Following the release of Rocky IV, a joke was making rounds in Hollywood. Since Rocky had run out of opponents, he would have to fight an alien if a fifth movie was made. It was rumored that Jim and John Thomas took the joke seriously and wrote a screenplay based on it, which later became the movie “Predator”.

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George Lazenby wasn’t an actual actor. He got himself a suit, a Rolex and a new haircut, then met with the producer and made up movies he had been in. He later landed the role of James Bond.

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The sealed-envelope system that announces Oscar winners started in 1941 as a result of the Los Angeles Times announcing the winners in the evening edition before the 1940 ceremony.

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Alfred Hitchcock’s 1960s thriller Psycho was the first film to display a flushing toilet. Before then, flushing toilets were viewed as filthy.

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