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REC 10.16.2026 15:58:52
Behind the Scenes
How the scenes were made: casting, stunts, cut scenes, what the actors gave up and what they got paid.
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James Mcavoy Says Split Is the Only Movie That Still Sends Him Steady Residual Checks, and the First One Arrived on Opening Weekend
James McAvoy says his first payment from Split arrived at the end of its opening weekend. Nearly a decade after the 2017 psychological thriller’s…
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Carrie’s Blood-Soaked Prom Scene Gets Compared to a Gustave Moreau Lady Macbeth Painting, but Sissy Spacek Named a Different Artist as Her Reference
Sissy Spacek’s blood-covered stillness in Carrie (1976) has a striking parallel in the pale figure of Lady Macbeth painted by Gustave Moreau. The pairing…
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Before Gremlins Used Puppets, Joe Dante Tested a Real Monkey in a Gremlin Head, and It Went Badly
A terrified monkey helped settle how Joe Dante’s Gremlins (1984) would bring its creatures to life. During a test with a Gremlin head, the…
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Betsy Palmer Invented a Tragic Backstory for Mrs. Voorhees That Was Never Shared Onscreen
A class ring helped Betsy Palmer find her way into playing Pamela Voorhees in Friday the 13th. With only a few personal details in…
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Samantha Sloyan Worried Her Margaret White Would Repeat Her Midnight Mass Fanatic. Mike Flanagan Told Her What Would Set Them Apart
Samantha Sloyan, who plays Margaret White in Mike Flanagan’s Prime Video Carrie, worried the role would repeat Bev Keane, the religious fanatic she played…
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Ron Perlman Says He’d Still Make Hellboy 3 with Guillermo Del Toro at 86. Here’s Why It Never Happened
Ron Perlman is 76 and still campaigning for the Hellboy ending he never got to shoot. In a new Deadline Q&A, the actor said…
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Vinessa Shaw Says the Hocus Pocus Cast Felt “Ridiculed” When the Movie Bombed in 1993
Vinessa Shaw says the Hocus Pocus cast felt “ridiculed” when the film bombed in 1993, years before it became a cult favorite. Shaw remembers…
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Jessica Lange Still Hasn’t Forgiven FX for How It Sent the American Horror Story Cast Home After Night Shoots
At PaleyFest New York on Thursday, Oct. 8, Jessica Lange sat on a panel after a screening of American Horror Story: 13 and brought…
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Steven Yeun Knew Glenn’s Walking Dead Death Was Coming Two Years Early, and Asked to Keep It
Steven Yeun knew Glenn Rhee’s death on The Walking Dead was coming roughly 2 years before it happened, and he wanted to keep that…
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Michael B. Jordan Wore Two Different Shoe Sizes to Make the Twins in ‘Sinners’ Move Differently
Ryan Coogler talked about the intricate details he and Michael B. Jordan infused into twins Smoke and Stack in 2025’s ‘Sinners’. Both characters are…
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Josh Hartnett Recalls Cutting His Own Hair For ‘The Faculty’ and ‘Halloween: H20’ Roles
Josh Hartnett gave himself the uneven haircut that turned up in both The Faculty and Halloween H20: 20 Years Later in 1998. At 19,…
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Mike Flanagan Gave Four of Carrie’s Eight Episodes to Women Directors, Including His Wife Kate Siegel
Mike Flanagan gave four of the eight episodes of his Prime Video series Carrie to women directors, including his wife Kate Siegel. Kate Siegel,…
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Beetlejuice’s Possessed Dinner Party Was Scripted to a Different Song Until Catherine O’hara Suggested Calypso
Catherine O’Hara wanted more energy in Beetlejuice’s possessed dinner party, co-star Jeffrey Jones recalled in 2018. Her suggestion of calypso sent him back to…