12 Bits of TV, Movie and Video Game Trivia We Had to Delicately Adjust Our Rabbit Ears to Make Out
Read my lips: No more scamming Lisa Marie Presley into thinking she has to sell Graceland.
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Indiana Jones’ Fedora Sold for Over Half a Million Bucks
Harrison Ford’s movie-worn fedora just sold for $630,000.
Leonardo DiCaprio’s Wise Words of Advice to Timothée Chalamet
Early in Chalamet’s career, DiCaprio told him, “No hard drugs and no superhero movies.” So far so good!
The Deadpool Variants That Didn’t Make the Cut
Concept art for Deadpool & Wolverine shows they were considering characters like Deadverine (a Deadpool/Wolverine hybrid), Punkpool (in a spiked leather jacket) and Roninpool.
Michael Keaton’s Fine With Batgirl Getting Canned
Asked whether he was bummed about his reprisal as Batman never seeing the light of day, Keaton said he’s cool with it: “No, I didn’t care one way or another. Big, fun, nice check.”
The ‘Mars Attacks’ Sequel You Didn’t See Coming
There’s an upcoming Mars Attacks video game that’s like Rollercoaster Tycoon, but in space. On top of building rides and managing your park, you also have to abduct humans and keep them from escaping.
Atari Has Re-Entered the Console Wars
Atari just announced an updated version of the 1986 Atari 7800, along with 10 brand new games.
John Boyega Says Star Wars Is a ‘Luxury Jail’
One major downside of getting your dream job is that you’re pigeonholed for years on end: “Being in a big franchise, it’s kind of like luxury jail. You’re working on one character for many years, which can starve your other muscles.”
The Most Expensive Toy Ever Sold
A 3.75-inch Boba Fett prototype doll just sold at auction for one million pounds sterling (approximately $1.3 million in real money).
Jon Hamm’s Marvel Beef
Hamm once said the “younger generation don’t care about you if your last name’s not Hemsworth or you are not in One Direction or you don’t wear a cape,” which seems to be an exasperated nod at the MCU.
Jodie Foster Is Sick of Superhero Movies Too
She compared them to fracking: “You get the best return right now but you wreck the Earth.”
A Pokemon World Champ Was DQ’d for a Crude Gesture
An American gamer was disqualified after a quarter-final match because he was caught on stream doing what he later argued was a “dice rolling” motion.
The Puppeteer Who Tried to Steal Graceland From Lisa Marie Presley
Earlier this year, it was revealed that a whole Megazord of law offices and investment firms had conspired to get Lisa Marie Presley to believe she was being forced to sell of Graceland. And now the bizarre story just got even crazier: It turns out it was all orchestrated by Lisa Findley, an old lady from Missouri. Findley had cooked up a series of fake companies, fake business owners and fake lawyers to harass Presley and her family.
