Groundhog Day Groundhog Day

Friday the 13th: A New Beginning Though the 5th film in the series it is the first film where Jason Vorhees is referred to by his entire name.

Robocop In the scene where RoboCop catches the car keys being thrown at him the production need more than 50 takes and an entire day’s worth of filming. Peter Weller wore large rubber gloves which made it difficult to catch the keys.

Wall-E As Wall-E leaves Earth’s atmosphere he collides with a satellite. It is in fact the Russian made Sputnik I, which in 1957 was the first man-made object to achieve orbit around Earth.

An Education Early in the movie Jenny’s hair is parted neatly. As she becomes involved with David, her bangs starts to grow out until they are completely down. As she starts to move away from him, her hair becomes parted again.

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford Of all films about Jesse James, the descendants of the outlaw claim it is the most accurate film about him.

The Big Lebowski Almost none of the film was ad-libbed, even every utterance of “dude” and “man” was scripted.

Under the Skin The men lured into the can Scarlet Johansson was driving were not actors. They were filmed with hidden cameras and later were asked to sign consent forms. But really, if ScarJo asked you to get into van, wouldn’t you too?

Carrie Carrie was the first Stephen King novel to be adapted into a movie. King said he based the character on two girls he had gone to high school with who were deeply religious and died young. Ghostbusters Michael was offered both the part of Venkman and Egon but turned them down for both.

Children of Men Almost every shot in the film has an animal in it. Theo never finishes a cigarette in the entire movie and he never touches a gun.

Ghostbusters Michael was offered both the part of Venkman and Egon but turned them down for both.

Kill Bill: Vol. 2 Despite his own lengthy monologue to her, the Bride (Uma Thurman) never has any dialogue spoken to Budd (Michael Madsen).

Captain America: The First Avenger Both James “Logan” Howlett (Wolverine) and Erik Lensherr (Magneto) were written to have cameos in the film but were written out after it became clear that the studio would not be able to secure the rights to the X-men characters.

Leaving Las Vegas To prepare for their roles Elisabeth Shue followed prostitutes around the Las Vegas strip and Nicolas Cage would get blackout drunk and then film himself to learn what his speech patterns would be like when he was drunk.

Looper This is the third movie where Bruce Willis has travelled through time to inhabit encounter his own younger self. Quite a hobby.

Looper It’s the second movie where Jeff Daniels plays a mentor to Joseph Gordon-Levitt. In 2007’s the Lookout they share a similar relationship.

Minority Report Cameron Diaz, Cameron Crowe, and Paul Thomas Anderson all have cameo appearances in the film as riders on a train

Raiders Of The Lost Ark The first draft of the Raiders script was handwritten.

Taxi Driver Jodi Foster was only 12 years old when the film was shot. For the more explicit scenes they used a body double, played by her 19-year-old sister Connie.

Zodiac Details in the film were extensively researched and accurate, so much so that after the film was released the case was reopened citing new theories revolving around the film. 22 Up The films villain, "Charles Muntz" s named after Charles Mintz, the studio executive at Universal Pictures that stole the production rights to Walt Disney's "Oswald the Lucky Rabbit."

Up The films villain, “Charles Muntz” s named after Charles Mintz, the studio executive at Universal Pictures that stole the production rights to Walt Disney’s “Oswald the Lucky Rabbit.”

The Matrix The Wachowskis were given $10 million to make the film, but told Warner they needed $80 million to do it. They took the $10 million and spent all of it to shoot the opening scene with Carrie-Anne Moss. They then screened that scene to the executives who gave them the additional $70 million for the budget.

Whiplash During some scenes of intense drumming, Director Damien Chazelle would not yell cut. They would film Miles Teller drumming until he tired himself out. Some of the blood shown on his hands in the film was real. Recommendation for the weekend! What are your favorite frames on film?