Best movie trivia of 2016

Please vote as you browse around to help the best rise to the top.

More The Magnificent Seven trivia
More Manchester by the Sea trivia
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them picture

Trivia: The banker who turns down Jacob's first request for a loan is named Mr. Bingley, an obvious homage to one of the main characters in Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. J. K. Rowling has stated numerous times in interviews that Austen is her favorite author, and this is not the first time she has alluded to her works with a character name; Argus Filch's cat, Mrs. Norris, from the Harry Potter books and movies shares her name with the busybody character from Mansfield Park.

More Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them trivia
Trolls picture

Trivia: Revealed in behind-the-scenes info, Chef was originally going to have a song called "Bringing Back Happy," explaining to the Trolls about her depressing years of unsuccessful hunts for them and how she would "bring back happy" by cooking them. However, this idea had to be scrapped due to timing issues.

More Trolls trivia
Resident Evil: The Final Chapter picture

Trivia: The film's production was quite troubled. A crewmember named Ricardo Cornelius was killed in a freak accident when he was crushed by a Humvee and a stuntwoman named Olivia Jackson was severely injured, with her face being "de-gloved" and sustaining may injuries and fractures which resulted in the loss of her right arm. Thankfully she survived and made a full recovery and the doctors were able to surgically mend her face and other injuries.

More Resident Evil: The Final Chapter trivia
Split picture

Trivia: SPOILER WARNING. The character of Kevin was originally intended to be in the film "Unbreakable" (to which this film is revealed to be a sort-of sequel in the final twist scene), but he was removed for thematic reasons, as it was felt that his presence took away focus from that film's true villain "Mr. Glass." Writer/Director M. Night Shyamalan has stated his intentions to make a third film in the "trilogy" that will feature Bruce Willis' character David Dunn from "Unbreakable" being forced to confront Kevin, who will be his ultimate "supervillain."

More Split trivia
Suicide Squad picture

Trivia: The actor Ted Whittall, who took a small part in the film, portrayed Rick Flag in Smallville season 10.

oswal13

More Suicide Squad trivia
Star Trek Beyond picture

Trivia: As he is invading Yorktown, Krall sees his Starship and uses the exact same words as Kahn in 'Wrath of Kahn': "My old friend."

Matt Wills

More Star Trek Beyond trivia
Leap! picture

Trivia: When Luteau crashes his motorcycle into a stump, he yells a Wilhelm scream.

More Leap! trivia
The Boy picture

Trivia: The film's original title was "In a Dark Place," and it was written as an R-rated thriller. The film was re-written to remove some excessive sexual themes and it was re-titled "The Boy" shortly before filming began.

TedStixon

More The Boy trivia
Hush picture

Trivia: The movie was filmed in secret and revealed in 2015, when it was shopped around to distributors. Netflix acquired the movie and released it as a Netflix-exclusive title in 2016. However, it was removed from the service in 2023 once the initial licensing deal expired. Director Mike Flanagan has stated his intention to try and shop the film around for a physical media release on DVD/Blu-Ray in the near future.

TedStixon

More Hush trivia
Finding Dory picture

Trivia: The license plate of the truck has the letter and numbers "A113", which appear on vehicle license plates of other Pixar films.

Scott215

More Finding Dory trivia
More The Jungle Book trivia
More Jason Bourne trivia
Why Him? picture

Trivia: Director John Hamburg was James Franco's professor when Franco was attending the graduate film-making program at New York University.

More Why Him? trivia
Teenage Cocktail picture

Trivia: Even though they play mother and daughter, Michelle Borth is only eleven years older than Nichole Bloom.

More Teenage Cocktail trivia
X-Men: Apocalypse picture

Trivia: Director Bryan Singer makes a cameo as a soldier that shoots Wolverine.

oswal13

More X-Men: Apocalypse trivia
La La Land picture

Trivia: At the Oscar ceremony in 2017, the film was accidentally named Best Picture, instead of true winner Moonlight, when presenters Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway were accidentally handed the wrong envelope. Such a gaffe had never occurred in the Oscars' history before.

Cubs Fan

More La La Land trivia
Deepwater Horizon picture

Trivia: During the real Deepwater Horizon oil spill, actor Kevin Costner offered his services, claiming that a small company he bought from the U.S. Department of Energy could clean up 90% of the oil in a week, using poorly-tested technology. His offer was accepted, despite zero evidence that the technology ever worked; and it failed miserably, of course.

Charles Austin Miller

More Deepwater Horizon trivia
Nerve picture

Trivia: Emily Meade, who plays Sidney, completed the ladder dare with no safety net beneath her due to needing the camera rig to be directly underneath. (00:55:00)

Ssiscool

More Nerve trivia

Join the mailing list

Separate from membership, this is to get updates about mistakes in recent releases. Addresses are not passed on to any third party, and are used solely for direct communication from this site. You can unsubscribe at any time.

Check out the mistake & trivia books, on Kindle and in paperback.