Showing posts with label Directors. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Directors. Show all posts

Saturday, 4 August 2012

No. 235.

One BBC director was trying to shoot a final scene before the television centre studioes closed at 10pm and came down from the gallery to instruct them from the floor. He ran downstairs, got into the room, and shouted 'will you fucking stop messing around?' It was only then he realised he was in the Newsnight set.

(Source: Tales of Television Centre.)

Sunday, 1 July 2012

No. 191.

Whilst filming Sleepless in Seattle, the crew discovered a neat little coffee shop called Starbucks. Director Nora Ephron liked it so much that she immediately bought stocks in it.

(Source: http://entertainment.time.com/2012/06/27/nora-ephron-a-life-of-voice-and-detail/)

Sunday, 10 June 2012

No. 170.

Whilst he was a teenager, Danny DeVito and a few of his friends staged a murder. They chased one of their number down the street, "shot" him with a staring pistol, and then threw him in the back of their car before driving off.

(Source: Empire magazine.)

Saturday, 9 June 2012

No. 169.

Christopher Nolan's brother, Jonathan, prefers to be known as Jonah.

(Source: Empire magazine.)

Thursday, 10 May 2012

No. 139.

Every Star Wars film was released on May 21st, one week exactly after George Lucas' birthday.

(Source: http://9gag.com/gag/4061136.)

Wednesday, 25 April 2012

No. 124.

There is no full trailer for the film Dirty Rotten Scoundrels. Frank Oz was not satisified with those created, so none were ever screened.

(Source: Wikipedia.)

Sunday, 1 April 2012

No. 100.

Horror director Wes Craven and special effects guru Rick Baker were amongst those that walked out of a Barcelona film festival screening of Reservoir Dogs. The latter told Tarantino it was a compliment - he had found the realism unnerving.

(Source: Learnt in lecture. Verified by Wikipedia.)