Movies/Tv - Facts and Trivia

Lifeboat(1944)

Hitchcock's regular cameo was in the form of a newspaper ad.

Sometime during the 1990s,Jack Nicholson's star power was so high he was able to negotiate a clause in his contract(with whomever he was working for)that he didn't have to work on any day that coincided with an LA Lakers game

Quadrophenia(1979)

Uncredited roles for John Altman(later Eastenders) as a mod and Gary Holton(later Auf Wiedershen Pet) and Glen Murphy(later London's Burning) as rockers.

On this date the 16th of June 1989 Ghostbusters 2 was released.

Was just reading about certain changes made to Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket(1987).Originally Animal Mother(Adam Baldwin)decapitated the teenage Vietnamese sniper but it was changed after being deemed too violent.Also Joker's(Matthew Modine)fate was different,the original ending had him being shot dead in Hue with intercuts of him as a boy. Again it was seen to be too grim and violent and was subsequently changed.

Wonder Man (1945) Allen Jenkins, who plays a gangster in this film, later provided the voice for Office Dibble in the classic cartoon Top Cat.

in Resident Evil: The Final Chapter, The Red Queen/Young Alicia Marcus is played by actress Ever Anderson who is the real-life daughter of Resident Evil lead actress Milla Jovovich

Harrison Ford was producer Steven Spielberg's original choice to play Eddie Valiant in Who Framed Roger Rabbit?(1988).Ford's price was too high so after a few other actors were mentioned,the role ended up going to Bob Hoskins.

(26-06-2017 10:49 )rpj316 Wrote:  Harrison Ford was producer Steven Spielberg's original choice to play Eddie Valiant in Who Framed Roger Rabbit?(1988).Ford's price was too high so after a few other actors were mentioned,the role ended up going to Bob Hoskins.

Its hard to think of anyone doing a better job than Bob Hoskins.

Peter Parker appeared in Iron Man 2 as a kid

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