Jim Carey appeared on Gayle King’s CBS show. How did you feel when you saw the incident? “It made me nauseous. I was disgusted to see that Will Smith was given a standing ovation moments later when he received the Oscar for Best Actor. I had the feeling that Hollywood had no courage, no morality. I felt like …
At age eleven, Will Smith was forced to build a wall. Without equipment, without knowledge, without anything, the task seemed impossible. The wall must have been between 3 and 4 meters high and 6 meters long. But his father gave him no choice. Every day he laid bricks — there is no rest for one who builds …
On the night of August 8, 1996, while James Cameron was filming a scene from Titanic , the entire crew suddenly felt unwell.There are 60 people on set that night, including actors Bill Paxton and Suzy Amis, who are on camera. And everyone feels weird. Bill Paxton and Suzy Amis. Some people want to vomit, others start laughing …
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Although Mad Max was a big success upon its release and the money flowed in, George Miller continued to rely on the D system to make the sequel film, preferring inventiveness over more expensive methods . Small amusing example, when Max suddenly brakes at the wheel of his tanker truck to get rid of Wez, Lord Humungus’ …
When director McG (Joseph McGinty Nichol) finishes filming Terminator Salvation (Terminator Renaissance) (2009), he thinks he has made a good film that will delight fans of the franchise. It has Christian Bale and Sam Worthington, two talented actors, in the leading roles, Jonathan Nolan came to retouch the script. All the lights appear green. A scene from the film …
Movie buffs and comedy fans know The Party (1968), a zany comedy by Blake Edwards starring Peter Sellers. However, few people know that this film marks a turning point in the history of cinema. The Party was produced from a script of around fifty pages where almost all of the scenes were improvised by the actors. The concept …
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This anecdote comes from the mouth of Sam Worthington, the star of Avatar , who said after filming the first film: “James Cameron kept a nail gun with him on the set. If a phone rang in the middle of an outlet, he would take it and nail it to the wall. Rumor has it that this happened at …
During filming, Daniel Craig insisted on doing the stunts himself. The actor explained that “in a James Bond, we do things in real life, and we don’t do them half-heartedly! If we use computer-generated images, it’s only to enhance a scene, and not to create it . In the film, he fights on a train car. For this …
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In 1988, Warner Bros. began production on the first Batman , directed by Tim Burton. For the role of the Joker, the studio settled on Jack Nicholson, who seemed to them to be the absolutely ideal choice. Only Jack Nicholson is not interested and rejects the proposal. Warner then decides to play on Nicholson’s ego by setting a …
To play Jean Valjean in Les Misérables , when he is a prisoner and in bad shape, Hugh Jackman wanted to prepare himself physically. The scenes in the film where his character is physically damaged were shot first. So he was able to go on a diet beforehand to lose weight, and he grew a long, bushy beard. …
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