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Monday, 21 October 2013




Film 1013: The Bling Ring

Trivia: The scene taking place at Paris Hilton's home was actually filmed there.

Emma Watson's wallet was stolen while filming.

Claire Julien (Chloe) is the only cast member who's actually from LA. She helped the others learn the Calabasas dialect. Emma Watson is from England, Israel Broussard is from Mississippi, Katie Chang is from Chicago, and Taissa Farmiga is from New Jersey.

It is said by insiders that Emma Watson watched her character, Alexis Neiers's reality television show, Pretty Wild to study her body language and how she acted around people.

Sunday, 15 September 2013




Film 993: Con Air

Trivia: The Las Vegas scenes were filmed at the legendary Sands Hotel immediately prior to its demolition in late 1996. When the production team heard about the city's intentions to raze the historic landmark, they immediately scheduled a multiple camera setup to take advantage of the rare event, which is what you actually see in the movie.

The song "How Do I Live" was nominated for both an Oscar as Best Original Song and a Razzie as Worst Original Song. It did not win either award.

While "Sweet Home Alabama" by Lynyrd Skynyrd is playing in the background, Garland Greene (Steve Buscemi) says: "Define irony: a bunch of idiots dancing around on a plane to a song made famous by a band that died in a plane crash." On October 20, 1977 Lynyrd Skynyrd's plane crashed. It was the model Convair 240.

In reference to the credit "In Memory of Phil Swartz", Phil Swartz was an effects specialist who was killed during the making of this movie, when a rigged plane fell and crushed him.

The film was called "Les Ailes de l'Enfer" (The Wings of Hell) in France. "Con" in French is a slang word for a vagina and, as in most languages, is also used as a (very strong) derogatory epithet.