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
Mulan’s avalanche caused nearly 2,000 Hun deaths, making her arguably Disney’s highest kill-count character.
In the opening credits of Gilligan’s Island, as the SS Minnow sails out of the harbor, flags can be seen in the background flying at half-mast to honor the death of JFK.
Ziggy Marley, Bob Marley’s son, wrote the theme song for the popular children’s cartoon, “Arthur,” when he was 26.
Nicolas Cage was offered the lead role in Shrek but turned it down because he didn’t want to look like an ogre.
Mel Brooks helped produce the 1986 film “The Fly” but chose to be uncredited so that audiences would not assume it was a comedy.
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.”
In the Titanic movie, crew member William Murdoch shot a passenger and then took his own life. In real life, he went down with the ship while filling lifeboats and saving lives.
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.
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.
“Seinfeld,” “Mad About You,” and “Friends” all share the same universe. A Seinfeld character sublets an apartment from a main character on Mad About You, who later appears on Friends.
Steven Spielberg and George Lucas wanted to make an animated “Calvin and Hobbes” movie. The author declined because he wanted to protect the integrity of the comic.
In 2018, Peppa Pig was censored on a popular Chinese social media platform because it was linked to a youth subculture promoting “gangster” behavior.
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.
In 1971, a pizzeria owner made a movie about the Zodiac killer and hosted a premiere in San Francisco, hoping the real killer would show up and be caught.
An Iranian refugee lived in an airport in Paris for over 18 years. This true story later on inspired the movie “The Terminal.”
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.
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.
Although the TV show “Friends” is based around life in New York City, the entire show was filmed in California.
All the battles in space in Star Wars should be completely silent, as space is a vacuum, and sound doesn’t travel through it.
Movie theaters make roughly 40% of their profit from concession stands. This is because ticket revenues have to be shared with the movie distributors.
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 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.”
