Fact Of The Day

[pacman000]

Say what you want about music videos as an art form, but they are (or were) a good place for beginning filmmakers to develop their technical chops before tackling features.

No problem with music videos; I just wish YouTube remained an amateur platform.

Then again, some of those videos were made by amateurs who may not have gotten a shot without YouTube.

[claws]

[Rev. Powell]

I originally misread that as "highest grossing unwanted movie of all time."

[claws]

Is Terrifier 3 rated NC 17?
Had it done so, it would have almost certainly received an NC-17 rating, which would have barred anyone under the age of 17 from attending. Instead, Terrifier 3 went unrated – something that would usually mean that most US theatre chains would refuse to show the film at all.

I assume most theatre chains are now like "damnit!" for missing out on $$$

So, it is possible to have a box office hit for movies without a rating. The more you know!

[zombie no.one]

Say what you want about music videos as an art form, but they are (or were) a good place for beginning filmmakers to develop their technical chops before tackling features.

No problem with music videos; I just wish YouTube remained an amateur platform.

Then again, some of those videos were made by amateurs who may not have gotten a shot without YouTube.

big music artists have teams of promoters behind them, wouldn't surprise me if a lot of algorhythm jigging goes on

one thing I noticed lately is youtube will start autoplaying vids in search results as you scroll down past them, and that counts as a view! (because said vids will then show up in your 'viewing history', even though they were not actively clicked on)

[zombie no.one]

the Hunga Tonga underwater volcano eruption of 2022, erupted with the force of 150 million tons of TNT. the largest underwater explosion ever recorded

[Rev. Powell]

4 different teams have won the last 5 world series. All of them had a player on the roster named "Will Smith."

[lester1/2jr]

The Vatican's secret spy service is known as the Holy Alliance or the Entity. The Vatican has a long history of espionage, with activities dating back to the 16th century.

[VenomX73]

They also have one of the biggest telescopes in the world too right?

Which I find that really interesting...

[chainsaw midget]

Pope facts!

People wanted Pope Clement VII to ban coffee because they thought it was the "devil's beverage." After tasting some coffee though, the Pope said it would be a sin to only let unbelievers drink something so delicious.

The Pope doesn't have to be a cardinal or a priest. Any baptized man can be elected. However, the last non-cardinal, non-priest elected was Urban VI in 1378.  Also on that note, there is no age limit on being the Pope.  The youngest Pope ever was only 18 and the oldest man to become Pope was 80.

Pope Gregory IX thought cats were the incarnation of Satan! This led to a massive killing of cats, which caused a massive increase in the rats, which THEN caused a massive outbreak of the black death.  oops. 

Pope Francis was once a nightclub bouncer.

Sometimes the Pope names a new cardinal without telling anyone. Not even the cardinal. You could be a cardinal right now and not even know it!

Pope Benedict XVI flew his own helicopter but never learned to drive a car.

[Rev. Powell]

According to experts, thanks to technological revolutions in production and distribution, today more music is released in one day than was released in the entire calendar year of 1989.

[claws]

All seven DeBarge siblings were drug addicted (cocaine) throughout their career, except El BeBarge (bottom, left).

[chainsaw midget]

Jackie Chan's father was secretly a spy for the Chinese Nationalist Revolutionary Army as well as a gangboss.  He met Jackie's mother when he arrested her for smuggling opium into China. In addition to being an opium dealer, she was also a well known underground gambler. 

His father also told him that his name wasn't actually Chan at all.  It was Fang. 

Jackie didn't learn this facts until after his mother's death in 2001.  Jackie was 47 years old at the time.