Movies/Tv - Facts and Trivia

(16-02-2017 22:58 )greenray Wrote:  Beginners(2010)

Aged 82,Christopher Plummer became the oldest person to win an acting Oscar,when he won Best Supporting Actor.

Good call
At the opposite end of the spectrum,Tatum O'Neal is the youngest actor to win an Oscar in a supporting role at 10 years old,for her performance in Paper Moon(1973)

Here's a article people may find interesting it's on a original idea for a Superman movie back in 2002 called Superman: Flyby and J.J Abrams was attached too Chris Reeve at the time was a consultant on the project and wanted Smallville's Tom Welling to play Superman.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superman...man:_Flyby

^ I think that was a really good concept,I would have liked to see Tom Welling play the character on the big screen.

In Die Hard it was never explained how John McClain works out that Hans Gruber faking being hostage well now it's finally answered. All the terrorist's are wearing tag heuer watches McClain notices this when he kills the first terrorist and when he finds Hans the scene with him seeing him wearing the same watch which all the terrorists are wearing is totally cut out but if you look very careful you see McClain look down and notice but of course you don't notice what his seen namely the watch.

Influenced by his admiration for Kurosawa,George Lucas toyed with the idea of casting Toshirô Mifune in the the role of Obi Wan Kenobi.

Humphrey Bogart was a actually shorter then Ingrid Bergman when they shot the film the Casablanca and had to wear platforms on his shoes to make him taller.

Jamaica Inn (1938)

Hitchcock's final British film before Hollywood came calling.
Unusually, he made no cameo appearance in this film.
One of three Daphne Du Maurier adaptions, the others Rebecca(1940) and The Birds(1963).

Slow West (2015)
Director John MacLean was the keyboard player with the Beta Band.

Actor Bryan Cranston who plays Zordon in the new Power Rangers movie actually did some of the voice of creatures from the original Power Rangers tv series.

Murder! (1930)

This is the first movie where a person's thoughts are presented on the soundtrack of the film.

A German version called Mary (1931) was filmed at the same time using German actors, but the same sets.

Hitchcock cameo is about an hour into the movie walking past the house where the murder was committed.