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Of course, summer means movies. But movies aren’t just about superheroes, spies and sequels. At the Rio Grande Theatre, movies that everyone knows and loves will be on the silver screen. Get some popcorn, grab a seat and enjoy the best that cinema has to offer.
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Also learn little-known facts about each movie to increase your “cinema smarts”!
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Pixar's: Monsters Inc.
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Lock your doors, check under the bed and make sure you're in a monster-free room so you can enjoy these little factoids!
Note: None will be as scary as Randall appearing in your bedroom.
1. Pixar came up with the ideas for Monsters, Inc., Finding Nemo, Wall-E and A Bug's Life over a lunch meeting in 1994.
2. Boo is voiced by one of the story artists' daughters.
3. Sulley has more than 2.3 million strands of hair.
4. Because technology wasn't advanced enough, Pixar had to develop a new program called Fizt to automate the movement's of Sulley's fur.
5. Boo's real name is Marry Gibbs.
6. In a Reddit AMA, the girl who played Boo revealed the story behind the song she sings while going to the bathroom. "They told me to sing and I started singing 'Wheels on the Bus,' but they couldn't use any actual songs [because of] copyright issues so they had me babble and sing random words for a few hours and took out the parts they liked the best!" she wrote.
7. Bob Peterson, who voiced Dug in Up, voiced Roz.
8. Randy Newman won his first Oscar for the film's closing song "If I Didn't Have You." He had previously been nominated 15 times in the Best Score and Best Song categories, but it was Monsters, Inc. that scored him the win.
9. Bill Murray was Pixar's first choice for Sulley, but he never responded to their calls.
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The Wizard Of Oz
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In this 1939 classic, Judy Garland stars as Dorothy, who navigates the magical challenges of Oz with her dog, Toto. They follow the Yellow Brick Road toward the Emerald City to meet the Wizard, and en route they meet a Scarecrow (Ray Bolger) that needs a brain, a Tin Man (Jack Haley) missing a heart, and a Cowardly Lion (Bert Lahr) who wants courage. The group must battle the Wicked Witch of the West to get their wishes.
Fact: Did You Know … Buddy Ebsen was originally cast as the Scarecrow, but he swapped roles with Ray Bolger. Then when filming started, cramps and trouble breathing, due to a severe allergic reaction to the aluminum dust used in the makeup, sent Ebsen to the hospital and forced him to leave the production. Ebsen was then replaced with Haley, and the rest is cinematic history. (Ebsen went on to act in other hits, including The Beverly Hillbillies, so don't feel too bad for him.)
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Andromeda Strain (1971)
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1. The Wildfire scientific lab sets cost more than $300,000 to build and were described at the time as "one of the most elaborately detailed interiors ever built."
2. Michael Crichton was invited to take a tour of Universal Studios during the production of this film. His guide was none other than Steven Spielberg, who went on to adapt Crichton's most successful novel, Jurassic Park (1993).
3. The germ from space cost $250,000 to create in special effects.
4. A few additional details about the controversial death scene of the monkey in the laboratory: 1) It was approved by the ASPCA who was present during the filming of the scene. 2) While the monkey was filmed suffocating on CO2, assistant director James Fargo was standing just off camera wearing scuba gear and holding a second oxygen source. 3) The monkey was revived just seconds after going unconscious - a little too fast as it turns out. Watching the scene closely, the viewer can clearly see a shadow moving towards the monkey just as it goes limp. And since there was only one take it couldn't be edited out.
5. The Central Core set required the digging of a 70-ft.-deep by 40-ft.-wide hole in a soundstage.
6. Effects footage and props from this film were reused in a number of episodes of Universal Pictures' TV series for more than a decade after its release, including The Six Million Dollar Man (1974), The Bionic Woman (1976), Knight Rider (1982) and Airwolf (1984).
7. When Dr. Stone's wife tells him someone is at the door to see him, he says, "The SDS has arrived, no doubt." "SDS" is an acronym for "Students for a Democratic Society", a protest group active in colleges in the late 1960s.
8. Michael Crichton wrote the rough draft for the novel from which this film is adapted while he was still a medical student. He was inspired after a conversation with one of his teachers about the concept of crystal-based life-forms.
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Big Hero 6
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1. Big Hero 6 is the first Disney animated film to feature Marvel Comics characters, whose parent company was acquired by The Walt Disney Company in 2009.
2. Walt Disney Animation Studios created new software technology to produce the film’s animated visuals.
3. The film was met with both critical and commercial success, grossing over $657 million worldwide and becoming the highest-grossing animated film of 2014.
4. It won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature and the Kids’ Choice Award for Favorite Animated Movie.
5. Baymax is voiced by Scott Adsit who is best known as Pete Hornberger on 30 Rock and for his work on Adult Swim, including The Heart, She Holler and Moral Orel.
6. The film’s main setting San Fransokyo is based on the cities of San Francisco and Tokyo.
7. Baymax’s movement is based on penguins.
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Rebel Without A Cause (1955)
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1. The opening scene in the movie with Jim Stark and the toy monkey was improvised by James Dean after the production had been shooting for nearly 24 hours straight. He asked Nicholas Ray to roll the camera, that he wanted to do something. Ray obliged and the improvisation went on to become the famous opening scene.
2. James Dean got angry when Nicholas Ray stopped the knife fight scene after noticing that Dean had been cut on the ear and was bleeding. Dean said, "Don't you ever cut a scene while I'm having a real moment."
3. James Dean died on September 30th, 1955, nearly a month before this film was released on October 27th, 1955.
4. The part where Jim and Judy find Plato wearing one blue sock and one red sock was not scripted. Sal Mineo actually put them on that way by mistake.
5. All three lead actors--James Dean, Sal Mineo--and Natalie Wood, died prematurely under tragic circumstances; Dean died in an automobile accident in September 1955, Mineo was stabbed to death on February 12th, 1976, and Wood drowned in the late autumn of 1981. In addition, Edward Platt committed suicide in 1974 and Dennis Hopper fell ill suddenly in the fall of 2009 and died five months later.
6. T-shirt sales soared after James Dean wore one in this film.
7. James Dean was free to star in the film because Elizabeth Taylor got pregnant, which delayed production of Giant (1956).
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