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Put this one within the “Solely within the ’90s” class: Drew Barrymore was simply 16 years previous when she filmed the erotic thriller Poison Ivy, which might solely be described as a remake of Deadly Attraction, however with a teenage lady destroying the middle-aged man’s life as an alternative of, , Glenn Shut.
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Talking of Poison Ivy, Leonardo DiCaprio made his theatrical movie debut in it, however solely appeared for 5 seconds — simply strolling out of a classroom — as a result of the longer term Academy Award-winning actor saved blowing his strains.
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There was no Superman film within the ’90s, however there ALMOST was a completely epic one to be written by indie darling Kevin Smith (Clerks), directed by Tim Burton, and starring Nicolas Cage as none apart from Superman. Additionally within the combine to be solid? Christopher Walken because the baddie Brainiac and Chris Rock as Jimmy Olsen. So what occurred?
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Eliza Dushku and Jesse Bradford had been arrested — and jailed! — whereas on a visit to Tijuana in the course of filming the 2000 cheerleading opus Deliver It On. Director Peyton Reed informed BuzzFeed, “Eliza and Jesse and a few the cheerleaders determined to cross the border into Mexico and social gathering, they usually ended up in a Mexican jail and needed to be bailed out.”
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Tom Cruise famously performed the lead function of Lestat within the 1994 movie adaptation of Anne Rice’s Interview with the Vampire, however each Anne Rice and costar Brad Pitt “hated him,” and neither wished Cruise within the movie. Actually, Pitt solely signed on to the undertaking as a result of he thought he’d be appearing reverse Daniel Day-Lewis as Lestat.
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Talking of Tom Cruise, he earned $100 million for his work on 2005’s Struggle of the Worlds, a determine that — when adjusted for inflation — is nearer to $150 million as we speak. How did he earn a lot? By taking a decrease wage up entrance in change for a good portion of the movie’s first greenback gross, basically betting on himself and the movie.
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The 1992 erotic thriller, Fundamental Intuition, grew to become a large hit partly due to the thrill surrounding the interrogation scene the place star Sharon Stone — who was not sporting any underwear — briefly uncrossed her legs. However based on Stone, she was tricked into the nudity by director Paul Verhoeven.
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Invoice Murray was changed by Bernie Mac within the Charlie’s Angels sequel Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle as a result of there was lots of on-set drama with Murray. Director McG claimed that Murray headbutted him, describing it as “sq. within the head. An inch decrease and my nostril would have been obliterated.” Murray has vehemently denied this, saying, “That’s full crap! I don’t know why he made that story up. He has a really lively creativeness.”
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Legally Blonde needed to dump its authentic ending after take a look at audiences hated the movie’s final 5 minutes. How did the film initially finish, you ask? Effectively, it had Reese Witherspoon’s Elle kissing Luke Wilson’s Emmett, then minimize to a yr sooner or later the place Elle and a now-blonde Vivian (Selma Blair) hand out Blonde Authorized Protection Fund pamphlets on campus.
They quickly gathered the solid for reshoots, and for those who look carefully on the new commencement ending and examine it to the remainder of the movie, you will discover Witherspoon’s hair is redder. It’s because she was in the course of capturing one other movie, The Significance of Being Earnest, when she did the reshoots.
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Author/director John Hughes wrote the screenplay for 1990’s Residence Alone in simply 9 days — and the final 44 pages in simply eight hours — after a disturbing household journey to Europe that left him considering: What if one among my youngsters has been by accident left behind at dwelling?
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In 2023, motion pictures premiere on-line on a regular basis, however that wasn’t the case within the ’90s when Get together Lady starring Parker Posey grew to become the primary ever film to premiere over the pc — all the way in which again on June 3, 1995.
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Hardcore film followers know that earlier than Mike Myers was employed to voice Shrek, Myers’ Saturday Night time Dwell co-star Chris Farley first had the job, and labored on the movie for over a yr — finishing 80–90% of Shrek’s strains — earlier than his dying of a drug overdose at age 33 on December 18, 1997. However what’s much less identified is that even after Farley’s dying, the studio tried to complete and launch the movie utilizing Farley’s voice…plus the voice of his brother John.
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Billy Bob Thornton acquired rip-roaring drunk to movie a scene in 2003’s Unhealthy Santa the place his character drunkenly melts down on the mall and assaults an ornamental Christmas donkey. Thornton informed PeopleTV’s Sofa Browsing he began his day by consuming three glasses of purple wine, a vodka and cranberry juice, after which a couple of Bud Lights. “By the point I acquired to that scene there, I barely knew I used to be in a film,” he stated.
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Colin Farrell says Miami Vice was the final movie he made whereas nonetheless utilizing medication and alcohol, and he has no reminiscence of constructing it. “I couldn’t keep in mind a single body of doing it. I used to be on the premiere and didn’t know what was occurring subsequent. However it was unusual as a result of I used to be in it.”
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A remake of the ’80s comedy, Revenge of the Nerds, filmed (briefly) in 2006. Fox Atomic was two weeks into filming the remake with Adam Brody, Jenna Dewan, and Kristin Cavallari after they pulled the plug. Why? Effectively, it appears two issues went unsuitable — Georgia’s Emory College rescinded their settlement to let the manufacturing movie on campus after studying the script, and movie dailies weren’t impressing Fox Atomic executives.
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Alec Baldwin originated the function of Jack Ryan in The Hunt for Crimson October however was changed by Harrison Ford within the subsequent Jack Ryan movie, Patriot Video games. In case you ask Baldwin why, he’ll say it is as a result of Ford completely screwed him.
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Toy Story 2 was a large hit in 1999 — grossing $511 million worldwide and simply topping the primary movie’s $394 million whole. The sequel was higher reviewed than the primary movie, too! But when Disney had its means, the traditional film would have been launched direct-to-video.
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In 2006, a Chinese language billionaire named Jon Jiang got down to make a big-budget, Hollywood-style blockbuster referred to as Empires of the Deep — a few human and mermaid who fall in love — however issues didn’t go nicely…in any respect. The screenplay went by means of 40 drafts and 10 screenwriters, and actors (like Sharon Stone and Monica Bellucci) signed on after which ran for the hills, administrators got here and went, and — after a troubled shoot — the film has spent years mired in post-production hell.
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Kevin Costner tried to make a sequel to The Bodyguard — however this time round, as an alternative of defending Whitney Houston, he would’ve been guarding Princess Diana!
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The Crow — a few rock musician introduced again from the lifeless to avenge his and his fiancé’s homicide — was one of many greatest hits in the summertime of 1994 and made a star of its lead actor Brandon Lee. Tragically, although, Lee did not stay to see any of it as a result of he was killed on set whereas filming the scene the place his character was to be shot and killed.
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This yr’s The Tremendous Mario Bros. Film with Chris Pratt is not the primary big-screen adaptation of the traditional sport. Tremendous Mario Bros. — starring Bob Hoskins and John Leguizamo because the brothers — was one of many greatest crucial and business bombs of 1993, and the manufacturing was each bit as messy.
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The 1998 Michael Bay-directed sci-fi movie Armageddon — a few group of blue-collar deep-core drillers despatched by NASA to cease an asteroid on a collision course with Earth — was one of many decade’s greatest hits, grossing $534 million worldwide. It additionally had a repute for being a bit foolish, and on the movie’s DVD commentary, star Ben Affleck riled up Bay by asking, “Why was it simpler to coach oil drillers to grow to be astronauts than it was to coach astronauts to grow to be oil drillers?” Bay responded by saying, “Shut the fuck up.”
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Edward Furlong — who burst onto the scene enjoying John Connor in Terminator 2: Judgement Day — grew to become one of many greatest teen actors of the ’90s just because he went to hold along with his buddies at The Boys’ Membership.
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Johnny Depp and Mark Wahlberg each turned down the prospect to affix George Clooney within the solid of 2001’s Ocean’s Eleven. Talking on the 2023 TCM Basic Movie Competition, Clooney stated, “Some very well-known individuals informed us to fuck proper off. Mark Wahlberg, Johnny Depp. There have been others. They remorse it now.”
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Mark Wahlberg might have handed on Ocean’s Eleven, however he desperately wished to win the movie rights to the Fifty Shades of Gray e book sequence — however was outbid by Common Footage and Focus Options. Wahlberg was livid concerning the missed alternative, saying on the Hollywood Reporter’s Producers Roundtable, “We had been conscious of the e book from very early on, and we had been near securing the rights, after which we get into this bidding battle. … We had been so near having it. That was one of many few instances I used to be going to fireplace Ari (Emanuel, his agent).”
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Director Sam Raimi secretly inserted footage from his 1990 movie Darkman (starring Liam Neeson as a burn sufferer turned superhero) into 2002’s Spider-Man.
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Jim Carrey’s character Joel talks lots about his ex-girlfriend Naomi in Everlasting Sunshine of the Spotless Thoughts, however she’s by no means seen within the movie. The manufacturing did, nevertheless, shoot scenes with the character — and none apart from a pre-Gray’s Anatomy Ellen Pompeo performed the function.
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Russell Crowe is most well-known for his Academy Award-winning efficiency as Maximus, however he just lately revealed he nearly dropped out of the movie as a result of he thought the script “was garbage, absolute garbage.”
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Talking of Gladiator, it is lastly getting a sequel subsequent yr starring Paul Mescal as Lucius, however within the 2000s, Crowe — regardless of his character Maximus dying within the authentic — tried to spearhead a frankly batshit sequel that might observe Maximus as he entered the afterlife.
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Ice Dice wrote a script for a fourth Friday movie within the 2000s that he stated “was the shit,” however Warner Bros. rejected it. The rationale? The plot was about Craig and Day-Day going to jail for promoting weed (earlier than it was authorized). “They had been like, ‘Yo, we don’t need Craig and Day-Day in jail…’ I used to be like, ‘What you imply? This shit is humorous.’ Then, after they rejected it, they’d all these motion pictures about going to jail.”
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And lastly, Robert Pattinson, when referred to as on to simulate masturbating within the 2008 movie Little Ashes, felt his efforts weren’t coming off practical sufficient, so he went forward and did the deed on digital camera. In a 2013 interview with Germany’s Interview journal, Pattinson defined why he did not simply simulate the scene, saying, “Attempt it. I can inform you proper now, no likelihood. It simply doesn’t work.”