28 Movie Trivia Nuggets from Pop Culture History for Friday, November 21, 2025

Sink your teeth into these like the movie-thirsty vampire you are
28 Movie Trivia Nuggets from Pop Culture History for Friday, November 21, 2025
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After just completing a terrifying rewatch of Bram Stoker's Dracula, we thought about what it'd be like to be a vampire. It seems like more of a curse than some cool superhuman power. Heck, it seems more fun to be Aquaman or Hawkeye. 

The blood-sucking part is semi-cool, but it's a little on the gross side. If we could bite into the necks of great movies and suck out all their behind-the-scenes tidbits, then we're talking! Man, that'd be sweet. Instead of researching said movie facts and typing them out, we could've sucked them out and spit them into this list. One can only dream. 

Anywho, enjoy this dry, saliva-less list of killer movie facts.

13 Going on 30

CRACKED.COM 13 GOING ON 30 It's one of Ariana Grande's favorite movies. Grande loves the movie so much that she references it in her video for thank u, next. She said on Instagram that she used to watch the movie every night before bedtime.

Tom Cruise is obsessed with a Les Grossman spinoff.

CRACKED LES GROSSMAN Tom Cruise has talked to Ben Stiller and Mission: Impossible director Christopher McQarrie about a Grossman spinoff. It's unclear if it'd be a Grossman-centered plot, or a sequel with another cameo, but the original was plenty for us. Tropic Thunder

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Pride and Prejudice

Colin Firth's wet shirt scene in Pride and Prejudice was going to be a nude scene. The screenwriter isn't sure why they changed it from full-frontal nudity-- it might have been down to the studio or the actor. CRACKED.COM

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Goodfellas

A lot of the dialogue was improvised. GoodFellas Behind the Scenes Scorsese gives actors a lot of freedom to ad-lib, so the dialogue sounds as natural as possible. In the scene where Tommy DeVito kills Spider, the only line actually in the script is Spider's f-you to Tommy. CRACKED.COM

Clueless

CRACKED MY BAD The term first surfaced in 1985, but was explicitly used in basketball. The 1995 movie Clueless brought it to the masses, and also gave us '90s hits whatever and as if.

Seven Years in Tibet

China banned Brad Pitt from crossing its borders, because of Seven Years In Tibet. Apparently, though, they kind of relaxed that rule years later .. they let him in 2014, and again in 2016, both for promotional events. CRACKED.COM

Monsters Inc.

PIXAR MOVIES MONSTERS, INC. LOOKS A LOT LIKE LITTLE MONSTERS. Pixar can surely be forgiven for occasionally borrowing things from other films - like, say, the plot of 1989's Little Monsters. CRACKED.COM

Pixar

as In 1986 Steve Jobs bought Pixar for $5 million. O P X A R ANIMATION STUDIOS In 2006 Disney bought it for $7.6 billion. Things came full circle in 2012 when Disney- LE for bought $4 billion. Lucasfilm CRACKED.COM

The Good Dinosaur

Pixar fired Bob Peterson from directing The Good Dinosaur in 2013. Apparently, according to Pixar insiders, that was just a pretty routine internal reshuffle, and Pixar projects have input from lots of regular directors anyway. CRACKED.COM

Into the Spider-Verse

Easter Eggs of Oscar-winning movies 2019 Animated Feature Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse Miles Morales was animated at half the frame rate to make him look jittery and off-beat, as he's still getting comfortable in his skin. CRACKED.COM

Disney

EMPLOYEES SUED DISNEY FOR $100 MILLION. IN 2017, DISNEY SETTLED. The employees claimed Disney and other big animation studios colluded using anti-poaching agreements. The studios allegedly agreed not to steal animators from one another, letting bosses conspire to keep wages low. CRACKED.COM

Us

BEHIND-THE-SCENES FACTS RED'S MOVEMENTS ARE BASED ON COCKROACHES. Us Lupita Nyong'o says Jordan Peele used cockroaches to describe to her how Red should move in the film. They scurry and it's so hard to hit them, but then at the same time they are so still that they can often go unnoticed. CRACKED.COM

Obi-Wan

Star Wars Then VS. Now The reluctant mentor While Obi-Wan was more than willing to train a young Luke, Luke ends up becoming the opposite of his mentor and refuses to train Rey. Mark Hamill himself had doubts about Luke's dark turn, but eventually came around. CRACKED.COM

The Silence of the Lambs

Morgan Freeman was up for the part of Hannibal Lecter. You think The Silence of the Lambs, you see Sir Anthony Hopkins. But the iconic character created by Thomas Harris was once considered to go to either Freeman, Dustin Hoffman, or even Sean Connery. Gene Hackman would've played Dr. Lecter and directed the movie himself if he could-only his daughter asked him not to. CRACKED.COM

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The Amityville Horror (2005)

A DEAD BODY WASHED ASHORE WHILE FILMING AT THE BOATHOUSE FOR THE AMITYVILLE HORROR. Actress Melissa George said filming of the 2005 remake was interrupted by police seeking Ryan Reynolds' autograph. No wait. They were there because a dead flipping body floated to the surface AMITYVILLE HOR R OIR TAGE 123RF on the shore of the set. CRACKED.COM

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Online Festivals

Many film festivals are going online, and it might result in more STREAMING SeRvIces. Big festivals might survive postponements, but smaller ones won'

Mulan

In Mulan, a song spells out how Mulan will win. The villagers sing, A girl can bring her family great honor in one way, by striking a good match. La

It (2017)

In 2017's It, The Losers' Club defeats Pennywise by banding together and overcoming their fears. That similar premise is also in the original book, ho

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