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Trivia: The train the main character is on at the end is numbered 081, which backwards is 180. In the first film, the flight number was 180.

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11th Mar 2023

Cocaine Bear (2023)

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.

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11th Mar 2023

Cocaine Bear (2023)

Trivia: Although the film was set in Tennessee, it was mostly shot in Ireland. The real forest seen in the movie is in northern Georgia in the Blue Ridge Mountains.

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16th Feb 2023

Breakdown (1997)

Trivia: Red's son Deke is playing the Playstation 1 port of "Doom" (1995) in the scene where Jeff enters the house.

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16th Feb 2023

Breakdown (1997)

Trivia: When Jeff tries to get Red to pull over on the road, he almost misses an RV and has to swerve at the last minute. In front of where he swerves is a big rock looking thing, right frame. It is there to hide the camera filming the lower angle shot we see in this sequence.

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4th Jan 2023

Fall (2022)

Trivia: For the film, a real radio tower was built, albeit significantly shorter. The film was shot on a tall mountain, to give the illusion that the tower was much taller. A blue screen was placed below it. The two main female characters did their own stunts.

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2nd Jan 2023

Sudden Death (1995)

Trivia: One of the bad guys is playing the video game "Doom", which was released two years prior to the film for MS-DOS.

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8th Dec 2022

True Lies (1994)

Trivia: The hotel chase and horse in the elevator scenes were actually filmed in two hotels in Los Angeles as opposed to Washington D.C. where the film was set. The building with the elevators is the Westin hotel near downtown, and the lobby chase was filmed at the now-demolished Ambassador on Wilshire.

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16th Aug 2022

Prey (2022)

Trivia: When one of the Comanche warriors is fighting the predator, he gets thrown over a large log. He lets out a Wilhelm scream. (00:51:33)

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1st Jun 2022

Office Space (1999)

Trivia: Recycled footage from the first film is used in the intro, specifically when the spaceship arrives.

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15th Mar 2022

The Dead Pool (1988)

Trivia: Members of the band Guns N Roses appear in this film. They're visible in the funeral scene, and they are working on the boat when the director fires the man. Slash, the band's guitarist, is the one who fires the harpoon through the window.

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14th Mar 2022

Uncharted (2022)

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Trivia: Nolan North, who does motion capture in the games for Nathan Drake, is on the beach at the resort. He asks Nate and Chloe what happened, and they say they fell out of a plane. He says that happened to him once. He's referring to the third game in the Uncharted series where similar events happen.

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Trivia: The license plate of the vehicle with hydraulics is "Dufus." The license plate of the truck that gets hit by the plane in the cornfield is "Uh Oh."

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Trivia: Laura Linney's police radio is tuned to channel 37. She would've been the 37th victim of the bridge collapse had she not been saved.

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28th Dec 2021

The Truman Show (1998)

Trivia: Composer Phillip Glass reworked some of his compositions from an earlier film he worked on, Candyman, to fit this film.

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8th Dec 2021

The Grinch (2018)

Trivia: The way Donna attempts to get the bus stopped is a direct nod to the 1994 movie Speed. The bus driver is even named Sam, the same as the driver in that film.

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Trivia: The same advertisement for Stay-Puft Marshmallows in the original movie is visible on the side of one of the buildings in the town. It's in roughly the same shape as the billboard in the 1984 film.

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21st Nov 2021

Dumb and Dumber (1994)

Trivia: A majority of the film was shot in and around Salt Lake City, Utah and a few locations in Colorado. Harry and Lloyd's apartment is in downtown Salt Lake City.

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