When Kevin Bacon goes to a wedding reception, he bribes the DJ so they won’t play Footloose.
“I go to the disc jockey and hand him $20 and say, ‘Please don’t play that song’, because, first off, a wedding is really not about me. It’s about the bride and groom. And… it’s embarrassing. ”
Vito Corleone’s cat in The Godfather was a stray that writer/director Francis Ford Coppola found on the Paramount lot.
It purred so loudly that some of Marlon Brando’s dialogue had to be looped.
In the 1990s, Arnold Schwarzenegger tricked Sylvester Stallone into starring in Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot.
They used to have such a fierce rivalry that they refused to be in the same room, so Arnold spread a rumor that he was interested in the part in hopes of getting Stallone’s attention.
Said Stallone: “I heard Arnold wanted to do that movie and after hearing that, I said I wanted to do it. He tricked me! He’s always been clever.”
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Vito Corleone’s cat in The Godfather was a stray that writer/director Francis Ford Coppola found on the Paramount lot.
It purred so loudly that some of Marlon Brando’s dialogue had to be looped.
When Kevin Bacon goes to a wedding reception, he bribes the DJ so they won’t play Footloose.
“I go to the disc jockey and hand him $20 and say, ‘Please don’t play that song’, because, first off, a wedding is really not about me. It’s about the bride and groom. And… it’s embarrassing. ”
Actor Christopher Lee served in the British special forces during WWII. While filming The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, he was told to scream when his character gets stabbed.
He replied, “Have you any idea what kind of noise happens when somebody’s stabbed in the back? Because I do.”
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In the 1990s, Arnold Schwarzenegger tricked Sylvester Stallone into starring in Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot.
They used to have such a fierce rivalry that they refused to be in the same room, so Arnold spread a rumor that he was interested in the part in hopes of getting Stallone’s attention.
Said Stallone: “I heard Arnold wanted to do that movie and after hearing that, I said I wanted to do it. He tricked me! He’s always been clever.”
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Stephen King sells the rights to some of his short stories for $1 so that film students can use them to make movies.
He calls them his ‘Dollar Babies.’
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There were only 28 women directors involved in Hollywood's top 700 films from 2007 to 2014. Of those films, only 11% had a gender-balanced cast, and only 3 out of every 10 speaking characters were women. Source
You can get a free download of the software that created your favorite animated films. Pixar’s 3D RenderMan and the 2D animation standard Toonz are both available online, which allows you to start making your own CGI with the same tools that created Futurama, Spirited Away, and Up. Source Source 2 Source 3
Without Alfred Hitchcock's wife, Alma Reville, the shower scene from Psycho would have been less intense. During editing, she found frames where Janet Leigh could be seen breathing. She also convinced Alfred, who insisted the scene have no music and refused to listen to the score, to watch the cut with the music, and it went on to become one of the most iconic scenes in Hollywood history.
When he accepted a Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Film Institute in 1979, Hitchcock acknowledged her influence on his work and life, saying, "I ask permission to mention by name only four people who have given me the most affection, appreciation, and encouragement, and constant collaboration. The first of the four is a film editor. The second is a scriptwriter. The third is the mother of my daughter, Pat. And the fourth is as fine a cook as ever performed miracles in a domestic kitchen. And their names are Alma Reville."
