These TV Shows Did So Well That They Got Box Office Spin-Offs

Death Note

The popular dark anime, Death Note, captures the story of a boy named Light who discovers a notebook with the power to commit murder by writing a person's name in it. He gets power-hungry and has a crisis of morality. Netflix decided to give the show a spin-off film starring Nat Wolff and Willem Dafoe, and critics didn't love it.

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The More You Know

  • Keanu Reeves used his profit from The Matrix to buy a motorcycle for all of the movie's stuntmen.
  • For 'Deadpool' (2016) Ryan Reynolds paid $10,000 of his own money for the right to wear a shirt with The Golden Girl’s Bea Arthur on it.
  • Viggo Mortensen had no intention of working on The Lord of the Rings until his son begged him to do it.
  • 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.
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