According to an article by Nicholas Pileggi in The New York Times, Paramount planned to release a line of spaghetti sauce bearing The Godfather (1972) logo to promote the film. It also planned Godfather restaurant franchises that would sell pizza, hero sandwiches, Italian ices and Italian breads and pastries. A spin-off television series was also planned but none of these ideas came to fruition.
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The Last King of Scotland (2006) was the first Hollywood movie filmed in Uganda since The African Queen (1951).
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Steve Hollar, who played the role of Rade Butcher in Hoosiers (1986), was actually a DePauw University basketball player during the making of the film. After the NCAA (National Collegiate Athletic Association) learned he was in the film, it was ruled that he was acting rather than playing and he was given a three-game suspension and fined 5 percent of his acting fee.
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Josef Stalin banned The Grapes of Wrath (1940) in the Soviet Union because of its implication that even the poorest Americans could afford to own a car.
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Amity Island in Jaws(1975) was actually Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts, with locals used as extras.
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Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003) was the first Hollywood feature film to ever film on the Galapagos Islands.
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MGM studios restricted the budget for Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954) so more money could be put into the production of Rose Marie (1954) and Brigadoon (1954) - each of which MGM had greater expectations for. However,Seven Brides for Seven Brothers was by far the most commercially and critically successful, as well as being the best remembered of the three.
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For her role as Mammy, in Gone with the Wind (1939), Hattie McDaniel became the first African-American to be nominated for, and win, an Oscar (specifically: Best Actress in a Supporting Role). However, due to racial segregation issues at the time, Hattie was unable to attend the world premiere in Atlanta, Georgia.
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At $90 million, The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997) broke the record for the biggest opening weekend ever and held that record until the release of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone in November of 2001.
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For her role in Erin Brockovich (2000), Julia Roberts (Erin Brockovich) became the first actress to break the $20 million salary level for starring in a Hollywood film.
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Double Movie Trivia Saturdays:
Roman Holiday (1953), which starred Audrey Hepburn and Gregory Peck was the first American film to be filmed entirely in Italy.
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David Bamber (Adolf Hitler) was the only non-German cast member in the film Valkyrie, who speaks with a German accent. The filmmakers felt that audiences would be distracted by Hitler speaking in Bamber's natural British accent.
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Brad Pitt, who played Achilles in Troy (2004), tore his left achilles tendon during the making of the film.
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John Rhys-Davies, who played Gimli the dwarf in The Lord of the Rings trilogy, also provided the voice of Treebeard in The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002) and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003).
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