What’s your favorite movie? Or do you prefer getting stuck into a series? Either way, here are interesting facts about the best (and worst) films & TV shows ever released!
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Film & TV Facts
The character Russell Crowe played in “Gladiator” was based on at least four different historical people.
In 2022, the world record for the longest accurate archery shot was set at 333 meters (1,093 feet) by Tyler Toney on the set of “Dude Perfect.”
Of the 9,000 Blockbuster stores that existed in the early 2000s, there’s only one Blockbuster left in the world, located in Bend, Oregon.
The boots worn by actors in “Saving Private Ryan” were made by S.M. Wholesale, the same company that supplied boots to American soldiers during WWII.
An Iranian refugee lived in an airport in Paris for over 18 years. This true story later on inspired the movie “The Terminal.”
Cool Runnings was originally titled “Blue Maaga,” and was intended as a serious and heavy sports movie involving life in the Kingston slums.
Snoop Dogg’s real name is Calvin Cordozar Broadus Jr., and his nickname came from his mother, who thought he looked like Snoopy from “Peanuts.”
There are two species of African spiders named after “The Dude” from The Big Lebowski. They are called “Anelosimus biglebowski” and “Anelosimus dude.”
The audience members on “Judge Judy” are paid actors, and to attend a filming of the show, the actors need to be members of the Screen Actors Guild.
The seagulls in Alfred Hitchcock’s movie “The Birds” were fed a mixture of wheat and whiskey. It was the only way to get them to stand around so much instead of flying away.
Mulan’s avalanche caused nearly 2,000 Hun deaths, making her arguably Disney’s highest kill-count character.
Real skeletons were used as props in the 1982 film “Poltergeist” because they were easier to source than plastic replicas at the time.
In the early 1990s, Disney considered an animated “Romeo and Juliet” but chose to develop “Pocahontas,” incorporating similar themes of star-crossed lovers.
A 2017 Saudi Arabian social studies textbook error included a doctored photo of King Faisal signing the 1945 UN Charter, with Star Wars’ Yoda added next to him.
Hayden Christensen and Ewan McGregor often made lightsaber sound effects during fight scenes in the Star Wars prequels, which had to be edited out in post-production.
Top Gear set a Toyota Hilux on fire, submerged it, hit it with a wrecking ball, and buried it in a building collapse; each time it was repaired without spare parts and restarted.
Although the TV show “Friends” is based around life in New York City, the entire show was filmed in California.
The kookaburra is native to Australia and New Guinea; its calls are often used as sound effects in movies for jungles in Africa or South America.
The budget for makeup in “Dallas Buyers Club” was only $250. Despite this limitation, the film still won an Oscar.
In 1940, Hattie McDaniel became the first Black person to win an Oscar but had to sit at a segregated table at the ceremony due to the hotel’s racist policies.
Quentin Tarantino’s first Hollywood screen credit was as a production assistant on Dolph Lundgren’s exercise video “Maximum Potential.”
