You’ll Never Believe What Went on Behind the Scenes of These Award-Winning Films

Elizabeth: The Golden Age

When Elizabeth arrives at St. Paul’s Cathedral in the film, construction is happening in the background. Director Shekhar Kapur had to improvise when St. Paul’s needed repair work during filming, fitting the construction workers period tools and costumes to cut real stone that was being installed in the cathedral.

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The More You Know

  • Each frame of the CGI scenes in James Cameron’s, Avatar (1/24 of a second) took an average of 47 hours to render.
  • Novelist and screenwriter Nick Hornby is brother-in-law to novelist and screenwriter Robert Harris.
  • While filming Rocky IV, Dolph Lundgren punched Sylvester Stallone's chest so hard, his heart slammed against his breastbone, causing it to swell and his systolic blood pressure shot to over 200. Filming was halted as Stallone was flown to a nearby hospital and spent eight days in intensive care.
  • No actor in ‘The Empire Strikes Back’ recognized that Vader was Luke’s dad.
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