Living, Loving and Writing in Providence, RI
This is a Science Fiction World, like it or not
419745 Curiosities served
Rumor Tuesday: Movie Edition
Previous Entry :: Next Entry
Mood:
cinematic and animated
Read/Post Comments (0)
Reading: The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown
Music: Wait, Wait...Don't Tell Me
TV/Movie: cartoons
Link o' the Day: He-Man.org
In 1923, pirates off the coast of India hijacked a ship which was carrying a print of the Rudolph Velentino movie The Sheik (1921). This is the origin of the term "pirate" when referring to illegal copies of movies. The most pirated movie on record is Three Men and a Baby (1987).
The infamous line, "Frankly Scarlet, I don't give a damn." in the movie version of Gone With the Wind (1939) does not appear in the original novel by Margaret Mitchell. It was added by the studio to beef up press coverage of the film.
During the very opening scenes of The Sixth Sense (1999), Bruce Willis is watching the end credits to Weekend at Bernie's (1989), a favorite of director M. Night Shyamalan.
A problem with funding for Clerks (1994) almost stopped Kevin Smith's film career before it began due to flooding in Smith's home which threatened the comic book collection he was selling to pay for the film.
The most cursed film in history? Conquering Cross (1941) by Sergei Eisenstein in which 189 members of the cast and crew were killed in accidents ranging from electrocution to drowning. The original cinematographer, Alexi Andropov, was killed by a bear at the Moscow zoo a week prior to the production's start.
From the cutting room floor: In Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) Francois Truffaut slapped Richard Dreyfuss. Kangaroo Jack (2003) had a cameo by John Rhys-Davies as a foul-mouthed Australian hobo. Fire Walk With Me (1992) had a cafe scene filmed in Esperanto. The topless scene in Driving Miss Daisy (1989).
Over 9,000 pounds of soba were used during the filming of the Juzo Itami film Tampopo about a trucker who trains a young widow in the art of noodles.
The theatrical preview for the Coen Bros. movie Blood Simple (1984) was created before the actual film was made. It was filmed with the help of Sam Raimi and Bruce Campbell while they themselves were filming Evil Dead (1981).
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
In light of a recent conversaion on Facebook, today's link takes you to He-Man.org. Want to know more about Castle Grayskull, Battlecat, Skeletor, and the Masters of the Universe? Why would you go anywhere else? This is one of the only sites of this type I've seen to openly have a download section for videogame ROMs and emulators. Go figure.
Enjoy!
Music: Wait, Wait...Don't Tell Me
TV/Movie: cartoons
Link o' the Day: He-Man.org
In 1923, pirates off the coast of India hijacked a ship which was carrying a print of the Rudolph Velentino movie The Sheik (1921). This is the origin of the term "pirate" when referring to illegal copies of movies. The most pirated movie on record is Three Men and a Baby (1987).
The infamous line, "Frankly Scarlet, I don't give a damn." in the movie version of Gone With the Wind (1939) does not appear in the original novel by Margaret Mitchell. It was added by the studio to beef up press coverage of the film.
During the very opening scenes of The Sixth Sense (1999), Bruce Willis is watching the end credits to Weekend at Bernie's (1989), a favorite of director M. Night Shyamalan.
A problem with funding for Clerks (1994) almost stopped Kevin Smith's film career before it began due to flooding in Smith's home which threatened the comic book collection he was selling to pay for the film.
The most cursed film in history? Conquering Cross (1941) by Sergei Eisenstein in which 189 members of the cast and crew were killed in accidents ranging from electrocution to drowning. The original cinematographer, Alexi Andropov, was killed by a bear at the Moscow zoo a week prior to the production's start.
From the cutting room floor: In Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) Francois Truffaut slapped Richard Dreyfuss. Kangaroo Jack (2003) had a cameo by John Rhys-Davies as a foul-mouthed Australian hobo. Fire Walk With Me (1992) had a cafe scene filmed in Esperanto. The topless scene in Driving Miss Daisy (1989).
Over 9,000 pounds of soba were used during the filming of the Juzo Itami film Tampopo about a trucker who trains a young widow in the art of noodles.
The theatrical preview for the Coen Bros. movie Blood Simple (1984) was created before the actual film was made. It was filmed with the help of Sam Raimi and Bruce Campbell while they themselves were filming Evil Dead (1981).
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
In light of a recent conversaion on Facebook, today's link takes you to He-Man.org. Want to know more about Castle Grayskull, Battlecat, Skeletor, and the Masters of the Universe? Why would you go anywhere else? This is one of the only sites of this type I've seen to openly have a download section for videogame ROMs and emulators. Go figure.
Enjoy!
Read/Post Comments (0)
Previous Entry :: Next Entry
Back to Top
