Adolph Hitler's favorite film was KING KONG.

Martin Scorsese agreed to direct Michael Jackson's BAD video (which also features Wesley Snipes, FYI) for a few million, for the sole purpose of getting more money to make THE LAST TEMPTATION OF CHRIST.

Speaking of Temptation, the weird color effects at the end of the movie when Christ finally dies on the cross were not intentional. They were caused when light damaged the film, but were so cool looking, Scorsese kept it there, anyway.

A movie so shitty, Stephen King took his name off it? How is that possible?

Stephen King appeared in his own commercials for MAXIMUM OVERDRIVE his directorial debut (and only ever?) in a film. As he stood in front of a menacing truck with a big Green Goblin face on it, he laughably proclaimed, "I'm gonna scare the HELL out of you!" Little did he know the acting job by Emilio Estevez would accomplish this task easily. King also successfully sued to have his name removed from the video release of THE LAWNMOWER MAN, as it had little or nothing to do with the lousy short story it was based on.

Michael Keaton was so unfamiliar with the Batman character, that during the first film, he suggested to Tim Burton that after beating up one of the thugs in the chemical plant, it would be real funny if he did a tap-dance over the body. Obviously, he hadn't got all of the Beetlejuice out of his system yet.

Meanwhile, an early, pre-Tim Burton proposal for BATMAN was pitched as a vehicle to start Bill Murray and Eddie Murphy.

In the original novel that the baseball film THE NATURAL was based on, the ending is the complete opposite of the movie. WHere the film ends with Roy Hobbs saving the day as a hero with a fantastic fireworks inducing home run, th ebook has Hobbs collapsing at home plate, bleeding, and leaving the game a bum.

One of the main reasons the PLANET of THE APES TV series was canceled, was not due to low ratings, but to the high production costs of the show. Apparently the costumes/makeup and sets were just not profitable for the proportionally low returns the show gave back.

After making his movie debut in Rodney Dangerfield's BACK TO SCHOOL, Sam Kinison was cast in a property built around him called ATUK, which was about a wacky Eskimo. According to the late Kinson, the script was so awful, and he knew what a stinker he was getting into that he pulled out. After breaking his contracts and getting sued, he became almost untouchable for other projects in film after that, having to settle for cameos on various FOX shows.

Does Godzilla beat Kong in the Japanese version?

There's an urban legend that the Japanese release of KING KONG vs GODZILLA had a completely different ending with their country's giant lizard winning instead. In truth, King Kong wins in both the USA and Japanese release, but in the American version the footage was edited somewhat, and music from THE CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON was used instead.

In SUPERMAN III, notice the scene where Supes is flying to the villain's hideout. While being targeted by a "high tech" computerized missle tracking system you might notice that this state o' the art computer system, uses sounds from the ultra advanced ATARI 2600 PAC MAN game.

More money than Micheal Corleone?

Al Pacino was reportedly only paid $35,000 for his work on the first GODFATHER film. In comparison, Gary Coleman was getting more than this for his weekly appearances on the TV show "Diff'rent Strokes".

Blame the sequel (Hell, I like 'em as long as there ain't kids playing hockey in 'em) on Rudloph Valentino, who's SON OF THE SHEIK (1921) was the first, following up the previous year's hit THE SHEIK. Valentino's funeral was among the largest attended ever.

BABE was written an produced by George Miller, the same fellow who brought you that other charmingly cute film, MAD MAX. According to "People Magazine", Babe was actually played by 48 different Large White Yorkshire breed pigs. After just three weeks, each would become too big to use.

Want to visit the real location of the Tangiers in Martin Scorsese's CASINO? Check out the Riveria in Las Vegas, where a large section of blackjack tables were used during after hours filming. Maybe if you're nice, an employee might point it out to you. Just don't cheat, cause they'll bring out the hammer.

David Prowse...body of Darth Vader...voice of a schmuck.

David Prowse, who provided the physical acting of Darth Vader in the STAR WARS films, was paid a small $12,000 for his work, compared to James Earl Jones, who provided the distinctive Vader Voice, who received $100,000. Prowse's face or voice was never used in any of the trilogy, including the mask removal scene in ROTJ. David Prowse can be seen a few Hammer horror films, and was Julian in Stanley Kubrick's A CLOCKWORK ORANGE.

According to the 3/96 DETAILS magazine, Stanley Kubrick was so pissed about A CLOCKWORK ORANGE's denouncement by a British judge as "an evil within itself" after police linked a series of 1971 rapes to the film, that he prevented the film from being played in the UK until the day he died.

Kenny Baker, the man inside R2D2 had quite a tough time playing the droid throughout. The sounds the character made were so deafening inside the costume, that a hammer needed to be smacked on the dome, so he would know when a take was over. Baker has appeared in other films including THE ELEPHANT MAN, TIME BANDITS, and AMADEUS, and actually played a dual role in RETURN OF THE JEDI as Paploo The Ewok.

Jamie Lee Curtis revealed on a long ago Arsenio Hall show (eek..remember that?) that the budget for HALLOWEEN was so low, that they couldn't afford to get an elaborate mask design for Michael Meyers. Instead they went to a local store and saw that a couple of Captain Kirk STAR TREK costumes were on sale. The masks were simply painted white and fake hair put on top. This of course, is not the first time William Shatner has had dealings with fake hair.

If you're checking out MISSION IMPOSSIBLE 2 this weekend, give tons of props to John Woo. Did you know there was no major Hollywood film by an Asian director until John Woo made BROKEN ARROW (unless you count that George Takei masturbation video).

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