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Film & TV Facts
The character Russell Crowe played in “Gladiator” was based on at least four different historical people.
More than ninety TV shows and movies, including Parks & Recreation, Workaholics, and Star Trek, used the same beer prop, Heisler Beer.
While filming “The Hateful Eight,” Kurt Russell unintentionally smashed a 145-year-old Martin guitar, not realizing it wasn’t a prop.
Star Wars was re-released in the Navajo language in 2013, making it the first motion picture to be translated into a Native American language.
“Titanic” was the first movie to gross $1 billion at the box office and the first film to sell one million copies on DVD.
Red Solo cups are a typical souvenir to bring back from the United States. The novelty comes from the cups being used in many party scenes in movies.
In 2016, a UK filmmaker protested high film classification fees by submitting a 10-hour movie of paint drying, which the British Board of Film Classification had to watch in full.
In the Netherlands’ version of “Sesame Street,” instead of Big Bird, they have a blue bird named Pino. He was later established as Big Bird’s cousin.
Season 9, episode 17 of “The Office” was supposed to act as a backdoor pilot for a spin-off series about Dwight Schrute, but NBC didn’t pick it up.
Contrary to their depiction in movies, asteroids in the asteroid belt are so widely spaced that, standing on one, you likely wouldn’t see another nearby.
The original “Star Wars” premiered on just 32 screens in the U.S. in 1977 to generate buzz before expanding to more theaters.
All the battles in space in Star Wars should be completely silent, as space is a vacuum, and sound doesn’t travel through it.
In 2018, Brokeback Mountain was selected for preservation in the U.S. National Film Registry for being “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant.”
In 2008, a Buzz Lightyear toy spent 15 months aboard the International Space Station as part of an educational partnership between NASA and Disney Pixar.
Viggo Mortensen was offered the chance to return as Aragorn in Peter Jackson’s “The Hobbit” trilogy, but turned it down because the character doesn’t appear in the books.
Silent movie actors were initially not given on-screen credit for fear that they would become famous and subsequently demand higher wages.
Ron Swanson from “Parks and Recreation” is based on a real person – a woman who holds a high bureaucratic position and is also anti-government.
Ziggy Marley, Bob Marley’s son, wrote the theme song for the popular children’s cartoon, “Arthur,” when he was 26.
Real skeletons were used as props in the 1982 film “Poltergeist” because they were easier to source than plastic replicas at the time.
Nicolas Cage was offered the lead role in Shrek but turned it down because he didn’t want to look like an ogre.
A nickelodeon was a type of early movie theater that charged 5 cents (a nickel) for admission and was the precursor to modern cinema.
