“Now You See Me 2” also known as Now You See Me: The Second Act (2016) is a thriller/action film set three years after the events of Now You See Me (2013). The Four Horsemen return for a second Mind-bending adventure as they are threatened by a tech genius into pulling off their most impossible heist yet.
They are back with a bang
Now You See Me 2 (2016) is directed by Jon M. Chu and screenplay is by Ed Solomon. The cast includes Mark Ruffalo, Jesse Eisenberg, Daniel Radcliffe, Jay Chou, Dave Franco, Michael Caine, Morgan Freeman, Lizzy Caplan and Woody Harrelson in lead roles.
Now You See Me 2 The Second Act
The film has a runtime of 115 minutes and releases on 10th June in USA. Let’s look at some the most interesting facts about the movie Now You See Me 2 (2016).
Now You see me movie facts
6. Change of Actor and Character!
Isla Fisher will be replaced by Lizzy Caplan as Girl Horsemen in Now You See Me 2 (2016) due to Fisher’s pregnancy. Isla Fisher and Lizzy Caplan have starred together in the film Bachelorette (2012).
Lizzy Caplan as Lula
5. Morgan Freeman and Michael Caine record collaboration!
Now You See Me 2 (2016) will be the sixth time that Morgan Freeman and Michael Caine appear in the same film. They previously worked together in Nolan’s Batman trilogy, A History of Us, and Now You See Me. They are set to collaborate for seventh time in New upcoming film “Going in Style”.
Michael Caine and Morgan Freeman
4. A realife magician in the cast!
Actor Jay Chou is the new addition to the cast of film. He is a multi talented fella. He is fond of singing, song composing, acting and magic performing. He has played magic tricks, in several very popular Taiwan and China TV shows.
Jay Chou as Li
3. Comic book connection of the cast!
Most of the actors in the film have starred in films based on comic book. Morgan Freeman and Michael Caine starred in Batman Begins (2005), The Dark Knight (2008), The Dark Knight Rises (2012). Jessie Eisenberg played Lex Luthor in Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016). Mark Ruffalo played Hulk/Bruce Banner in Marvel’s Avengers franchise.
The Dark Knight (2008) is an action/crime movie directed by Christopher Nolan and based on DC comics character Batman. The movie stars Christian Bale, Heath Ledger, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Gary Oldman, Morgan Freeman, Michael Caine and Aaron Eckhart in lead roles. The film’s music is composed by Hans Zimmer and James Newton Howard. Story and screenplay is written by Nolan brothers (Christopher and Jonathan) and David S. Goyer.
The Dark knight poster
The Dark Knight (2008) is the 2nd part of the Dark Knight Trilogy. With the help of Police lieutenant James Gordon and new district attorney Harvey Dent, caped crusader (Batman) raises the stakes on his war on crime by setting out to dismantle the remaining mafia groups that plague the streets. Everything goes as planned until a new criminal maniac knows as The Joker breaks havoc and chaos in Gotham. The Dark Knight must test his mental and physical strength in order to fight for Gotham before Joker causes the biggest anarchy.
The Dark knight joker
The movie won 2 Academy Awards and several other awards. It is the greatest superhero movie ever. Well, today I have a list of Interesting facts and details about the movie The Dark Knight (2008). Let’s have a look.
The Dark knight bat mobile poster
24. Heath Ledger designed his own Joker Makeup!
Actor Heath Ledger designed the Joker make-up himself, using white clown makeup and cosmetics from a drugstore. According to him since the Joker himself would design and apply it, Ledger should do so as well. Once his design was approved, the makeup team was responsible for replicating the look each day for filming.
Heath Ledger as Joker
23. Jokers famous Laugh was developed by Legder himself!
In preparation for his role as The Joker in The Dark Knight (2008), actor Heath Ledger hid away in a motel room for about six weeks. He devoted himself to developing The Joker’s every tic, namely the voice and that sadistic-sounding laugh.
22. IMAX camera was destroyed during the SWAT chase!
While filming the chase scene with the Joker and the SWAT vans, one of only four IMAX cameras in the world at that time was destroyed. The Dark Knight (2008) is also the first film shot with IMAX to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Cinematography.
The Dark knight movie scene
21. Stuntman was killed during the shoot!
While the film is dedicated to late actor Heath Ledger (Joker), it also bears a dedication to Conway Wickliffe, a stuntman who was killed when the car he was driving crashed.
Late. Stuntman Conway Wickliffe
20. Health Legder won every Award there was for his role!
Actor Heath Ledger posthumously (After Death) won a total of 32 Best Supporting Actor awards for his work on this film, including the Oscar, Golden Globe, BAFTA, SAG and Critics’ Choice award. The only awards he was nominated for but didn’t win were the Satellite Award (which went to actor Michael Shannon for Revolutionary Road (2008)) and the London Film Critics’ Circle Award for actor of the year (which went to actor Mickey Rourke for The Wrestler (2008)).
The Dark Knight (2008) is the comic book film with the most (8) Academy Award nominations. Actor Heath Ledger’s Best Supporting Actor Oscar win marks the first time an Academy Award has been awarded in a major category to a comic book movie.
Joker in Nurse getup
18. Nine months between Batman Begins and Dark Knight!
The Dark Knight (2008) takes place roughly nine months after Batman Begins (2005) ended.
The Dark knight bat mobile
17. 39 Vehicles were destroyed!
There are a total of 39 vehicles crashed, shot, blown up, bumped, or otherwise involved in some sort of violence in this film.
Ted (2012) is a Comedy/Fantasy movie directed by Seth MacFarlane and stars Mark Wahlberg in the lead. Seth MacFarlane gave voice to the character of Ted upon whom the movie is based.
The movie was so successful that a follow-up sequel is made namely Ted 2 (2015). The movie has same star cast as before except Mila Kunis is replaced by Amanda Seyfried.
I have put together some interesting facts and details about Ted (2012) and Ted 2 (2015). Let’s have a look.
Ted (2012) movie poster
Ted (2012) Story goes as the result of a childhood wish, John Bennett’s teddy bear, Ted, came to life and has been by John’s side ever since – a friendship that’s tested when Lori, John’s girlfriend of four years, wants more from their relationship. Now the Facts..
1. At one point in the movie, Ted mentions 9/11.Mark Wahlberg and Seth MacFarlane both narrowly missed being on the planes that hit the World Trade Center. Wahlberg was booked on American Airlines Flight 11 but decided to drive up to New York and fly to California later. McFarlane was scheduled on the same flight but arrived to gate ten minutes late and was unable to board. He was sitting in the airport when he saw that his plane had hit the North Tower of the World trade center.
2. As of December 2012, Ted (2012) is the highest grossing R-rated live action comedy of all time.
3. Various teddy bears were used as stand-ins for post-production editing. Ted’s movements were done by Seth MacFarlane through motion capture.
4. According to Seth MacFarlane, this is the first comedy film to use motion capture technology.
5. Ted sends a letter to Hasbro regarding he does not have a penis. Mark Wahlberg (John) stars in Transformers: Age of Extinction (2014). Transformers is owned by Hasbro.
6. Barbara Broccoli traditionally never allows any James Bond theme to be used in other films but Seth MacFarlane wrote her a letter asking for permission to use ‘All Time High’ from _Octopussy_ as it was his mother’s favorite song. Broccoli made a rare exception to her rule, hence ‘Mark Wahlberg’ gets to slaughter the tune in a performance in front of a dismayed crowd.
The Shawshank Redemption (1994) is Directed by visionaryFrank Darabont and originally written by Stephen King.Morgan Freeman and Tim Robbins are in the lead role. The movie is the story of two imprisoned men, who bond over a number of years, finding solace and eventual redemption through acts of common decency. The Shawshank Redemption (1994) was nominated for 7 Oscars but didn’t actually won any of them. The movie stands at #1 on IMDb Top 250 Movies of all time.
There are movies which we can never have enough of and this is surely one of them. Let’s look at some of the Super Interesting Facts About The Shawshank Redemption (1994).
1. Andy and Red’s opening chat in the prison yard – in which Red is pitching a baseball – took 9 hours to shoot. Morgan Freeman pitched that baseball for the entire 9 hours without a word of complaint. He showed up for work the next day with his arm in a sling.
The Shawshank Redemption poster
2. In the scene with Andy arriving in the library as Brooks’ assistant while Brooks’ crow Jake is squawking, Tim Robbins had to time his line, “Hey, Jake. Where’s Brooks?”, so that the crow wouldn’t squawk over him since the bird could not be trained to squawk on cue. Robbins was able to adapt to this and time his line perfectly by learning the bird’s squawking patterns, for which Director Frank Darabont praised him. Robbins’ improvisation is noticeable as he watches the bird carefully while approaching it, waiting for it to squawk, and doesn’t begin his line until after it does so.
3. Stephen King sold the film rights for his novella, Rita Hayworth and The Shawshank Redemption, for $5,000. He never cashed the check. Years after Shawshank came out, the author got the check framed and mailed it back to the director Frank Darabont with a note inscribed: “In case you ever need bail money. Love, Steve.”
4. Director Frank Darabont decided not to have the deleted scenes on the DVD release of the film because he’s embarrassed by them and doesn’t want them to be seen publicly.
5. The Shawshank Redemption initial gross of $18 million didn’t even cover the cost of its production. It did another $10 million in the wake of its Oscar nominations but the film was still deemed to be a box office flop.
6. Rob Reiner loved Frank Darabont’s script so much that he offered $2.5 million for the rights to the script so he could direct it. Darabont seriously considered Reiner’s offer but ultimately decided that it was his “chance to do something really great” by directing the movie himself. Reiner wanted Harrison Ford and Tom Cruise to play Red and Andy respectively.
7. The American Humane Association monitored the filming of scenes involving Brooks’ crow. During the scene where he fed it a maggot, the AHA objected on the grounds that it was cruel to the maggot, and required that they use a maggot that had died from natural causes. One was found, and the scene was filmed.
8. In the closeup of Andy’s hands loading the revolver in the opening scenes, the hands are actually those of Frank Darabont. Later in the film, while Andy carves his name into his cell wall (seen twice in the film), Darabont’s hands are used again for the insert shot. These closeups were filmed during post production, notably because Darabont felt that only he could do exactly what he wanted in the closeups.
9. One of the reasons why they didn’t employ the full title of the Stephen King novella – “Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption” – was because there was a perception in Hollywood that this was actually going to be a biopic of Rita Hayworth. Indeed, Frank Darabont even received solicitations of audition request from several actresses and supermodels and their agents about playing the lead.
10. The role of Andy Dufresne was originally offered to Tom Hanks, who couldn’t accept due to scheduling conflicts with Forrest Gump(1994). Hanks did, however, work on Frank Darabont’s next film, The Green Mile (1999).
11. Frank Darabont wrote the script in eight weeks.
12. Every picture, except for the big posters, in Andy’s cell were all hand picked by actor Tim Robbins himself.
13. The exteriors were filmed at the defunct Ohio State Reformatory in Mansfield, Ohio. The prison was in such poor condition, renovations had to be made prior to filming. However, most of the interiors were shot on a sound stage, because they determined it would be cheaper to build duplicates of the interiors rather than renovating the interiors of Mansfield.
14. Both Tim Robbins and Morgan Freeman won Best Supporting Actor Oscars for films directed by Clint Eastwood: Robbins in Mystic River(2003) and Freeman in Million Dollar Baby(2004).
15. Red says that Andy broke out in 1966. This was the same year as the landmark Miranda v. Arizona case before the Supreme Court, where it was decided a defendant must be informed of their rights (i.e. right to remain silent, right to an attorney, etc.), when put under police custody. That’s why at the end of the film, when they arrest Captain Hadley (Clancy Brown), the officer is reading the Miranda rights from a piece of paper.
16. Frank Darabont preferred to end the film with Red searching for Andy. In fact, if he had been allowed to shoot the ending as he wanted, the closing shot would have been Red on the bus heading for the field. Darabont wanted to end on an open, ambiguous note. But Castle Rock insisted on a reunion between the two to please audiences. So instead of showing us a teary reunion, the film observes it from a distance. Darabont’s response to Castle Rock’s demands.
17. The $370,000 Andy stole from the Warden in 1966 may not seem a huge amount for 20 years incarceration but adjusted for inflation to 2014, Andy stole the equivalent of $2,703,466.67.
18. There are several similarities to the Alexandre Dumas père novel, “The Count of Monte Cristo” (which is also mentioned during the film). The Dumas novel involved a man falsely imprisoned for a crime, who later makes a daring escape. After escaping, he acquired hidden treasure which he learned about in jail, and executed a plan of revenge against those who imprisoned him.
19. In 2007, two inmates of Union County Prison escaped from their prison using similar techniques to those featured in the movie. Their (partially) successful escape led to the suicide of prison guard Rudolph Zurick. When the two convicts were recaptured, they denied responsibility for Zurick’s death.
20. Red describes Andy’s dream as a “shitty pipe dream”. During his escape to live that dream, Andy crawls through the sewer pipe of the prison, literally a “shitty pipe”.
21. There are only two women with speaking roles in the film: the customer who complains about Brooks’ service at the grocery store, and the lady who attends to Andy at the bank following his escape.
22. The inmates are seen watching Gilda (1946). In the novella, the prisoners watched The Lost Weekend(1945). Because the rights to this were owned by a different studio, Darabont looked to see which old films he could show without incurring costs. He was delighted to see that one that he was able to use was Gilda, one of the greatest hits of Rita Hayworth whose image plays a pivotal role in the story.
23. The final scene was filmed on the U.S. Virgin islands in the Caribbean, but in the film it is supposed to be the Pacific Ocean. Red says he has no idea what the ladies in The Marriage of Figaro are singing about. Actually, they’re composing a letter to the husband of one of them inviting him to an assignation with the other in order to expose his infidelity.
24. Beer bottles didn’t have screw tops in 1949.
25. Despite its box office failure, Warner Brothers shipped 320,000 rental copies to US video stores, a figure a spokesman freely admitted was “out of whack” with the film’s performance in the theaters.
26. Clancy Brown said that he received several offers from real-life corrections officers to work with him to make his portrayal of Captain Hadley more realistic. He turned them all down because Hadley was an evil character and he didn’t want to misrepresent real corrections officers.
27. In the movie Red says “I committed murder.” when Andy asks him what he’s in Shawshank for. The source novella explains in detail: Red is serving three life sentences for murdering his wife, his neighbor’s wife and his neighbor’s son. Red disconnected the brakes on his car in order to kill his wife to collect on an insurance policy, he did not plan on two other people joining his wife for her ill-fated drive.
28. Although a very modest hit in theaters, it became one of the highest grossing video rentals of all time.
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