"Alternative" Entertainment facts and news

[ER]

JJ Abrams,  ignoring death threats from fans,  will return to directing star trek films when the movies begin to reboot star trek: The next generation.

"I can't wait to defecate on everything TNG was just like I did to the original series!" The hated director gushed.  "Plus the fact we'll have a bald captain really excites me! I plan on having constant lens flares coming off his head in every scene! Ooooohhh, I just can't wait!" At this point Mt.  Abrams fell into a swoon,  cutting the interview short.

Huh. That's pretty good, Sven.

[Chainsawmidget]

The "Best Boy" credit is movie is actually Hollywood code for "guy who has to preform illegal actions for the stars of the movie."

[WingedSerpent]

Many people know that Game of Thrones is based on the historical War of Roses.

What is less know is that Sons of Anarchy  was a loose retelling of the Louis and Clark expedition.

[Chainsawmidget]

As part of his contract for Kindergarten Cop, Arnold was allowed to punch a different child every day. 

George Lucas originally was going to film all of Samuel L. Jackson's scene in the Star Wars prequels using a muppet stand-in and then CGing the actor in later.  Jackso had to repeatedly remind Lucas that he was in fact a real person who was actually on the set. 

[Alex]

Hayden Christenssen and Natalie Portman while filming their Star Wars scenes together decided to play a joke on George Lucas and pretend that neither of them knew how to act.

Lucas loved the joke so much he used most of the joke footage throughout.

[Svengoolie 3]

"The Brady Bunch" was created, financed and produced by companies that made contraceptives. Since they were forbidden to advertise their products in the 60's they decided to make a series about the horrors of having 6 kids as a way of encouraging people to seek out and use birth control.

[FatFreddysCat]

A law in the Canadian Constiution mandates that Michael Ironside must appear in every low-budget "B" movie filmed in Canada. This is because Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau considers Ironside "badass" and "a national treasure."

On a dare from co-star Henry Thomas during the filming of "E.T.," Drew Barrymore once ate her weight in peanut brittle.  

[Chainsawmidget]

The Script writers once revealed in an interview that Pixar's Cars is set in the same universe as Maximum Overdrive, just years in the future.

[WingedSerpent]

Due to a stipulation in his grandfather's will, Law & Order: SUV star Christopher Meloni spent 18 months legally married to a butternut squash.

[indianasmith]

Mel Gibson spontaneously combusted today after he accidentally wandered into a synagogue.

[BoyScoutKevin]

The Script writers once revealed in an interview that Pixar's Cars is set in the same universe as Maximum Overdrive, just years in the future.

That may not be that far off, as there is a theory, that all of the Pixar films are set in the same universe. Only at different times.

[Svengoolie 3]

Scientists are trying to get a sample of Dennis Rodman's DNA in order to see if he is actually human. Some evolutionary scientists have theorized his uglieness is impossible to explain under the laws of human genetics.

[Trevor]

Mel Gibson spontaneously combusted today after he accidentally wandered into a synagogue.

 

I heard something else: he was warmly welcomed to South Africa - his film Lethal Weapon 2 notwithstanding - and fainted at the welcome 

[Svengoolie 3]

Japanese politics took another strange turn today as in the national elections the office of PM was won in a write in landslide by Godzilla.

[WingedSerpent]

Its a Wonderful Life hold the record for the most on set fatalities of any movie.