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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Why Does Tyra Banks Still Have Beef With Halloween: Resurrection? She Says the Career Boost She Expected Never Came, and Her Full Death Scene Was Cut
Tyra Banks was promised a memorable death scene when she signed on for Halloween: Resurrection. The 2002 slasher ended up showing only a brief…
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On 9/11, Vince Gilligan Recognized a Chilling Similarity to the Plane Attack He’d Written for ‘The Lone Gunmen’ Months Earlier
Watching CNN’s coverage of the September 11, 2001, attacks, Vince Gilligan thought “Wait a minute. We wrote this.” Fox had aired his pilot on…
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Even Devon Sawa Sees Everyday Dangers Differently After Final Destination
Sawa says the cast didn’t realize how powerful the death scenes were while making Final Destination. Years later, an ordinary drive can still remind…
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Keanu Reeves Thanked a Chef for Mistaking Him for Sean Connery. Years Later, That Moment Became a Matrix Easter Egg
The photo behind Neo in The Matrix Resurrections came from a restaurant visit in 1997, when chef Peter Fang made Keanu Reeves wait in…
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Ryan Gosling Gained Weight to Play the Grieving Father in The Lovely Bones, Then Left the Film Before Shooting Began
Ryan Gosling gained weight to play the grieving father in The Lovely Bones, then left the film before shooting began. Mark Wahlberg took over…
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The Original ‘Verity’ Ending Was Too Dark for Focus Groups
Warning: spoilers below. Dakota Johnson’s Lowen Ashleigh spends the entirety of Michael Showalter’s Verity trying to uncover the truth about the mysterious author she’s…
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Noomi Rapace Says Producers on The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo Wanted Her to Make Lisbeth Salander “More Likable,” and She Refused
Weeks into filming the 2009 Swedish adaptation of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Noomi Rapace says she faced 4 men who wanted Lisbeth…
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“And I’ve Never Had a Trace of This Disorder Since,” Joey King Says of the ITP She Developed While Filming The Conjuring
Joey King was still dealing with a low platelet count after she finished filming The Conjuring and went home. Her first hospital follow-up showed…
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South Park’s Storytelling Rule Helped Curry Barker Make Every Turn in ‘Obsession’ Lead to the Next
Curry Barker builds his scripts around a single rule he borrowed from the people behind South Park: link every beat with “but then” or…
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Annabelle (2014) Is Based on a Raggedy Ann Cloth Doll, and Filmmakers Only Made It Porcelain Because Test Audiences Weren’t Scared
The doll behind 2014’s Annabelle is a mass-produced Raggedy Ann from the late 1960s or early 1970s. The movie’s custom porcelain version was created…
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Tim Roth Says Making ‘Funny Games’ Traumatized Him So Much That He’ll Never Watch It
Tim Roth has said he will never watch Funny Games because filming it left him traumatized. Two decades on, the movie still ranks among…
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Gabourey Sidibe Carried a Saint Michael Card for 5 Years After a Spell Shook the Table on the Set of AHS: Coven
Gabourey Sidibe says she used sea salt and invoked Saint Michael after she felt something from the American Horror Story: Coven set was trying…
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Austin Abrams Says His Signature High-Pitched Scream in ‘Resident Evil’ Just Came Out That Way, and It Mortified Him
Austin Abrams didn’t plan the high-pitched scream that became part of Bryan Hodukavich’s panic in Resident Evil (2026). During a Fantastic Fest interview with…
