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FILM 1372: CASTING BY

TRIVIA: Director Tom Donahue interviewed over 240 people for the film, but only 57 interviews made it into the movie. Sending emails to those who did not make the cut was a heartbreaking experience.

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Film 951: This Is The End

Trivia: Rihanna actually slapped Michael Cera's face harder by each take because she was getting tired of him grabbing her buttocks.

Seth Rogen gave an interview where he described how the script by himself and Evan Goldberg combined real characteristics of the actors who then produced bizarre alt-version of themselves with elements that had absolutely nothing in common with the cast. Rogen cited Michael Cera's portrayal in the film - a drug-using, ass-grabbing, utterly obnoxious loudmouth - as funny because that character has nothing at all in common with how Cera behaves in real life.

Seth Rogen stated in an interview that at one point during production every main cast member took him aside and told him that they couldn't do what he was asking him to because it was going too far and getting too extreme. James Franco was the only cast member that never turned anything down.

Initially Michael Cera wasn't really slapping Rihanna's butt, but rather making the motion and stopping right before touching her. As a result, the scene wasn't working on camera because it looked too fake. Eventually Cera asked Rihanna if he could really slap her butt, she said yes but on the condition that she be allowed to really smack him across the face each time. Cera agreed.

Most of the paintings that can be seen hanging in the background were actually painted by James Franco.

Directors Evan Goldberg and Seth Rogen reportedly approached Cameron Diaz, Edward Norton, Mila Kunis and Elizabeth Banks to make cameos as themselves at James Franco's party. They had to turn down the offers due to scheduling conflicts on other films.

In an interview with the Rod Ryan Show on Houston radio station 94.5 The Buzz, Craig Robinson revealed that Jonah Hill improvised asking for a bite of the Milky Way. The other actors improvised the following conversation regarding who gets to eat the Milky Way.

According to Seth Rogen about 50% of the movie was ad libbed.

According to Seth Rogen, Danny McBride was the person who made everyone laugh and break character the most. At one point, it took 18 takes and over an hour for the cast to get a joke on film because Mcbride's delivery kept making everyone laugh.

An early idea for the story had the film taking place at a studio where a Busta Rhymes music video shoot was taking place with the main characters present when the apocalypse begins.

According to Seth Rogen there is a secret celebrity cameo in the movie that only lasts "a split second" that no one has been able to spot yet.

Flm 827: Galaxy Quest

Trivia: The evil warlord Sarris was named for film critic Andrew Sarris, who once trashed producer Mark Johnson's The Natural. Sarris' metal eye-patch mimics that worn by General Chang (Christopher Plummer) in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country.

The rock monster is a mock tribute to William Shatner, who desperately wanted to put rock monsters in the climax of Star Trek V: The Final Frontier, but had to cut them out of his script for budgetary reasons. There are a couple of references to Star Trek episode #1.18, "Arena", particularly the suggestion to "build a weapon" during Jason's encounter with the rock monster.

At the beginning of the film, Tommy's "You are so full of shit, man!" line was re-dubbed to "You are so full of it, man!" When faced with going through "the chompers", Gwen's "Well, fuck that!" was re-dubbed to say "Well, screw that!". These edits were to avoid a PG-13 rating. The original lines are still obvious when reading their lips.

The set of the NSEA Protector was built on an articulated platform so that it could move a few feet in any direction, for a touch of realism (instead of actors leaning in unison). When it was first used the set dropped two feet and shifted to the side, causing several cast members to fall out of their chairs and two lights to fall down.

Reportedly originally developed by Harold Ramis for Disney, but Ramis dropped out before production began.

According to writer David Howard, the continuous melodic yet monotone voice of Thermian Cmdr. Mathesar was an original idea that Enrico Colantoni brought to the character. Everyone on the set loved it so much they kept it in the shoot.

Sigourney Weaver said that whenever she put on the blonde wig to become Gwen, "I could feel my IQ drop precipitously".

The scene when Tim Allen is in a mens room overhearing how the cast of Galaxy Quest are nobodies and all the co-stars can't stand him mirrors an actual event in William Shatner's life. He discovered the exact same things about himself when he attended a Star Trek convention.

Justin Long's film debut.

Rainn Wilson's big screen debut.

A very subtle joke is that Guy believes his character is now safe since he is the security chief and has a name on the revival series. The named, main character security chief of the revival series this movie spoofs, Star Trek: The Next Generation, was killed off in the first season.

Film 798: Divine Trash

The life and times of Baltimore film maker and midnight movie pioneer, John Waters. Intercut with a 1972 interview of Waters are clips from his first films and recent interviews with his parents, his brother, Divine's mom, actors and crew, other directors, film critics, a film curator, psychologists, and Maryland's last censor, who shudders at the memory of Waters's pictures.