32 Random Bits of Movie Trivia That Were Forced to Share a Bed and Nobody’s Happy About It

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32 Random Bits of Movie Trivia That Were Forced to Share a Bed and Nobody’s Happy About It
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You might think that their brittle bones and atrophied muscles can’t get them up, but you’d be wrong! All these movie facts need is a golden ticket, and they can climb over the moon in ecstasy, but nevertheless… Sorry, those song lyrics just popped in our head for some strange reason.

Anywho, if you’re here sans ticket, you’ll probably get some tired old facts. But if you spend some time and money rifling through chocolate bar wrappers for a golden ticket, you might find that this list suddenly has a whole lot of pep in its step.

Les Miserables

Amanda Seyfried would love to be able to totally redo Les Misérables. She regrets it and says I still have nightmares about it - and it's purely because of the live singing she had to do for the role. CRACKED.COM

Ghostbusters

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The Prisoner of Azkaban

'The Prisoner of Azkaban' represents a tonal shift in the Harry Potter series But that didn't stop the great CRACKED.COM Alan Rickman from planting a fart machine on Daniel Radcliffe

The Blair Witch Project

The Blair Witch Project $500K-ISH CRACKED.COM Reports on the film's budget range from around $200k to around $800k. Either way, it was a profoundly good investment, bringing in $249 million for telling some actors to run off into the woods and cry into a Go-Pro for a little bit.

The Thing

Movie and TV Aliens The Thing The Thing put its FX artist in the hospital. FX wizard Rob Bottin got pneumonia and bleeding ulcers for overworking himself. An up-and-coming Stan Winston stepped in to help (uncredited, as he insisted that it was Rob's film). CRACKED.COM

Dumb and Dumber

That was Jim Carrey's real chipped tooth in Dumb and Dumber. 27% It got chipped in grade school, and he had a cap put on it t - - he just took it off for the movie. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

Metal Man

Awful Knock-Offs (2008) Metal Man Yes, Iron Man ushered in the modern superhero genre, but did you know Metal Man ushered in our current mockbuster golden age? Huh? OK, that is possibly not true, but we just want to make Metal Man popular and see civilization driven to madness. CRACKED.COM

Pom Klementieff

Guardians of the Galaxy actress Pom Klementieff cameos in The Suicide Squad. Klementieff (AKA Mantis) is the main dancer, wearing a red wig, at the seedy bar in Corto Maltese where Bloodsport takes his team. CRACKED.COM

Disney in Theaters

Movie theaters dread working with Disney. Disney exercises a crazy amount of control, down to projector specifications. They don't release the key for the movie until five minutes before the first showing, which doesn't allow for any troubleshooting. CRACKED.COM

The Lego Movie

THE LEGO MOVIE NO CHARACTER UTTERS THE WORD LEGO. Go ahead and watch the movie again. We'll wait. You back? Told ya. CRACKED.COM

Blades of Glory

Na BLADES OF GLORY WILL FERRELL'S LOOK WAS BASED ON JIM MORRISON AND STEVEN TYLER. To be the flashy Chazz Michael Michaels, Ferrell looked to the frontmen of The Doors and Aerosmith for the look. CRACKED.COM

Booksmart

SLS BOOKSMART THE FIRST DRAFT OF THE SCRIPT WAS WRITTEN IN 2009. The script was on the Black List in 2009, and just gathered dust until the movie was finally made and released in 2019. CRACKED.COM

Bridesmaids

BRIDESMAIDS MINDY KALING AND BUSY PHILLIPPS WERE UP FOR ROLES. The two auditioned for Lillian and Megan, respectively, but didn't get the parts. CRACKED.COM

Deadpool

CRACKED.COM DEADPOOL NEGASONIC WAS PART OF A BARTER WITH GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY VOL. 2. Marvel owned the rights to Negasonic Teenage Warhead and Fox wanted her for Deadpool. Fox owned the rights to Ego the Living Planet and Marvel wanted for GotG Vol. 2. Fair trade.

From Dusk Till Dawn

FROM DUSK TILL DAWN QUENTIN TARANTINO GOT $1,500 FOR WRITING THE SCRIPT. Well, it was his first paid writing gig, after all. CRACKED.COM

Best in Show

CRACKED.COM BEST IN SHOW THE ACTORS WERE GIVEN JUST A 15-PAGE OUTLINE. Director Christopher Guest often prefers his actors to improvise their scenes and dialogue. Не gave them a short outline and let them decide themselves how it'd all play out.

Stardust

STARDUST THE MOVIE WAS A MASSIVE FLOP. The movie based on Neil Gaiman's novel had a $70 million budget, but only got a little over $9 million in its opening weekend. Now it's a cult favorite, though. CRACKED.COM

I, Tonya

I, TONYA ALLISON JANNEY WAS A COMPETITIVE ICE SKATER. Janney was a skater herself until an accident with a glass door sliced a tendon in her leg. She then pursued acting. Seems to be doing fine with that. CRACKED.COM

Underworld

UNDERWORLD KATE BECKINSALE WAS HUNTING DOWN HER EX. Beckinsale's Selene is a vampire hunting down the lycan leader Lucian, played by her ex boyfriend Michael Sheen. Unlike their characters, the two actors are friendly with one another and share a child. CRACKED.COM

Spider-Man 2

CRACKED.COM SPIDER-MAN 2 DOC OCK'S ARMS WERE REAL. While CGI was used in wider shots and during complex fight scenes, the arms were animatronics operated by remote control or via crew people.

Office Space

OFFICE SPACE - MIKE JUDGE OFTEN DID HIS BUTT-HEAD AND BOOMHAUER VOICES ON SET. Creator and voice actor on both Beavis and Butt- Head and King of the Hill, Judge would entertain the crew while getting work done by instructing them in his characters' voices. CRACKED.COM

Blue Velvet

BLUE VELVET DEBBIE HARRY TURNED DOWN THE LEAD ROLE. After being in Videodrome, Harry didn't want to be typecast as the weirdo in movies. CRACKED.COM

Parasite

CRACKED.COM PARASITE IT WAS ORIGINALLY GOING TO BE A STAGE PLAY. Bong Joon-ho was encouraged by a theater actor friend to write a play as his film Snowpiercer was wrapping up. After playing with the script, he ultimately wrote it as a film.

Starship Troopers

STARSHIP TROOPERS PAUL VERHOVEN DIDN'T EVEN FINISH THE ORIGINAL NOVEL. Verhoven hated the book and dropped it after a few chapters. Не just had screenwriter Edward Neumeier just explain it to him. CRACKED.COM

The Fugitive

CRACKED.COM THE FUGITIVE THEY ST. PATRICK'S DAY PARADE WAS REAL. The parade just happened as they were shooting in Chicago, so they had Harrison Ford hide out among the marchers for the movie. Не did so well that the crowd didn't recognize him for several minutes.

The Return of the Living Dead

THE YELLOWISH SMOKE DURING THE OPENING CREDITS WAS PRETTY TOXIC THE RETURN of THE LIVING DEAD. Apparently the only way to get yellow smoke was for the production team to use sulfur. It took a few minutes of pumping that smoke to give most of the people on set terrible headaches. CRACKED.COM

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Grumpy Old Men

GRUMPY OLD MEN JACK LEMMON'S FATHER WAS ONLY 17 YEARS OLDER THAN HIM. The father was played by Burgess Meredith, even though he was 85 at the time and Lemmon was a spry 68 years old. CRACKED.COM

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Back to the Future

CRACKED COM Back to the Future's filmmakers got mad about a product placement deal they weren't looped in on. olikimi RAIS BTTE'S business guys negoti

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