Little Known Celebrity And Movie Facts

Travis

hey, you're facepalming to someone who thought mark twain was black when i was in high school :-))

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THIS......our future is doomed........

NOLA

A few of the movies filmed near me (New Orleans and surrounding parishes)...

12 Rounds
Albino Alligator
All the Kings Men
Angel Heart
Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
The Badge
The Beyond
The Big Easy
Big Mommas House 2
Blaze
Candyman 2
Cat People
The Cincinnati Kid
The Client
Crossroads
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
D.O.A.
Dead Man Walking
Deal
Déjà Vu
Delta Heat
Double Jeopardy
Down By Law
Dracula 2000
Dracula II: Ascension
Dracula III: Legacy
The Drowning Pool
The Dukes of Hazzard
Easy Rider
Eve's Bayou
Exit to Eden
The Expendables
The Fields (Currently In Production)
The Final Destination
The First 9½ Weeks
Flakes
The Fugitive Kind
Glory Road
Going Overboard
Green Lantern
The Gun in Betty Lou's Handbag
Hard Target
Hard Times
Hatchet
Hatchet II
Heaven's Prisoners
Hotel
I Love You Phillip Morris
Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles
JFK
Johnny Handsome
Judas Kiss
Just My Luck
Kill Theory
King Creole
Knucklehead
The Last Exorcism
Legendary
Let's Do It Again
Little Murder
Live and Let Die
Living Proof
Lolita
A Love Song for Bobby Long
Mandingo
Mardi Grad Massacre
The Mechanic
Medallion
Meet The Spartans
No Mercy
Obsession
Point of No Return
Ray
The Reaping
Red
Resurrection
Runaway Jury
The Skeleton Key
Sonny
Storyville
Undercover Blues
The Unholy
Venom
Waiting
Waking Madison
Walk On the Wildside
Welcome to the Rileys
Who Do You Love?
Wild At Heart
X-Men Origins: Wolverine (Certain scenes)
Zandalee

Memphis Beat which airs on TNT is filmed in Nola.

Well known residents....

Emerill Lagasse
John Cena
Dr. John
Vince Vaughn
Pete Fountain
Harry Connick Jr.
Ian Somerhalder
Sandra Bullock
Brad Pitt
Reese Witherspoon
Angelina Jolie
John Goodman
Patricia Clarkson
Ellen DeGeneres
Richard Simmons

the list goes on and on....

Razor_Shark

George Raft turned down the lead roles in "High Sierra", "The Maltese Falcon", and "Casablanca", roles that made Humphrey Bogart famous

James Earl Jones stuttered so badly as a child he had to communicate through notes.

In 1908, "Macbeth" was banned in Chicago, Illinois because of the scene where the actor playing King Duncan was stabbed to death on camera

In 1940, New York City's Globe Theatre accepted firearms instead of cash as admission to the film "Contraband: US Blackout"

MenAreTrash

Scream was shot at the same high school my parents went to.

myplagueRob

Black Swan was filmed at my college

MenAreTrash

Black Swan was filmed at my college

Did you get with Mila Kunis?

myplagueRob

Black Swan was filmed at my college

Did you get with Mila Kunis?

unfortunately it was filmed before I went there. I'm only a freshman this year. Would have loved to have witnessed the kiss scene in person lol

Necrothulhu

Super 8 was filmed where I grew up. Deer Hunter was filmed across the river from ne in Mingo, OH. Unstoppable was also filmed across the river from me. Zack and Miri Make A Porno was filmed in Pittsburgh along with a J.C. Van Damme movie, Adventureland and a few others

MetalSSlayer

There have been some scenes filmed in my neighborhood. One was in a house on my street. I also know that they did some filming at my high school. I don't know what movies they were for though.

Razor_Shark

I'll come up with more facts later, I have good stuff just not this late.

myplagueRob

Super 8 was filmed where I grew up. Deer Hunter was filmed across the river from ne in Mingo, OH. Unstoppable was also filmed across the river from me. Zack and Miri Make A Porno was filmed in Pittsburgh along with a J.C. Van Damme movie, Adventureland and a few others

Irony about Adventureland is it is about an amusement park on Long Island by the same name. The whole story is basically based off of the director's summer working there as a teen

Necrothulhu

Super 8 was filmed where I grew up. Deer Hunter was filmed across the river from ne in Mingo, OH. Unstoppable was also filmed across the river from me. Zack and Miri Make A Porno was filmed in Pittsburgh along with a J.C. Van Damme movie, Adventureland and a few others

Irony about Adventureland is it is about an amusement park on Long Island by the same name. The whole story is basically based off of the director's summer working there as a teen

I have a lot of memories at Kennywood (where it was filmed) so I took more of a liking to the movie then I normally would have

HOODS

Will Smith is from Philly :>

SkullAndCrossbones

hey down, dont forget about the lesser known Hoodoo For Voodoo. that movie is pretty damn funny.

Stratophony

Titanic was filmed about 40 minutes south of the San Diego border, (Rosarito)

Brian

Dan Schneider, who's the cook in Good Burger and one of the producers of All That, Kenan and Kel, Amanda Show and etc plays Ricky in Better Off Dead.