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
In 1964, Andy Warhol made “Empire,” an eight-hour film consisting of a single stationary, slow-motion shot of New York’s Empire State Building.
More than ninety TV shows and movies, including Parks & Recreation, Workaholics, and Star Trek, used the same beer prop, Heisler Beer.
Quentin Tarantino’s first Hollywood screen credit was as a production assistant on Dolph Lundgren’s exercise video “Maximum Potential.”
Spam mail got its name from a “Monty Python” skit that joked about Spam canned meat being everywhere and impossible to avoid.
Steven Spielberg denied a salary for directing “Schindler’s List.” He also refuses to autograph any materials related to the film.
Cool Runnings was originally titled “Blue Maaga,” and was intended as a serious and heavy sports movie involving life in the Kingston slums.
The concept of a rocket launch having a countdown originated from Fritz Lang’s 1929 movie “Woman in the Moon,” where the countdown was used to increase tension.
The original “Star Wars” premiered on just 32 screens in the U.S. in 1977 to generate buzz before expanding to more theaters.
A 2015 experimental film titled “100 Years” will not be released until the year 2115. Until then, it remains safely locked away in a high-tech safe.
The iconic cement hand-and-footprint tradition at Grauman’s Chinese Theatre began in 1927 when silent film star Norma Talmadge accidentally stepped in wet cement during construction.
Oscar the Grouch was magenta in his concept sketches, then he was orange in Sesame Street’s first season in 1969, and finally became green the following year.
After Animal Planet aired two fake documentaries on mermaids, the U.S. government issued a statement to clarify that mermaids do not exist.
In 2018, Brokeback Mountain was selected for preservation in the U.S. National Film Registry for being “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant.”
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.
Ziggy Marley, Bob Marley’s son, wrote the theme song for the popular children’s cartoon, “Arthur,” when he was 26.
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.
“Titanic” was the first movie to gross $1 billion at the box office and the first film to sell one million copies on DVD.
While filming in Iceland, Gordon Ramsay fell 280 feet into icy water. He was submerged for 45 seconds before surfacing with minimal injuries.
In 2015, 69,278 people signed a petition to rename the Australian dollar to “Dollarydoo,” a nod to an episode of The Simpsons.
The first Academy Awards, held on May 16, 1929, featured 12 award presentations and lasted just 15 minutes.
All the battles in space in Star Wars should be completely silent, as space is a vacuum, and sound doesn’t travel through it.
Released in Australia in 1906, the world’s first full-length movie ran for seventy minutes and was called “The Story of the Kelly Gang.”
