Russell Crowe started filming Gladiator (2000) a few months after The Insider (1999) wrapped. He had gained over 40 pounds for his previous movie, and lost all that weight before doing this one. He said he didn’t do anything special, just his usual work on his farm in Australia.
On the set of GOLDFINGER (1964), Sean Connery introduces firearms expert Geoffrey Boothroyd, whose letter to Ian Fleming convinced him to replace Bond’s Beretta with the far more powerful Walther PPK.
I low key want every foreigner visiting the States for World Cup to take their cholesterol before and after their trip. They're about to be mind-blown. Buddy excited about table salsa, ain’t even got to endless breadsticks or Cheesecake Factory brown bread yet.
In Avengers: Endgame, the portal scene almost didn’t exist. The original plan had all the returned heroes already assembled behind Captain America in a single continuous shot, without individual entrances
Test screenings showed it lacked impact, so the Russos pushed to rework it
will turner’s outfit at the end of the first pirates of the caribbean kills me 😭 he got one taste of piracy after being a lifelong hater, and said nvm actually i’m here to swash, buckle AND serve!
Elijah Wood honors Peter Jackson at #Cannes before his "Lord of the Rings" director receives an Honorary Palme d'Or.
“I was 18 years old when I first met Peter Jackson. He had come to Los Angeles with Fran Walsh for an ambitious new project. He had seen a VHS tape I’d made with friends in the woods of Griffith Park, and now they wanted to meet the young man who had sent it. I walked into Victoria Burrows’ casting office and there they were, Pete and Fran, together as they’d been almost everyday since they met in the late ’80s. And when, a little while later the call came that I was going to be Frodo Baggins, I sat down on the floor of my bedroom and I understood with the whole of my being my life had just been divided into before and after. And I know I’m far from the only person who has had their life changed by Peter Jackson.”
i’ll always love how creative they were with the moonlight gimmick in pirates of the caribbean- it made for some super fun action and then pair it with that score??? ughhh ‘the curse of the black pearl’ is such a perfect adventure movie
Sean Connery’s entrance in Dr. No (1962) is pure screen legend, that casino reveal and the first “Bond… James Bond” instantly locking in the character and the entire persona.