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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Jack Haven Just Played Little Death in ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’. They Need a Role Paying $4,000 by the End of the Month to Keep Their SAG Health Insurance
Actor Jack Haven has taken to social media with an unusual pitch: they need to book $4,000 in SAG work before the end of…
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Kyle Maclachlan Was Making $185 a Week When He Was “Plucked From Obscurity” to Star in the Original ‘Dune’
When David Lynch’s Dune began casting in 1983, the role of Paul Atreides drew interest from rising stars like Tom Cruise and Val Kilmer.…
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Keanu Reeves Refused Coppola’s Order to Scream Insults at Winona Ryder on ‘Bram Stoker’s Dracula’
A story of what happened on the set of Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992) has resurfaced, and it centers on a difficult crying scene, a…
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Henry Winkler Played the Principal in ‘Scream,’ but the Studio Refused to Put His Name on the Movie’s Poster
Henry Winkler earned decades of goodwill playing the Fonz on “Happy Days,” but that beloved image nearly kept his name out of one of…
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Mike Flanagan Cast His New Carrie Without Her Ever Reading the Book or Seeing Sissy Spacek’s Version
When Summer H. Howell first stepped into the role of Carrie White, she did it with a blank slate. The 22-year-old actor had never…
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Haunted Sets: Joey King Developed a Rare Blood Disorder Filming ‘The Conjuring,’ with Bruises That Doctors Couldn’t Explain
Joey King was 12-years-old when something strange began happening on the set of The Conjuring. During filming in North Carolina, unexplained bruises spread across…
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Stanley Kubrick Cut a Two-Minute Hospital Scene from ‘The Shining’ Days After It Was Already in Theaters, Then Ordered Every Copy Destroyed
For a few days in 1980, audiences who bought a ticket to Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining saw an ending that no one has been…
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Wes Craven Told David Arquette to Look at Courteney Cox “Like You’ve Been Looking For This Person Your Whole Life.” They Got Married Three Years Later
Some of the most enduring love stories start on a movie set — and for David Arquette and Courteney Cox, it started on one…
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Zach Cregger Wrote Barbarian’s Opening Scene Based on a Book About the Tiny Warning Signs Women Brush Off So They Don’t Seem “Like A B*tch”
In Barbarian, Keith keeps crossing Tess’s boundaries in ways that can look harmless: an unwanted touch, a sexualized compliment and a favor she never…
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Timothy Olyphant Has a Funny Story About Getting Fired from ‘Practical Magic’
Timothy Olyphant is a terrific actor who has donned the Ghostface mask in Scream 2, faced off against a serial killer in A Perfect…
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Ellen Burstyn Maintained the ‘Exorcist’ Set Was Cursed. William Friedkin Denied It Until He Died
The set of “The Exorcist” has been shadowed by stories of misfortune for half a century. A fire tore through much of it during…
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Bradley Whitford Worked on Obama’s Campaigns, So He Played Get Out’s Smug Liberal Dad Without Realizing He Was Being Mocked
One of the smartest lines of dialogue in Jordan Peele’s ‘Get Out’ (2017) was so subtle, the actor who delivered the line didn’t realize…
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‘Hocus Pocus’ (1993) Was First Imagined as Much Darker and Scarier
Hocus Pocus (1993) is a classic Disney Halloween comedy-fantasy directed by Kenny Ortega, starring Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker, and Kathy Najimy as the…
