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18th Sep 2019

Darkman (1990)

Trivia: Co-Writer Ivan Raimi has a cameo as a doctor in the film, in the same scene in which John Landis and Jenny Agutter also cameo. (He's the doctor who is front and center in the frame after Agutter says the line "I'd give him a nine on the 'buzzard scale.'") In addition to being a part-time screenwriter, Ivan is actually also a doctor in real life.

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Continuity mistake: When Rooker has his gun pointed at Westlake during the climax, watch closely. Throughout the scene, he's holding his gun sideways in a side grip. Right after he says the line "I don't think you'll be needing that anymore, doc!", he rotates the gun upright into a normal grip. However, in the very next shot, he's once again holding his gun in a sideways in a side grip. (These shots are back-to-back, so there's no way he was able to rotate it again between cuts).

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Trivia: If you pay attention, the Cenobite "Chatterer" first appears eyeless, then has eyes later in the film. This is because the actor underneath the makeup (Nicholas Vince) hated performing blind and requested the makeup be redesigned to give the character eyes. A scene was filmed that showed Pinhead giving Chatterer eyes as a sort-of gift, but the scene was cut, leading to the continuity error.

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12th Sep 2019

It Chapter Two (2019)

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Trivia: The shop-owner who sells Bill back his old bike "Silver" is played by Stephen King, author of the original "It" novel and numerous other famous books.

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9th Sep 2019

It Chapter Two (2019)

Trivia: Several of the child-actors who portray the "Losers Club" had to be digitally "de-aged" as they had grown up tremendously in the two years between films.

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Trivia: All of the episode titles are references to dialogue from the original 1982 film.

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Trivia: A sequel to the original film, titled "The Power of the Dark Crystal," was initially planned. However, the film spent many years in development hell with several different writers and directors being attached at different points. Eventually, French director Louis Letterier became attached to the project around 2012, and it was subsequently retooled into this prequel series for Netflix. "The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance" was finally released in the Summer of 2019 - almost 37 years after the original debuted in Winter, 1982.

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4th Sep 2019

Twister (1996)

Trivia: While he enjoyed the finished film, star Bill Paxton admitted he wished "Twister" was a bit darker and edgier. For a while around 2010, he tried to get a sequel off the ground to deliver this more intense vision, and he was even interested in potentially directing the follow-up. Little is known about what the sequel would have been about, although Paxton hinted he wanted to utilize 3D filming techniques (which had been re-popularized by James Cameron's "Avatar") to really put the audience into the tornado chases. Unfortunately, the sequel never came together.

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Trivia: Originally in the early 90's, Quentin Tarantino was approached to write the film based on scripts he had written including "True Romance." A deal wasn't finished at the time and Tarantino backed away. A few years later, after Tarantino became a successful director, he was again approached about the project. He was planning to produce the film with his friend Scott Spiegel (co-writer of "Evil Dead II") directing, but again, a deal was unable to be reached. According to Tarantino, his version of "Halloween 6" would have taken a step back after the events of "Halloween 4" and "Halloween 5" and told a simpler, stripped down story more akin to the original than any of the prior sequels.

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25th Aug 2019

Session 9 (2001)

Trivia: The movie was filmed on Sony High Definition camcorders as opposed to traditional 16 or 35mm film. The camcorders used were among the first to offer the cinema standard 24 frames-per-second as an option (as compared to the home-video standard of 30fps) which helped make the image look closer to cinema-quality. The movie was one of the first mainstream films shot primarily on digital video.

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25th Aug 2019

Session 9 (2001)

Trivia: The film was shot primarily at the Danvers State Asylum, an abandoned hospital. The script was written around the shooting location based on what rooms and corridors were safe to shoot in. Little to no set-dressing had to be done for the film, as it was suitably dilapidated and filled with abandoned medical equipment, which helped add to the film's atmosphere.

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18th Aug 2019

Avengers: Endgame (2019)

17th Aug 2019

Dr. Dolittle (1998)

Trivia: In the background at the circus, a two-headed llama can briefly be seen walking around. This is a reference to the original Dr. Dolittle story, which featured a two-headed llama called the "Pushmi-Pullyu."

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Trivia: Bradford May, who directed both "Darkman" sequels, originally planned to return to direct more films in the franchise after the second and third films performed well on home-video. And indeed scripts were written for both a "Darkman IV" and a "Darkman V." But after a change in leadership at Universal, plans for any future films were scrapped as the company wanted to shift focus onto other projects. According to a 2017 commentary track with May, there was an endgame planned for the series, and the final film would have concluded with main character Dr. Peyton Westlake perfecting his liquid skin and returning to society after years of exile.

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11th Aug 2019

Daredevil (2003)

Trivia: The film was in production around the same time as 2002's "Spider-Man." "Daredevil" was supposed to be a more modestly budgeted film aimed at a more adult audience, and was given a (relatively small by action-movie standards) $50 million budget. When "Spider-Man" came out and was a massive hit, the studio gave the "Daredevil" production an additional $30 million to make the film bigger and more bombastic in order to compete with Spidey's release.

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11th Aug 2019

Daredevil (2003)

Trivia: The original cut of the film was rejected by the studio, who wanted a trimmed down version of the movie for theaters. This resulted in a theatrical film that was notably tame in comparison to some of the comic storylines that inspired it, and had some noticeable gaps in flow and logic. A few years later, an R-rated Director's Cut of the film was released on DVD that restored a half-hour of deleted scenes and had a harsher tone. The Director's Cut was better received by critics and fans than the the original theatrical edition, and when the film was finally released on Blu-Ray, the Director's Cut became the only version of the film released on the format.

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6th Aug 2019

A Dirty Shame (2004)

Trivia: An edited, R-rated cut of the film was eventually released on DVD in certain much-more conservative retailer stores (such as Wal-Mart) and video-rental establishments when the film hit home media. Dubbed "The Neuter Version," the R-rated cut is infamous for almost comically redubbing virtually all profanities in the film, pixelating obscene material, and replacing shots of nude characters with shots of fully clothed characters. (Thus ruining several jokes.) It also has some of the film's more famous moments removed entirely. Director John Waters, who was utterly mystified at this version of the film, has stated that the Neuter version is only for "brainless people" or "really weird collectors."

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Trivia: The seventh entry in the "View Askewniverse" series created by Kevin Smith. The other entries include "Clerks," "Mallrats," "Chasing Amy," "Dogma," "Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back" and "Clerks II." The film will serve as a direct sequel to 2001's "Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back," which was initially intended to be the final film in the series. Smith later decided to revisit the series with 2006's "Clerks II" and subsequently decided to continue the franchise in the years that have passed since.

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Trivia: Will be the first Kevin Smith film to feature an appearance by Ben Affleck in thirteen years. Smith and Affleck worked together on several notable films in the 90's and early 2000's before they had a falling out. Smith and Affleck recently patched things up, and Affleck agreed to appear in a cameo in the film.

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2nd Aug 2019

Hannibal (2001)

Revealing mistake: When Pazzi is killed, there's a shot of his cell phone and phone battery slamming into the ground followed by a splatter of his innards. However, there is a (rather obvious and poorly timed) jump-cut in the middle of the shot, right before his innards splatter down from above. His cell phone is still moving about a bit, when suddenly it goes perfect still in an unnatural way. It also moves ever-so-slightly to the left when the cut happens. It's supposed to appear to be one continuous shot, but it's clear they dropped the cell-phone, waited for it to settle, then dropped the innards and tried to edit it so the shot moved faster.

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