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Actors who missed out iconic roles

There have been so many iconic roles throughout film history. And these roles are so associated with a particular actor or actress, that we can’t imagine anyone else playing their part. But, we very nearly could have had someone completely different playing our beloved characters. It’s sometimes hard to imagine a different actor slipping into

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The most rewatchable movies of all time

Movies are so much a part of our lives that we don’t even realize how important they are. The best films are the ones that stay with us long after they are over. Films that we will think about and talk about, even when we haven’t watched them in a while. They are the movies

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Best unscripted moments in the “Rocky” series

Upon its release, Rocky became one of the most successful movies of all time and spawned several sequels. It turned Sylvester Stallone into a household name and showed us that boxing movies could be full of heart and emotion as well as great fights. These are movies that live long in our hearts and have

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Directors who cast their own kids in their movies

It is often said to get ahead in life it is not what you know but who you know, and in Hollywood’s bubble that is even more relevant. Luckily for the kids of cinema’s greatest directors, they have been given an easy pass onto the movie sets. There’s nothing wrong with getting a helping hand

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Beloved ’90s movies that were unsuccessful at the box office

We all have movies we would class as being our favorites. Some of them are certainly guilty pleasure films, others are movies we have watched since childhood, and they have become ingrained in our psyche. Now, when you are younger, you don’t tend to give much thought to how well a movie performs, or how

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The most expensive TV flops in history

It is not only blockbusting Hollywood movies that have huge production budgets. Often the producers behind some of TV’s biggest shows have pockets just as deep as those financing films on the big screen. Sometimes it is worth the risk and a huge budget results in great TV, see Game of Thrones, but other times

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Actors who disappeared after winning an Oscar

Scooping an Academy Award is pretty much the best feeling there is as an actor. It’s recognition that you are at the top of your craft, and that you must surely rank as one of the best actors in the world. Scooping an Oscar is meant to be the pinnacle of an actor’s career, and

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Little known facts about Back to the Future

Released in 1985, Back to the Future was a sci-fi comedy film directed by Robert Zemeckis. It starred Michael J. Fox as Marty Mcfly who travelled back in time to 1955 thanks to a scientific experiment blunder by Doc Brown who was played by Christopher Lloyd. In 1955, Marty met his future parents and became

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Bohemian Rhapsody becomes the oldest video to get 1 billion views

YouTube is fast becoming one of the most successful and powerful entertainment services on the planet, especially amongst the younger generations who are seemingly deciding to switch off their television sets and turn to their phones instead to stream video content online. YouTube’s popularity with younger audiences makes it even more surprising to learn that

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5 things you didn’t know about space

There is no doubt our galaxy is so massive that most folks don’t understand a gazillion facts about it yet. In our elementary school, we learned that we inhabit the Earth inside the solar system in the Milky Way called the galaxy. Beyond that, astronomers have discovered many intriguing facts about space, which may appear

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Things you didn’t know about Jurassic Park

Let’s be honest, Jurassic Park has got to rank as one of the greatest movies of all time. It has a great script, fun characters, an awesome score, and, of course, dinosaurs! Sure, the sequels might have been rubbish (Jurassic World was great though), but the original is a classic of the film world. Even

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Basic things to know about cryptocurrencies

Finances can be complicated at the best of times. Trying to figure out your outgoings vs. your incomings can be tricky, especially when it seems there is far more going out that coming in. Then there are the financial markets, a completely different ball game, and something that is infinitely more complicated than many will

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