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A single sentence from Tom Cruise at a tiny screening room in America saved Guy Ritchie's "Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels" (1998) from failure & also Matthew Vaughn's career. This is how it went down. Matthew Vaughn struggled to find distributors for "Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels"... (1998). Every distributor who saw the movie, rejected it. The only offers he got were to release it on VHS. Somehow, Vaughn managed to find a distributor to show the movie in two screens in England. He asked Trudie Styler, who had already put money into the movie to convince Tom Cruise to attend the buyers screening in the USA. The screening was conducted in a tiny room. When Cruise turned up, all the mid level executives who were sort of disinterested, started to pay attention; They rang up the senior executives & they too joined the screening. When the film was over, Cruise got up in front of everyone and said, "This is the best movie I've seen in years, you guys would be fools not to buy it." After Cruise's appreciation for the movie, there was a bidding war. Vaughn recalled, "We made all our money back and my film career came from nearly ending to starting." P.S: On this day, 28 years ago, "Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels" (1998) premiered at the Edinburgh International Film Festival, Scotland.show more

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When Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998) struggled to find a U.S. distributor, Trudie Styler persuaded Tom Cruise to attend a buyers' screening. Producer Matthew Vaughn called it "hysterical," recalling that executives instantly "sat up and paid attention" when Cruise walked in. Cruise stood up and declared, "This is the best movie I've seen in years. You guys would be fools not to buy it." The endorsement sparked a bidding war, and Vaughn said his career went "from nearly ending to starting" in a single afternoon.

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According to Peter Weir, one potential American distributor for "Picnic at Hanging Rock" (1975), who wanted to buy the rights of the movie, threw the coffee cup at the screen during the end of the movie and said, "I've sat here for nearly 2 hours and there's no solution to the goddam mystery." The movie wasn't released in the USA during the initial run. According to Weir, USA was the only country that didn't release it then. Distributor after distributor saw the movie & praised the technical side of it, but they didn't buy "it didn't end". (Peter Weir's interview with Kyla Ward, 1994) P.S: On this day, 51 years ago, "Picnic at Hanging Rock" (1975) premiered in Adelaide, Australia.

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The filming of Gaspar Noé's "Love" (2015) began in October 2014 and was completed in February 2015, 3 months prior to its premiere at the Cannes Film Festival. According to Noé, the movie wasn't ready when the official selection was announced. One week later, the first edit of the movie was ready and Noé showed it to Thierry Frémaux, director of the Cannes Film Festival. He thought it would be good to have the movie in the festival. Noé had to work 20 hours a day to complete the movie on time. The movie was complete mere hours before the official premiere. Since he was tired, Noé slept while watching the premiere of the movie. He only woke up when the end credits came up. Noé said that he had never worked so hard to finish something on time. The film only got out of competition slot instead of the coveted slot in the competition. Noé said that it was important for him to premiere the film at Cannes, the section did not matter to him. (Gaspar Noé's interview with Nigel M. Smith, Indiewire, 2015, Gaspar Noé's interview with Pam Jahn, Electric Sheep, 2015 & IMDb) P.S: On this day, 11 years ago, "Love" (2015) premiered at the Cannes Film Festival, France.

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When "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" (1975) was screened at the Cannes Film Festival, the audience laughed at the opening credits. However, the projector stopped and the audience just roared with laughter, thinking it was all part of this movie. It turned out there was a bomb scare, and firemen came in, stopped the screening and made everyone in the cinema go outside. John Cleese talking about the hilarious incident: "No one had ever mentioned to me about these hilarious credits that Michael Palin had written so I sat down expecting to see a perfectly normal set of credits at the front of the movie and there was all this wonderful Nordic stuff about moose. We first screened this at the Cannes Film Festival. These subtitles got huge laughs and right at the end of [the sequence] the film stopped and everyone laughed and applauded. Then these men in French fireman uniforms with gold helmets came racing in and stopped the film and we had to go outside. It was a bomb scare. And everybody thought it was part of the film. It was perfectly timed because it was just after the credits so it didn’t interrupt anything. That was a good start." (From "Special Edition DVD" audio commentary of the movie, transcript taken from Artofthetitle(dot)com) P.S: On this day, 51 years ago, "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" (1975) premiered in Los Angeles, USA.

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A test audience, who saw "Top Gun" (1986) before it was released were annoyed that there was no love scene in the movie. Five months after the production had wrapped, the producers summoned Tom Cruise and Kelly McGillis to Chicago to film the infamous elevator scene and the s€x scene. During their time away from the set, McGillis had lost approximately sixteen pounds, and Cruise was filming "The Color of Money" (1986), so his hair was much longer in those two scenes. McGillis' hair was also much darker. That's why she hid it underneath a cap in the elevator scene & in the lovemaking scene, it was all silhouette because of the colour of her hair.

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In order to find the location for "Corn Island" (2014), the director, George Ovashvili and the crew searched for a real island for two years. Eventually, they realised it would be too complicated and too dangerous to film the movie on such a place. Instead, they built the island on an artificial lake, where they could control the water level to some extent. (Source: IMDb) P.S: On this day, 12 years ago, "Corn Island" (2014) premiered at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, Czech Republic.

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According to James B. Harris, the preview screenings for Stanley Kubrick's "The Ki!!ing" (1956) were poor. It was said that the poor response was due to the confusing non-linear structure and the movie was ruined because of it. Sterling Hayden's agent suggested to edit the movie again to make the structure linear. Kubrick and others rented an editing room in New York & started to work. Midway through the process, they had the realisation that it was the structure of the book by which they were impressed and took the decision to make the movie. Everyone felt changing it would be wrong. So, they showed the movie with the original structure to United Artists, who thought it was terrific. No changes were made. (James B. Harris's interview to Film Comment, 2015) P.S: On this day, 70 years ago, "The Ki!!ing" (1956) premiered in New York City, USA.

According to James B. Harris, the preview screenings for Stanley Kubrick's "The Ki!!ing" (1956) were poor. It was said that the poor response was due to the confusing non-linear structure and the movie was ruined because of it. Sterling Hayden's agent suggested to edit the movie again to make the structure linear. Kubrick and others rented an editing room in New York & started to work. Midway through the process, they had the realisation that it was the structure of the book by which they were impressed and took the decision to make the movie. Everyone felt changing it would be wrong. So, they showed the movie with the original structure to United Artists, who thought it was terrific. No changes were made. (James B. Harris's interview to Film Comment, 2015) P.S: On this day, 70 years ago, "The Ki!!ing" (1956) premiered in New York City, USA.

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Jerry Bruckheimer on convincing Tom Cruise to sign on to the film after his initial reluctance: "So they (the Navy Blue Angels) take Tom up there, and they do five Gs. They do barrel rolls, they do everything. He's heaving in the plane. He gets on the tarmac, runs to a pay phone... and he said, 'I'm in. I'm doing the movie. I love it. This is great.'" Top Gun (1986)

Jerry Bruckheimer on convincing Tom Cruise to sign on to the film after his initial reluctance: "So they (the Navy Blue Angels) take Tom up there, and they do five Gs. They do barrel rolls, they do everything. He's heaving in the plane. He gets on the tarmac, runs to a pay phone... and he said, 'I'm in. I'm doing the movie. I love it. This is great.'" Top Gun (1986)

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Jerry Bruckheimer on convincing Tom Cruise to sign on to the film after his initial reluctance: "So they (the Navy Blue Angels) take Tom up there, and they do five Gs. They do barrel rolls, they do everything. He's heaving in the plane. He gets on the tarmac, runs to a pay phone... and he said, 'I'm in. I'm doing the movie. I love it. This is great.'" Top Gun (1986)

Jerry Bruckheimer on convincing Tom Cruise to sign on to the film after his initial reluctance: "So they (the Navy Blue Angels) take Tom up there, and they do five Gs. They do barrel rolls, they do everything. He's heaving in the plane. He gets on the tarmac, runs to a pay phone... and he said, 'I'm in. I'm doing the movie. I love it. This is great.'" Top Gun (1986)

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In Top Gun, John Travolta was the first choice for Maverick but was too expensive. Tom Cruise initially turned it down too. Producers had to take him up on an F-14 and flip him and do all kinds of stunts to turn him around and make sure he never got back in a cockpit. But it was just the opposite. He landed and he walked over to a phone booth and called the producer and said, “Jerry. I’m making the movie. I love it.’

In Top Gun, John Travolta was the first choice for Maverick but was too expensive. Tom Cruise initially turned it down too. Producers had to take him up on an F-14 and flip him and do all kinds of stunts to turn him around and make sure he never got back in a cockpit. But it was just the opposite. He landed and he walked over to a phone booth and called the producer and said, “Jerry. I’m making the movie. I love it.’

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Todd Solondz's "Happiness" (1998) premiered at Cannes and won the festival’s critics’ award, but Sundance refused to screen it. Universal’s then C.E.O., Ronald Meyer, personally blocked its distribution, deeming it morally objectionable. The debacle drummed up buzz around Solondz, who became the focus of cultish press coverage. When Universal declined to release the film, distributors lined up to cash in on the controversy, which in many ways seems to be the independent world’s answer to the blockbuster: shock sells. Solondz said, “I was just happy, I made a movie, people seemed to be excited by it, and I was excited by what I had to express. I was the flavor of the month, and I knew it, I took advantage of that position.” ("Todd Solondz’s Unfulfilled Desires", Elena Saavedra Buckley, The New Yorker, 2024) P.S: On this day, 28 years ago, "Happiness" (1998) premiered at the Cannes Film Festival, France.

Todd Solondz's "Happiness" (1998) premiered at Cannes and won the festival’s critics’ award, but Sundance refused to screen it. Universal’s then C.E.O., Ronald Meyer, personally blocked its distribution, deeming it morally objectionable. The debacle drummed up buzz around Solondz, who became the focus of cultish press coverage. When Universal declined to release the film, distributors lined up to cash in on the controversy, which in many ways seems to be the independent world’s answer to the blockbuster: shock sells. Solondz said, “I was just happy, I made a movie, people seemed to be excited by it, and I was excited by what I had to express. I was the flavor of the month, and I knew it, I took advantage of that position.” ("Todd Solondz’s Unfulfilled Desires", Elena Saavedra Buckley, The New Yorker, 2024) P.S: On this day, 28 years ago, "Happiness" (1998) premiered at the Cannes Film Festival, France.

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After completing "Some Like it Hot" (1959), Billy Wilder wanted to make a film on the idea he had from around the 1940s. He wanted to make a film about the unseen character in David Lean's "Brief Encounter" (1945) who loans the apartment for the rendezvous of the main characters. He always thought there was a funny and touching character there to explore. He wanted to work with Jack Lemmon again after "Some Like it Hot" and thought he would be perfect for this role. According to Jack Lemmon, he was offered the role by Wilder, when they were on the way to a private screening of "Some Like it Hot" in a car. ("On Sunset Boulevard: The Life and Times of Billy Wilder", Ed Sikov, 1998) P.S: On this day, 66 years ago, "The Apartment" (1960) New York City & San Francisco, USA.

After completing "Some Like it Hot" (1959), Billy Wilder wanted to make a film on the idea he had from around the 1940s. He wanted to make a film about the unseen character in David Lean's "Brief Encounter" (1945) who loans the apartment for the rendezvous of the main characters. He always thought there was a funny and touching character there to explore. He wanted to work with Jack Lemmon again after "Some Like it Hot" and thought he would be perfect for this role. According to Jack Lemmon, he was offered the role by Wilder, when they were on the way to a private screening of "Some Like it Hot" in a car. ("On Sunset Boulevard: The Life and Times of Billy Wilder", Ed Sikov, 1998) P.S: On this day, 66 years ago, "The Apartment" (1960) New York City & San Francisco, USA.

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