The series was created by Science Fiction writer Peter David and actor/writer Bill Mumy, who starred in the original "Lost in Space" series in addition to other science-fiction and fantasy series. They wanted to create a science-fiction series for kids, and gave guest-roles to other well-known science fiction actors including Mark Hamill and George Takei as a nod to the genre. Somewhat coincidentally, one of the lead actors in season one, Jewel Staite, subsequently went on to become a science fiction star in her own right... five years after "Space Cases" ended, she went on to co-star in the beloved cult-hit series "Firefly" and its movie spin-off "Serenity" as the spunky mechanic Kaylee.

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Trivia: Famous (and infamous) science fiction writer Harlan Ellison actually wrote and narrated the opening voice-over that sometimes occurs before episodes.

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Trivia: Directors Joe and Anthony Russo like to put in nods to their previous works in their MCU films. In this movie, a man closely resembling Tobias Funke in his "Blue Man Group" makeup (from the series "Arrested Development") is briefly visible inside of one of the Collector's cages behind Gamora for a brief instant. It's hard to spot, but he's there.

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Trivia: With the release of this film, Robert Downey Jr., who played Sherlock Holmes in a 2009 feature film and its 2011 sequel, has worked with two Watsons and a fellow Holmes in the MCU. His "Iron Man 3" co-star Ben Kingsley portrayed Watson in the comedy film "Without a Clue." His "Captain America: Civil War" co-star Martin Freeman portrays Watson alongside Benedict Cumberbatch's Holmes in the BBC series "Sherlock." And Downey stars alongside Cumberbatch in this film.

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Trivia: The film establishes that the longer Chucky's soul inhabits the doll, the more "human" it becomes. To subtly allude to this fact, the special effects team made several variations of the doll that were used throughout filming, with each new doll having slightly more "human" qualities than the previous doll. A prime example is the skin tone - the films starts with Chucky looking like a real doll with shiny and bright plastic skin, but by the end of the film, the skin is less shiny, less vibrant and a bit more "elastic" in quality, more like human skin than plastic. Chucky's eyes were also made somewhat more translucent and realistic as the film progressed, and were even set back further into the head in later scenes.

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