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What interesting film/TV fact have you learnt today?

The famous "you killed my fucking scooter" scene in Quadrophenia was completely unscripted. Phil Daniels improvised it without being told to and the van driver - not an actor - joined in. (although i confess i didn't actually learn this today )

 
The Zafiro Anejo tequila brand seen in Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul was invented by the writers after they failed to get a high-end tequila product placement deal - they tried, but a scene where a lot of people die after drinking it was a dealbreaker.
 
The Chipmunks predicted the downfall of the Berlin Wall

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Yossarian said:
Kate Mulgrew - "Red" in Orange is the New Black - starred as Mrs Columbo in a spinoff that was canceled after 13 episodes.
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Surprisingly, the 13 episodes were spread over two seasons.

After the first, they tried to rebrand it by having her divorce the Lieutenant, changing her surname to Callahan and renaming the show Kate the Detective. This didn't help so they changed the name again mid-season, to Kate Loves A Mystery. In one of the three episodes under this name she says her ex-husband was called Philip.

Which I knew long ago, having seen an episode that's included bin my Columbo box set. What I didn't know until today was that in 1984 an encyclopedia compiler sued the US Who Wants To Be A Millionaire for including a 'false fact' he had inserted into one of his books as a guard against plagiarism. He claimed that Lieutenant Columbo's first name was..... Philip.

(It was actually Frank)
 
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In Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone when the kids walk into the great hall at Hogwarts for the first time, that was also the first time the child actors had seen the hall and their amazement was genuine.
 
oohh, good thread.
not from today, but in that Godfather scene, the script was "leave the gun." "take the cannoli" was Richard Castellano's ad-lib.
 
belboid said:
Surprisingly, the 13 episodes were spread over two seasons.

After the first, they tried to rebrand it by having her divorce the Lieutenant, changing her surname to Callahan and renaming the show Kate the Detective. This didn't help so they changed the name again mid-season, to Kate Loves A Mystery. In one of the three episodes under this name she says her ex-husband was called Philip.

Which I knew long ago, having seen an episode that's included bin my Columbo box set. What I didn't know until today was that in 1984 an encyclopedia compiler sued the US Who Wants To Be A Millionaire for including a 'false fact' he had inserted into one of his books as a guard against plagiarism. He claimed that Lieutenant Columbo's first name was..... Philip.

(It was actually Frank)
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I noticed a 'fact' on pointless was wrong. They said Chicken Run was titled 'Chicken Chicken Run Run' in Japanese. I'd seen Chicken Run in Japan on the telly and happened to know it was called 'Chicken Run'. . . . I looked it up on IMDB and there was a fun facts section that anyone could write (Like wiki I suppose) and that's where the Pointless researcher must have gotten their 'fact' from.

It's like the little known fact that and unknown and unaccredited David Suchet did the voice to the opening titles of Sapphire and Steel.
The even lesser known fact is that this famous 'little known fact' isn't true.

. . . and Frank Beard from ZZ Top doesn't own a gibbon.
 
platinumsage said:
In Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone when the kids walk into the great hall at Hogwarts for the first time, that was also the first time the child actors had seen the hall and their amazement was genuine.
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B B b b b bullshit. Like the kids would not have been directed and would not have attempted to act.
 
In the 54 years between the 1944 Captain America serial and Blade in 1998, the only film based on a Marvel character was Howard the Duck
 
Yossarian said:
In the 54 years between the 1944 Captain America serial and Blade in 1998, the only film based on a Marvel character was Howard the Duck
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There were also three spiderman films from 1977 -1980 that spun off from the TV series that had theatrical releases.
Also a 1978 Japanese spiderman film.

There was a punisher film with Dolf Lungren in 89

I assume the unreleased 1993 fantastic 4 film doesn't count?
 
ATOMIC SUPLEX said:
There were also three spiderman films from 1977 -1980 that spun off from the TV series that had theatrical releases.
Also a 1978 Japanese spiderman film.

There was a punisher film with Dolf Lungren in 89

I assume the unreleased 1993 fantastic 4 film doesn't count?
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I saw two of those Spiderman films at the cinema....didn't know there were three.
 
ATOMIC SUPLEX said:
There were also three spiderman films from 1977 -1980 that spun off from the TV series that had theatrical releases.
Also a 1978 Japanese spiderman film.

There was a punisher film with Dolf Lungren in 89

I assume the unreleased 1993 fantastic 4 film doesn't count?
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My fact may have been crap but at least I learned some new ones.

I hadn't heard of Supaidaman before, might have to watch some of these

 
Yossarian said:
The full - or, clearly, not so full - list includes a lot of studios

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List of films based on Marvel Comics publications - Wikipedia

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Those are the production studios not the producers. Marvel still retained the rights to blade (and I think Howard, but did not produce). New line was the production studio. Marvel flogged off the film rights to loads of characters to fox, sony etc to save themselves from folding. That was outside of marvel films.
 
The second series of Netflix' The Sandman is filming near me.

A 30-40 strong crew came to my local and drank and ate a shedload (I'm guessing it's Netflix' money). Some of the actors were probably there but I'm not fussed about that. I was more interested in chatting to the guy who's job is it to recreate the goblets and plates etc for the banquet scenes. What a job!
 
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