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Trivia: While most films that win the Academy Award for Best Picture are released late in the year ("Oscar season"), this film currently stands as the Best Picture winner with the earliest theatrical release, occurring on February 14.

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Trivia: The first round of casting announcements for this film was shown on Marvel Entertainment's YouTube channel in a live stream lasting more than 5 hours, in which each of the 27 cast members was announced with their name adorning the backside of a director's chair, with each name being revealed in 12-minute intervals.

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Trivia: In the original script, Bernie kills Shannon by choking him with a garrote wire. Bryan Cranston suggested changing it to having Bernie slash Shannon's arm under the pretense of shaking his hand, as the handshake originated as a way for two individuals to demonstrate to each other that they were not carrying a weapon.

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Trivia: Charlie Cox was told by Marvel to see this film on its opening weekend so that he could see the crowd's reaction to his surprise cameo. He went to a theatre in his hometown in Connecticut and was snuck into the theatre by the manager. It turns out that his appearance elicited no significant reaction from the crowd, with a lone member of the audience saying, "Oh, cool."

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Trivia: Although they are friends in real life, neither Andrew Garfield nor Charlie Cox knew the other was in this film. Cox texted Garfield when he arrived in Atlanta for shooting and said he thought they were doing a film together, as Garfield was heavily rumoured to be in it. Garfield responded by saying he was filming "SM," to which Cox affirmed they were doing the same film. Garfield then clarified that "SM" meant "Spider-Man," to which Cox also affirmed. It turns out they weren't in each other's scripts.

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Cut Man - S1-E2

Trivia: When Daredevil rescues the child, during one of the takes, a 28-year-old assistant director was used as a stand-in for Daredevil to pick up, as the child was no longer allowed to be on set for the rest of the day of shooting.

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Trivia: During the hallway fight scene, Daredevil throws a microwave at a man. Charlie Cox has said he's autographed around 10 microwaves for fans.

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Trivia: As of 2025, this is the most recent PG-rated film to win the Academy Award for Best Picture.

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Trivia: While filming an episode of 3rd Rock from the Sun, a guest actor playing a carnival strongman told John Lithgow that, growing up in a small town, his father was similar to Reverend Moore. The man took his father to see Footloose without telling him what it was about, and his father was so moved by Lithgow's performance that he permitted his son to be the first of his six children to attend his high school prom.

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Trivia: John Lithgow considers Eric Qualen to be the corniest villain he's ever played, but also feels that the character has survived the test of time. He also considers this film to have his best death scene.

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Trivia: James Gunn was originally offered the chance to direct a sequel to Man of Steel after he was fired by Marvel, but he opted to make The Suicide Squad instead. When Warner Bros decided to scrap the DCEU and start a new shared universe of films, Gunn was brought in to direct this film, as well as oversee the creation of the revamped DC universe of films.

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Trivia: This film's original title was "Superman: Legacy."

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Trivia: This film was accused of promoting violence against women, spearheaded by Rose McGowan, due to a promotional billboard that showed Apocalypse holding Mystique in a chokehold. Fox later apologized for the advertisement.

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Trivia: This is the second film in which Adrien Brody won the Academy Award for Best Actor for portraying a Holocaust survivor, following The Pianist. His acceptance speech was also the longest in the ceremony's history, clocking in at 5 minutes and 40 seconds.

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Trivia: Shooter McGavin is a playable character in PGA Tour 2K25.

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And Then There Was Shawn - S5-E17

Trivia: Will Friedle and guest star Jennifer Love Hewitt dated in real life around the time this episode was filmed. Friedle believed the two of them would be together forever, which prompted Michael Jacobs to cast Hewitt in this episode for the sole purpose of killing her off in front of Eric, as a kind of cruel metaphor that, contrary to what Friedle thought, their relationship would eventually end.

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And Then There Was Shawn - S5-E17

Trivia: At one point while filming this episode, the director yelled at the cast for being unprofessional and stormed off the set.

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Trivia: The scene with the lie detector came about as a suggestion from Robert De Niro after he learned about them from a friend he had in the CIA.

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A No-Rough-Stuff Type Deal - S1-E7

Trivia: Bryan Cranston, Aaron Paul, and Raymond Cruz reprised their respective roles of Walter White, Jesse Pinkman, and Tuco Salamanca for a Super Bowl commercial for Popcorners, which was reminiscent of the scenes where Tuco tried the blue meth for the first time, and when Walter first met Declan and said to him "Say My Name."

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Trivia: The babysitter's name is Annie Wilkes, which is the same name as the main antagonist of Misery, another Stephen King story.

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