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Men in Black

The worms in Men in Black are speaking Huttese... mo ...or at least a form of Quechua, which fans say Jabba's language is based on. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

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Get Out

Get Out Chris scratching the couch and removing the cotton inside is a historical reference. Peele deliberately made Chris pull the cotton from the chair and use it to plug his ears to add the cultural reference of Black American slaves and the cotton fields. CRACKED.COM

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Lili Taylor

Scream Queens Lili Taylor is a scream queen and a feminist icon. Her horror cred includes The Haunting, Leatherface, The Conjuring, and Eli. She has also serious indie cred, playing Valerie Solanas in I Shot Andy Warhol, and was nominated for an Emmy for appearing on The X-Files. CRACKED.COM

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The Big Lebowski

The Big Lebowski filmed in Greystone Mansion. It was built in the 1920s by the son of tycoon Edward Doheny. Ned Doheny was found shot in a bedroom there five months after he and his wife moved in. Also dead was butler Theodore Plunkett, an apparent suicide. Was Plunkett crazy? Were he and Ned secret lovers? CRACKED.COM

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The Little Mermaid

The Tiananmen Square protests could have delayed The Little Mermaid. # The studio that drew the bubbles in the movie was based a few blocks away from the Square, and their work was trapped there until the protests were over. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The Lego Movie

CRACKED.COM THE POLIC LEGO MOVIE The movie caused a 15% worldwide increase in Lego sales. The year the film was released, Lego sold 62 billion Lego elements. That would equate to 102 Lego bricks per living person. — Source

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Space Jam

Michael Jordan really did wear UNC practice shorts under his jersey during games. It's not just a random bit from Space Jam - apparently, concealing those shorts was why he started wearing baggy shorts in the Chicago Bulls. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The Graduate

Robert Redford was too hot for the lead role in 1967's The Graduate. CRACKED.COM Redford badly wanted the role but was rejected by di- rector Mike Nicholls because he didn't think Redford could play a loser. 'Let's put it this way, Nicholls reportedly said, Have you ever struck out with a girl? — Source

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The Dark Knight

CRACKED.COM What if The Dark Knight's Joker is an ex-intelligence operative who specialized in interrogation? Talking to the mob, he says, I know the squealers when I see them. When Batman tries to interrogate him, he's in charge, giving tips like Never start with the head, the victim gets all fuzzy. And he can figure out important stuff about anyone, like how Harvey Dent values fairness or Commissioner Gordon feels isolated, that lets him screw with them. — Source

29

The Sacrament

Disturbing Movies 2013, United States Dir. Ti West The Sacrament A news team enters a secluded community to document their lifestyle and interview their leader. Of course, things soon turn out to be much darker than they seem. The movie is based on the Jonestown massacre, which tells you everything you need to know. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Terrible Movie Predictions

Audiences don't want to hear actors. A WARNER BRO. CRACKED.COM H.M. Warner thought silent movies were the height of cinema: Who the hell wants to hear actors talk? — Source

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Coco

Coco has a couple of nods to The Shining. When Dante wakes up, there's an axe behind him-- it's one of the axes from The Shining. And there's a red drum, too, which is an elaborate reference to Redrum. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Rocky IV

Rocky IV put Sly Stallone in the ICU. One day on set, he told Dolph Lundgren to forget the fight choreography, Just go out there and try to clock me. For the first minute of the fight, it is going to be a free-for-all. The result was that Stallone was in the hospital for nine days. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The Bourne Supremacy

CRACKED THEY RE-DID THE ENDING OF THE BOURNE SUPREMACY JUST BEFORE IT CAME OUT. Director Paul Greengrass re-shot the ending of The Bourne Supremacy two weeks before its release, at a cost of $200,000, resulting in a 10 point increase in the movie's test scores and a box office total of $176 million. — The Guardian / Slashfilm

24

Ryan Gosling and Eva Mendes

CRACKED.COM On-Screen Couples That Became Real Ryan Gosling and Eva Mendes After being friendly for years, the two got more intimate while shooting The Place Beyond the Pines and have been partners ever since. — Us Magazine

23

Frailty

Underappreciated serial killer movies 2001 Frailty Bill Paxton starred in and directed this twisted religious thriller about a man murdering sinners because God told him so - and the two sons who become his accomplices. This is absolutely a cult- horror movie, dark and violent and surprising enough to deserve a more people giving it some love. CRACKED.COM — Trailer on YouTube

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Benedict Cumberbatch

Benedict Cumberbatch was kidnapped while filming a movie CRACKED.COM Driving back to set in South Africa after a brief hiatus, his tire blew out and he and his two buddies were stranded. They were swiftly kidnapped by 6 armed men, who threw him in the trunk and later dumped them all by the side of the road. When he was rescued, I cried with gratitude. F* it. If that's a cliche, I don't care. — Source: 14 Bizarro Celebrity Facts That Sound Like Mad Libs

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Grindhouse

QUENTIN TARANTINO + ROBERT RODRIGUEZ QUENTIN HOPE FOR HUMANITY... These . woman TARANTINO - about - - * dishofical mani $ ON A HIGH-POWER MACHINE GUN! ROBERT RODRIGUEZ 100 the and - BACK to BACK! KURT RUSSELL GRINDHOUSE THE MOVIE EXISTS BECAUSE TARANTINO AND RODRIGUEZ OWNED THE SAME POSTER. Tarantino held actual double features at home, complete with trailers. During one of these, Rodriguez noticed a double feature poster he also had, and asked Tarantino if he wanted to recreate the tradition. WO GREAT MOVIES FOR THE PRICE OF CRACKED.COM — Source: Wikipedia

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Jackie Chan

CRACKED.COM Jackie Chan Не has been in over 150 movies. Skip Rush Hour and just start with the classics: 1978's Snake in the Eagle's Shadow and Drunken Master, 1983's Project А, 1988's Dragons Forever, 1989's Miracles, 1993's Crime Story, 1994's Drunken Master 2, and the first three Police Story movies. — Source: Wikipedia

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Hairspray

June on HBOMAX M ge June 1 Hairspray All the Tracies sing at the end. Nikki Blonsky, Rikki Lake, and Marissa Jaret Winokur, who played Tracy in different versions of the musical, sing in the credits. CRACKED.COM — Source: VH1

18

Grease

Musical movies Grease The hickeys on Stockard Channing's neck were real, and applied by Jeff Conaway himself. CRACKED.COM — Source: NBC News

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Sonoya Mizuno

Big Actors Who Had Never Acted Before SONOYA MIZUNO in Ex Machina Japanese-British Mizuno only had experience as a ballerina when she was cast as Kyoko, Nathan's eerily silent, dance floor-ripping attendant in Alex Garland's first film as a director — Source: The Lewis Foundation of Classical Ballet

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2001: A Space Odyssey

Composer Alex North didn't know his music was cut from 2001: A Space Odyssey until he saw the premiere. Stanley Kubrick used classical music (which was originally just a placeholder), and never bothered telling North that he dropped his soundtrack. North was shocked, and always believed Kubrick had totally undervalued him. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — ClassicFM

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Dracula

When they shot Bela Lugosi's Dracula, they shot a Spanish version too. The Spanish one was shot at night, when the sets were free, with the same script but a different cast. Today, that version is considered better. CRACKED.COM — Source: 13 Interesting Facts To Become A More Intriguing Conversationalist

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Jurassic Park

oF BASY BOOM each Jurassic Park's Nedry has a photo of J. Robert Oppenheimer stuck on his PC. Oppenheimer unleashed the nuclear bomb, and Nedry later lets the dinosaurs loose. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Foreshadowed Huge Plot Points In Iconic Movies

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Django Unchained

Tarantino typed Django Unchained with one finger. He first wrote it out in longhand, then typed it up, using one finger, on the same old typewriter / word processor he'd used to write Pulp Fiction and Reservoir Dogs. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Behind-The-Scenes Facts About Tarantino Movies

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Scream

BEHIND-THE-SCENES FACTS The voice actor for Ghostface was kept out of view of the actors. CRACKED.COM In the Scream series, the voice actor for Ghostface (Roger L. Jackson) was hidden on set when he voiced his lines to keep the on-screen actors believably unsettled by him. When characters are taunted by him on the phone, he really is talking to them from somewhere out of sight. He also voiced Mojo Jojo on The Powerpuff Girls, so there's that.

11

Superbad

Christopher Mintz-Plasse's mom had to be on set for his sex scene in Superbad. He was 17, so having her there was a legal requirement. They didn't talk about it after the - and, he says, they still don't talk about it. CRACKED.COM — Source: The Guardian

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Gangs of New York

THE CONTROVERSIAL GANGS OF NEW YORKCAMPAIGN AD. In 2003, a scathing review of the movie was released leading up to the Oscars. In response, Miramax wrote and published an op-ed praising the movie, and credited former president of the Academy Robert Wise as the one who penned the article. The — The Hollywood Reporter

9

Baby Driver

In Baby Driver, Baby's jail number is also the release date of The Driver. DO 28 Edgar Wright said The Driver greatly influenced him, and the movie's

8

There Will Be Blood

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Kill Bill

Movie Scenes With Hidden Homages To Other Movies - O-Ren Ishii's kimono in Kill Bill Vol. 7 is modeled after a 1973 revenge flick. — Source: 6 Mind-Blowing Easter Eggs Hidden in Famous Movie Costumes

6

Step Brothers

38 Random Bits of Movie Trivia That Are Gearing Up for the Final Confrontation Over Dancing at the School — Source: TheBigLead

5

Chucky

One of Chucky's body doubles was an actual child Good Guys ...which looks even more horrifying. When robot versions of Chucky wouldn't do the trick, a

4

Pitch Perfect 3

38 Random Bits of Movie Trivia That Are Gearing Up for the Final Confrontation Over Dancing at the School

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The Silence of the Lambs

SCOTT GLENN LISTENED TO A REAL CHILD MURDER TO PREPARE FOR THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS. To research his role, the actor spent time with the FBI profiler

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The Little Prince

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Se7en

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