General "Did you Know?"s

[gamemaster1991]

Get a load of this. They just revealed info about 5 planned Friday the 13th films that never got off of the ground. One of them had a crossover with TMNT and Punisher. One that made me curious the most was the planned Jason cartoon that had Paramount approach to Studio Ghibli(Spirited Away, Princess Monokoe).
http://moviepilot.com/posts/3643967?lt_s...nal,manual

All of these are ones that I want to see. The TMNT and Found Footage ones sound like disasters waiting to happen but would most like to be playfuly bad. I also have to wonder what Paramont was thinking giving the series to Ghibli, who is known for sceens of great gore and Nightmare Fuel, and have them make a kid friendly.

[CLXcool]

Get a load of this. They just revealed info about 5 planned Friday the 13th films that never got off of the ground. One of them had a crossover with TMNT and Punisher. One that made me curious the most was the planned Jason cartoon that had Paramount approach to Studio Ghibli(Spirited Away, Princess Monokoe).
http://moviepilot.com/posts/3643967?lt_s...nal,manual

All of these are ones that I want to see. The TMNT and Found Footage ones sound like disasters waiting to happen but would most like to be playfuly bad. I also have to wonder what Paramont was thinking giving the series to Ghibli, who is known for sceens of great gore and Nightmare Fuel, and have them make a kid friendly.

Paramount wasn't interested in getting back into animation at the time, but they were aware the popularity that anime was coming through in America. Along with the likeness of animation studio Ghibli. From what I can guess from what happened. Paramount pitched this to Hayo(who was likely busy with other projects at the time). Wasn't interested in doing a horror themed project for animation.

[CLXcool]

Thought I'd share some interesting Disney trivia about Aladdin. Did you know? During the development of Aladdin. John Musker and Ron Clements, wrote most of Genie's dialogue and developed his character based off of the late comedian Robin Williams. When Disney approached Robin to voice the character, he wasn't interested in doing the role. It wasn't until animator Eric Goldberg(who was in charge of animating on the genie) made a few pencil tests with some recordings from Robin's stand up acts to give Robin an idea how the genie character would act if he decided to voice him. Robin saw these pencil tests and after having a good laugh at out of them joined onto the production of Aladdin.

When recording his lines. He ad libbed most of all of the dialogue of the genie's lines(most of which weren't even in the original script) and recorded up to 16 hours of material that didn't go used when he was voicing the genie. Eric goldberg later used some of these unused recordings for deleted scenes in homage for Robin Williams. 
 

[gamemaster1991]

Here's something intresting that I just found out. There was a long lost issue of Superman. The issue would have been really big and would have changed SOOOOO much. It would have been the first appearince of Kryptonite (here know as K-Metal), the first time Superman knew the name of his birth planet, Lois would have found out Klark was Superman, and a bunch of other things. However, this was scraped for unknow resons (I've read that it was to much of a change to the status qoue, but that is just a guess). The four pages of the comic were released in the History of Comics and some art work was also released later on but nothing to offical has been find.

That is untill someone found the script to the long lost comic. Long story made shorter, people have turned the issue into a real comic by recreating the pages to the best that they could and inking and recoloring the gages they could find. The comic can be read HERE.

More on the subject

A video on the subject (starts at 3:51)

[RepentantSky]

Princess Mononoke was originally something Miyazaki thought of back in the 70's, nearly 20 years before it actually started getting worked on. Miyazaki had even drawn out several images for what he thought the movie would be, but several of those images never made it into the final product, and ended up being scrapped or used in other films, such as, of all things, My Neighbor Totoro, Totoro's. Miyazaki was at first reluctant to make the film because it was so different than anything he worked on at the time, but was eventually convinced to do it by long time Studio Ghibli producer, Toshio Suzuki who had convinced him that he was getting old enough that'd he soon lose his chance to make an action film. The film really started taking off when a team from Studio Ghibli visited the same place that Miyazaki had several years prior which gave him influence for Nauissica of the Valley of the Wind. They saw a different place there with their different outlook on life. Princess Monoke's Iron Town was largely influenced by Japanese culture and the town from the 1946 western film "My Darling Clementine."

For the dub of the film, many people were asked to direct the English cast and oversee the project. Among them was none other than Quintin Tarantino who ended up backing out when he felt he wasn't right for the project and didn't want to mess it up. The voice cast for the dub of Princess Mononoke was largely made up of people who were either fans of Studio Ghibli's films, or just Princess Mononoke itself. Many of them took to watching the film several times making sure they truly understood the characters they were playing, as an attempt to get them just right.

[gamemaster1991]

The fictional city in Aladdin was originally going to be Baghdad. This was before the Golf War happened and Roy Disney told them to rename it. 

Also, the peddler at the beginning of the movie is the Genie.

See more HERE

[CLXcool]

^Ironically, a family guy episode had a gag where Quagmire and the maid had a love sequence that had was parodying Aladdin(and it took place in Baghdad no less).

While on the subject of Disney. Did you know? At one point. There was supposed to be a 2D film called American dog(which has been described as a Lilo and Stitch successor from its creator Chris Sanders). The film would have focused on a James Bond esque dog who was a famous TV star, who one day finds himself stranded in the Nevada desert with a testy, one-eyed cat and an oversized, radioactive rabbit who are themselves searching for new homes, all the while believing he is still on television.

John Lassester(who is in charge of Disney animation) had a bit of a fallout with Sanders on how the film should've gone. He later made changes to it without Sanders knowing, being frustrated with creative differences with John, he later left the project to work for Dreamworks animation. The reworked version of the film became CGI animated film Bolt. Which had nothing to do with Sander's original concept that he pitched to Disney.

[gamemaster1991]

This is Walt Disney's Oscar(s) for Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. It's a regular Oscar with 7 little Oscars to go with it. It was awarded to him by Shirley Temple at the 11th Academy Awards.



This Oscar is also counted as apology for the previous year. At the 10th Academy Awards, despite it being one of  first full-length animated feature films (if not the first), it was nominated for only one award (Best Score), which it didn't even win. To make up for it, he was given the Honorary Award, "recognized as a significant screen innovation which has charmed millions and pioneered a great new entertainment field for the motion picture cartoon." This ALSO marks one of the very few times a film has been recognized in two succeeding Academy Awards.

[CosmykTheDolfyn]

Speaking of Academy Awards, there has only one instance of an actor receiving two awards for a single performance, which was Harrold Russell in 1947 for his performance in "The Best Years Of Our Lives".
The film follows three veterans who return home from WWII and have trouble adjusting back to their normal lives. Harrold Russell was not a professional actor, but had lost both of his hands in an explosion in WWII. He agreed to the film to show what some of the struggles of coming home disabled are. He was awarded an honorary Oscar for providing hope to fellow veterns and his bravery during WWII, and also won Best Supporting Actor that year. This meant he won two Oscars for a single role.

[ZpaceJ0ck0]

Did you know that Shotaro Ishinomori , creator of Cyborg 009, made a one-shot manga in 1977 called “David Bowie: Hermaphrodite Lifeform From Another Cosmic Dimension.”?

Did you also know that the manga also featured Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger and his then-wife Bianca.

You don't believe me? (i woulnd't blame you), here's my SOURCE

[Psychospacecow]

https://imgur.com/a/tZ88j

There are still those who feel the need to explore Pripyat. It is interesting, but I don't see how the experience could be worth the risk.

[Kakariko Kid]

Well, the new Ghostbusters trailer is now the most disliked non-music video in YouTube history.

[ZpaceJ0ck0]

Have you ever wondered why the service Bluetooth is called....Bluetooth? and why it has such a strange symbol?

You see: the name Bluetooth is actually the nickname for the 10th danish king Harold "bluetooth" Gormsson, he helped unite warring factions in parts of what are now Norway, Sweden and Denmark. Similarly, Bluetooth technology was created as an open standard to allow connectivity and collaboration between disparate products and industries.

"But why he got that nickname?"

The most common answer is that he had bad tooth, which can look dark or "blue", and the simbol of Bluetooh (the service) comes from a bind rune merging the Younger Futhark runes Runic letter ior.svg (Hagall) (ᚼ) and Runic letter berkanan.svg (Bjarkan) (ᛒ), Harald's initials.

[Psychospacecow]

This was at the end of Rambo 3 originally. It was taken out after the original VHS release.

[Kakariko Kid]

This was at the end of Rambo 3 originally. It was taken out after the original VHS release.

I've seen that ending. It exists. My mother still has the VHS, I think. Way to go Rambo. You just helped strengthen Al-Qaeda.