Green Screen Tricks: Award-Winning Films & TV Series that Have Made Magic with Green Screens

The More You Know

• The cigarette smoked by Sigourney Weaver in Avatar is completely CGI.
• Christopher Mintz-Plasse, who played the character of ‘Fogell/McLovin’ in the coming-of-age indie flick ‘Superbad,’ was only 17 when filming took place. Being a minor at the time, his mother was required to be on the set during the filming of his sex scene.
• Michael Fassbender had makeup artists put alcohol on his mustache for a role.
• The Lion King was originally known as King of the Jungle until someone at Disney finally remembered that lions don’t actually live in jungles.