Movie Premieres facts
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At the premiere of the Good Omens TV series, a front row seat was left empty in tribute to Terry Pratchett. His trademark scarf and hat were placed on it, and there was a bag of popcorn- Neil Gaiman said that Terry wanted to sit next to him and eat popcorn if an Omens movie ever happened.
"Lego Star Wars the Video Game" contained the entire plot of Revenge of the sith despite being released a month before the movie's premiere.
In my opinion, it is useful to put together a list of the most interesting details from trusted sources that I've come across. Here are 42 of the best facts about Movie Premieres I managed to collect.
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Mel Brooks' Blazing Saddles premiered at a drive-in movie theater and people riding horses got free admission to watch the movie.
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A 6-minute, fan-made Batman movie exists where Batman fights Predator, Alien, and the Joker. It premiered at Comic Con in 2003 and Kevin Smith called it "possibly the truest, best Batman movie ever made."
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After the movie Office Space premiered, Swingline received requests for red staplers, which they stopped selling years prior. Due to high demand, they began to produce the red staplers again. They would later become the company's best selling stapler and transform the image of the company.
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In 1970, a pizzeria owner tried to catch the Zodiac Killer by filming a movie about him and hosting a premiere party in San Francisco, in the hope that the actual killer would show up to see it
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During a special premiere of the James Bond movie "The World is Not Enough" that was held at the MI6 building in London, MI6 staff cheered when their building was destroyed in the film.
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The entire town of Júzcar, Spain was painted "Smurf blue" by Sony Pictures in 2011 to promote the premiere of the Smurfs movie. This included houses, gravestones, and the church. When the filming and publicity ended, locals voted to retain the color, and still run Smurf trade fairs for tourists.
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When The Exorcist premiered in December 1973, it was a major cultural event with people of all ages waiting in long lines to see the film. Many of the film goers were not ready for the subject matter in the movie, causing many people to walk out or faint including Paul Mooney and Richard Pryor.
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Hattie McDaniel was the first black American to win an Oscar for her role in Gone With The Wind. However, she and all the other black actors in the film were barred from the movie's premiere in Georgia and all advertisements in the south because of Jim Crow Laws.
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Night of The Living Dead premiered in October 1968. At the time, pre-teens and adolescents were allowed to watch the movie during Saturday afternoon matinees. Most of them were upset by the film's graphic violence. Ironically the MPAA film rating system was released in November 1968.
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Tim Commerford, Bassist for Rage Against The Machine, is a 'moon landing conspiracy' theorist, and he confronted Buzz Aldrin about it at a John Cusack movie premiere.
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Adam Carolla invited boxing analyst Max Kellerman to the premier of his movie "The Hammer" only to find out Kellerman's brother was murdered with a hammer by a boxer nicknamed "The Hammer"
12 days before the Nuclear accident in Three Mile Island (Pennsylvania), the movie 'The China Syndrome' premiered - At one point in the film, an official tells the main character that an explosion at the plant "could render an area the size of the state of Pennsylvania permanently uninhabitable" - source
Dr. Seuss wrote the screenplay for a live action musical called The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T. The audience starting walking out of the Hollywood premiere after just 15 minutes. Dr. Seuss himself called the movie a "debaculous fiasco." - source
Robert Rodriguez directed the movie "100 Years," a film whose world premiere is scheduled for November 18th, 2115
The Avengers post-credits shawarma scene was filmed after the movie's premiere - source
After the test premier of Apollo 13, one audience member complained that the movie was unrealistic and the crew should have not survived
Dwyane Johnson is in the Guinness Book of World Record for "Most Selfies in 3 Minutes" by taking 105 selfies with his fans at the premier of one of his movies
In 1929, at the premiere of the movie Un Chien Andalou, its director, surrealist director Luis Bunuel, kept stones in his pocket to throw at the audience if they attacked him.
After the 1986 movie "Hoosiers" premiered, the NCAA fined and suspended student-athletes from their College teams because they received pay for "playing" basketball for a movie.
Adrian Brody turned up at the premier of The Thin Red Line thinking he was the lead character of the movie not knowing director Terrence Malik had cut his role down to a side character
Following the premiere of the movie "Hostel" at the 2005 Iceland Film Festival, Director Eli Roth and Producer Quentin Tarantino were both made honorary Vikings at Viking Village. Roth's Icelandic name is Eli Sheldonsson, and Tarantino's Icelandic name is Quentin Conniesson.
