What interesting film/TV fact have you learnt today?

[krtek a houby]

Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul stars Bryan Cranston and Bob Odenkirk both appeared in Seinfeld

 

[ska invita]

HG wells War of the Worlds is a parable about British imperialism.... The dispassionate Martians are the British.... And their defeat by illness based directly on attempts to colonise Africa

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

I always thought alliteration was illiteration. How apt. What a dumbarse.

 

[Yossarian]

Quentin Tarantino financed Reservoir Dogs with money he made playing an Elvis impersonator in an episode of Golden Girls

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Quentin Tarantino financed Reservoir Dogs with money he made playing an Elvis impersonator in an episode of Golden Girls

He financed feature film and paid all the crew and actors from playing a bit part role in one episode of a sit com?

 

[Yossarian]

He financed feature film and paid all the crew and actors from playing a bit part role in one episode of a sit com?

I guess he may have been exaggerating a little

But during a Wednesday appearance on “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon,” Tarantino credited that gig with getting “Reservoir Dogs,” his 1992 feature-length directorial debut, off the ground — which led to his cult icon status.

“It became a two-part ‘Golden Girls,’ so I got paid residuals for both parts,” Tarantino said of the episode. “It was so popular they put it on a ‘Best of The Golden Girls,’ and I got residuals every time that showed. So I got paid maybe, I don’t know, $650 for the episode, but by the time the residuals were over, three years later, I made like $3,000 [nearly $5,700 in 2019]. And that kept me going during our pre-production time trying to get ‘Reservoir Dogs’ going.”

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

I guess he may have been exaggerating a little

But during a Wednesday appearance on “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon,” Tarantino credited that gig with getting “Reservoir Dogs,” his 1992 feature-length directorial debut, off the ground — which led to his cult icon status.

“It became a two-part ‘Golden Girls,’ so I got paid residuals for both parts,” Tarantino said of the episode. “It was so popular they put it on a ‘Best of The Golden Girls,’ and I got residuals every time that showed. So I got paid maybe, I don’t know, $650 for the episode, but by the time the residuals were over, three years later, I made like $3,000 [nearly $5,700 in 2019]. And that kept me going during our pre-production time trying to get ‘Reservoir Dogs’ going.”

OK that makes more sense.
It paid for him to survive long enough to get someone to pay to get the film off the ground.