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Trivia: The line "he'll stop doing it" "stop doing what?" followed by violence was used almost identically in Iron Man 3, also written and directed by Shane Black.

Jon Sandys

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Trivia: Eddie is given a heartfelt pep talk by his idol Matti Nykänen, the Finnish ski jumper. Nykänen actually spoke no English at all.

Jukka Nurmi

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Trivia: "Keeping Up with the Joneses" was originally meant to be a sequel to the film "Mr. And Mrs. Smith," with Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie both intended to return. However, Pitt and Jolie were dissatisfied with the screenplay and dropped out. Eventually, all connections to that film were dropped and the movie was retooled to be a stand-alone film.

TedStixon

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Trivia: In his address to his crew, Nicholas Cage says "Without me, you are worthless. You are my crew. And without you, I am worthless." This line is borrowed from Full Metal Jacket (1987): "Without me, my rifle is useless. Without my rifle, I am useless."

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Trivia: This film was originally intended to be a series of short-films and vignettes set in the "Phantasm" universe. Eventually the stories were folded together into one narrative, which became "Phantasm: Ravager."

TedStixon

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Trivia: Paul Reubens revealed that, in addition to old makeup tricks, digital effects were used to de-age him for the film, to make him look more like he did in the previous films. Reubens remarked that when he was told how expensive the de-aging effects were during post-production, he realised it would have actually been significantly cheaper for him to have just gotten extensive plastic surgery to make himself look younger before filming.

TedStixon

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Trivia: The guy who dresses a lot like the protagonist and gets his book signed during the movie ending is indeed the real James Bowen. "It's like I lived every moment.", is his line in the movie. Indeed. (01:36:00)

Sammo

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Trivia: Brent Spiner performed the majority of his scenes alone, with no other principal actors on the set. In fact, Spiner is digitally inserted into some scenes where he appears with other principal actors.

Charles Austin Miller

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Trivia: At the very beginning of the movie, as the car drives along towards the town, the music to Stephen Kings' The Shining plays.

Erik M.

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Trivia: The president of Venezuela says, "Have you seen the autotune on YouTube?" The video is never shown, however if you wait until the end credits the autotune plays as a credits song.

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Trivia: While no official explanation was given as to why the planned theatrical release was canceled, it has been speculated by insiders that Universal bailed on the release due to the large number of franchise-based Sci-Fi and action films being released in 2016 providing too much competition for an original property such as "Spectral", as well as Universal being leery over the project after the disappointing domestic box office of one of their other major 2016 releases, "Warcraft."

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Trivia: When a human warrior is pulled from his horse and thrown to the ground by an orc during the first battle between the orcs and the humans, he yells a Wilhelm scream.

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Trivia: This is the only movie of the series where Scrat never interacts with the main heroes.

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Trivia: Specifically set in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and filmed in and around the downtown area, many things stayed "as is." Some names were given slight modifications, such as Grant Street was "Grand Street" and KDKA TV/news became KDTA.

KeyZOid

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Trivia: When two food products run for cover during the end of Firewater's and the Non-Perishables "Great Beyond" belief story, you can hear the Wilhelm scream.

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