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
While filming “The Hateful Eight,” Kurt Russell unintentionally smashed a 145-year-old Martin guitar, not realizing it wasn’t a prop.
An Iranian refugee lived in an airport in Paris for over 18 years. This true story later on inspired the movie “The Terminal.”
The budget for makeup in “Dallas Buyers Club” was only $250. Despite this limitation, the film still won an Oscar.
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.
In a 2009 interview, James Cameron stated his main reason for making “Titanic” was to fund his dives to the shipwreck, not to create a movie.
While filming in Iceland, Gordon Ramsay fell 280 feet into icy water. He was submerged for 45 seconds before surfacing with minimal injuries.
The “Lord of the Rings” costume team spent three years linking plastic chain mail. Each Orc suit had 13,000 rings and took approximately three days to assemble.
A nickelodeon was a type of early movie theater that charged 5 cents (a nickel) for admission and was the precursor to modern cinema.
John Astin, who played Gomez in the original “The Addams Family,” had a suit pocket lined with asbestos so he could extinguish lit cigars in it during filming.
A doctor in Germany diagnosed a medical case all other doctors failed to after observing symptoms he had seen in an episode of “House.”
Pal, a male collie initially hired as a stunt dog for the 1943 movie “Lassie Come Home,” performed so well that he was recast as Lassie, replacing the original female collie.
