Trivia: Series star Tony Todd reportedly hates the finished film.
TedStixon
6th Mar 2020
Candyman: Day of the Dead (1999)
6th Mar 2020
Cult of Chucky (2017)
Trivia: If you count Chucky and Tiffany's various on-screen deaths, the total body-count of the "Child's Play" films up to and including "Cult of Chucky" is 66. (Or an average of 9.4 deaths per film).
6th Mar 2020
Hellraiser: Judgment (2018)
Trivia: The design of "The Auditor" is actually based on unused concept art for Pinhead for a "Hellraiser" reboot that was never produced. They simply removed the pins and added sunglasses to the character.
29th Feb 2020
Candyman (1992)
Trivia: The director had to go and meet with representatives from the NAACP, as the studio feared the project would be misconstrued as being racist due to it featuring a black antagonist and dealing with racial undertones. The representatives found the entire process ridiculous, and fully supported the film.
29th Feb 2020
Candyman (1992)
Trivia: Allegedly, hypnosis was used on Virginia Madsen to aid in the filming of a few key scenes. She became very uncomfortable by the process after a while and refused to allow the crew to do it ever again.
29th Feb 2020
Candyman (1992)
29th Feb 2020
The Fifth Element (1997)
Trivia: Director Luc Besson originally wanted musician Prince to play the part of Ruby Rhod. However, Prince turned down the part only because (despite his own peculiar fashion sense) he felt the costumes designed for the character were a little too strange and effeminate for his tastes.
29th Feb 2020
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (2017)
29th Feb 2020
The Fifth Element (1997)
Trivia: Director Luc Besson wanted Bruce Willis for the part of Korben Dallas, but decided to go with a lesser-known actor in order to save money. Upon being informed, Willis told Besson that they could "work something out" if he liked the script. Willis read the script, loved it, and agreed to do the film for a reduced upfront paycheck.
29th Feb 2020
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (2017)
29th Feb 2020
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (2017)
29th Feb 2020
The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
29th Feb 2020
Candyman: Farewell to the Flesh (1995)
Trivia: Bernard Rose, the director of the first film, wrote a script for this sequel that didn't focus on the Candyman character, but rather focused on the impact urban legends have on people. The studio felt the script was too cerebral and instead told Rose that people "just wanted to see Candyman eviscerate victims." A more traditional slasher-film script was then written and used.
29th Feb 2020
The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
Trivia: "The Silence of the Lambs" has gained some infamy in recent years as an example of the "Mandela Effect" - a phenomenon where large groups of people share the same false memory. Specifically, many people remember Hannibal Lecter delivering the specific line "Hello, Clarice" when she comes to visit him. But he actually never once says this line in the film.
29th Feb 2020
Black Rain (1989)
Trivia: Charlie singing karaoke with Matsumoto was a last-minute addition to the film conceived by Andy Garcia. Garcia felt that the scene would not only be fun, but help the audience connect more with his character Charlie, which would then make his death in the following scene even more shocking.
29th Feb 2020
Black Rain (1989)
29th Feb 2020
Black Rain (1989)
Trivia: Was Ridley Scott's first successful film in a decade. Every other film he had made since 1979's "Alien" flopped at the box office, while "Black Rain" ended up becoming a massive hit. It was the eleventh highest-grossing film of the year.
29th Feb 2020
Black Rain (1989)
Trivia: Jackie Chan reportedly turned down the role of one of the villains in the film, as he felt audiences wouldn't want to see him play a bad-guy.
29th Feb 2020
Black Rain (1989)
Trivia: A great deal of the film was actually shot in Japan, and it was reportedly very difficult on the cast and crew. The cost to film in Japan was very high, and the shoot was highly restricted, causing frequent issues. The original cinematographer even left production because he became too frustrated by the experience. Filming was eventually moved to the US to combat these issues.
21st Feb 2020
Ghost in the Shell (2017)
Trivia: Margot Robbie was almost cast as Major, but she had to drop out of the project in order to work on "Suicide Squad."
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