Rumors about alleged affairs, feuds, etc.
can bring a lot of attention to a film.
Sometimes, however, the behind-the-scenes drama surrounding a movie overshadows the onscreen drama.
However, rumors of analleged feudbetween lead actorBlake Livelyand director/costar Justin Baldoni have seemingly dominated discourse about the movie.
However, he told a red carpet reporter that he wanted the premiere to celebrate women, not himself.
I think Blake Lively’s ready to direct.
That’s what I think."
Wilde and Pugh seemed to publicly disagree about discourse surrounding the film’s sex scenes.
However, hedeniedher version of events.
In August 2023, Sweeney toldVariety, “It’s a rom-com.
That’s what people want!
Glen and I don’t really care.
We’re excited for the press tour, and I literally just left ADR with him.
We talk all the time like, ‘That’s really funny.'”
He toldVulture, “Its old news!
What are you going to do?
I take it in good fun.
You have to laugh at your mistakes.”
She continued, “By then, I was like stoic in my suffering.
But weve overcome it.
It dissipates and its gone.
So Id have to leave at five and head downtown.
So I was probably overextended.
But it wasnt any big deal.”
5.Suicide Squad(2016) follows Harley Quinn and her fellow DC supervillains.
She toldThe Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, “At first I thought this was disgusting.
But then after that…I was like, I’m not going to kill him.
So I ended up keeping him as a pet.
But then our landlord at the place I was staying found out.”
She said, “He was The Joker 24/7.
I play Katana.’
And he says, ‘He,he,he,he,he.
Hi, pretty.’
It was the creepiest and coolest experience of my life.”
He continued, “I’m an artist at the end of the day.
Tensions mounted; rewrites continued.
The producers fought the directors to include Mario and Luigi’s iconic overalls and won.
Actor Dennis Hopper said, “The directors won’t give interviews?
That’s the smartest thing I’ve heard from them.
That’s the only intelligent thing I’ve heard that they’ve really actually done.”
In 2007, Hoskins told theGuardian, “The worst thing I ever did?Super Mario Brothers.
It was a fuckin' nightmare.
The whole experience was a nightmare.
It had a husband-and-wife team directing, whose arrogance had been mistaken for talent.
After so many weeks their own agent told them to get off the set!
Fuckin' idiots.”
The resulting movie was a box office failure, grossing less than half of its production budget.
However, in 2013, itreturned to theatersfor a special 20th-anniversary release.
At the time, the press painted Jolie as a marriage-destroying “man eater.”
After meeting Jolie in the summer of 2004, Pittseparatedfrom Aniston in January 2005.
In the aftermath, Aniston was hounded by paparazzi, even at home.
She was plagued by malicious and often misogynist rumors.
She toldVanity Fair, “A man divorcing would never be accused of choosing career over children.
That really pissed me off.”
However, the court of public opinion also seemed to take her side.
Aniston said, “Its sad, something coming to an end.
It cracks you open, in a way cracks you open to feeling.
When you take a stab at avoid the pain, it creates greater pain.
Im a human being, having a human experience in front of the world.
I wish it werent in front of the world.
I try really hard to rise above it.”
With friends like Courteney Cox by her side, she ignored the negative press.
Jolie and Pitt went on to raise six children together.
They got married in 2014, but shefiled for divorcein 2016 followingallegationsof domestic violence.
Their relationship became public whenUS Weeklyposted paparazzi pictures of them together.
Both Sanders and Stewart released public apologies.
I love them with all my heart.
I am praying we can get through this together.”
I love him, I love him, Im so sorry."
Neither Stewart nor Sanders was part ofThe Huntsman: Winter’s War.
After the cheating scandal, Stewart and Pattinson briefly got back together beforebreaking upfor good in 2013.
Rossfiled for divorcefrom Sanders in 2013, which was finalized in 2014.
She also said the scandal was the reason she was dropped from the sequel.
However, contention between lead actor Wesley Snipes, his costars, and director David S. Goyer made headlines.
Oswalt said, “We went out that night to some strip club, and we were all drinking.
Wesley freaked out and went back to his trailer.
Youre detrimental to this movie.'
And David was like, ‘Why dont you quit?
Weve got all your close-ups, and we could shoot the rest with your stand-in.’
And he would sign each Post-it note ‘From Blade.'”
If I had tried to strangle David Goyer, you probably wouldnt be talking to me now.
Why would people believe his version is true?
Because they are predisposed to believing the Black guy is always the problem.
And all it takes is one person, Mr. Oswalt, who I really dont know."
Ryan and I remain really good friends today.
It was a challenged shoot, as has been reported.
What can I say?
He also said that he hasn’t spoken to Snipes since the shoot.
However, a mid-production change in director, and accusations of misconduct, made for a bigger story.
During post-production, director Zack Snyderstepped awayto be with the family after his daughter died.
Warner Bros. replaced him with Joss Whedon, whom Snyder had already brought on board to rewrite additional scenes.
We’re excited about that."
They alleged that “Joss was bragging that hes had it out with Gal.
Snyder’s version was alsopraisedfor being more inclusive than Whedon’s version.
The cast suffered injuries both on camera and behind the scenes.
Marshall endured blood poisoning.
Hedren required skin grafts and treatment for gangrene.
The crew was also in danger.
Cinematographer Jan de Bont’s scalp was ripped off and had to be reattached with 120 stitches.
John Marshall told theNY Post, “Dad was a fking ahole to do that to his family.”
The movie was in production for 11 years and then received an international release.
In 1971, Hedren opened Shambala, an animal sanctuary north of Los Angeles.
Marshall continued to provide financial support for the ranch after their divorce.
In 1983, she launched the Roar Foundation to provide for the care of the Shambala animals.
During the actual filming, there were 140 people around the lions and tigers every day.
Its amazing we didnt have more accidents.
We learned so much from that time.
Thats what keeps us safe now.”
12.Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?
(1962) is a psychological horror thriller about a failed child actor who antagonizes her movie star sister.
Movie theaters droppedEx-Ladyafter a week because of poor ticket sales.
However, after she accepted the award, Crawford ignored her until Tone called her out on it.
Then, she reportedly said, “Dear Bette!
What a lovely frock.”
Despite Crawford’s attempts at ending their beef, the rivalry continued.
There were also rumors that Crawford was in love with Davis, which Davisreportedlybelieved to be true.
In 1952, Crawford’s ex-friend Katherine Albert wroteThe Starto mock her and cast Davis as the lead.
The women’s rivalry made for a contentious and dangerous environment on set.
It started off as petty.
However, things escalated quickly.
Crawford didn’t trust Davis not to injure her, so she required a body double.
Their feud inspired the FX miniseriesFeud: Bette and Joan.
The production isnotoriousfor using guerrilla filmmaking techniques to film at Disney World and Disneyland without permission.
During production, writer/director Randy Moore was so anxious about getting caught that helost47 pounds.
It premiered at Sundance.
14.Pulgasari(1985) is aGodzilla-inspired dark fantasy.
It was lunacy."
After his release, he was reunited with Choi at a reception Kim threw.
There, they discovered the reason behind their kidnapping and then began making the propaganda films.
They completed seven movies before successfully escaping to Vienna.
After landing in Vienna, they never returned to North Korea.
In 2001, the American anime distribution company, ADV Films,releasedPulgasarion VHS.
Since then, the movie has been shown in multiple indie theaters across the world.
However, the film is more well-known for the fact that filmmaker Werner Herzog hypnotized the entire cast.
Herzog claims he used hypnosis for stylization, not control.
Herzoghireda professional hypnotist, but he fired them for touting “new age bullshit.”
So, he decided to hypnotize the cast many of whom were non-actors himself.
After the actors were successfully hypnotized, he’d get them to memorize their lines.
Then, they filmed each scene quickly, using a maximum of two takes.
He let the actors improvise rather than giving a lot of direction.
Greenberg toldFilmmaker Magazine, “In two minutes, all four farmers were deeply hypnotized.
Recognizing this, Herzog gave them their acting directions.
As a result, the actors’performanceseemed almost as if they were sleepwalking.
Both their timing and eye contact were off.
Only Josef Bierbichler, the lead actor who played a seer, remained un-hypnotized.
Greenberg wrote the bookEvery Night the Trees Disappearabout his experience on set with Herzog.
Director/writer/lead actor Tommy Wiseau madenotoriously inexplicable decisionswith the film’s $6 million.
Despite or perhaps because of its strangeness,The Roombecame something of a cult classic.
When the billboard was finally taken down, fans were already gathering formidnight screenings.
Wiseau produced it himself and didn’t reach out to studios until the distribution stage.
My way or the highway, you know the story.”
The way I wanna present the audiences, you see.
And that was the dilemma.
