Movies/Tv - Facts and Trivia

Avery Brooks who played Benjamin Sisko in Star Trek Deep Space Nine originally wanted to shave his head but producers behind the show were against it. By the start of season 4 Avery Brooks later got his wish and shaved his hair off and the rest is history.

Director Stanley Kubrick convinced the American Motion Picture Association that the river of blood that flows from the elevator doors in The Shining was just rusty water in order for the trailer to get approved by them.

The scene in Ghostbusters 2 where the people are running out of the theatre because of slime is reference to the movie The Blob (1958) when also in that movie people are running out of the theatre, also when the pink slime oozes out of the grill it happened in The Blob. Also in Ghostbusters 2 when the museum gets covered in pink slime it’s taken from The Blob (1958) when the diner gets covered by the Blob.

Live action make up supremo Rob Bottin who worked on The Howling,The Thing,Legend,Robocop and Total Recall to name a few turned 59 today.So happy birthday to him.

Just read that the late,great Stan Winston created the Wookie costumes for the Star Wars : Holiday Special(1978).

In Harry and the Hendersons(1987)M.Emmett Walsh plays John Lithgow's father despite being only twelve years older than him in real life.

Both Harrison Ford and William Hurt turned down the role of Alan Grant in Jurassic Park before it was offered to Sam Neil.Jim Carrey also auditioned and was a close second to play Ian Malcolm before Spielberg settled on Jeff Goldblum.

Originally in Ghostbusters 2 they were gonna use the crashed Hindenburg airship in Scene in the movie with ghosts on board they scraped the idea and decided to go with the Titanic scene which till this day still creeps me out.

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Bobby Brown who sang the music theme to Ghostbusters 2 “On Our Own” And also “We’re Back” makes a quick cameo in the movie.

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Adam Child, a contestant on soon to return Channel 4 reality show Shipwrecked back in 2008, is married to Babestation's Tommie-Jo Connolly.