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Whether you're in a theater watching the summer's most talked-about Blockbuster, cozied up at home replaying your favorite DVD, or laying in your bed with Netflix streaming on your tummy, it's pretty easy to get deeply immersed the world crafted by talented directors and dedicated crews. Suddenly, you're out of your body, and you're on an adventure with Luke Skywalker, riding a sandworm with Paul Atreides, or searching for hidden treasures with Indiana Jones.

Some movies are so captivating that it's hard to believe how much went into making them. I'm not talking about the money either; I'm talking about all of the happy accidents and behind-the-scenes lore that make up the very best movie moments. If you're curious about these sorts of things, you're in for a treat.

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The Craft

BEHIND-THE-SCENES FACTS The Craft hired a practicing witch to keep the film authentic. CRACKED To make sure they were getting everything right, filmmakers hired Pat Devin, the (at the time) First Officer of Southern California's Covenant of the Goddess. Devin had a great experience on set, saying that a lot of my suggestions were acted upon and virtually all of my suggestions were given careful consideration. — Source: 14 Behind The Scenes Facts About Your Favorite Horror Movies

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Miley Cyrus

BEHIND-THE-SCENES FACTS Blink and you'll miss MILEY CRACKED COM Disney Channel held an online contest to let viewers pick which Disney star would cameo in High School Musical 2. Miley was the winner and shows up in the big finale by the pool. Total screen time: Four seconds. — YouTube

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At one point, Will Smith was the top choice to play Django in Django Unchained. He ended up passing because he thought it should be a movie about love, not vengeance, and that just didn't work for Tarantino. — Source: The Hollywood Reporter

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ROMEO + JULIET The film was mostly shot in Mexico City and Veracruz. During this time, the production's hairstylist, Aldo Signoretti, was kidnapped, and the filmmakers had to pay $250 to get him back. BEHIND THE SCENES CRACKEDCOMT — Source

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25 Movie Trivia Nuggets from Pop Culture History for Sunday, December 7, 2025 — Source: RetroJunk

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1 out of every 160 New Zealanders worked on the Lord of the Rings trilogy. 2 To give you a sense of their ludicrous scale, there were 20,000 extras, and over 00o individual weapons were made just for those movies. — Source: Irish Times

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Harry Potter

The climax of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part I is a daring escape, then Harry and friends take refuge in Shell Cottage, where Ron's brother

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Yoda

Yoda was partly based on Stuart Freeborn, the guy that brought him to life. Freeborn was a Hollywood makeup artist who had worked on the Star Wars franchise and had helped design Yoda, basing him on himself and Einstein. CRACKED.COM

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The Incredible Hulk

THE INCREDIBLE HULK CRACKED.COM The film was set in New York, but the climactic fight scene takes place directly in front of Toronto's iconic Sam The Record Man on Yonge Street.

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Star Trek

2009's Star Trek put in a very subtle nod to the original show. When Pike sits in the captain's chair for the first time, there's a band of light over his eyes - : a reference to the '60s show's mood lighting. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Singin’ in the Rain

The rain in Singin' in the Rain wasn't milk. It was just really good lighting and filming -- they lit it from behind, making sure you couldn't see all the lighting equipment in the shopfronts' windows. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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The District 9 voices were made from the sound of pumpkins being rubbed together combined with clicking and the actors' voices. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Se7en

Se7en has the head in a box scene because David Fincher got the wrong script. The script Fincher was supposed to receive was a super-cliched detective film, but the studio accidentally sent him an early draft with a bleak ending. Не thought that'd be a great movie, so he insisted on filming that, and only won when Pitt and Freeman sided with him. CRACKED.COM — Source

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E.T.

Notes From Execs Е.Т. Columbia Pictures was bummed about E.T. - they thought it was too much like a Disney flick, and they'd spent 10 mil on it. Their exact words were that it was a wimpy Walt Disney movie. CRACKED — Universal Pictures
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Ali

CRACKED ALI BOX OFFICE: $87.7M BUDGET: $118M Director Michael Mann's decision to move the production of a movie to Africa for 5 weeks increased the budget from $106 million to $118 million. — Bomb Report / Boxoffice Mojo

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John Hughes almost made a “Jaws” sequel.

Jaws 3 was almost a comedy written by John Hughes. CRACKED.COM Universal Pictures near- ly greenlit the sequel, called, Jaws 3, People 0. Instead, they made Jaws 3-D, which bombed with critics and at the box office. — IGN

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Mr. Garvey

CRACKED.COM AN B. HONY ES ST KEY& PEELE MR. GARVEY WAS GOING TO HAVE HIS OWN MOVIE. Paramount signed on for a movie based on the Substitute Teacher sketch in 2015. Still waiting on that one. — Source: Entertainment Weekly

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Gwyneth Paltrow, Nepo-Baby

GWYNETH PALTROW The accomplished actor turned Goop founder is the daughter of Emmy- and Tony-winning actor Blythe Danner and film director and producer Bruce Paltrow. CRACKED.COM

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Alfred Hitchcock

CRACKED.COM Alfred Hitchcock Не directed the first British talkie. Hitchcock's first success, 1929's Blackmail, was also the first sound film made in the UK. The movie was conceived as silent, but later on had sound added in post-production. — Source: Mental Floss

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Universal Pictures

Universal Pictures didn't know it owned the merchandising rights to the film Darkman. It wasn't until toy-maker SOTA asked for a license to make a Darkman action figure that Universal finally looked into it and found out it had owned the rights all along. CRACKED.COM — Dread Central

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The Sound of Music

Musical movies The sound of MUSIC Christopher Plummer hated the film, calling it The Sound of Mucus. Не also despised working with Julia Andrews, who was a real-life Manic Pixie Dream Girl. (Не calmed down later in life... a little.) CRACKED.COM — Source: BBC

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Knives Out

CRACKED.COM Behind the scenes Knives Out To account for the multiple characters with glasses, they rebuilt lighting and filming equipment to better resemble what should be reflected in the character's eyes. — Source

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Skywalker Ranch

kevin smith не got married at skywalker Ranch. Smith was married to his wife Jennifer Schwalbach Smith at Skywalker Ranch, presumably to the sound of lightsabers clicking on, and... uh... How about dried blue milk instead of rice? CRACKED.COM — Source: Kevin Smith/Facebook

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BEHIND-THE-SCENESp FACTS The party scene costumes are mostly hand-me-downs The wardrobe department had run out of money, SO they pulled outfits from the Walt Disney costume department. — Source: Glamour

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The MCU

BEHIND-THE-SCENESE FACTS DANIEL BRUHL IMPROVISED ZEMO'S DANCE. THE FALCON WINTER SOLDIER The actor revealed that the dance that set the internet on fire wasn't in the script. Bruhl thought the character would be itching to let off some steam after rotting in prison for so long. — YouTube

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