February 2011
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FACT:
Nicolas Cage originally turned down the role of Castor Troy in Face/Off, citing a lack of interest in playing a villain. However, once he was told that he would actually be playing the hero for a majority of the film, he quickly signed on.
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“To all our listeners, this is what I have to say—God bless you all.
And...”
– Philip Seymour Hoffman as The Count in The Boat That Rocked
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FACT:
The concept for Home Alone originated during the filming of a scene in Uncle Buck during which Macaulay Culkin’s character interrogates a would-be-babysitter through the letterbox.
Furthermore, although the part of Kevin McCallister was written for Culkin by John Hughes, several hundred other boys were auditioned by director Chris Columbus because he wanted to confirm that Culkin was...
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FACT:
For Hairspray, Amanda Bynes’s pigtails for Penny Pingleton took two hours in hair and make-up every morning.
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“It’s not even my date and he still gets me out of my skirt!”
– Sophia Bush as Beth in John Tucker Must Die
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“We do what we have to do in order to do what we want to do.”
– Denzel Whitaker as James Farmer Jr. in The Great Debaters
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“It’s amazing how productive doing nothing can be.”
– Jeff Bridges as Kevin Flynn in Tron: Legacy
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After the death of Heath Ledger, production of The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (Ledger’s last film) was shut down for a few months. It was then re-started when Johnny Depp, Jude Law, and Colin Farrell agreed to complete the role.
Depp, Law, and Farrell also gave all the income that they recieved for this movie to Ledger’s daughter, Matilda, so that her economic future would be...
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Golden Globes Results
I know it’s a little late, but I’ve been away from the computer for the last couple days, so here are the results of the Golden Globes for categories related to films (in case you missed them).
Best Motion Picture - Drama Black Swan The Fighter Inception The King’s Speech The Social Network - WINNER
Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama Halle Berry in...
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FACT:
In A Single Man, Colin Firth is the only British actor playing a British character. Matthew Goode and Nicholas Hoult are both British actors playing American characters, and Julianne Moore is an American actress playing a British character.
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FACT:
During World War II, 16-year-old Audrey Hepburn volunteered as a nurse in a Dutch hospital. During the battle of Arnhem, Hepburn’s hospital received many wounded Allied soldiers, and one of the injured soldiers that Hepburn helped nurse back to health was a young British paratrooper named Terence Young.
More than 20 years later, this paratrooper-turned-director reunited with Hepburn when he...
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“Dreams feel real while we’re in them. It’s only when we wake up that...”
– Leonardo DiCaprio as Cobb in Inception
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FACT:
In 10 Things I Hate About You, the scene where Kat reads her “10 Things” poem only took one take, according to the DVD extras. Kat’s tears towards the end of poem were not planned.
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FACT:
In 10 Things I Hate About You, the scene where Kat reads her “10 Things” poem only took one take, according to the DVD extras. Kat’s tears towards the end of poem were not planned.
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“Movies are like an expensive form of therapy for me.”
– Tim Burton
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FACT:
In Marley and Me, Owen Wilson’s character’s parents were played by his real parents. Wilson’s mom’s biggest problem was remembering to not call him Owen.
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FACT:
In Marley and Me, Owen Wilson’s character’s parents were played by his real parents. Wilson’s mom’s biggest problem was remembering to not call him Owen.
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