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
After the release of the 1996 film “Scream,” which involved an anonymous killer calling and murdering his victims, Caller ID usage tripled in the United States.
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.
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.
An Iranian refugee lived in an airport in Paris for over 18 years. This true story later on inspired the movie “The Terminal.”
Godzilla’s roar was created by dragging a resin-coated leather glove along the loosened strings of a double bass.
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.
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.
Bill Murray uses a secret 1-800 number as his primary contact for casting opportunities since he doesn’t have an agent.
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.
In 1937, a major fire broke out at the Fox Film Studios in New Jersey. The fire destroyed 75% of their movies, including most of their silent films.
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.”
One of the visual effects teams that worked on the 2018 film “Bohemian Rhapsody” never received payment because Halo VFX, the company managing them, went bankrupt.
Karen Gillan shaved her head bald for her role as Nebula in “Guardians of the Galaxy.” Marvel saved her hair and made a wig from it for Karen to use on the show “Selfie.”
The first time Mickey Mouse talked was in the 1929 episode “The Karnival Kid.” His first words were “Hot dogs!”
While filming “The Hateful Eight,” Kurt Russell unintentionally smashed a 145-year-old Martin guitar, not realizing it wasn’t a prop.
Movie theaters make roughly 40% of their profit from concession stands. This is because ticket revenues have to be shared with the movie distributors.
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.
Although the TV show “Friends” is based around life in New York City, the entire show was filmed in California.
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.
There are two species of African spiders named after “The Dude” from The Big Lebowski. They are called “Anelosimus biglebowski” and “Anelosimus dude.”
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.
