Directors Cuts of Iconic Films That Surpass The Originals

Kingdom of Heaven

20th Century Fox definitely messed up on this one. Ridley Scott was forced to chop 50 minutes out of Kingdom of Heaven which left out some key elements of which the studio thought didn't matter. The result was a lackluster crusade epic that did not receive the reviews that 20th Century Fox thought it would get.

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The More You Know

  • Novelist and screenwriter Nick Hornby is brother-in-law to novelist and screenwriter Robert Harris.
  • For Dr. Strangelove, Peter Sellers was paid $1 million, 55 percent of the film’s budget.
  • "E.T." and "Poltergeist" started from the same script.
  • Fantasia (1940) was originally a short called The Sorcerers Apprentice, but Walt Disney overspent on the score and decided to make it feature length film rather than waste money.
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