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29 Random Bits of Movie Trivia That Just Spilled Their Popcorn All Over the Theater Floor

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29 Random Bits of Movie Trivia That Just Spilled Their Popcorn All Over the Theater Floor

April 28, 2025

We really have to start looking for a new job. Well, a new second job that is. We love this pre-list blurb writing job quite a bit, but that pesky usher job at the movie theater is getting more annoying (and sticky) by the day.

We love movies, but cleaning up after messy teens every night isn’t what we had in mind. Sweeping up spilled movie trivia into this dust pan of a list is where it’s at! We just have to face it — not every job can be as glamorous as finding random movie facts!

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Gene Hackman

Gene Hackman was going to direct silence of the Lambs. The actor snapped up the film rights to the book, with the intention of making his directorial debut. After several questionable decisions, Hackman decided that he just didn't want the rights anymore. CRACKED.COM — Source

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10 Cloverfield Lane

29 Random Bits of Movie Trivia That Just Spilled Their Popcorn All Over the Theater Floor — Source

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Jonah Hill

JONAH HILL was sweaty and strange CRACKED.co After meeting a nervous Hill (who desperately wanted to meet Judd Apatow), Jones decided he was both weird and hilarious. She suggested Hill to Apatow, who expanded an oddball eBay customer cameo in The 40-Year-Old Virgin just for him. — Pomona

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It

13 Little-Known Facts About Movies, History, And Science - In It, when Pennywise's eyes look in opposite directions, that's not an effect. — Source: Digital Spy

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I Know What You Did Last Summer

29 Random Bits of Movie Trivia That Just Spilled Their Popcorn All Over the Theater Floor

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Bohemian Rhapsody

In Bohemian Rhapsody, when Queen pitches A Night At The Opera to a record executive, Freddie Mercury fiddles with the RPM-fine tuning knob on the turn

23

Ferris Bueller

John Hughes frantically wrote the screenplay for Ferris Bueller's Day Off in one week. In 1985, a writers' strike was about to hit Hollywood. Upon hea

22

Cannibal! The Musical

To get funding for ANNIBAL! THE MUSICAL Matt Stone and Trey Parker shot a three-minute preview, complete with costumes and songs, and, as Parker says,

21

The Godfather

Behind the scenes of The Godfather, the actors liked to moon each other. It started with James Caan and Robert Duvall dropping their pants and mooning

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Bruce Lee

Historical Firsts in The World of Stunts The rise of martial arts 1970s in western cinema America's fascination with kung fu saw the first Asian leads in U.S movies. Bruce Lee had a formal approach, and Jackie Chan used (and still uses) a more comical Buster Keaton style. For action or comedy, their cinematic martial arts are still a gold standard. CRACKED

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I Am Legend

I Am Legend 2 WOULD'VE SEEN WILL SMITH RETURN AS (TWIST!) A CLONE. The studio wanted a sequel so bad, they really considered bringing Smith's character back as some kind of clone for some reason. Luckily the director knew it was too ridiculous to fly. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Goldfinger

Asbestos exposure on GOLDFINGER The 1964 James Bond movie used asbestos boards in its set construction. Set painter Ronald Sharp later developed mesothelioma and died at age 59. His widow sued his former employers for compensation. CRACKED — Source

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Prop Guns

BRUCE LEE PLAYED AN ACTOR KILLED BY A PROP GUN A PROP GUN LATER KILLED HIS SON BRANDON. Asked about the bizarre coincidence, director Rob Cohen commented: I believe in some forms of higher power, like Fate, and sometimes, I'm embarrassed to say it, God. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Jumper

On-Screen Couples That Became Real Rachel Bilson and Hayden Christensen Sparks flew between the two on the set of Jumper and they even got engaged, but broke it off in 2017. CRACKED.COM — OK Magazine

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Mallrats

ITT view Askewniverse Mallrats There's an entire cut plotline leading to awkward ADR. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Facts About Kevin Smith's View Askewniverse

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A Tale of Three Cities

CRACKED.COM Jackie Chan His family story sounds like a movie (and was made into one). Chan's father (who was a spy) met his mother when he almost arrested her for smuggling opium into China. They eventually fled Hong Kong, and ended up abandoning little Jackie years later. This was turned into the movie A Tale of Three Cities. — Sources: Wikipedia, The Guardian

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Stoker

Stoker (2013) CRACKED.COM This thriller starring Nicole Kidman was in- spired by one of Hitchcock's earlier films, Shadow of a Doubt (1943). In both films, buried family secrets are uncovered with dramatic flair. — Source: Screen Rant

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Jim Henson

THE DRACULA MUSICAL PUPPETS were made by JIM HENSON'S CREATURE SHOP. The puppeteers also helped train Bill Hader and the cast on how to work the puppets. BEHIND THE SCENES I FORGETTING SARAH MARSHALL CRACKED.COM — Movieweb

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James Remar

Aliens (1986) James Remar was initially cast as Corporal Dwayne Hicks. At the time, Remar said he had to leave the film due to family matters, but in later years he revealed that he was actually struggling with a drug addiction. He was fired from the movie after being busted for possession. CRACKED.COM — IndieWire

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Juno

Juno $7 MILLION CRACKED.com With Jason Bateman in a rare extremely-punchable role, the first major platform for Elliot Page's inimitable charm, and Michael Cera doing the whole Michael Cera thing, they raked in $231 million at the box office. — Source: EW

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Fletch

Season 3 of Stranger Things was inspired by a semi-obscure '80s movie. It's Fletch, a film about a reporter who's paid to kill a MILLIONAIRE for a small fortune -- thinking he's about to die anyway and trouble ensues. CRACKED.COM — Source: Vulture

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The Exorcist

THE ACTORS HAD TO WORK IN FREEZING COLD TEMPERATURES. The Exorcist To make the characters' breath visible during the exorcism, the full set was refrigerated to the point that the crew had to wear winter coats. It can't have been too fun for Linda Blair in her nightgown. — Source: Screen Rant

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Peter Sellers

Peter Sellers based Dr. Strangelove's voice on a little-known photographer's. Sellers couldn't figure out what voice to do for Dr. Strangelove, so he eventually based it on the kind of strangled-sounding voice of the photographer Weegee, who Sellers had heard around the set. CRACKED.COM — Source: FilmSchoolRejects

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Aliens

Aliens (1986) Colette Hiller, who played Corporal Ferro, was not happy about having to cut her hair. They told me, 'It's okay, look at Jenette!' and I just bawled... I was going to oget married shortly afterwards SO I made them buy me a long, blonde wig! I don't know — Empire Online

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Nicholas Pileggi

The book's author wouldn't take Scorsese's calls at first. Nicholas Pileggi thought it was a joke. Scorsese had to reach him through Pileggi's wife, director Nora Ephron. Are you crazy? Ephron said to him. Marty Scorsese's trying to reach you, and you won't call him back! — Source: Complex

4

Freddy vs. Jason

29 Random Bits of Movie Trivia That Just Spilled Their Popcorn All Over the Theater Floor

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Candyman

Real bees were used during the making of the'90s horror trilogy CANDYMAN. Over the course of the three films, actor Tony Todd got stung 23 times. Than — Source

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Wes Craven

A producer insisted on the cheesy ending of Nightmare on Elm Street. So THE DIRECTOR PUT HIM IN FULL BONDAGE GEAR. Writer/director Wes Craven had plan

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Star Wars

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