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Trivia: The studio was so sure the film would be a flop, they preemptively fired director Robert Zemekis from his next project, "Cocoon," and instead gave the job to Ron Howard. Ironically, the film ended up being one of the top-ten grossing films of the year.

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Trivia: The film was written by Diane Thomas. Thomas was a struggling waitress and actress, and had been working odd jobs to make ends meet when she wrote the script. While there is some dispute over how it happened, eventually the script made its way to actor Michael Douglas, who championed Thomas and helped get the movie made. The script was so well-liked, she ended up getting numerous offers, and at one point was even attached to help write one of the "Indiana Jones" sequels. Sadly, she was killed in a car accident only a year after this movie's release, and it remains the only film she was credited for writing.

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Trivia: An alternate cut of the film was released on the movie's 10th anniversary in 2017. Dubbed the "Editor's Cut," this version of the film reinstates several deleted scenes, in addition to removing several other scenes for pacing reasons. It also features some alternative musical cues in key scenes. It was initially released as a digital exclusive, before being included in newer Blu-Ray and 4K releases of the "Spider-Man" trilogy.

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Trivia: This film features the final on-screen performance of Cliff Robertson, who portrays Uncle Ben in flashbacks. Robertson passed away in 2011, four years after the film's release.

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Trivia: With this film, Sam Raimi became the first director to helm three entries in a comic-book movie series.

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Trivia: Spoilers. The iconic character Mary Jane Watson was originally meant to be in the film. Actress Shailene Woodley was cast and filmed several scenes, which would have set her up as a love-interest for a potential third film after the death of Gwen Stacey at the end of this movie. However, the character was cut out of the movie during the editing process for pacing reasons.

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Trivia: Cloud's phone is actually a real model phone that was available in Japan around the time the film came out. It was a Panasonic P900iV.

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Trivia: Originally, this movie was meant to be a 20-minute short. However, fan response to the idea of a "Final Fantasy VII" movie was so positive, that the producers and director decided to scrap the short-film concept and rewrite it into a feature-length film.

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Trivia: A few years after the movie's initial release, an extended cut of the film entitled "Advent Children Complete" was released. It featured updated visuals and twenty minutes of new scenes that helped flesh out the story and supporting characters. "Complete" was released exclusively on Blu-Ray to help promote the format, and was never given a DVD release like the original cut.

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Trivia: This film has some notable connections to the comic-book company Marvel. To start, is was released the same summer as the 2002 film "Spider-Man." The Sheriff's family has the last name "Parker," which is the same last name as "Peter Parker", aka Spider-Man. At one point, the mayor asks what attacked, to which another character replies "A spider, man!" as a cheeky reference to the character. And Scarlett Johansson plays a fairly major role in the film... and she would later go on to play Natasha Romanov in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, who goes by the codename "Black Widow " which is a breed of spider.

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Trivia: The film's title "The Ring" refers to the recurring ring/circle imagery seen throughout the film, as hinted by the tagline "Before you die, you see the ring." Somewhat oddly, this idea was completely original to this American remake. In both the original Japanese film and in the original novel series that inspired it, the title "Ring" is actually a reference to the neverending nature of the curse... it just keeps going on and on in circles. The filmmakers of this remake decided to make the ring literal in addition to being metaphorical.

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Trivia: Had the biggest time gap between films in the "Ringu" series - it was released 12 full years after the previous film - "Ringu 0: Birthday." The prior four "Ringu" films were released a year or less apart throughout the late 90's through the year 2000.

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Trivia: This film, despite being marketed as a sequel to the "Ringu" film series, is actually more a sequel to the non-canonical "forgotten" sequel "Rasen" than it is to the original "Ringu" or its follow-ups "Ringu 2" and "Ringu 0: Birthday."

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Trivia: Marks the fourth "Ring/Ringu" film to be directed by original "Ringu" director Hideo Nakata. Nakata had previously directed the original Japanese film "Ringu" in 1998 and its sequel "Ringu 2" in 1999. He also directed the film "The Ring Two" in the American remake series. This will be the first Japanese "Ringu" film he has directed in 20 years.

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Trivia: During the climax, Sadako's unnatural movement was accomplished with a very simple in-camera effect - the actress performed the scene backwards. The footage was then reversed, which gave her movements an uncanny feeling, since they weren't quite "right." In addition, to further aid in giving her an uncanny appearance, the closeup of her eyeball in the final scenes of the film were actually shot with a male actor's eye... again to subtly make it feel not quite "right."

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Trivia: The film is loosely based on an ongoing series of novels by Japanese author Koji Suzuki. While the film shares the basic premise of the novels, the details are vastly different. (Notably, the books feature heavy and increasing science-fiction overtones that are absent from the films.) The American remake, "The Ring," is based more directly on this film and its sequel "Ringu 2" than the novels.

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Trivia: "Puppet Master" was originally intended to be a theatrical release. However, series creator Charles Band found that he was making more money in the video market than in theaters, so the film was instead released direct-to-video. It was a huge hit for Band, leading to ten official sequels, a non-canonical spin-off (Puppet Master VS Demonic Toys) and a reboot. (The Littlest Reich).

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Trivia: Whenever we see Pinhead's hands punching someone or picking something up, the hands are actually the hands of a stunt-woman named Cindy Sorensen. Sorensen has dwarfism, so her hands were the perfect size to portray the puppet's.

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Trivia: Originally, an early version of the puppet "Six Shooter" was intended to be included in the film. The puppet would have been a six-armed ninja. Series creator Charles Band liked the idea of a puppet with six arms, and reused the idea later on in the third film, which introduced "Six Shooter."

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Trivia: The puppets actually only have about five minutes of screentime, despite being the main selling point of the film.

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