National Treasure (2004)
Good guys in the movie use Google and bad guys use Yahoo! search engines. -IMDB trivia
Manhunter (1986)
According to an interview with Brian Cox, the following actors were considered for the role of Hannibal Lektor: Brian Dennehy, John Lithgow and Mandy Patinkin. -IMDb trivia
The Thin Man Goes Home (1945)
Liberal drinking of alcohol, a mainstay of the first four “Thin Man” movies, was curtailed for this movie due to wartime liquor rationing. -IMDb trivia
The swords sparking while clashing was accomplished by attaching a wire to each sword that led down the arms of the actors to a car battery. One was connected to the positive terminal and the other to the negative terminal, so when the swords touched there was an arc. -IMDb trivia
Beneath the Planet of the Apes (1970)
An early draft of the script, called “Planet of the Men”, and written by Pierre Boulle in his native French, featured a messianic Taylor 14 years after the events of Planet of the Apes. It involved an uprising against the apes, following which they revert back to their primal states. -IMDb trivia
Miracle Mile (1988)
The script was considered for Twilight Zone: The Movie before Steven Spielberg was brought in on that project. The film would of consisted of only this story (instead of the four segments it eventually became) and would have had a slightly different ending with a Twilight Zone twist. Steve De Jarnatt did not like the change in the ending and the idea was eventually scrapped.
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End of Days (1999)
Was the last movie to be pressed in the laserdisc format in the United States. - IMDb trivia
Dredd (2012)
The original script for a Judge Dredd film was written back in the early 80s but was altered and changed so much it became the first Robocop film and the Dredd film was shelved. -IMDb trivia
The parents guide is my new favorite thing to read.
Elizabeth Montgomery played the roles of Samantha Stephens and her more free-spirited cousin Serena. However in the cast listing, the role of Serena was listed as being played by Pandora Spocks. Many viewers didn’t realize this, and wrote “Pandora” fan mail. (Montgomery and William Asher - her husband at the time - once left the set together, with Montgomery still wearing her Serena costume and makeup, and checked into a motel instead of going home.) - IMDb
